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Who Was Joe Kennedy Jr.?
Yesterday I posted on a new box set from Fresh Sound featuring the complete recordings of Ahmad Jamal's Three Strings between 1951 and 1955. In the post, I wrote that in the late 1940s Ahmad played in a Pittsburgh group called the Four Strings that never recorded. The Four Strings folded after Joe Kennedy Jr., the ...
Ahmad Jamal: Complete Okeh, Parrot & Epic
There's always plenty of talk about musicians who had an enormous impact on jazz's direction. From Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young to Charlie Parker, Kenny Clarke, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Lennie Tristano, Shorty Rogers, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown, Bill Evans, John Coltrane and beyond. Always skipped over, for some reason, is Ahmad Jamal. Now Fresh Sound ...
Roberto Magris: Duo & Trio
I've known Roberto Magris for many years, dating back to the early days of this blog. In fact, I interviewed him in 2008. The Italian jazz pianist is enormously gifted as a player and composer. I love his feel. He swings, and his playing is always hip and breathtakingly beautiful. Now he's out with an album ...
The David Allyn Big Band, March 1992
Vocalist David Allyn led a superb big band in New York in the early 1990s. Which makes sense, given the bands he sang for starting in the 1940s. His career list includes bands led by Jack Teagarden, Boyd Raeburn, Lyle Griffin, Johnny Mandel, Bill Holman, Johnny Richards, Dave Terry and Bob Florence. Fortunately for us, Paul ...
Bop Masters Pay Tribute to Bird
In Westerns, they're cool-handed lawmen who get off the noon train to save the town with lightning-fast reflexes and not a flick of apprehension. The equivalent in the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee were these guys, who appeared on the U.K.'s BBC2's TV showcase Jazz 625 in October 1964: trombonist J.J. Johnson, alto saxophonist Sonny Stitt, trumpeter Howard ...
Classic Pop, Soul and Hip-Hop Boxes
Today is Labor Day in the U.S., a national holiday that technically celebrates workers. But in truth, today is the unofficial last day of summer, the day that big sales on merchandise is offered and a day when many Americans kick back and grill. With the start of fall and you hanging around the house, I ...
'Boom Bu-Cha' Launches The Groovalottos Into The World Of Afrobeats
The GroovaLottos boldly thump into the global, Afrobeats arena with their new single, “Boom Bu-Cha” and forthcoming album (Polyphonic Studios Records). True to Groovalotto form, “Boom Bu-Cha” is a fun and funky adventure in romance, delving beyond the physical into the dreams, plans and goals of a potential lover. Known primarily as a retro soul-funk band, ...
The Mysterious Life of Don Goldie
Following my post over the weekend of Jack Teagarden's recording of Afternoon in August, featuring trumpeter Don Goldie. I received quite a few emails from readers wondering who Don Goldie was. I last wrote about Goldie in 2018 here. Goldie was a solid, melodic player with great tone but lacked the “storytelling" quality of Bobby Hackett ...
Backgrounder: Johnny Hodges and Earl Hines
Another terrific Johnny Hodges album is Stride Right, with pianist Earl “Fatha" Hines. The album was recorded for Verve in January 1966 and featured Johnny Hodges on alto saxophone, Earl Hines on piano and organ, Kenny Burrell on guitar, Richard Davis on bass and Joe Marshall on drums. The grace and prancing elegance of this album ...
August 1969: Rock, Jazz and Women
August 1969 marked a dramatic turning point in the evolution of two forms of popular music—rock and jazz. In both cases, women came up short. The first transition took place In Bethel, N.Y., between August 15 and 18. There, four co-promoters of a four-day music festival known as Woodstock proved that rock and the rock concert ...
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