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Jazzsnap: Anita O'Day (C. 1945)

March 22, 2012

Here's singer Anita O'Day with the Gene Krupa Orchestra at New York's Capitol Theater, circa 1945. The trombonist is Leon Cox. This snapshot comes from Betty's fabulous collection of photos, sent along by her friend Chris. Betty has pinpointed the year based on the note on the back of the photo. The movie showing was Her ...

News: Video / DVD

Jane Morgan: C'est Si Bon

March 19, 2012

I'm on the road this week, but I have lots of goodies planned for you. Today, a fabulous video featuring Jane Morgan, who first became popular singing in France in the late 1940s. Her career in Paris was so successful that she had trouble breaking back into the U.S. market in the late 1950s. Audiences pegged ...

News: Interview

Interview: Larry Greene (Part 2)

March 15, 2012

Back in the late 1940s, the number of radio stations in the U.S. multiplied rapidly thanks to the F.C.C.'s willingness to hand out licenses. Many of these stations filled airtime with records rather than live musicians. As a result, a station's success was highly dependent on the personalities and tastes of their disc jockeys. To promote ...

News: Video / DVD

Interview: Larry Greene (Part 1)

March 14, 2012

Back in the late 1950s, Larry and Toni Green created a series of radio jingles for WNEW-AM in New York. Larry wrote the jingle's melody line and his wife Toni wrote the lyrics. At the time, 1130 was one of the country's oldest and most loved big-band and pop stations on the dial. The jingle the ...

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Interview: Herb Snitzer (PT. 2)

March 13, 2012

To wind up with exciting candid photos of jazz musicians, photographer Herb Snitzer [pictured] had to be part big-game hunter and part button-pushing bully. On assignment, Herb developed tricks for making himself invisible and stealthfully moving in on subjects. But he also had to know when to prod a little to stir up a musician's human ...

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Interview: Herb Snitzer (PT. 1)

March 12, 2012

What makes a jazz photographer tick? For years I have admired Herb Snitzer's unorthodox images of jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lester Young and many others. Herb's photos always have this “how did he take that?" quality, leaving you both baffled by their execution and grateful for his daring, since they ...

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Interview: Robert Glasper (PT. 2)

March 8, 2012

Jazz fans tend to be highly partial. We insist that one trumpeter is better than all others or that one drummer is faster, stronger or more rhythmic than everyone else. We take music personally and like to fight for our particular tastes and choices. This king-of-the-hill view also tends to spill over into the kinds of ...

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Interview: Robert Glasper (PT. 1)

March 7, 2012

Jazz isn't dying—it's changing. And what's emerging is ruthlessly exciting and eclectic. This nascent jazz form, like many that preceded it, is a collage of styles—mixing acoustic improvisation with hip-hop themes, turntable sampling and black-jazz forms from earlier decades. At the front of this movement is pianist Robert Glasper. As I wrote in the Wall Street ...

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Scott Faragher: The Hammond (PT. 2)

March 7, 2012

Scott Faragher is author of The Hammond Organ: An Introduction to the Instrument and the Players Who Made It Famous (Hal Leonard). It's a terrific new softcover book that tells you everything you will ever want to know about the Hammond organ and then some. It's a book about America's most potent crossover instrument by a ...

News: Book / Magazine

Scott Faragher: The Hammond (PT. 1)

March 5, 2012

Few instruments excite music fans as much as the Hammond organ. Yet everyone hears something different. The jazz fan hears a textured sound approximating that of a big band. The soul fan hears shades of gospel. And the rock fan hears a touch of funky soul. But where did this instrument come from and how did ...