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News: Interview

Russ Garcia + Others on O'Day

August 10, 2011

While writing my post the other day on my favorite Anita O'Day album for Verve (Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart), I reached out to arranger-composer Russ Garcia in New Zealand for a comment. Here's what Russ had to say, followed by a few other stories from readers [Photo of Anita O'Day by ...

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News: Recording

Johnny Richards: Kiss Her Goodbye

August 10, 2011

In the summer of 1958, Johnny Richards took his orchestra into a Warner Bros. studio in New York to record the soundtrack for a low-budget film that was being shot in Cuba. The movie was Kiss Her Goodbye, starring Elaine Stritch as a young woman who loses her sanity. Richards asked David Allyn to sing the ...

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News: Recording

Anita O'Day Swings Rodgers and Hart

August 9, 2011

My favorite Anita O'Day album for Verve is Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart. Interestingly, O'Day hated it. Then again, she also disdained Billy May for a variety of reasons. And the feeling was mutual. Recorded in June 1960, the album intermingles ferocious band arrangements and tender string charts on some of the ...

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News: Video / DVD

Rene Thomas and Stan Getz

August 8, 2011

A year ago I posted about Rene Thomas' Meeting, off of a 1963 release entitled Meeting Mister Thomas. Recently JazzWax reader David Langner found this fabulous clip of Meeting in Paris, featuring Thomas on guitar, Eddie Louiss on organ and Kenny Clarke on drums. Dig Clarke's figures... Then I found this one with Stan Getz, ...

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News: Recording

Bix Beiderbecke's Last Recording

August 6, 2011

Eighty years ago tomorrow evening, cornetist Bix Beiderbecke flew into a fit of insanity at his home in Queens, N.Y., and promptly died. He was 28 years old. Beiderbecke was a long-time abuser of alcohol at a time when liquor wasn't federally regulated since it was illegal, and most spirits contained little more than amber-tinted isopropyl. ...

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News: Interview

Interview: Catherine Howe

August 4, 2011

You're about to learn about one of the finest female folk albums ever recorded. Not many people know about Catherine Howe's What a Beautiful Place (1971), largely because the album produced and arranged by Bobby Scott (A Taste of Honey) barely made a dent after it was recorded in London. The company for which it was ...

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News: Recording

John Daversa: Junk Wagon

August 2, 2011

You know how I'm always carping that jazz doesn't push hard enough to get to the next level? And you know how you email me to ask what exactly I have in mind to illustrate my point? Two words: John Daversa. His first studio CD, Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album is positively fascinating. Unlike many ...

News: TV / Film

Fred Seibert on the MTV Logo

August 1, 2011

MTV turned music inside out on this date 30 years ago. On August 1, 1981, the 24-hour music channel not only added a powerful visual component to rock but also helped usher in a third pop British Invasion that influenced virtually all forms of music and music videos in the 1980s. By extension, MTV created a ...

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News: Obituary

Frank Foster (1928-2011)

July 28, 2011

Frank Foster, whose pouncing tenor sax and swinging arranging style helped update Count Basie's New Testament Band with a seemingly endless stream of blues surprises from 1953 onward, died on July 26 in Chesapeake, VA. He was 82. In a band crowded with saxophone talent, Foster and Frank Wes anchored the reed section like a pair ...

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News: Interview

Interview: Helen Shapiro

July 27, 2011

Helen Shapiro and Amy Winehouse had a few things in common. In my interview with Helen in today's Wall Street Journal (go here), we touched on what life was like for her at age 14 in 1961, when she had two No. 1 hits and a No. 3 hit on the British pop charts. In 1962, ...