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Miles Davis: Will You Still Be Mine?

June 29, 2021

Written by Matt Dennis and Tom Adair, Will You Still Be Mine? was first recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra in February 1941, with an arrangement by Axel Stordahl and a vocal refrain by Connie Haines. There were roughly seven version between Dorsey and Miles Davis in 1955. Davis's rendition appeared on Musings of Miles ...

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Lennie Tristano: Duo Sessions

June 28, 2021

In 1968, pianist Lennie Tristano stopped touring. Traveling had become too much for him and he preferred to focus on teaching. During this period, he recorded with students in his home studio at his loft apartment at 317 East 32nd Street. The tapes of three of Tristano's students appear with him on an album called The ...

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Elizete Cardoso: Canção do Amor Demais

June 25, 2021

Elizete Cardoso is widely considered the first popular bossa nova singer in Brazil. She started singing early and was discovered at age 16 in 1936, while her first recording was issued in 1950. Between 1950 and 1958, she recorded more than 35 singles and albums. Then in 1958, lyricist Vinicius de Moraes asked her to record ...

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Video: Quincy Jones Big Band in France

June 24, 2021

Quincy Jones had a sterling jazz career in the 1950s arranging and conducting for top jazz recording artists. He also recorded with his own band. By 1959, Jones decided to invest in a touring production of Harold Arlen's jazz musical Free and Easy that used his arrangements for 18 musicians instead of a full orchestra. Free ...

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Tony Scott's Centennial

June 23, 2021

June 17 was the 100th anniversary of Tony Scott's birth. The clarinetist, baritone saxophonist and arranger was born in New Jersey and attended Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music from 1940 to 1942. He began recording as a sideman in 1945 before leading his first band backing Sarah Vaughan in '46. He also played clubs with Charlie ...

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Concert: McCoy Tyner in 2002

June 22, 2021

Two musicians who arguably had the biggest impact on the jazz piano in the 1960s were Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. They not only came from different backgrounds and experiences but also from different directions. Where Evans was lyrical, delicate and poetic, Tyner was percussive and stormy, using modal scales and chords to whip up drama ...

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Sweet Megg & Ricky Alexander

June 18, 2021

I'm always amazed when young musicians and singers today are passionate about and obsessed with a long-ago jazz era. I just assume that given a choice, these artists would rather stick with post-war jazz movements—from bebop to fusion and beyond. Not Sweet Megg and Ricky Alexander and the musicians they hang out with. For them, the ...

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Three New Stan Kenton Videos

June 17, 2021

Cruising through YouTube yesterday, I noticed that three Stan Kenton Orchestra videos had gone up in recent weeks. The first was a short that was filmed in the spring of 1947 as a faux recording session for Capitol. In truth, the short was a showcase for five songs: . Artistry In Rhythm (the Kenton band's theme), ...

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Big 10 by Ben Webster

June 16, 2021

After yesterday's post, I decided to spend the day listening to Ben Webster. In his prime, Webster probably had the biggest sound of any tenor saxophonist. And on ballads, it sounded as if he was weeping through his instrument. Best of all, I love the puffs of air he let off in the spaces on ballads, ...

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Frans Wieringa: Dutch Blues

June 15, 2021

The last Dutch jazz pianist I turned you on to was Rob Madna. Today, I have another one for you: Frans Wieringa. As far as I can tell, he recorded five or so albums, two of them with Ben Webster in 1969. One with Webster was At Ease, recorded in Heemstede, Holland, in January on the ...