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Interview: Meredith D'Ambrosio (PT 1)
Over the summer I received a sweet e-mail from Meredith d'Ambrosio thanking me for including her in a roundup of superb vocal versions of Bill Evans songs. You may not be familiar with the vocalist, but what's about to happen to you happened to me in the mid-1990s. Back then, a friend gave me a copy ...
Jimmy Heath: Endurance
Speaking of tenor saxophone legends who are still going strong, Jimmy Heath has just released Endurance, a CD co-led with his younger brother, drummer Albert “Tootie" Heath. Endurance features six Heath originals, a composition by pianist Jeb Patton and the standard Autumn in New York. Like James Moody, Heath is a workhorse who continues to tour ...
James Moody: 4A
When his tenor saxophone hangs on his chest, James Moody is an entertainer. Years spent working with the best jazz cut-ups has taught him the value of lightening up an audience. So when Moody's on stage between songs, he's revving up his charm and drawing everyone in. But when it's time to work, a transformation takes ...
Four Brothers: Together Again!
At 3 p.m. on February 11, 1957, four saxophonists who had played in Woody's Herman's late-1940s bands entered Webster Hall in New York City to record an album for RCA's Vik label. The musicians were Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Herbie Steward and Serge Chaloff. Except for a two-hour dinner break, the session lasted 10 hours, wrapping ...
Dave Pell on Don Fagerquist
If you're unfamiliar with trumpeter Don Fagerquist [pictured], that's about to change. The now nearly forgotten West Coast trumpeter had one of the richest tones in the business in the 1950s and 1960s, and he made everything he played sound melodic and effortless. Fagerquist's solos were like tennis balls rolling out of a can onto a ...
Peggy Lee: Jump for Joy
With the introduction of stereo fidelity in 1958, most albums by pop artists and singers were released in two formats: mono and stereo. In some cases artists recorded the same material twice. In other cases gear was in place to record both formats at once. Stereo recordings involved the special placement of musical instruments in the ...
Interview: Howard Rumsey (Part 3)
Southern California in the early 1950s was a place of rapid transition. As cars became more affordable and local highways improved, teens in the warmer months gravitated toward the shore. At the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, manager Howard Rumsey found himself in the right place at the right time. With nighttime demographics skewing younger and suburban ...
Interview: Howard Rumsey (Part 2)
In 1949, when Howard Rumsey began contracting musicians for the Lighthouse, a seaside jazz club in Hermosa Beach, CA, he had more talent to choose from than could squeeze onto his small stage. Los Angeles was awash with winter-weary talent hungry for lucrative work in the movie and recording studios. In the years that followed, the ...
Interview: Howard Rumsey (Part 1)
If you dig West Coast jazz, you have bassist Howard Rumsey to thank. Howard is the last surviving member of Stan Kenton's original 1941 band. He also was responsible for turning the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, CA, into one of the most exciting jazz clubs of the late 1940s and 1950s. As the club's manager, house ...
Chris Connor (1927-2009)
Chris Connor, a breathy jazz singer whose powerful caressing voice could ignite a big band as easily as steam up a trio or quartet, died on Saturday of cancer in Toms River, N.J. She was 81. Unfairly compared over the years to June Christy and Anita O'Day--both of whom preceded her in Stan Kenton's big band--Chris ...
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