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Interview: Stanley Kay (Part 1)
Stanley Kay, Buddy Rich's drummer in the late 1940s, died on Monday (June 21st) in New York after a long illness. He was 86. To the uninitiated, my description of Stanley's occupation in the first sentence may sound odd. Buddy Rich's drummer? Buddy Rich was a drummer. Except that Stanley played drums when Buddy Rich sang ...
Interview: Lou Donaldson (Part 2)
Jazz writers aren't in complete agreement about the first hard-bop recording. Many point to Miles Davis' Walkin', recorded in April 1954. Others choose recordings from slightly later. I'd have to say that the first hard-bop date--where the trumpet and saxophone operate in unison with an r&b feel, backed by big steady, swinging beat--would have to be ...
Arnett Cobb: The Eely One
Back before electric guitarists were down on their knees in stadiums playing competing rock solos, tough tenors roamed the planet. And in the 1950s and early 1960s, tenor saxophonists were plenty tough and competitive. Most came out of the r&b experience of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Hot r&b bands of the day included ones ...
Interview: Lou Donaldson (Part 1)
Lou Donaldson helped invent two major jazz movements. In 1952, he led a Blue Note recording that became one of the earliest hard bop sessions. The date included Blue Mitchell, Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Art Blakey. Seven months later he recorded with trumpeter Clifford Brown. Then in 1957, Lou began recording a series of albums ...
Jazzwax List: 5 Beatles Saxes
Though not a single jazz musician is pictured on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, in collusion with producer George Martin, made strong use of the saxophone and British jazz players in their later works. Used mostly for texture or novelty effect, saxes in Beatles' works ...
The Truth About Joe Maini
If you're a careful reader of West Coast jazz-album liner notes, you've likely come across Joe Maini's name. The alto saxophonist is rather obscure today, but back in the 1950s and early 1960s, he was one of Los Angeles' busiest and most distinctive studio musicians, sitting next to Charlie Parker in Gene Roland's Band That Never ...
Hidden Jazz Downloads (Vol. 13)
Most jazz listeners find digital downloads convenient. But how these downloads are promoted at e-stores leaves much to be desired. The drag is you simply never know when new recordings you've been looking for have been added to the bins of e-retailers. So from time to time, I go into iTunes and Amazon with a hook ...
Dimitri from Paris Does Philly
Disco shares much in common with jazz. For one, the 1970s dance genre employed many jazz musicians, leaning heavily on drums, horns, vibes, strings and the craft of arrangers. For another, disco was built almost exclusively on the excitement of records. But instead of using radio and jukeboxes to generate buzz, the way jazz did in ...
David Amram on Bobby Jaspar (2)
What makes Bobby Jaspar so appealing to the ear is his ability to swing softly. Jaspar on sax or flute had a West Coast sound before the sound existed. In some respects, he was simply delivering a European interpretation of Lester Young's phrasing. Then again, this wasn't so far afield from what the European-trained West Coast ...
David Amram on Bobby Jaspar (1)
Bobby Jaspar is all but forgotten today. Back in the late 1950s, the Belgian tenor saxophonist recorded with Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Eddie Costa, J.J. Johnson, Herbie Mann and many other notable New York jazz artists of the period. Married to singer Blossom Dearie, Jaspar's best-known recordings are probably Interplay for Two Trumpets and Two Tenors ...
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