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Malo, the San Francisco Experience
San Francisco is most often associated with happenings, the Grateful Dead, LSD, the free speech movement, face painting, free love, the Summer of Love, underground newspapers and comics, Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company, Bill Graham, the Fillmore Auditorium, Jefferson Airplane, the Matrix, Carlos Santana, Haight-Ashbury, Golden Gate Park, Timothy Leary, psychedelic art ...
Terry Gibbs and Sal Nistico
In 1963, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs teamed with tenor saxophonist Sal Nistico to record a terrific little-known swinger for New York's Time Records known as Gibbs & Nistico. I say “known as" because the album cover, as you can see below, doesn't distinctly project a title. Produced by Bob Shad, the LP featured Sal Nistico (ts), Terry ...
Chuck Owen: Renderings
Chuck Owen may be unfamiliar to you but you'll thank me for bringing you up to speed on him. Chuck is a composer-arranger who has just released an album featuring him conducting the WDR Big Band playing his original compositions and arrangements. The WDR Big Band is one of the world's finest jazz orchestras, and this ...
Tony Bennett Sings for Madison Ave.
Like many vocal stars eager to supplement their income and remain visible, Tony Bennett did his fair share of TV and print ads for a wide range of products. Here are a bunch of TV commercials, as well as two rare ones from my archives that were given to me by friends: Here's Tony for Rheingold ...
Five More Reissues From Candid
Between 1960 and 1961, jazz author and critic Nat Hentoff worked for Candid Records as its A&R chief and in-studio producer. During that two-year period, he recorded 34 albums. What makes the albums special is that they were without commercial constrictions, meaning artists were free to record originals and with groups of their chosing. Many of ...
Backgrounder: Tony Bennett - Movie Song Album
As we say goodbye to the late Tony Bennett, let's listen to one of his favorite Columbia albums—The Movie Song Album. Here's the song list as well as the arrangers and notable soloists: Song From “The Oscar" (Maybe September) (arr,cond Johnny Mandel) (Lou Levy, piano) Girl Talk (arr,cond Neal Hefti) (Jimmy Rowles, piano) The Gentle Rain ...
Tony Bennett (1926-2023)
For me, Tony Bennett's passing was personal. Since 2011, I interviewed the singer five different times for The Wall Street Journal, four at his art studio overlooking Central Park. Each time was a revelation, from the interview we did sitting in close quarters on a sofa to the last in 2018, when his Alzheimer's was already ...
Video Clips: Rita Payés Plays and Sings
Born in 1999 in Vilassar de Mar, a seaside suburb just north of Barcelona, Spain, Rita Payés grew up with musician parents and played piano and guitar and sang. She started her music studies at the School of Music in Premià de Mar and, at age 8, she attended the School of Modern Music in Badalona. ...
Bill Evans and Tony Bennett on TV
By October 1976, Bill Evans and Tony Bennett had recorded two albums of duets for Tony's short-lived Improv label. I've always had mixed feelings about the recordings. For me, it's strange to hear Evans as second fiddle to anyone and even stranger to hear Tony having to defer, musically, to his accompanist. But strangest of all, ...
Ralph Gari on EmArcy in 1955
While I was away over the past two weeks, I spent a few hours at a terrific vinyl record store nearby run by guys with long hair and great taste. You know the kind of shop I'm talking about, where everything they spin on their vintage stereo system with 1970s speakers sounds fetching and you must ...
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