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Lenny McBrowne: Eastern Lights
Jazz in 1959 and 1960 was so crowded with extraordinary talent that you can still spend years discovering albums and artists from these years who are completely new to you. It's like looking for fossils in Utah. Move the sand with your foot, and you're likely to uncover a dinosaur bone. One hidden-gem album from these ...
Yosvany Terry: Today's Opinion
Where is jazz headed and who is leading the charge into exciting new territory? Readers of this blog know that this year I've already mentioned Robert Glasper, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Geri Allen as producing exciting new recordings that quilt numerous forms, allowing their music to retain a traditional feel while integrating the contemporary. Another exciting ...
Zoot Sims: Gone with the Wind
In November 1984, Zoot Sims was in Lidingö, Sweden, with Red Mitchell on bass and Rune Gustafsson on guitar. He was interviewed on-camera by Mitchell, and the trio performed Gone with the Wind, In a Sentimental Mood, Autumn Leaves and Castle Blues. All three artists have since died—Sims in 1985, Mitchell in 1992 and Gustafsson in ...
Duets: Sacha, Mireille and Dionne
I'm on the road again this week, but I haven't forgotten you. Here's the first in a series of fabulous daily videos. Today, '60s French singing sensation Sacha Distel teams with Mireille Mathieu on the theme from A Man and A Woman in 1966. Mathieu was a powerful pop singer who emerged in the '60s in ...
Miles Davis: 60 Minutes
60 Minutes' producer Don Hewitt made a terrible mistake when he assigned Harry Reasoner to interview Miles Davis in 1989. Reasoner had little understanding of Davis the combative jazz artist. Reasoner also asked a large proportion of dumb questions that unfairly tried to cast Davis as a rotten piece of work and an unentitled freak. As ...
Leon Spencer Jr. (1945-2012)
Leon Spencer Jr., one of the most melodically funky organists during Prestige's Hammond B-3 era in the early 1970s and whose voicings and guitar-like touch on the instrument provided a powdery groove behind lead horn players, died on March 11. He was 66 and lived in Houston. Spencer's recording career began in 1968 but didn't become ...
Interview: John Scofield
John Scofield has one of the most distinctive sounds of all the electric guitarists who came of age in the jazz-fusion era in the early 1970s. John is able to make his notes ring like a bell, and his lines are horn-like, living in the space just where rock meets the funky blues. [Photo of John ...
Gerry Mulligan: Germany 1977
We can quibble, but baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan never made a bum recording. Some LPs certainly were better than others, but Mulligan really wasn't capable of delivering a lazy, corner-cutting job. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Mulligan is one of the greatest jazz recording artists of the post-war period in terms ...
Count Basie: Rock and Soul
The 1960s was a decade of reverse transition for Count Basie. When his Roulette contract ended in 1962, Basie signed with Reprise and began recording a series of swinging albums with Frank Sinatra. By decade's end, Basie was moving back into his commercial comfort zone, recording straight ahead swingers. But in between, there was plenty of experimentation—some successful ...
Documentary: Jimmy Smith
In the fall of 1965, organist Jimmy Smith traveled to Europe to play a series of dates with guitarist Quentin Warren and drummer Billy Hart. In November, the trio was in Germany, along with Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody and others, and then in Helsinki, Finland, before returning to New York. Along for the ride was a ...
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