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Photostory5: Louis Armstrong

July 17, 2009

I love this photo of Louis Armstrong. I've long admired Herb's work. His perspective has always been radically different from his peers'. Rather than mimic the glossy style that was common during the late 1950s and beyond, Herb sought a different expression in his subjects, a new more authentic feel. It's almost as if Herb knew ...

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Earl Coleman: Social Call

July 16, 2009

Before Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane in 1963, there was Earl Coleman and Sonny Rollins in 1956. Coleman had a rich, romantic deep baritone that was similar in some respects to that of his idol, Billy Eckstine. But Coleman was less showtime, less photogenic and less talented. He also wasn't as lucky, which can be heard ...

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Interview: Jon Hendricks (Part 2)

July 15, 2009

Jon Hendricks thinks like a saxophonist curled up in a bass drum. His sense of timing has always been rooted in his early skills on the snare and cymbals. His gift for wordplay comes from curiosity and a deep passion for literature. And his swing? Well, that's a New York thing--an early 1950s marinade of uncertain ...

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Interview: Jon Hendricks (Part 1)

July 14, 2009

Jon Hendricks' pure sense of swing, poetic word-play and conversational vocalese remain unmatched. Truth be told, Jon' s splendid contribution to jazz has never been fully acknowledged or appreciated. Jon not only has written the words to dozens of songs based on famous jazz solos, he also has perfectly captured their infectious intent by singing every ...

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Photostory4: Big Jay McNeely

July 11, 2009

From time to time, I spot a jazz photo that moves me so much I have to know what happened the moment the camera's shutter came down. As a fan of 1950s jazz photography, I have long admired the high-contrast black-and-white work of Bob Willoughby. If you're unfamiliar with Bob [pictured], his stunning photos of jazz ...

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Interview: Buddy de Franco, '49-'52

July 10, 2009

For clarinetist Buddy De Franco, the years between 1949 and 1952 were experimental and disappointing. After spending the 1940s in Tommy Dorsey's band, Buddy decided in 1949 to try his hand at leading an orchestra. But his move came at a time when music tastes were shifting rapidly. Big bands no longer had the same power ...

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Interview: Buddy de Franco, '43

July 10, 2009

In January 1943, Gene Krupa's 17-year-old band boy did something stupid. After receiving his draft notice, he decided that as a going-away present, he'd buy Krupa [pictured] a few joints. When he arrived at the theater in San Francisco where the Krupa band was playing, he handed Krupa his gift. The drummer placed the joints in ...

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Interview: Buddy de Franco, Opus 1

July 10, 2009

There's a scene early in Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977) when Robert De Niro walks into a large dance club in Times Square on V-E Day prowling for a date. In the background, a big band is playing Opus One. As the camera pans the massive room on a boom, closing in on the ...

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Ray Charles: Country and Western

July 10, 2009

I don't really think of Ray Charles' Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vols. 1 and 2 as country albums. Like everything Charles took on, the music he recorded in 1962 was more about his take on an established genre than an attempt to mimic it. But in some ways, Modern Sounds isn't really an ...

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Bill Evans: Early V. Late

July 6, 2009

Like the Hatfields and McCoys, fans of pianist Bill Evans' early and late periods love to square off. Musket muzzles emerge through the pickets on both sides whenever a writer or critic voices disappointment with Evans' recordings after 1970. For reasons that escape me, many of those who enjoy Evans' late period seem to take this ...