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Eddie Palmieri: Azucar Pa' Ti
By the mid-1960s, Latin-jazz was in rapid transition. Americans' appetite for Cuban dance music had cooled as tensions between Fidel Castro and the United States heated up in the early 1960s. At the same time, new forms of Latin music were emerging from the Puerto Rican neighborhoods of New York's Spanish Harlem and South Bronx. Largely ...
Interview: David Allyn (Part 2)
True confession: I probably listen to David Allyn's A Sure Thing (World Pacific) from 1957 at least once every two weeks. The album features soaring charts by Johnny Mandel, and it's among the most perfect male vocal packages ever recorded. That's a pretty big statement, but you won't find much pushback from those who own it ...
Interview: David Allyn (Part 1)
David Allyn is a singer's singer. All jazz vocalists with a heart have a tender spot for David's warm, passionate baritone. Leading arrangers and jazz musicians from the 1940s and 1950s, including Johnny Mandel, Hal McKusick, Joe Wilder and others who came up during this era, also love David's voice and intonation. Before Chet Baker, before ...
Interview: Rachel Rodgers
A few weeks ago I received a text message from my wife. As she was nearing Barnes & Noble on Broadway on New York's Upper West Side, she heard the sound of a jazz flute. Wriggling through the small crowd gathered around the musician, my wife was surprised to see a young girl swinging away. My ...
Interview: Jimmy Heath (Part 2)
Up until 1952, Jimmy Heath's instrument was the alto saxophone. A fast study, Jimmy sounded almost identical to Charlie Parker, earning him the nickname “Little Bird." But the novelty of mimicking Parker soon wore thin, especially as the tenor saxophone emerged in the early 1950s as the more popular reed instrument. So Jimmy made the switch, ...
Interview: Jimmy Heath (Part 1)
Tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath is best known as the timeless anchor of the famed Heath Brothers band. When Jimmy's brother and bassist Percy died in 2005, Jimmy and drummer Albert “Tootie" Heath continued on, and their most recent album, Endurance, is a perfect example of how greatness only improves with age. On the CD of originals ...
Johnny Mandel on Streisand (Part 2)
Everyone in the music business loves Johnny Mandel, from jazz artists and pop singers to record and movie producers. It's easy to see why. As one of America's most gifted composers and arrangers, Johnny has spent much of his 65-year career making bands, singers and musicians sound superb. When Johnny writes a song or orchestral score, ...
Johnny Mandel on Streisand (Part 1)
Table your politics and any pre-conceived notions about Barbra Streisand. In fact, forget everything you know about her. If you can do this, you'll find that her new album, Love Is the Answer, is a beautifully crafted document of vocal warmth and arranging. Rather than turn out another battleship-sized production that winds up too many miles ...
Sonny Dunham: Memories of You
Shortly after Andy Razaf and Eubie Blake's Memories of You was performed in the Blackbirds of 1930 revue, the song was recorded by vocalist Ethel Waters in August 1930 for the Columbia label. Duke Ellington soon followed in early October with an RCA release featuring Dick Robertson on vocal. Two weeks later, Louis Armstrong and His ...
Interview: Leon Ware (Part 2)
Like many jazz artists, soul singer Marvin Gaye built his post-1970 career on bucking the system. It's hard to believe now, but Motown initially resisted Gaye's What's Going On (1971). The album didn't fit the tried and true formula that drove the label's bottom line. But after the album's release and success--featuring Gaye's searing commentary on ...
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