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Documentary: Bert Joris and A Song Is Born
Bert Joris is a Belgian trumpeter and flugelhornist with a beautiful tone who has been recording since 1978. Let me give you a taste. In 1987, Bert recorded with legendary Belgian vibraphonist Fats Sadi on a spectacular album called Sadi's Nonet. If you dig Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool, you'll love this album. Here's Thanks ...
Julie London Turns Winter to Summer
JazzWax readers know I traditionally feature Julie London on Christmas Day, but today I wanted to take a beat to let you know what a great singer she is any time of year. To me, London is a consummate jazz singer—from her tone to her phrasing. Like Anita O'Day, London had an understated hipness built into ...
The Henry Glover Story, 1947-1961
Henry Glover is all but forgotten today, but back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he was one of the most significant executives in R&B recording. After Syd Nathan founded King Records in Cincinnati in 1943, the label began recording roots country artists, what the trade publications used to call “hillbilly music." But by 1946, ...
100 Years of Max Roach
Max Roach's birth date could easily be a time signature played by the drummer. Though his birth certificate listed his arrival as January 10, 1924, he told radio historian Phil Schapp that his parents said he was born on January 8. As a result, his birth date is typically given as January 8/10. Last week was ...
Backgrounder: John Carisi's Show Boat
John Carisi was a self-taught and highly proficient East Coast trumpeter who played in Herbie Fields's Orchestra from 1938 to 1943. After enlisting or being inducted into the military during World War II, he was recruited for Glenn Miller's prestigious Army Air Force Band. After the war, Carisi was a member of multiple leading bands, arranged ...
Carlos Lyra (1933-2023)
Carlos Lyra, a Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, and one of the fathers of the bossa nova who, with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Luiz Bonfá, Roberto Menescal and Ronaldo Bôscoli, among others, turned a new form of middle-class aspirational music into a global sensation, died in Rio de Janeiro on December 16. He was 90. ...
John La Barbera: Grooveyard
Jazz has long been blessed by a sizable number of sibling musicians. Most notably, there are the Joneses (Hank, Elvin and Thad), the Montgomerys (Wes, Buddy and Monk), the Mangiones (Chuck and Gap), the Heaths (Jimmy, Percy and Albert “Tootie" Heath), the Turrentines (Stanley and Tommy), the Adderleys (Cannonball and Nat), the Youngs (Lester and Lee), ...
Royce Campbell: Guitarist Extraordinaire
I've been familiar with Royce Campbell's music for nearly 30 years, ever since I bought his Tribute to Henry Mancini album in 1995. Royce played with Marvin Gaye, toured with Mancini for 19 years and has released more than 40 albums. Royce has a terrifically tasteful touch, he swings beautifully, his chord voicings are engaging and ...
Les McCann (1935-2023)
Les McCann, a self-taught soul-jazz pianist and singer whose essence and feel were deeply rooted in the black church of his youth and the bars in black neighborhoods where jukeboxes were stocked with early soul-pop and blues singers such as Al Hibbler, Arthur Prysock, Ray Charles. Brook Benton, Clyde McPhatter and Floyd Dixon, died on December ...
Interview: Carol P. Chamberland
Back on December 2, I posted a 2.5-minute YouTube clip from a documentary unfamiliar to me called The Legend of Bop City. This particular Bop City wasn't the famous one in New York on the second floor of the Brill Building on 49th Street and Broadway. This one was in San Francisco and had been a ...
