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Wes Montgomery: Holland, 1965
Touring in the Netherlands in April 1965 with Clark Terry, guitarist Wes Montgomery was captured in a studio warming up Dutch musicians for a radio show recorded later on that day. The tunes they used to limber up were I Love Blues, Nica's Dream and End of a Love Affair. Fortunately, the Dutch cameramen were warming ...
Documentary: Julie London
Singer Julie London was the first video vocalist. I don't mean that she was the first to appear in film. Plenty of others came before her. But she was the first to fully understand how to use the camera to enhance her delivery and capture hearts. And unlike Marilyn Monroe, her contemporary, she did this without ...
John Scofield on Brookmeyer
In 1981, guitarist John Scofield received a phone call at his hotel in the Netherlands while touring with his band. On the other line was a local TV-show producer. He needed a sub to play with valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer that night on a show. John jumped at the chance. The result of that appearance is ...
Chet Baker: Germany, 1956
In March 1956, Chet Baker was touring in Germany when he was paired with French singer-guitarist Caterina Valente. For those of you unfamiliar with Valente, she would become a pop sensation in the '60s with her ability to record flawlessly in about a dozen languages. In other words, Valente was a record company's dream, especially when a ...
Teddy Charles: (1928-2012)
Teddy Charles, a hard-swinging four-mallet vibraphonist, composer, pianist and player-producer who in the late 1940s and early '50s transformed the steel-plated instrument into a cooler, jazz-classical protagonist, died on April 16, He was 84. Trained at the Juilliard School of Music, Teddy was able to reach effortlessly into modern classical music theory and deploy modal ...
Hank Mobley: Newark, 1953
Everyone in jazz had to start somewhere. In the case of tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, that start came in Newark, N.J. Though Mobley had recorded in April 1953 with Max Roach's sextet and quartet for Debut (a short-lived label founded by Roach, Charles Mingus and Mingus's then wife, Celia), Mobley wasn't recorded again until September 28, ...
Chet Baker: New York, 1964
By 1964, Chet Baker was damaged goods. The '50s had been a series of ego flights and emotional letdowns for the trumpeter. The vulnerable and naturally pretty look he had cooly projected at the start of the decade was lifted by Hollywood in the form of James Dean and, Montgomery Clift. By 1958, Baker's sensitive-victim look ...
Hal McKusick: 1924-2012
Hal McKusick, an East Coast jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger whose seductively smooth sound, tireless work ethic and flawless technique were admired by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Art Farmer, Johnny Mandel and every other musician he worked with since the early 1940s, died on April 10 of complications from a fractured hip. He was ...
Interview: Mike McCartney (Part 2)
In the late 1950s, Liverpool was thick with home-grown poets, writers and artists who revered American beat poets and painters. But because of Liverpool's geographic isolation from the main of England and Liverpudlians' fast, snappy brand of humor, the approach came with a wicked wit. Back in the early '60s, a serious intellect combined with an ...
Interview: Mike McCartney (Part 1)
Most people are unaware that Paul McCartney has a younger brother. That's because since the early 1960s, Mike McCartney [pictured above] has done a noble job of avoiding any temptation to cash in on his brother's fame. Which is pretty classy, as celebrity siblings go. As I write in today's Wall Street Journal (go here or ...
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