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Interview: Phil Woods (Part 3)
Phil Woods is known worldwide as a jazz headliner and leader with a powerful attack on the alto saxophone. He plays with every ounce of energy, as though it's his very last day on the job. And for reasons that probably have more to do with nature than logic, when Phil plays, the urgency in his ...
Interview: Phil Woods (Part 2)
Listen to virtually any Charlie Parker recording and it's immediately apparent why the alto saxophonist had such an enormous impact on jazz musicians coming of age in the early 1950s. But Parker's magnificent tone and improvisational skills were only half the story. As Phil Woods notes today, Parker's personality also had a profound impact on musicians, ...
Interview: Phil Woods (Part 1)
Phil Woods is blunt. And moody. And passionate. And fast with a comeback line. Like many jazz greats, the alto saxophonist speaks the way he plays. His articulation and his instrumental attack share much in common. Both are refreshingly direct and raw with emotion. Whether Phil is talking or playing, you feel transfixed, as though a ...
Louie Bellson (1924-2009)
Louie Bellson, one of the last headline drummers of the big band era whose twin bass drums and high-energy beat-keeping thrilled audiences and powered orchestras ranging from Benny Goodman to Duke Ellington, died on February 14. He was 84 and had been recovering at home from a broken hip. Considered a swing drummer, Louie's style was ...
Shelly Manne at the Black Hawk
When Shelly Manne agreed to play San Francisco's Black Hawk club in September 1959, he viewed the gig as a working vacation. For months, the West Coast drummer had endured a grueling schedule, spending days in Hollywood's movie and TV studios and nights at Los Angeles-area clubs. Taking on the extended San Francisco engagement with his ...
How to Protect Your iTunes Library
Like you, I have a large collection of LPs and CDs. And like you, an ever-growing percentage of my music is finding its way into my iTunes library. Every week there are downloads and burns from a whole range of sources. I don't feel guilty about this: iTunes is a lot more convenient. A few clicks ...
Vic Lewis (1919-2009)
Vic Lewis, a British bandleader whose intensive admiration for Stan Kenton and other West Coast jazz artists led him to form one of Britain's most admired American-sounding jazz orchestras of the late 1940s and 1950s, died on Monday in the U.K. He was 89. Most American jazz fans are unfamiliar with Lewis, primarily because the bandleader ...
Miles Davis: Miles Ahead (+19)
My posts last week on Helen Merrill got me thinking about Miles Davis. Like all great jazz musicians, Miles was a fascinating adapter of other artists' playing styles, moods and techniques. His choice of songs, his phrasing and his attack were a synthesis of his own genius and what he enjoyed and thought he could improve ...
Blossom Dearie (1926-2009)
Blossom Dearie, a delicate pianist, composer, arranger and singer with a helium-high voice who helped pioneer vocalese in New York and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s, died on Saturday in Greenwich Village after a long illness. She was 82. Dearie was a regular at 52d St. clubs and the salon apartment of arranger ...
Interview: Helen Merrill (Part 5)
Unlike many singers of her generation, Helen Merrill was never big on tabloid drama. No tell-all books by people who knew her. No hurled drinks. And no airport tantrums, tawdry busts or overdoses. Just a lifelong commitment to jazz, singing and musicians. But Helen's love of jazz faced strong cultural headwinds in the 1970s. Acoustic jazz ...
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