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Miles Davis in Milan in Color, 1964

May 31, 2021

This clip will likely be familiar to you, but chances are you saw it in black and white. A couple of weeks ago, the footage was uploaded colorized. The concert featured the Miles Davis Quintet at the Teatro dell'Arte in Milan, Italy, on October 11th, 1964. When I saw it, thanks to Gilles D'Elia in Paris, ...

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Ruud Jacobs Superjam, 2004

May 28, 2021

Ruud Jacobs was a Dutch bassist who recorded prolifically in Europe in the 1950s and beyond. His brother, Pim Jacobs, was equally busy. In April 2004, Ruud Jacobs brought together some of Holland's finest jazz musicians for a Superjam performance at The Otter Restaurant in Loosdrecht, the Netherlands. The artists were Ferdinand Povel (ts), Sjoerd Dijkhuizen ...

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Thelonious Monk Quartet: Jazz 625

May 27, 2021

My favorite Thelonious Monk quartet featured Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Monk on piano, Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums. The group was recorded extensively on tour and in the studio from 1964 to 1968. On March 14,1965, they were at the Marquee Club in London before a live audience for the BBC2's ...

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Elis Regina: Little Pepper

May 26, 2021

Elis Regina was one of Brazil's most beloved singers. Born in Porto Alegre, a major port city in the southern part of the country, Regina was a child singing star on local radio. In her teens she moved to Rio de Janeiro to record her first album. When she was 20, she competed in her first ...

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Eddie Duran: Jazz Guitarist

May 25, 2021

Guitarist Eddie Duran was best known as a member of vibraphonist Cal Tjader's groups from 1954 forward and in pianist Vince Guaraldi's ensembles from 1962 onward. What all three musicians had in common was a San Francisco upbringing and marvelous musical taste. Unlike Tjader, Guaraldi and Dave Brubeck, another Bay Area native, Duran preferred to work ...

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Interview: Jennifer Wharton

May 24, 2021

A couple of weeks ago while flying through Facebook, I saw on photographer John Abbott's page that he'd just finished a shoot with bass trombonist Jennifer Wharton. I've known John for years and in addition to being a great guy, he's a marvelous portraitist. When I asked him about Jennifer, he wrote back, “Jen Wharton is ...

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Clifford Jordan: Royal Ballads

May 21, 2021

Tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan is probably best known for the eight live and studio recordings he made in 1964 with the sextet led by bassist Charles Mingus. But there was much more to Jordan. A prolific recording artist, Jordan had a big, round sound from the start in March 1957, when his Blowing in From Chicago ...

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Eliana Pittman: Brazilian Treasure

May 20, 2021

Last week I posted on Nara Leão, hipping you to one of Brazil's best kept vocal secrets. This week, I want to share with you Eliana Pittman, also a Brazilian treasure who today still tours moderately and acts on TV. Pittman is a singing star who started recording in 1962, when she teamed with her stepfather, ...

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Rob Madna: A Dutch Discovery

May 19, 2021

For many JazzWax readers, this blog is a resource that happily turns them onto jazz musicians and recordings they didn't know previously. But every so often, that wow sensation happens to me. My own discovery happened a few weeks ago while posting about Joy Marshall (here and here). In the latter post, I featured a video ...

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Mike Neer: Keepin' It Real

May 18, 2021

When I last posted on Mike Neer in 2016, he had just released an album called Steelonious, a tribute album to Thelonious Monk performed on the lap steel guitar. What wouldn't seem like a good fit turned out to be a happy marriage. Monk interpreted by Mike on a lap steel guitar gave the music enormous ...