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Backgrounder: Bobby Hackett, Memorable & Mellow
In 1967 and '68, cornetist Bobby Hackett recorded a pair of gorgeous LPs with strings on the Project 3 Total Sound label—That Midnight Touch and A Time for Love. In 1979, both albums with sterling fidelity were released as a two-fer by Project 3 as The Memorable & Mellow Bobby Hackett. With the advent of the ...
Fats Sadi: A Retrospective: 1953-1961
Like trumpeter Harry James, Fats Sadi began his musical career in the company of clowns. The Belgian jazz musician played the xylophone in a touring circus before World War II. After the war, he took up the vibraphone and recorded as a sideman and as a leader. He could play swing and bop, and his earliest ...
Backgrounder: Mann and Rouse, Just Wailin'
On February 14, 1958, Bob Weinstock brought together a sextet to record for his New Jazz Records. Weinstock had founded New Jazz in 1949 as his first label just before launching Prestige later that year. Despite Prestige's success in the 1950s, Weinstock kept New Jazz alive for reasons that are unclear. He may have done so ...
Ronald Wayne's 3rd Single 'Old School' Comes From Magic Hour Inspiration
Ronald Wayne's new release “Old School” is the third song and is part of his year-long nonstop instrumental smooth jazz music releases that will become the album Hotter Than The Sun this November. You can join Ronald Wayne on this smooth jazz musical journey, subscribe to his email list, and listen to previous releases here. “Old ...
Kenton: Marty Paich's 'Body and Soul'
Yesterday, Jim Eigo sent along a link to an audio clip he received from Jeffrey Sultanof, who posted on the subject at his blog The Eclectic's Corner: About the Arts. The clip features the voice of arranger Marty Paich providing Stan Kenton with audio notes and direction for his commissioned arrangement of Body and Soul. Such ...
World-First On Demand Live Jazz Platform, Oh! Jazz, Partners With All About Jazz / Jazz Near You, The Largest Jazz Content Global Websites
Oh! Jazz is a subscription platform of live and on-demand jazz that brings content from iconic clubs around the world direct to the homes of global subscribers, turning their living rooms into instant live jazz lounges. Founded by Jesus Perezagua (Former President of Fox Networks Europe & Africa) and Dan Bessant (Former Head of Programming, Entertainment ...
Three More Re-issues From Candid
Just out are three new spectacular re-issues from the Candid label. I posted about this previous re-issues here and here. As noted, the short-lived label was founded in 1960 as a subsidiary of Cadence Records. Its early output was overseen by jazz author and critic Nat Hentoff, who served as Candid's A&R director. In essence, he ...
Backgrounder: Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt
On March 6 and 7 of 1961, arranger-conductor Ralph Burns assembled a top orchestra in New York, a rhythm section and saxophonist Sonny Stitt for an album that would be called The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt. I'm not sure what month in 1961 producer Creed Taylor arrived at Verve to become the label's recording chief, ...
Lou Mecca: Knockout Guitar
In my post yesterday, I told you about Walt Namuth, a superb jazz guitarist from the Baltimore area whose finest playing wasn't recorded commercially. He hated the road. Another spectacular jazz guitarist who detested touring and made only a handful of recordings was Lou Mecca, a towering talent who gave up the guitar for a chiropractic ...
Walt Namuth: Lost Guitarist
All of the jazz musicians you know are familiar because they recorded and toured. Underneath these high-profile artists were thousands who never bothered to record because they weren't asked, couldn't cut it or weren't willing to tour to promote LPs. Each city had these undocumented jazz legends who today are known only by name and reputation ...
