Home » Search Center » Results: JazzWax by Marc Myers
Results for "JazzWax by Marc Myers"
Sonny Stitt, Shirley Scott and Walter Bishop Jr.
Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society was formed in 1964. It's claim to fame was promoting more than 800 jazz concerts at the city's Famous Ballroom at 1717 North Charles Street. Nearly every major jazz artist who came through the city was booked by the Society into the Ballroom, its interior modeled after New York's Roseland Ballroom. ...
Mark Murphy, 1972-1991 (Pt. 2)
Yesterday, on what would have been vocalist Mark Murphy's 91st birthday (he died in 2015), I posted 10 favorite clips in the early part of his career, between 1956 and 1962. Murphy then left for the U.K.,where he remained until his return in 1972. When he arrived back in the U.S., there was a new artistic ...
Mark Murphy, 1956-1962 (Pt. 1)
Jackie Paris and Mark Murphy had a lot in common. Both were hip club singers with bop flexibility and a natural sense of swing. But where Paris took Charlie Parker as his inspiration, Murphy was more enamored of Miles Davis. Murphy, of course, began his recording career nearly 10 years after Paris, and while Paris had ...
Video: Cannonball Adderley Sextet, BBC 1964
I love colorized jazz videos. Jazz, for me, is always exciting, but there's something about color that brings the jazz artist you're watching alive and on par with the music. Here's the Cannonball Sextet at the BBC studio in London in 1964. The group featured Cannonball Adderley (alto sax), Nat Adderley (cornet), Charles Lloyd (tenor sax, ...
Backgrounder: Hampton Hawes' All Night Session!
For me, Hampton Hawes's finest recordings were the three All Night Session! albums captured on the evening of November 12, 1956 and the early morning hours of November 13. The studio date for Contemporary Records featured Hawes (p), Jim Hall (g), Red Mitchell (b) and Bruz Freeman (d). According to Hawes in his autobiography, Raise Up ...
Toni Harper (1937-2023)
Toni Harper, a child singer in Los Angeles in the late 1940s who grew up to become a superb jazz stylist in the mid-1950s and early 1960s, recorded with Oscar Peterson, Buddy Bregman, Marty Paich and many other leading jazz artists only to quit the business at age 29, died on February 10. She was 86. ...
Miles Davis: Two Docs Called 'Round Miles'
Last week, Ken Deifik sent along two super documentaries on Miles Davis. Interestingly, both are called Round Miles. Here's director Charles Carlini's documentary in which he interviews Quincy Troupe, author of Miles: The Autobiography... And here's director Christopher Wilkiinson's documentary of jazz musicians gathered at the Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles in 2008 talking about ...
Documentary: Wes Montgomery Turns 100
Today is the centenary of guitarist Wes Montgomery's birth. Born in 1923, he would die in 1968 at age 45. What better way to celebrate the impact Montgomery has had on the jazz guitar than with a new documentary directed by Kevin Finch. To view Wes Bound: The Genius of Wes Montgomery, you must go here. ...
Wayne Shorter in Nine Video Clips
Wayne Shorter (1933-2023), when paired with other great jazz artists, was a tonic. Whether it was with trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan or, later, Miles Davis, Shorter's saxophone added a dimension that was commanding and haunting. You felt you had a window into the artist's soul when Shorter played. Shorter was in three major groups ...
Backgrounder: Wayne Shorter's JuJu
Wayne Shorter, a saxophonist and composer whose influence on post-war jazz and jazz musicians rivaled that of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, died March 2. He was 89. My favorite Shorter album is JuJu. Recorded in 1964 for Blue Note and released in July 1965, the album featured all original songs by Shorter and included pianist ...
Showcase
For Your Consideration
Giveaway
