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Route 66: 'Goodnight Sweet Blues'
Yesterday, jazz musician, educator and writer Bill Kirchner sent along a YouTube link to a 1961 episode of TV's Route 66 called “Goodnight Sweet Blues." The drama featured Ethel Waters as a dying singer along with Jo Jones (on trumpet), Roy Eldridge (on drums) and Coleman Hawkins in acting roles. The director was Jack Smight, who ...
Cilla Black: 'Is It Love?' (1965)
Back while I was doing research in preparation for my Wall Street Journal interview with Sir George Martin in August, I listened to virtually everything he produced—before, during and after the Beatles. I tend to do enough research to write a book. It's just my way. [Pictured above: Cilla Black with Sir George Martin] At any ...
JazzClip: Buddy Collette
Buddy Collette could play just about every reed and woodwind instrument proficiently. As a result, the West Coast musician was called often by studio contractors and session leaders for pop and jazz recordings. But Buddy's ability transcended technique. His sound was full, seductive and brimming with energy. Buddy also was a major civil rights figure, which ...
Fab 50's Vocalist: Vicky Lane
By now I'm sure you know I dig obscure, dynamic female jazz vocalists who recorded in the 1950s. In the past, I've raved about Benny Bennett, Doris Drew, Jane Fielding, Marcy Lutes, Mavis Rivers, Peggy Connelly, Themla Gracen and Toni Harper. And for your convenience, they're all linked to my posts down the right-hand side, under ...
Complete Works of Pepper Adams
If Gerry Mulligan's mannered, contrapuntal baritone saxophone style can be likened to a badminton player, then Pepper Adams' approach can be compared to a street brawler. Born in Michigan, Adams moved as a child with his family to upstate New York and then to Detroit, where at age 16 he took up the baritone sax. His ...
Richard Williams: New Horn in Town
A couple of weeks ago, I posted on Red Garland's sole recording session with Oliver Nelson in March 1961. The trumpeter on the date was Richard Williams, who many readers admired but knew little about. Curiously, Williams recorded only one leadership date—for Nat Hentoff's short-lived Candid label. It's called New Horn in Town and featured Leo ...
Bill Evans: Carnegie Hall (1976)
On June 25, 1976, three months before Bill Evans recordedTogether Again, his second album with Tony Bennett, the pianist appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival in New York with Bennett. In fact, the event at Carnegie Hall was billed as An Evening with Tony Bennett and featured two sets—one with the Bill Evans Trio and a ...
Interview: Sir George Martin (PT. 4)
After an hour spent chatting in the cozy sitting room of Sir George Martin's summer home several weeks ago, it was time for me to make the two-hour drive back to London. I said farewell to Lady Judith, Sir George's wife, and Sir George and I walked out to my car on the gravel drive. As ...
Interview: Sir George Martin (PT. 3)
Sir George and I spent a little over an hour in the gazebo on the lawn behind his summer house. Afterward we retired to his home's charming sitting room to enjoy tea and cookies that his wife, Lady Judith, served. Interestingly, many of his awards were sitting haphazardly on a shelf. Which makes perfect sense. What ...
Interview: Sir George Martin (PT. 2)
After I arrived at Sir George Martin's summer home several weeks ago for my Wall Street Journal interview, the Beatles producer and I chatted briefly outside about my drive. Then he suggested we converse in a low-roofed gazebo atop a slow-rising hill behind his home. As we walked up the lawn, Sir George told me he ...
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