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New Year's Gigs + Ball Drops
Many top-rank rock and pop acts skip performing on New Year's Eve. Probably because their families insist they spend the evening at home after months away on the road. Really small acts pass as well, mostly because they aren't big enough to command the big ticket prices that many venues command on the last night of ...
Wild Bill Davis: April in Paris
Count Basie's most famous and best-selling recording is April in Paris. Captured at New York's Fine Sound studios in July 1955, the song was arranged by organist Wild Bill Davis. Here's a passage from Chris Albertson's superb liner notes that accompany the Mosaic box, The Complete Clef/Verve Count Basie Fifties Studio Recordings: “Organist Wild Bill Davis ...
Creed Taylor: Time is on My Side
You know Time Is On My Side as a 1964 Rolling Stones hit. But a year before Mick growled the lyrics into a studio mike, jazz trombonist Kai Winding [pictured] recorded the song first for producer Creed Taylor at Verve as a single. It never appeared on an LP. The song was written by Jerry Ragovoy, ...
Sammy Nestico's Side of the Street
An envelope arrived the other day. Inside was a CD and a note. The CD was entitled On the Sammy Side of the Street,which has just been released. The note from Sammy Nestico said, “Marc: I don't know if this is the best one but it is my favorite one. Check out the two Johnny Mandel ...
Redbone: Come and Get Your Love
Native American jazz artists are few in number but their contributions were significant. The list includes Oscar Pettiford (Choctaw and Cherokee), Della Reese (Cherokee) and Keely Smith (part Cherokee). And before you start emailing me, trombonist Jack Teagarden's parents were both of German descent. On the rock and pop sides, the list is a little longer—and ...
4 New Soul Favorites + 6 More
If you follow the music press, you've probably read that soul is dying. The line goes something like this: Rap, house, hip-hop, pop and other bouncy forms have made soul and funk less relevant today. But based on what has been crossing my desk, I tend to disagree. What I am noticing is that there's much ...
Sonny Stitt: Varitone Redux
By the end of 1964, the saxophone's fate was pretty much sealed. For more than 30 years, the reed instrument along with the trumpet had been played by superstar jazz performers who typically led groups or were at least main soloists. But with pop-rock's arrival in the early 1960s, the Beatles' euphoric invasion in '64 and ...
Bob Brookmeyer (1929-2011)
Bob Brookmeyer, whose emotionally strained youth in Kansas City helped him become arguably the most soulful, peppery and lyrical valve trombonists of the 1950s and '60s, died December 15 in New Hampshire. He was 81. In the 1950s, there certainly was no shortage of great trombonists—J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Urbie Green, Carl Fontana, Frank Rosolino, Curtis ...
The Julie London Show
You're in for a treat. Since my post two days ago on singer-songwriter and pianist Bobby Troup, I've been bombarded by emails from readers—some who are long-time fans of Troup and others who are new to him. All of those email writers also said they were fans of singer Julie London, who was married to Troup. ...
Dexter Gordon: Complete Columbia
When tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon left the U.S. in August 1962 for an extended stay in Europe, he wasn't fed up with the New York scene or the shift in popular music tastes. “Dexter left for Europe because Ronnie Scott had invited him to perform at his club in London," Maxine Gordon said yesterday. “When he got ...
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