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Interview: Chick Corea (Part 1)

November 1, 2011

Pianist Chick Corea has had about 20 careers. Which is why New York's Blue Note is turning over the club to Chick and his music for nearly the entire month of November. The unprecedented move not only comes in celebration of Chick's 70th birthday but also his 50 years of playing jazz and influencing the music's ...

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James Brown: The Singles

October 31, 2011

If there's one artist who's most responsible for fusing jazz, gospel and R&B—and inventing a new form of high-octane soul in the process—it's James Brown. From 1956 to 1981, Brown's trampoline rhythms, high-pitched squeals and horn-fed dance steps lifted soul to a new level while crystallizing the spirit of the civil rights movement and sexual revolution. ...

News: Recording

Etta James: Heart and Soul

October 27, 2011

When Etta James lashed out at Beyoncé in 2009 for singingAt Last at President Obama's inauguration party, most critics assumed James didn't like Beyoncé's interpretation of her 1961 hit. Or that she was envious of the invite. Truth is James probably didn't have a beef with Beyoncé's delivery at all. Case in point: James had recently publicly ...

News: Recording

Herb Pomeroy: Pramlatta's Hips

October 26, 2011

One of the best albums by the Herb Pomeroy Orchestra wasrecorded live at the El Morocco in Worcester, Mass., in 1980. It's also among the rarest. Even many fans of the Boston trumpeter and bandleader are probably unaware of the LP's existence. Released on Shiah Records, Pramlatta's Hips never made it onto CD, which is truly ...

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Interview: Anne Phillips

October 25, 2011

Back in August, I poked fun at vocalist Anne Phillips. Well, not atAnne, personally, but at the cover of her 1959 album for Roulette, Born to Be Blue. Having her pose down at the rat-infested Brooklyn piers made the LP cover a natural target for my weekly “Oddball Album Cover" feature. Well, it turns out Anne ...

News: Music Industry

Wes Montgomery on Verve

October 24, 2011

Wes Mongomery's recordings for the Verve label between 1964 and 1966 are significant for several reasons: First, the guitarist was able to work with large orchestras and leadingarrangers of the day, including Johnny Pate, Oliver Nelson, Claus Ogerman and Don Sebesky. Second, producer Creed Taylor was able to turn Montgomery into a major force and extend ...

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Interview: Smokey Robinson

October 21, 2011

My Girl was Motown's seventh No. 1 pop hit and 12th No. R&B chart hit. Released onDecember 21, 1964, the single reached the top position on Billboard's Hot 100 chart the first week of March 1965. It remained there for only one week before being knocked into the No. 2 spot by the Beatles' Eight Days a ...

News: Obituary

Pete Rugolo (1915-2011)

October 20, 2011

Pete Rugolo, a jazz-classical maverick in the late-1940s andarchitect of a brassy, West Coast orchestral sound that helped establish Stan Kenton and the music of television and the movies in the 1950s and 1960s, died on October 16 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 95. [Photo by William P. Gottlieb] Starting in 1944 with his first ...

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News: Recording

Bill Evans: Autumn in New York

October 19, 2011

By my count, pianist Bill Evans recorded Autumn in New York twice. The one that most jazz fans are familiar with features Evans playing a rushed solo version in 1963, a recording that wasn't released until 1989, nine years after his death. Evans didn't care for these solo sessions, finding the results half-baked and below his ...

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Jazzwax List: Detective Jazz III

October 17, 2011

It was a cold and rainy night—the kind made for staying in with a glass of rye and a bad book. Outside, cars drove by slow and sloppy. Inside, the pink neon sign from the bar across the alley kissed the wall over and over, steady and insistent. Then came the knock at my email box. ...