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Interview: Carol Sloane (Part 4)
In the summer of 1964, the world turned upside down for singer Carol Sloane. That year her mentor Bob Bonis became the U.S. road manager for two English rock bands: the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Her close friendship with Bonis made her a part of the Rolling Stones' entourage during their first tour in June ...
Interview: Carol Sloane (Part 5)
Few jazz singers had as tough a time coming up through the ranks as Carol Sloane. Most singers who are top of mind emerged when jazz was America's pop music and plenty of opportunities existed for vocalists to record and connect with the public. But just as Carol's career began to flower in the early 1960s, ...
Interview: Carol Sloane (Part 1)
Carol Sloane is easily the finest jazz singer of the post-jazz era. After getting her start in 1958 with the Larry Elgart Orchestra, Carol experienced a series of Cinderella breaks just as rock was beginning to yank the commercial rug out from under jazz. Had Carol been born five years earlier, she surely would be as ...
Interview: Carol Sloane (Part 3)
The early 1960s was a bleak period for new jazz singers like Carol Sloane. Between 1960 and the arrival of the Beatles in 1964, pop music surged in popularity. Weary of Tin Pan Alley standards, young adult record-buyers favored music that was simple and upbeat. And new. To fill 12-inch LPs, record company A&R executives reached ...
Charlie Parker: Stella by Starlight
Pairing Charlie Parker with strings began as an accident but quickly became an artistic stroke of genius. By combining bebop and mood music, producer Norman Granz stumbled upon a jazz-classical format that he would use successfully dozens of times throughout his career. For Parker, recording with strings and woodwinds between 1947 and 1954 legitimized his bebop ...
The Trombones Inc.: 1958
If you're as nuts for trombone as I am, The Trombones Inc. is an absolute dream album. Recorded in New York and Los Angeles over several sessions in December 1958, the concept was staggeringly ambitious: Twenty-seven leading trombonists of the day were assembled on two coasts. And like many record company gimmicks back in the 1950s, ...
Best Jazz Songs of Spring (PT. 1)
New York experienced 70-degree weather over the weekend. Not bad, considering that the soaring temperatures came a week after a blizzard dumped 10 inches of snow on the region. So yesterday, with the warm breeze coming in over the Hudson River and the clocks pushed forward an hour, thoughts naturally turned to spring. And songs of ...
Best Jazz Songs of Spring (PT. 2)
I don't trust Phil--the groundhog. This year, on February 2nd, under a bright sky, Phil saw his shadow, signifying six more weeks of winter. In New York, that would make the warming trend just a week away--on March 16th. But if Phil's track record (and today's chilly temperature) is any indication, that vernal prediction must be ...
Best Jazz Songs of Spring (PT. 3)
Sick of winter? Based on the e-mails I've been receiving from readers over the past two days, you're not alone. To help cheer you up, I offer you my final top-10 list of jazz songs with spring in the title. This brings my total number of favorites to 30. Which means you can now fire away ...
Hal McKusick on George Handy
Few big band arrangers were as nervy or as eccentric as George Handy. This was as true of Handy's music as it was of his personality. In the 1940s and 1950s, Handy's big-band writing fearlessly blended classical motifs and modal concepts with swing and 52nd Street bebop. More than 50 years later, the results remain as ...
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