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Backgrounder: Moacir Santos - Coisas

July 14, 2023

Moacir Santos was a Brazilian composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator who never became as well known as his peers, including Bola Sete and Baden Powell. While he collaborated on songs with Nara Leão, Roberto Menescal and Sérgio Mendes among others, he privately taught artists who went on to become highly successful global bossa nova singers and songwriters. ...

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Backgrounder: Benny Golson and the Philadelphians

July 13, 2023

What made jazz recordings distinct from most other forms of American music were the different combinations of individuals who came together to to record. The results were often fascinating, with different musical personalities creating both contrasts and harmony as a unit and through improvisation. One such album was Benny Golson and the Philadelphians. Recorded in November ...

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Backgrounder: The Return of Art Pepper

July 12, 2023

After time in prison in California following a drug bust in 1954, alto saxophonist Art Pepper returned to work in Los Angeles in 1956. The Return of Art Pepper was recorded on August 6, 1956 for Jazz West, a subsidiary of Aladdin Records. The LP was produced by Herb Kimmel, who ran the the Jazz West ...

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Backgrounder: Shorty Rogers - Cool and Crazy

July 11, 2023

One of Shorty Rogers's finest albums was available originally in the new 10-inch LP format or as a pair of extended-play 45s. Cool and Crazy dates back 70 years to March and April of 1953 and features a slam-bang band at the dawn of West Coast jazz. Rogers' compositions and arrangements are glorious, with loads of ...

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Backgrounder: Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet

July 10, 2023

Two of the finest jazz flutists in New York in the mid-1950s were united by producer Creed Taylor when he was at Bethlehem Records. The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet was recorded in October 1955 and released in 1956. It featured Herbie Mann, Sam Most (fl), Joe Puma (g), Jimmy Gannon (b) and Lee Kleinman (d). Sam ...

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Backgrounder: Elmo Hope - Complete Trios

July 7, 2023

Pianist Elmo Hope's centenary was on June 27. To celebrate the bebop pianist and composer, here are five hours of Hope's trio recordings between 1953 and 1966. Before I serve up the music, here are the tracks and trios and their respective times on the Backgrounder: New Faces—-New Sounds (1953), with Elmo Hope (p), Percy Heath ...

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Backgrounder: Nelson Riddle - Changing Colors

July 6, 2023

Yesterday, I posted on Nelson Riddle's little-known Communication album in 1971 for MPS Records. Two years later, Riddle recorded a second album for MPS that was equally excellent—Changing Colors. The song list on this album was a fresh mixed bag, including three originals, a George Harrison song and standards: My Life (composed by Claus Ogerman) My ...

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Backgrouder: Nelson Riddle - Communication

July 5, 2023

In 1971, Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer, the founder of Germany's MPS Records, had an idea. But first he had two questions: Why would an arranger the likes of Nelson Riddle be reduced to composing, arranging and conducting for The 101 Strings, an album released a year earlier? And why would he be compelled to record originals straining ...

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Backgrounder - Dizzy Gillespie - Gillespiana

July 4, 2023

In 1956, a year after Juan Perón's regime was overthrown, Lalo Schifrin returned to Buenos Aires, Argentina, from Paris a professional jazz musician—much to his parents' dismay. “They feared I wouldn't be able to earn a living," Lalo told me in 2012 at his home in Beverly Hills. When Dizzy Gillespie performed in Buenos Aires later ...

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Axon Radio Releases Naptown Hustle Featuring Paul Brown

July 3, 2023

Two-time Grammy winner Paul Brown and Billboard hitmaker Darren Rahn team up with the Indianapolis duo on “Naptown Hustle,” which began collecting playlist adds this week. While the video for contemporary jazz group Axon Radio’s new single looks like a modern love letter to their hometown, Indianapolis, the roots of “Naptown Hustle” run nearly one hundred ...