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Dinah Washington: 'Bargain Day'
I wish someone would discover previously unreleased live Dinah Washington recordings. She was such a towering force in popular music, matched only by Nat King Cole. In the late 1940s, after leaving Lionel Hampton's band in 1945, she soon became known as “Queen of the Jukebox"—for her large number of hits and for her forceful voice ...
'Light Fantastic' and 'Joanna'
Lately, I've been looking at mid-1960s films and their soundtracks. I'm particularly curious about barely known and forgotten movies, experimental in some cases or low-budget, but keenly scored. The world changed dramatically during this period and almost overnight. The pre-teen and teen market started to gain commercial value and power, and young adults felt at sea. ...
Interview: Deb Rasmussen on 'Unspoken'
Deb Rasmussen is a singer from Calgary, Alberta, whose day job is in agricultural economics. But her occupation is hardly the stuff of milking cows and feeding chickens. This is big-league stuff. When I reached out to her initially, Deb was on her way to Mongolia to help the country maximize the potential of its land ...
Clark Terry's Big Bad Band, 1979
Trumpeter and flugelhornist Clark Terry had a long career. His first recording session was as a leader, in 1947, with his Section Eights for V-Discs, a label started during the American Federation of Musicians recording ban of 1942-'44 that allowed music to be recorded for the Army provided the masters were destroyed. Soon V-Discs was provided ...
Mike Stern: 10 Favorite Videos
Yesterday I posted my interview with Mike Stern, a superb jazz-rock guitarist who came up at the end of the 1970s. In my post, I also mentioned that Mike has a residency at New York's 55 bar and that he will be performing at 92NY on July 28 to close out the cultural institution’s Jazz in ...
Interview: Mike Stern
The arrival of rock guitarists on TV shows, at concerts and on the radio in the mid-1960s and the emergence of the artist-controlled rock album in the late ‘60s led to a seismic change in jazz. Many young budding jazz musicians found themselves admirers of pop-rock and rock—or at least the larger incomes those forms generated ...
Video: Sonny Rollins in Paris 1965
In late 1965, Sonny Rollins was on tour in Europe and Scandinavia. At the Paris Jazz Festival on Thursday, November 4, he was on stage, backed by French bassist Gilbert Rovere and American expatriate drummer Art Taylor. Also appearing at the festival were Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans with Lee Konitz, Art Blakey's New Jazz Men, Dakota ...
Mobile Fidelity's Ultradisc One-Step
Vinyl is back with a vengeance. But the phenomenon isn't just the issuing of LPs and newfound marketplace passion for turntables and speakers. There's a wave of new album-pressing technologies that are making original records sound much warmer and wider. One of the leading companies specializing in audiophile recordings is Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, which has ...
Interview: Al Di Meola on 'Saturday Night in SF'
As legendary jazz albums go, Friday Night in San Francisco is a cult classic. Recorded live at San Francisco's Warfield Theatre on December 5, 1980, the album was released in 1981 and featured three superb guitarists—Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía. All three played acoustic models. In some respects, the album's popularity at ...
Interview: Vicki Burns on 'Lottus Blossom Days'
Last October, I received an email from vocalist Vicki Burns: Hello Marc. I'm not sure if you remember me. I wrote you years ago and asked if you'd consider reviewing a live album I did in 2008, Vicki Burns: Live at Anna’s Jazz Island. You wrote back with some excellent advice that I took to ...
