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Harvey Pekar on Sonny Stitt
Following my post on Sonny Stitt two weeks ago, I received an email from reader Joel Lewis. In his note, Joel mentioned underground comic-book writer Harvey Pekar, whose life's struggles were the basis of American Splendor (2003), a must-see film starring Paul Giamatti. The point of Joel's note was to hip me to a series of ...
Bud Shank and Valve Trombones
In 1954 and 1955, Bud Shank recorded two 10-inch albums for the Pacific Jazz label that teamed him with valve trombones. The LPs were Bud Shank and Three Trombones and Bud Shank and Bob Brookmeyer. These recordings remain potent early examples of West Coast optimism, technical prowess and a sound that still raises hairs. What you ...
Jazzwax List: 7 Tax Tunes
Today marks the start of The JazzWax List. This list will appear at random, and its theme will vary depending on the day, my mood and my interests. Mostly, the list will feature stuff I like and highly recommend. What the lists will have in common is music--jazz, soundtracks, soul, country, disco--you name it. I may ...
Interview: John Bunch (Part 2)
The late John Bunch is best remembered as an elegant trio pianist. But back in the late 1950s and into the 1960s and 1970s, John played fearlessly in some of the best big bands still touring and recording. The list includes one of the most revered band recordings of the late 1950s, Maynard Ferguson's A Message ...
Interview: John Bunch (Part 1)
John Bunch liked to be underestimated. The courtly and congenial pianist who died last week at age 88 enjoyed projecting an everyman image and often made a point of telling people that he didn't have much technical training. But what John did have was something that most jazz musicians spend a lifetime trying to acquire--perfect rhythm ...
Interview: Frank D'Rone (Part 3)
Not all singers who came up in the 1950s became Tony Bennett or Sarah Vaughan. Some were popular only in their local towns. Some lacked talent or didn't have enough charisma. Some fell in with lousy record labels or the wrong crowd. Some were short on persistence or endurance. Others just gave up and went into ...
Interview: Frank D'Rone (Part 2)
Back the 1950s, jazz duos, trios and quartets toured all over the country. There was plenty of work to go around. Thousands of small clubs and bars favored live jazz and pop, which attracted patrons, kept them there longer buying drinks. The goal for an artist was to land an extended stay at a club in ...
Interview: Frank D'Rone (Part 1)
Back in the late 1970s, I was hunting for a Stan Kenton LP and wound up at Dayton's, a rare jazz LP store on Broadway in New York's Greenwich Village. As I made my way over to the Kenton bin, a record by a male singer was playing over the store's speakers. The song was Why ...
Sonny Stitt: Roost Sessions
You either love Sonny Stitt or you're completely unfamiliar with the saxophonist. And if you're as crazy about Stitt, as I am, then you know it's almost impossible to collect his records. There are simply too many of them. When I was a kid back in the 1970s, I worked in a record store in New ...
Interview: Jim Hall (Part 3)
When Jim Hall left the Jimmy Giuffre Trio in 1961, he was a new guitarist. Jim's extended period with Giuffre helped him develop a new way to slur notes on the instrument's neck rather than relying solely on the pick. This blending technique would come in handy on the monumental albums he would record in the ...
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