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'Here To Stay' Introduces Jason Lapierre’s Debut Album
Rising singer-songwriter and producer Jason LaPierre unveils “Here to Stay," the lead single from his forthcoming debut album, There Are Things I’d Like to Say. A dreamy, nostalgic jazz ballad, it seamlessly blends vintage charm with modern artistry. Featuring acclaimed artist Anthony Lazaro, the song is a delicate meditation on love, carried by poignant lyrics, fluttering ...
Wild Tone Artists Takes Over From Reggie Marshall's MarsJazz
Wild Tone Artists is pleased to announce its launch as a jazz booking agency, continuing the work of industry veteran Reggie Marshall. After more than 30 years running MarsJazz, Marshall has retired, and Wild Tone Artists will carry forward his mission of supporting jazz musicians. Led by Sujata Subramanian, who has a background in tech and ...
Mike Abene's Charts for Maynard Ferguson
Following my Perfection post last week on Mike Abene's rip-roaring composition and arrangement of The Fox Hunt for Maynard Ferguson in 1962, Bill Kirchner sent along a treat. As post-1960 jazz orchestral arrangers go, Mike is among the finest, and his charts for Ferguson's big band are gracefully ferocious. Bill's treat? He put together all 17 ...
Kenny Wheeler Legacy: The Lost Scores
Kenny Wheeler isn't a household name in many American jazz circles. The Canadian trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer was based in the U.K. starting in the 1950s. As a composer and arranger of jazz orchestral scores, he was among the most inventive, daring and gifted in the post-1960 era. [Photo above of Kenny Wheeler in 1988, courtesy ...
The Return of Pablo Records
In the early 1970s, I worked for a few months at Sam Goody's in Manhattan on Third Ave. and 43rd St. The store manager wanted me in the rock section, but I kept drifting down to the jazz department to talk with Harry Lim. Harry was quiet and looked unassuming to the average record-buyer, but I ...
Backgrounder: Mundell Lowe - Satan in High Heels
Back in the early 1960s, if you opened a tabloid newspaper in New York like the Post or Daily News, you often saw small ads for risque films that were strictly for adults. These were the pre-ratings years, when kids were only allowed in to see Disney films and similar fare. The films I'm referring to ...
Perfection: Ted McNabb & Co.: Mountain Greenery
Who was Ted McNabb? And what company did he keep, as the album cover above intimates? You won't believe the story behind this 1959 album or the album's superb arrangements and musicians. I came across this LP by accident in 2012. Back then, few jazz fans even knew it existed. The record was arranged and conducted ...
How Bud Shank Invented Surf Music
In 1966, just before the country went psychedelic and the place to be was off the grid and deep in the woods, there was the beach. The passing this week of Mike Hynson—star of that year's cult surf film The Endless Summer, produced and directed by Bruce Brown—took me back to my childhood. When I was ...
Documentary: Melvin Sparks
Melvin Sparks was one of the finest and most important guitarists during the jazz-funk movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. For the Prestige label, Sparks recorded with Lou Donaldson, Sonny Stitt, Leon Spencer Jr., Johnny Hammond Smith, Caesar Frazier and many others. He was known for his Houston shuffle rhythm guitar and funky jazz ...
Backgrounder: Herbie Nichols Trio - Master Takes
Pianist Herbie Nichols has long been considered a Thelonious Monk disciple. In truth, Nichols had his own modernist bag that combined bebop's jagged attack and Dixieland's hard syncopation. A fascinating artist who was largely ignored during his lifetime (1919-1963), Nichols is perhaps best known for penning the jazz standard Lady Sings the Blues. Nichols began recording ...
