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Tom Kennedy: In A New York Minute
by Jim Worsley
Riding high on the low end since arriving in New York City in 1984, premier jazz and fusion bassist Tom Kennedy has shared his groove and innate musicality all over the world. He has shared the stage and recording studio with a long list of varied and talented artists. Names like Michael Brecker, Steve Gadd, Lee ...
Benjamin Boone & Philip Levine: The Poetry of Jazz Volume Two
by Victor L. Schermer
Poetry and music are overlapping forms of expression. Poetry emphasizes the musicality of words. Music has many features of poetry including sound, syntax, and meaning. Still, only a few poets have spoken their poems in a musical context. It is hard to do effectively because speech and music have different functions: speech is about things, intentions, ...
Billie Holiday: Lady Sings The Blues
by Ian Patterson
Lady Sings The Blues Billie Holiday/William Dufty 180 Pages ISBN: 978-0-241-35129-1 Penguin Modern Classics 2018 For many, Billie Holiday was the greatest of all the jazz singers, while her emotive delivery and tragic persona seemed to embody the early jazz life in all its boho chic and with all ...
Blue Note 50th Anniversaries: January 1969 & More
by Marc Cohn
We celebrate Blue Note 50th anniversary recordings from Frank Foster (material never formally released until a CD reissue of Manhattan Fever), Lonnie Smith and Horace Silver. Certamente, there's more--including a 75th anniversary salute to sides by clarinetist Edmond Hall with Red Norvo and Teddy Wilson, and a 78 rpm recording of Blue Note 5 by Earl ...
Up In Harlem - Duke Ellington (1927 - 1930)
by Russell Perry
In previous programs in this series, we have listened to Stride pianists and jazz orchestras from New York. In this hour, we'll return to Harlem to listen to maybe the most important band leader in jazz history and one of the most significant composers of the music—Duke Ellington. A contemporary of Louis Armstrong, Duke ...
Jorge Nila: Tenor Time (tribute to the Tenor Masters)
by Chris Mosey
The four participants on this album all hail from Omaha, Nebraska. Not a town that springs readily to mind in the history of jazz. Although, as drummer Dana Murray, recalls: “In the ballroom days everyone came through--Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington--the list goes on." But it is the friendship and ...
2018: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2018 was a busy one for the jazz world. The genre's version of the #MeToo movement resulted in a new Code of Conduct and other efforts to make the music workplace more equitable. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to St. Petersburg, Russia. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which ran a high-profile ...
Pops Is Tops. The Verve Studio Albums.
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2018
Track listing: CD 1. When Your Lover Has Gone; You're the Top; You Turned the Tables on Me (Mono Version); Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Little Girl Blue; Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen; We'll Be Together Again; I've Got the World on a String; Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me; I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues; You Turned the Tables on Me; Little Girl Blue; You Turned the Tables on Me; You Turned the Tables on Me (Partial / Alternate Take 3); You Turned the Tables on Me (Edit Inserts); I've Got the World on a String (False Starts / Alternate Take 2); I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (False Starts Breakdown / Takes 2 & 3); I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Alternate Take 2; 3); I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Take 4).
CD 2. Top Hat; White Tie; and Tails; Have You Met Miss Jones?; I Only Have Eyes for You; Stormy Weather; Home (Album Version); East of the Sun (West of the Moon) (Mono Version); You're Blasé; Body and Soul (Mono Version); East of the Sun (West of the Moon); Body and Soul (Stereo Version); Stormy Weather (Breakdown / Alternate Edit); Stormy Weather (Alternate Take 3); Stormy Weather (Breakdown 4); Stormy Weather (Edit Inserts).
CD3. That Old Feeling (Album Version); Let's Fall in Love; I'll Never Be the Same (Album Version); Blues in the Night (Album Version); How Long Has This Been Going On?; I Was Doing All Right (Album Version); What's New? (Album Version); Moon Song; Just One of Those Things (Album Version); there's No You (Album Version); You Go to My Head; Sweet Lorraine (Album Version); Blues in the Night (Rehearsal Take); Let's Fall in Love (Take 1); Let's Fall in Love (Take 2); Indiana (Studio Warm-up).
CD 4. Makin' Whoopee (Breakdown); Makin' Whoopee (Take 1); Makin' Whoopee (Take 2 / Complete Alternate Take); Makin' Whoopee (Take 3 / False Start); Makin' Whoopee; I Get a Kick Out of You (Take 1 Reindexed); I Get a Kick Out of You (Take 3 Reindexed); I Get a Kick Out of You (Take 4 Reindexed); I Get a Kick Out of You (Take 5 / False Start); I Get a Kick Out of You (Take 6 / False Start); I Get a Kick Out of You (Take 7 / False Start); I Get a Kick Out of You (Album Version); I Get a Kick Out of You (Takes 9 & 12); I Get a Kick Out of You (Take 13); Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) (Breakdowns Including Warm-up; Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) (Take 3); Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love); Willow Weep for Me (Take 1); Willow Weep for Me (Take 2 / Complete Alternate Take); Willow Weep for Me (Take 3 / Long False Start); Willow Weep for Me (Take 4); Willow Weep for Me (Take 5 / False Start); Willow Weep for Me (Take 6 / False Start); Willow Weep for Me.
Francesco Martinelli: European Jazz - Tales of Etruscan Vases, Arias And Resistance
by Ian Patterson
Few have attempted to tackle the history of European jazz in any meaningful way. That's hardly surprising given the size of the task. How do you address the jazz history of over forty countries in a succinct and logical manner? How do you manage to throw light on all the major personalities at the ...
New Orleans Diaspora – Louis Armstrong (1926 - 1929)
by Russell Perry
In the past two hours, we've heard the music of the newly conceived jazz orchestras of New York and the Harlem-style or “Stride" pianists. We touched on Louis Armstrong's contributions to the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and the invention of the big band soloist. In this hour, we return with Louis Armstrong to Chicago and listen to ...
