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Mort Weiss: Mort Weiss is a Jazz Reality Show
by Dan Bilawsky
In recent years, life has thrown one obstacle after another at the feet of octogenarian clarinetist Mort Weiss. Divorce, loss of home, cancer, and hospitalization for a variety of other life-threatening ailments all came at him, threatening to kill his resolve and cut him down. But it would seem that practically nothing is capable of felling ...
Mort Weiss: Mort Weiss is a Jazz Reality Show
by C. Michael Bailey
The informal definition of a Character is an “odd, eccentric, or unusual person." That is a bit disappointing in that “odd, eccentric, and unusual" more often than not may be pejorative. I prefer a “unique, memorable, or exceptional person." That said, it takes all six adjectives to adequately describe clarinetist Mort Weiss, who with this recording ...
Some Thoughts from the worlds greatest out of work Bebop clarinet player
by Mort Weiss
As many of you know, I've discontinued my column here at All About Jazz called “the Mort Report." See my final one (number 22), aptly named “My Final Mort Report." Clever, what? My reports were mostly autobiographical, as I kind of put myself on automatic pilot and opened the storage lockers of my brain to let ...
Enter the "Mort Weiss - 2-CD" Giveaway!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the SMS Jazz “Mort Weiss - 2-CD" giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners to receive I'll Be Seeing You and A Giant Step Out and Back at the conclusion of the contest on October 13th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Mort Weiss at AAJ ...
Practice, Do You? Part 2-3
by Dom Minasi
Continued from Part 1 I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I ...
My Final Report
by Mort Weiss
I stood there at graveside in the cold morning mist, collar of my dark blue, (but not too warm coat) turned up-in an effort to--ahh hell, I don't know--I saw it in a film noir flick once--let's just say--that it looked appropriate for the occasion--"the occasion"? The laying to rest of my mother-my mother of soul-of ...
Septuagenarian is Not a Sexual Proclivity!
by Mort Weiss
Backstage at a concert I was doing a few years back, I heard the house announcer getting ready to bring me on, doing his thing. As I'm checking to see if my fly was zipped I heard the words (not in any particular order): jazz, clarinet, septuagenarian and Mort Weiss. I remember thinking--what the f**k?
WOW! Bird and Bach: Them two cats really could play!
by Mort Weiss
O.K. Now that I've got your attention, what should I write about? The many articles here at AAJ have damn near covered each and every aspect on the topic of jazz and its place (albeit) always in flux and change with each and every up and coming generation of players. Where is jazz in the scheme ...
A Giant Step Out and Back
By Mort Weiss
Label: SMS Jazz
Released: 2013
Track listing: A Trane of Thought; All The Things You Are; Allegory; Dark Eyes;
Fair Weather; Goodbye; Invitation; Javini; Soliloquy; Straight No
Chaser; Summertime; Talkin’ About It; Transfiguration; Waltz For Debbie;
Warm Up.
Notable & Nearly Missed in 2013
by C. Michael Bailey
More music is released each year than can be realistically followed by a given writer. I typically listen to much more music than I write about, not because this music is not worthy somehow but there is so little time. So, this year, I am going to write a “Notable & Nearly Missed" column to catch ...
