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Jazzwax List: 7 Jazz Days
Everyday you can't have the blues. Sometimes you need something else, something a little lighter or swinging to brighten up the day. Get out your e-calendars: Here are seven jazz songs named for the different days of the week, the artists who recorded them and the albums on which they can be found: Monday—Manny Albam, Steve's ...
Tony Scott at Bop's Dawn
Clarinetist Tony Scott didn't make many friends. A good number of jazz musicians who knew him recall an egoist who was abrasively competitive and made less and less musical sense as the years wore on. Personally, I find Scott a mixed bag, in some cases producing lovely swinging music and in other cases using a purposefully ...
Bing Bops with Patty and Peg
I have no idea how Bing Crosby felt about bebop. But given his roots, one can only assume he viewed the jazz style as noisy, foolish and faddish. A veteran of Paul Whiteman's band in the '20s and the sweet vocal romanticism of the '30s, Crosby preferred his jazz straightforward and laid back. Though he certainly ...
Jazzwax List: 10 Singing Boppers
By the late 1940s, bebop was all the rage—thanks largely to radio disc jockeys who hyped the music and artists through the air-play of records on late-night shows. What began in the mid-'40s as a spectacular, secular jazz style flourished by 1948 as more musicians figured out how to play and arrange it for small groups ...
Gary Burton on Lofty Fake Anagram
Toward the end of1966, vibraphonist Gary Burton left the Stan Getz Quartet to form his own group. The personnel he chose for his quartet shifted over the early months of 1967, but by the time Gary recorded Duster in April, he was joined by guitarist Larry Coryell, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Roy Haynes. But in ...
Jazz, Rage and the Rampage
Here's a shocker: Alleged Arizona gunman Jared Loughner played saxophone in two jazz bands while in high school and dug Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. According to yesterday's New York Times, Loughner, 22, was so passionate about jazz and dedicated to practicing that a career in music was once considered. These details come as something of ...
Sonny Stitt's Prestige Ballads
Between 1949 and 1952, saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded close to 70 sides for Prestige as a leader and sideman. Excluding Charlie Parker, Lester Young and James Moody, it's hard to think of too many other artists during this period who produced as much exciting and consistently dynamic material for a single label. Later, in the 12-inch ...
Jazzwax List: Lou's Organists
Lou Donaldson was one of the first alto saxophonists to perform and record consistently with a Hammond B3 behind him. He used the sound extensively on the road in the '50s while touring across the country and developed a new jazz-funk approach in the '60s. Here's a list of the groovy organists who have recorded with ...
Tony Bennett, San Francisco and Me
A week before Christmas I was in San Francisco to interview Orrin Keepnews for the Wall Street Journal. While I was there, I stayed overnight at the Fairmont, which has to be the city's most stately and grand hotel. Perched high atop Nob Hill overlooking the city and bay, the Fairmont opened in 1907 and has ...
Orrin Keepnews, Jazz Master
What makes Orrin Keepnews special? As I point out in my Wall Street Journal profile today here, the 87-year-old former Riverside Records producer is arguably responsible for some of jazz's greatest recordings. Through his vision and encouragement, Riverside recorded many of the finest jazz works by Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Wes Montgomery and so ...
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