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Eddie Durham: Genius in the Shadows
by Jim Gerard
On December 13, 1932, in the eye of the Great Depression that was devastating the record industry, the Bennie Moten Orchestra shuffled “on their uppers" into a converted church in Camden, N.J., and silently launched the Swing Era, three years before clarinetist Benny Goodman's formal inauguration as the “King of Swing" at the Palomar Ballroom in ...
BAM or JAZZ: Part Two!
by Greg Thomas
Jazz, an art form given birth in the United States by descendents of the formerly enslaved, has a complicated relationship with race. Although race, as a popular idea, has no basis in biology, many people mentally adhere to the idea of dividing groups of people based on “race" as opposed to understanding how groups of people ...
Sarah Marie Young: Expressive
by Alex Marianyi
Who needs a drummer, anyway? Not Sarah Marie Young. It's a certainty that the Chicago-based vocalist has nothing personal against drummers, but despite the absence of drums and percussion on Expressive, the rhythmic intensity, drive and energy they normally bring to the music are certainly not lacking. Expressive's tracks demonstrate considerable variety, from ...
Gary Giddins on Ignored Black Jazz Writers
by Greg Thomas
In the first essay for the Race and Jazz column, I gave a first-person account of how my love and appreciation of certain “white" saxophonists served to safeguard me from the temptation of racism back in college during the early-to-mid-'80s. My second essay privileged culture over race, and told the story of how attorney and constitutional ...
Salute to Women Composers This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalists Topsy Chapman, Carol Woods, Stephanie Nakasian and Rebecca Kilgore join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for A Woman's Touch, a concert of jazz standards composed by women. The weekly jazz show is carried nationwide on the air by Public Radio International, on XM/Sirius sattelite radio and streamed on-demand on the ...
Randy Weston: African Stories, African Rhythms
by Ian Patterson
In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by ...
Roy Gaines and his Orchestra: Tuxedo Blues
by Dan Bilawsky
Blues singers and big bands used to go together like bread and butter, but somewhere along the way the singers must have become superfluous in the minds of the leaders or the public. Nowadays, large ensembles are still happy to play the blues--be they well-known warhorses or obscure gems--but husky-voiced singers are rarely seen delivering a ...
One Track Mind: Jimmy Rushing, "Good Morning Blues" (1937)
By Nick Deriso Every so often, a singer gets so dispirited, laid so low, that he's simply got to talk back to the blues. I love those songs. Think Billie Holiday's “Good Morning Heartache," and this one—recorded by Jimmy Rushing with a sizzling early edition of the Count Basie Orchestra. Included on the Decca date are ...
Roy Gaines & His Orchestra: "Tuxedo Blues" Streets November 1
Jazz, blues, R&B and soul—legendary guitarist/vocalist/composer Roy Gaines, who has made a name for himself as a versatile master craftsmen playing music beyond category in a career spanning over seven decades, brings his vast wealth of experience all together on Tuxedo Blues. Fronting a full size jazz orchestra, the likes of which is seldom heard these ...
Various Artists: Larkin's Jazz
by Bruce Lindsay
Philip Larkin is one of the best-loved British poets of the twentieth century--the man who claimed in Annus Mirabilis that “Sexual intercourse began in nineteen-sixty-three..." A librarian at the University of Hull in the north-east of England, he was a complex character whose poems were often witty and well-observed but could also appear cynical and contemptuous. ...
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