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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 ...
Mack Avenue Music Group Announces Partnership with Strata-East Records
The digital-only anthology Strata-East: The Legacy Begins, available February 21, 2025, celebrates the revolutionary spirit of one of the most influential artist-owned independent jazz labels in history. This anthology, a partnership between Mack Avenue Music Group and Strata-East, brings together iconic tracks that embody Strata-East’s commitment to artistry and creative freedom. Featuring the explosive brilliance of ...
Cootie Williams: Jumping in the 1940s
In 1943, the country was coping with a recording ban launched by the American Federation of Musicians in mid-1942. With live music under assault by new technology ranging from records and radio to the jukebox, the union decided to pull the plug on members making records until record companies agreed to pay into a fund to ...
Bill Evans: Stockholm, Sweden, 1964
Thank God for Europe and Scandinavia. If not for their government-sponsored TV stations, we'd never have intimate footage of American jazz stars in action. Today, two clips of the Bill Evans Trio in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1964, with Evans on piano, Chuck Israels on bass and Larry Bunker on drums. Plus a bonus track: Here's ...
Paul Desmond and the Modern Jazz Quartet
Paul Desmond and the Modern Jazz Quartet appeared together on stage only once, on the evening of Christmas Day in 1971. What's remarkable is that the concert was taped and the second half released on vinyl in 1981. The combined sound together was heavenly. Michael O'Daniel turned me on to the album, since I wasn't aware ...
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