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David Berger Octet featuring Harry Allen and Joe Temperley: I Had The Craziest Dream: The Music of Harry Warren
by Michael Steinman
David Berger's credentials are wide-ranging and impeccable: transcribing 500 Ellington recordings, leading the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, teaching at the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard. I Had the Craziest Dream is precise, hot and lively, honoring Harry Warren, a deserving 20th-century popular composer less well known than Berlin, Gershwin, or Porter. In addition to the ...
Membran: Jammin' At Condon's & From New Orleans to London/New Orleans Joys
by Michael Steinman
Eddie Condon Jammin' at Condon's Mebran 2008 Ken Colyer/Chris Barber New Orleans to London/New Orleans Joys Mebran 2008 Misled by their retro packaging, a listener might unintentionally dismiss both ...
Dan Levinson and his Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra: Steppin' Around
by Michael Steinman
In a jam session or reading an arrangement, the gifted reedman Dan Levinson summons up noble ghosts--Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Frank Trumbauer and Rosy McHargue. But he is his own man with his own ideas. In spirit, he resembles Dick Hyman, creating historically accurate but radically lively music. Although Levinson is called “traditional" by those who ...
The World Of Jazz Trumpet: A Comprehensive History & Practical Philosophy
by Michael Steinman
The World Of Jazz Trumpet: A Comprehensive History & Practical Philosophy Scotty Barnhart Softcover; 246 pages ISBN: 0634095277 Hal Leonard 2005 This book is doggedly ambitious, but its ambitions are its undoing. It begins promisingly, with a historical survey of jazz trumpet that, for a change, ...
Sittin' In With Chris Griffin
by Michael Steinman
Warren W. Vache Sittin' In With Chris Griffin: A Reminiscence Of Radio And Recording's Golden Years Paperback; 116 pages ISBN: 0-8108-5001-X Scarecrow Press 2005 Seated next to Harry James and Ziggy Elman, trumpeter Gordon “Chris" Griffin was a less-heralded member of Benny Goodman's brass section from ...
Oscar Pettiford: The Complete Big Band Studio Recordings
by Michael Steinman
Whether playing bass or cello, Oscar Pettiford was an extraordinary soloist and ensemble player with a singlar sound and focused attack who levitated sessions with Coleman Hawkins, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, among many others. In '56 and '57, when Swing Era big bands had given way to small groups and singers, it may have seemed ...
