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Retrieval Records: Treasures Lost and Found
by Nathan Holaway
“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."-- Louis Armstrong “You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was ...
We Brothers Three: the Joneses, Heaths and Montgomerys
From Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey to Wynton and Branford Marsalis, the history of jazz includes a number of notable brother acts. Sometimes three brothers have shared the stage or studio space—the focus of this week's edition of Night Lights. “We Brothers Three" features music from the following trio of brotherly trios: Hank, Thad and Elvin Jones ...
Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946)
by David Rickert
Louis Armstrong The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) Mosaic Records 2009 As far as recordings by trumpeter Louis Armstrong go, the Decca recordings don't generate much interest. Prior to them came the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, the most influential jazz recordings ever made and ...
Ahmad Jamal: A Quiet Time
by Greg Camphire
Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time Dreyfus Records 2010 Pianist Ahmad Jamal continues his career-long winning streak with A Quiet Time. The album expands on a stream of superb, post-mid 1990s releases made with largely the same working band: the Verve label's three-part The Essence series (1996-98), followed by ...
Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands
by Jack Bowers
The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...
Louie Bellson: Tasteful Drummer, Sweeter Guy
by Jack Bowers
To say that drummer extraordinaire Louie Bellson, who left us on February 14, 2009 at age eighty-four, had a remarkable career would be to explicitly understate the record. Bellson's success at age 17 in a nationwide contest sponsored by one of his idols, Gene Krupa, and Slingerland Drums set the talented wunderkind on a path that ...
Transcriptions Sessions 1935
By Jimmy Dorsey
Label: Nostalgia Arts
Released: 2001
Track listing: Dorsey Stomp; Cheek to Cheek; Wolverine Blues; Top Hat, White Tie and Tails; The Peanut Vendor; You Are My Lucky Star; Three Little Words; It Never Dawned on Me; East of the Sun (and West of the Moon); Tap Dancer's Nightmare; No Strings; I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'; On a Sunday Afternoon; Double Trouble; I Wished on the Moon; My Very Good Friend, the Milkman; From the Top of Your Head; The Gentleman Obviously Doesn't Believe; I'm on a See-Saw; Beebe
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra: Transcriptions Sessions 1935
by Dave Nathan
The brothers Dorsey just had fight over the direction their jointly led band should take and the union was over until they reunited many years later. Jimmy Dorsey immediately hied it up to the Electrical Research Products Studio in NYC and cut 31 sides. ..under the name James Dalton! Many of the tracks have been reissued ...
