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1959: A Great Year in Jazz
by Geoff Barber
My father really enjoys wine. We can go to a restaurant and he will talk to the waiter about wine for what seems like an eternity. The conversation normally revolves around the year a certain wine was fermented. He will settle on a year and enjoy a couple glasses with his meal. For the life of ...
Bootsie Barnes: Bootsie Barnes: Boppin' Round the Center
by Victor L. Schermer
This CD featuring Bootsie Barnes and a group assembled for the occasion has one characteristic uncommon in an era of so-called 'smooth jazz,' rap singing, and canned music for every occasion from cinematically simulated inner city rumbles to drugs for erectile dysfunction. It really swings! It also 'bops around the center!' (I truly don't know what ...
Swing It: An Annotated History of Jive
by R.J. DeLuke
Swing It: An Annotated History of Jive Bill Milkowski ISBN: 0823076717 Billboard Books2001 The history of jazz music is rich with characters, “scenes,” stages in music development and musical progress—all peppered with its own mythology.One feature of the jazz world over the years is ...
The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson
by Victor L. Schermer
The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson Joshua Berrett and Louis G. Bourgois III Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0810836483 1999 J.J. Johnson is known to the listening public as a jazz trombonist who has repeatedly won the Downbeat and many other polls, who has played the instrument ...
Jazz Slang
by AAJ Staff
From just about its inception, Jazz has had a (spoken) language all its own. Though most words haven't seen the light of day outside of a jazz club, quite a few have found their way into the mainstream American lexicon, and are still bandied about today. Words like, hip, cat and daddy-o have helped ...
Savoy Jazz Reaches 60, But Looks Beyond
by R.J. DeLuke
Every so often someone in jazz has their career resurrected. Different elements feed into that. Good luck; a sudden public “discovery;" Perseverance. Going on in jazz right now, however, is the resurrection of an old tried and true recording label, Savoy Jazz. It's the result of hard work and a desire to maintain classic ...
The Complete Savoy Recordings
By Lester Young
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Disk One
With Johnny Guarnieri
Lester Young: The Complete Savoy Recordings
by Jim Santella
Savoy’s complete compilation travels through two and a half hours of Lester Young’s studio sessions and rehearsal time. There are several takes for many of the numbers, and the listener has the opportunity to weigh which takes really matter. They all sound great. Some amount to false starts, and others appear to have minor balance differences. ...
Lester Young: The Complete Savoy Recordings
by Charlie B. Dahan
Savoy Jazz continues to celebrate it’s revival by releasing a complete anthology of Lester ‘Prez” Young’s recordings for Savoy. This collection is divided into two separate and distinct periods in Young’s life. The first to be explored is the recordings he did in a two-week period in 1944 as both a sideman and ...
