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Red Garland and Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker and pianist Red Garland played together several times at clubs between 1947 and 1949 in Philadelphia and again in Boston in the early 1950s. But despite their many gigs, only four known tracks exist of Parker and Garland playing on the same date. These tracks are from a Boston radio broadcast in March 1953. ...
Thad Jones: Chairman of the Board
Thad Jones' big band arrangements sneak up on you. They're crafty, they swing and they get the job done in a playful way, often on melodic tippy toes. From his earliest recorded chart for Count Basie (he shared credit for arranging Move in 1956) right on through his expansive work with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, ...
Bev Thorne: Brubeck Home Designer
Beverley D. Thorne is among the last surviving architects from the Case Study Houses project. Between 1945 and 1966, Arts & Architecture magazine hired cutting-edge architects of the day to design inexpensive, efficient homes. These experimental residences were numbered, and steel and glass were used predominantly in the spare designs. The point was to show that ...
Shorty Rogers: Re-Entry
In 1969, trumpeter Shorty Rogers stopped recording. He was simply too busy to keep up with the practicing necessary to handle the endurance of a studio session. The flood of work in Hollywood compelled him to focus on composing, arranging and orchestrating for television and the movies. Rogers, along with Gerry Mulligan, had been one of ...
Oscar Peterson: Duo Sessions
The farther back in time you go, the more glorious pianist Oscar Peterson sounds. Like sliding a bar to and fro on the computer screen to find just where the hues are richest in a digital image, the Oscar Peterson Story is perhaps sweetest between 1949 and 1951. During this period, Clef Records' producer Norman Granz ...
Photostory15: Miles Davis
When I first saw this image of Miles Davis playing the tenor saxophone, I had a “what's wrong with this picture" moment. The photo of the trumpeter clearly was taken in the early 1960s, and Davis was never known to have doubled on the instrument. The blurry nature of the image also signified urgency. So I ...
Interview: Dave Brubeck (Part 4)
In 1956, the U.S. State Department began sending jazz musicians on world tours as a way to showcase the excitement of American creativity and the spirit of American culture. The move was an attempt to checkmate Soviet influence in vulnerable areas during the Cold War. In 1958 the Dave Brubeck Quartet visited Eastern Europe and the ...
Interview: Dave Brubeck (Part 3)
Many listeners who are new to jazz tend to think of Dave Brubeck as a pianist who flowered in 1959 with Time Out, the album that gave us Take Five. In truth, the promise of Dave's musical brilliance actually can be heard on recordings 13 years earlier. If you want to hear why Dave's commanding officer ...
Interview: Dave Brubeck (Part 2)
Dave Brubeck brings enormous enthusiasm and swinging delight to every original and standard piece he plays. Whether it's Will You Still Be Mine from Angel Eyes (1962), So This Is Love from Dave Digs Disney (1957) or Nomad from Jazz Impressions of Eurasia (1958), Dave always sounds vibrant and airy. In Dave's playing exists the same ...
Interview: Dave Brubeck (Part 1)
You can actually hear Dave Brubeck's two-octave grin over the phone. Dave talks slowly, at a measured pace, as though playing a ballad. His Memories of You speaking pace gives him plenty of time to be pinpoint accurate and to pause for reflection. It's at those moments, when he happily thinks back in time, that the ...
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