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A.K. Salim: Flute Suite
The first time Frank Wess and Herbie Mann recorded shoulder to shoulder on flute was in 1957, for an album led by arranger A.K. Salim called Flute Suite. The six tracks are neatly divided between mid-tempo blues and sophisticated originals. On four of the tracks, the two bop pipers run down complex lines in tandem and ...
Top Mindblowers (Vol. 4)
With just days to go until year-end, it's time once again for my roundup of favorite quotes from JazzWax interviews over the last three months. If you're looking for the other volumes in this series, simply go to the search engine atop the right-hand column and type in the word “Mindblowers." I created this quarterly feature ...
Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
Monk albums. Recorded over two days in October of 1959 for Riverside, Thelonious Alone in San Francisco marked Monk's last studio date for Riverside before he joined Columbia Records. It also was his second solo album for the label, the first being Thelonious Himself in 1957. As with any great album, there's a back-story. According to ...
Leonard Feather Said It
"The story of the Shearing sound is interesting. I had encouraged George to come over from England in '46. He stayed about three months, did one record date for Savoy, and went back home. When I saw him in London in the summer of '47, he was playing accordion in some band. But that winter he ...
Miles Davis Said It
"Monk has really helped me. When I came to New York, he taught me chords and his tunes. A main influence he has been through the years has been has to do with giving musicians more freedom. They feel that if Monk can do what he does, they can. “Monk has been using space for a ...
Interview: Teddy Charles in 1953
Back in the early 1950s, vibraphonist Teddy Charles was one swinging cat. Years ahead of his time, Teddy that year was experimenting with modal jazz and playing bop with some of the hippest musicians of the day. His leadership dates in 1951 and 1952 for Prestige Records include trio and quartet sessions with guitarist Jimmy Raney ...
Frankie Laine: Jazz Spectacular
Anyone who dismisses Frankie Laine as a camp pop singer really don't know enough about him. Of course, Laine is best known for recording an exhausting string of cap-gun Western-themed songs in the 1950s. But before selling his jazz soul for pop fame and fortune, Laine was an emotional jazz balladeer and a solid swinger of ...
Pharoah Sanders: Welcome to Love
As an ice-cold rain fell yesterday in New York, I reached for Welcome to Love, a 1990 album by Pharoah Sanders that I hadn't heard in a few years. The Sphinx-like tenor saxophonist is best known for his spiritual and avant-garde jazz recordings of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably Karma, which includes the dazzling 32-minute-plus ...
10 Jazz Genius Moments (PT. 2)
Part 1 What makes a jazz recording great? Some insist it's the mix of musicians on the date. Others say it's the arranger or the energy level or the producer's standards and demands. All of these factors are important, to be sure. But to me, what truly makes a recording exceptional are only one or two ...
10 Moments of Jazz Genius (Pt. 1)
There are jazz albums I can't live without. There are jazz tracks I adore. And then there are mere moments in jazz recordings that blow me away. Some of these thrilling phrases and passages were planned out ahead of time by recording artists or arrangers. Others were improvised and turned out brilliantly. In either case, these ...
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