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Backgrounder: Phineas Newborn's Great Jazz Piano
Following my post on Howard McGhee's 1961 album, Maggie's Back in Town, I received many emails asking me to feature Phineas Newborn Jr. This week's Backgrounder speaks volumes about his technique and touch. If I played this album as a blindfold test, many might guess s young Oscar Peterson. Born in Whiteville, Tenn., in 1931, Newborn ...
Perfection: Quincy Jones - Funk Junction
On December 7, 1954, Quincy Jones was conducting a band playing his arrangements backing vocalese artist King Pleasure. During the session for Prestige, two Jones instrumentals were slipped in—"You're Crying" and “Funk Junction." The additions were either needed to complete the album because there weren't enough King Pleasure tracks—or there was time remaining on the session ...
Nick Finzer: A Celebartion of J.J. Johnson
J.J. Johnson was one of the most admired jazz trombonists of the post-war years. In addition to playing with a superb technique and tone, he brought a certain elegant soul to the instrument as a solo artist. Johnson began recording in 1942 with the Benny Carter Orchestra, and then had a stint with Count Basie in ...
Backgrounder: Gigi Gryce's Nica's Tempo, 1955
Gigi Gryce was one of jazz's most sensual arrangers. Like Billy Strayhorn, Tadd Dameron, Quincy Jones, Benny Golson and others, Gryce favored a cool sophistication in his compositions and arrangements. He was so exceptional as an orchestrator that it's easy to forget he was also a terrific alto saxophonist. One of Gryce's finest albums and a ...
Pat Britt: Jazz From San Francisco, 1966
If alto saxophonist Pat Britt hadn't stolen bologna from a Bay Area supermarket in 1958, we might never have known his name or his role in helping to found the Bach & Dynamite Dance Society, a jazz club still operating today on Miramar Beach in Half Moon Bay, Ca. The beach-house club became Half Moon Bay's ...
Perfection: John Coltrane's "You Say You Care"
Continuing my new series called Perfection, today's sublime track is John Coltrane's cover of Jule Styne's composition You Say You Care, which Styne wrote for Broadway's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949). The song is from Coltrane's Soultrane album, which features John Coltrane (ts), Red Garland (p), Paul Chambers (b) and Art Taylor (d). Recorded in February 1958 ...
Doc: The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
From 1957 to 1965, photographer W Eugene Smith lived in loft space at 821 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Smith had already established himself as a pioneer of the journalistic photo essay—a collection of images that told a story in magazines, most notably Life. Before the rise of the documentary in the early 1960s with the advent ...
Hyewon Park’s Symphony Of Success
Hyewon Park has emerged as a luminary in the music industry, exhibiting her multifaceted talent as a pianist, composer, and recording artist. With a unique ability to blend jazz and classical music alongside influences from electronic and South Korean traditions, she has carved out a distinctive niche for herself. Hyewon Park is a prolific artist whose ...
Duke Ellington at 125 Years Young
April 29 marked the 125th anniversary of Duke Ellington's birth in 1899. Catching the Ellington bug over the weekend, I figured what better way to kick off the week than with seven celebratory video clips and a bonus album: Here's Ellington conducting the Dick Cavett band on August 8, 1969. Bill Kirchner sent this one along. ...
Virtuoso Composer And Pianist Hyewon Park: A Global Influence From South Korea
Hyewon Park, an acclaimed and internationally-recognized composer, pianist, and music educator from South Korea, continues to garner respect and admiration on both domestic and international stages for her notable achievements and contributions to the music industry. Since 2021, Park has been the Lead Composer and Arranger for Osunjirang, a distinguished South Korea-based company founded by the ...
