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Both Sides of Tony Scott
Tony Scott's recordings from the 1950s are an acquired taste. Some people find his clarinet playing uneven, making you feel as though the wheels of the train you're aboard aren't firmly hugging the rails. Others find his tone lacking in warmth. Still others insist his approach is too solemn and not swinging enough. All of these ...
Jazzwax Mindblowers (Vol. 11)
For those of you who are new to JazzWax, at the end of each quarter I feature a roundup of my favorite quotes from legends I've interviewed over the past three months. It's sort of a greatest hits feature that gives you a taste of what you might have missed. [Photo: The Dream of Fire, c. ...
Morello and Barth: Eldorado Weekend
I love how Europeans interpret the bossa nova. The French have been particularly deft at capturing the genre's softness and sensuality. Think Henri Salvador, Francis Lai's soundtrack for A Man and a Woman (1966) and Mary L., a relatively new Parisian singer. But the French don't have a monopoly on producing convincing Brazilian tributes. Germany's Paulo ...
Jazzwax List: 7 by Earl Coleman
Earl Coleman is an all-but-forgotten vocalist today. The barrel- voiced baritone was born in Port Huron, Mich., in 1925 and starting singing with bands led by Jay McShann and Earl Hines. In New York in the late 1940s, he became a fixture in the clubs of 52nd Street. Coleman brought enormous feeling to the ballads and ...
Liberace, Las Vegas and Me
On Friday, at the crack of dawn, I was on a Delta flight from New York to Las Vegas. The Liberace Museum had just announced it was closing in October, and I was on assignment for the Wall Street Journal. Mind you, I have never been a fan of Liberace's music. I didn't dislike him when ...
Buddy Collette (1921-2010)
Buddy Collette, a much in-demand Hollywood jazz and studio musician who appeared on 325 known recording sessions and courageously risked his burgeoning career to spearhead the merger of Los Angeles' segregated musicians' union locals in the early 1950s, died in L.A. on September 19. He was 89. When I spoke to Buddy in July for my ...
Bill Zavatsky's Ode to Bill Evans
Pianist Bill Evans died 30 years ago today. I attended the service for Evans in September 1980 at St. Peter's Church in the base of New York's Citicorp Center. I still remember poet Bill Zavatsky [pictured] reading his poem, To the Pianist Bill Evans. As a tribute to Evans, here is Zavatsky's poem: To the Pianist ...
Joe Diorio and Sonny Stitt
Guitarist Joe Diorio recorded only two albums with saxophonist Sonny Stitt. Both are among my favorite Stitt recordings thanks to Diorio's extraordinary swinging rhythm guitar playing and soulful fills. The first of the pair was Move on Over (1963) and the second was My Main Man (1964). Both were recorded for the Argo label and both ...
Laurie Pepper and the Pirates
Laurie Pepper is one smart cookie. When I interviewed her for my Wall Street Journal article on business-minded spouses of deceased jazz greats (Laurie is Art Pepper's widow), she told me the secret of her success: Making friends with worldwide collectors of bootleg recordings and releasing the material they send her on her Widow's Taste label. ...
Royce Campbell: Playing Pretty
As a jazz guitarist, it's not easy to play pretty. You have to worship harmony, you have to love the sound of the instrument, and you have to want to seduce audiences. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, guitarists like Barry Galbraith, Jimmy Raney, Chuck Wayne, Mundell Lowe, Wes Montgomery and others understood the conversational quality ...
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