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The Music of Carla Bley, Part 1: The Early Years
by Larry Slater
The Jazz world is full of highly original, creative musicians who forged their own unique paths. Carla Bley, who died on October 17, 2023, followed her own highly individual path as a composer, arranger and bandleader. As one critic commented, “No album by the legendary composer, pianist, and bandleader sounds like anyone else could have created ...
The Jazz Sides of Nat King Cole, Part 3: Recordings with Jazz Greats
by Larry Slater
Nat King Cole spent the '40s with the King Cole Trio, but he also played with many of the prominent jazz musicians of the era in a variety of settings. including Les Paul, Lester Young and Lionel Hampton. In 1956 he waxed the famous “After Midnight" sessions with Stuff Smith, Sweets Edison, Juan Tizol and the ...
The Jazz Sides of the Nat Cole Trio, part 2
by Larry Slater
During the swing era, Nat King Cole was one of the most influential jazz pianists of the era. and his trio, including the guitarist Oscar Moore, set a new standard for the jazz trio. In part II of the Jazz Recordings of the Nat Cole Trio, you'll hear the trio in the 1940s displaying ...
The Jazz Sides of the Nat Cole Trio, Part 1
by Larry Slater
Nat King Cole is known and loved today for his classic vocal recordings but when Cole started out in the late 1930s, he was a jazz pianist, and his singing was an afterthought, Eventfully of course he gained worldwide fame with his voice, and as an unsurpassed interpreter of romantic ballads, but during the swing era, ...
Jazz In Brazil: the legendary composers and musicians
by Larry Slater
Though Bossa Nova, and the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, are Brazil's most recognized musical export, Brazil hosts a vast number of musical styles with musicians garnering international followings. One of the most unique, and influential is the composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal, who defies categorization. Moacir Santos is revered today as a giant ...
American jazz embraces bossa nova
by Larry Slater
Bossa Nova and the compositions of Antonio Carlos Jobim have continued to inspire musicians across the globe, including many jazz musicians in the US from the 1960s to the present day.Jazz in the 1960s saw the emergence of the jazz avant-garde, and many musicians found their audience slipping away to rock and the English ...
The Brazilians Cover Bossa Nova
by Larry Slater
Bossa nova emerged from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the late 1950s and early '60s. After the 1964 coup d'état, as a military regime took control of Brazil, the positive energy of the bossa nova era quickly dissipated and enthusiasm for the music shifted to the US. The music of Antonio Carlos Jobim ...
The Birth of Bossa Nova
by Larry Slater
Brasil is a country full of music. Samba, which was strongly influenced by African music, originated in Rio de Janeiro about 100 years ago Bossa nova, the focus of this hour, is basically a fusing of the harmonic vocabulary from jazz with the rhythmic complexity brought from samba and choroSince its inception in Rio ...
Jazz Interpretations Of Jerome Kern, Part III
by Larry Slater
Jerome Kern left a legacy of over seven hundred songs, written over four decades for more than one hundred stage productions and Hollywood filmsIn this, the final hour of “Jazz Interpretations of the music of Jerome Kern," we turn to Kern's late works. “The Last Time I Saw Paris," “I'm Old Fashioned" , “Dearly ...
Jazz Interpretations Of Jerome Kern, Part II
by Larry Slater
The second hour of “jazz Interpretations of the music of Jerome Kern" featured tunes from the 1930s: “Yesterdays," “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," “I Won't Dance," “A Fine Romance," “The Way You Look Tonight" and “All The Things You Are." Jerome Kern was at the peak of his powers during the '30s, and these jazz standards ...
