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Various Artists: The Complete Jazz At The Philharmonic On Verve 1944 - 1949
by Larry Koenigsberg
When Norman Granz produced his first Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP) concert at Los Angeles’ Philharmonic Hall in July 1944, he had already been promoting jam sessions in Los Angeles for two years, with such players as Nat “King” Cole, tenorist Lester Young, trumpeter Harry “Sweets” Edison, among others. He began recording the JATP concerts and ...
Teddy Edwards: Sunset Eyes
by Larry Koenigsberg
There’s little on veteran Los Angeles-based tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards’ date which sounds distinctively West Coast but here it is, part of a program of Pacific Jazz limited edition reissues in their West Coast Classics series from Capitol Records. All but one of the tracks feature Leroy Vinnegar on bass and Billy Higgins on drums, the ...
Miles Davis: The Complete Birth of the Cool
by Larry Koenigsberg
With the reissue of the Miles Davis BIRTH OF THE COOL sessions, accompanied by recordings of this seminal nonet’s slightly earlier live dates at New York City’s Royal Roost, we now have as complete as possible an account of this still fresh sounding and beautiful music. The array of talent alone is startling: Miles Davis in ...
Barney Kessel: Exploring The Scene and Workin' Out
by Larry Koenigsberg
Back in the 1950's, before jazz was “America's classical music," when it was still a contender among the various genres in American popular music, Barney Kessel was the perennial winner of the guitarist's spot in the jazz polls which various magazines conducted. Readers of Downbeat, Playboy and the long-gone Metronome liked the clear electric timbre, swift ...
