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John Levy on Toni Harper
Last week, singer Toni Harper reflected on the albums she recorded with Oscar Peterson in 1956 and Marty Paich in 1959 and 1960. In 1963 she traveled to Japan with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. John Levy [pictured], Adderley's personal manager at the time, wrote me an email last week about that tour: “Cannonball and his group ...
Cab Calloway's Legacy
Having spent the day yesterday listening to Cab Calloway's recordings from 1930 to 1955, I began to wonder: Has Calloway been shortchanged? Does hip start with his records of the early '30s? Did he originate cool? Can jazz's with-it, knowing wink be traced back to his records of the early '30s? Calloway, of course, was the ...
Red Garland and Lockjaw Davis
Some jazz contemporaries were perfect for each other but never recorded. Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown, for example, in the early '50s. Or Art Tatum and Benny Goodman in the '40s. In other cases, some dynamic duos did wind up in a studio together—but strangely didn't record nearly enough. One prime example is Red Garland [pictured] ...
Jazzwax List: 5 Best Bonds
John Barry, who died on Sunday, will always be remembered as the composer and orchestrator of 11 James Bond movie themes, including Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker. He also orchestrated the theme to Dr. No, which is probably the most identifiable of the all the Bond ...
Les Spann: Gemini
I find it interesting that several top jazz guitarists of the '50s steered clear of recording as leaders. Billy Bauer recorded only one album, Plectrist, as a leader in 1956. The same goes for Barry Galbraith, who took charge only on Guitar & the Wind in 1958. There usually are two reasons for this: First, most ...
Eyewitness: Toni Harper
Back in December, I wrote about an exceptional album that teamed an up and coming vocalist with a well-known pianist. The album is Toni Harper Sings, with the Oscar Peterson Trio. Recorded in December 1955, the Verve album was a rare example of Peterson accompanying a singer relatively new to jazz at the time. Questions naturally ...
Photostory: Steve McQueen
After my article on driving the Bullitt car-chase route appeared in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, photographer Paul Slaughter sent along an email with two fabulous images he had taken of Steve McQueen, the late star of Bullitt. Rather than tell you about the photos, here's Paul to tell you in his own words: “In ...
Alan Trustman on Bullitt
Yesterday afternoon, an email arrived in my in-box with a curious subject line: “That's MY car chase. MINE!!" The writer was, of course, referring to my article in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal here on the famed car chase from Bullitt, the 1968 film starring Steve McQueen. Over the past weekend I was in San Francisco driving ...
Interview: Loren Janes of Bullitt
As a kid growing up in New York in the late '60s, I had a thing for the movie Bullitt starring Steve McQueen. While I didn't necessarily understand the plot, I was mesmerized by the car chase. At the local candy store, all of my friends talked obsessively about it, probably because watching the sequence felt ...
Four Maynard Ferguson Clips
Sadly, Maynard Ferguson does not get nearly enough credit for being a bandleader and brass player of the highest order. Though somewhat commercially successful in his latter years and increasingly excitable on stage, Ferguson struggled to create a sound in the rock and disco eras that made sense. He found it in material that scorched everything ...
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