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Barry Galbraith: Guitar and the Wind
Over the course of his career, guitarist Barry Galbraith appeared on 594 recording sessions. Yet he made only one album as a featured leader—Guitar and the Wind. The album was recorded over three days in January 1958 for Decca. The fact that Galbraith didn't record more extensively as a featured soloist for Decca and other labels ...
Trudy Pitts (1932-2010)
Trudy Pitts, a Hammond B3 organist with a swirling, stinging style rich with technique and whose attack on the instrument was as aggressive as many of her male counterparts, died December 19. She was 78. A late jazz-soul bloomer, Pitts was signed by Prestige in 1967 just as jazz was losing young listeners to rock and ...
Hal McKusick in 1956
Saxophonist Hal McKusick is on some of the finest New York recording sessions of the '50s. His reputation for reading music perfectly the first time, no matter how complex, spread quickly among fellow musicians and those in charge of assembling them for recordings. Hal could always be counted on to swing, lead a big-band reed section ...
Jazzwax List: 5 Video Clips
Rather than post prose today, I've decided to share with you some of my favorite video clips viewed over the past week. As my friends know, I'm a YouTube junkie, trawling the site daily for little-known and hidden jazz, rock and soul videos. Below are five favorites: Here's acordionist Mat Mathews from July 1997...
History of the Christmas Song
Dick LaPalm is a record promoter who worked closely with Nat King Cole on all of his releases for Capitol in the '50s and '60s. He sent along the following note regarding the history of The Christmas Song: “In early May of 1946, the King Cole Trio, with guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller, was ...
Bill Evans and Joe Puma
Before he began recording exclusively as leader of a working trio, pianist Bill Evans was a prolific sideman. Between 1954 and 1958, Evans appeared on more than 20 recordings led by other artists. Except for New Jazz Conceptions, his first one-off trio date for Riverside in 1956, Evans was a top keyboard gun for hire in ...
Jazzwax List: 8 Pop Sax Solos
Rock, pop and disco tracks of the '60s, '70s and '80s were routinely peppered by horns. The saxophone, in particular, was most often added to give a slick track an earthy authenticity. In many cases, the sax solo would be written into the song's break halfway through to provide a funky feel. Or it would come ...
Buddy Collette Said It
In addition to being a superb reed and woodwind musician, the late Buddy Collette also was a courageous advocate for civil rights in Los Angeles. Up through the late '40s and early '50s, integration was actively discouraged by the city. Even the musicians' union had two locals—one for whites and another for blacks. By 1950, the ...
Jazz and Drugs in 1960
For the November 1960 issue of Playboy, the magazine assembled a panel of musicians to discuss drug addiction in the jazz world and the public's perception of jazz as a result. The topic was a hot one back then, coming off the 1950s. And yet in historical perspective, the topic's urgency seems somewhat ludicrous. Within seven ...
Eddie Higgins: Christmas Songs
Every year at this time I choose a favorite jazz Christmas album to share with you. My annual selection has nothing to do with new releases or hot new artists. My criterion simply is beauty, which isn't so easy, since a great Christmas album is hard to find. For me, most tend to be too solemn ...
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