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News: Technology

Mobile Fidelity's Ultradisc One-Step

July 12, 2022

Vinyl is back with a vengeance. But the phenomenon isn't just the issuing of LPs and newfound marketplace passion for turntables and speakers. There's a wave of new album-pressing technologies that are making original records sound much warmer and wider. One of the leading companies specializing in audiophile recordings is Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, which has ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Side of Dan Ingram

July 7, 2022

If you grew up in New York in the 1960s, you often found yourself glued to the radio after school. Hoping for your favorite songs, you bounced back and forth between the city's two big Top-40 stations—WABC at 77 on the dial and WMCA, at 520, “home of the Good Guys." On WABC, Dan Ingram was ...

News: Video / DVD

Backgrounder: Brother Jack's 'Heatin' System"

July 5, 2022

Between 1968 and 1974, organist Brother Jack McDuff recorded seven albums for Chicago's Cadet label. One of the most interesting of the bunch was The Heatin' System. What made the 1972 double album special was its hip Chicago soul-jazz flavor and the band behind him: Bobby Alston (tp), Don Myrick and David Young (ts,fl), Brother Jack ...

News: Video / DVD

Backgrounder: Burrell With Brother Jack

July 4, 2022

Guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded four albums with organist Brother Jack McDuff in late 1962 and '63. The one I'm sharing with you today is Crash!, the last of the bunch that was recorded by Burrell for Prestige in February 1963. It featured Burrell with Harold Vick (ts), Brother Jack McDuff (org), Joe Dukes (d) and Ray ...

News: TV / Film

Documentary: The Beach Boys

July 2, 2022

For those growing up in the U.S. in the early 1960s, no other group better expressed the essence of summer than the Beach Boys. Their music and the smell of Coppertone suntan lotion still takes me back. Surf rock pre-dated the group, having been launched in 1960 by the Ventures' Walk—Don't Run. A surge of surf bands ...

News: Video / DVD

Backgrounder: Charles Earland

July 1, 2022

Maybe you're cooking today for the holiday weekend. Or perhaps you're driving a long distance to attend a family gathering or visit the house of a friend. Or you may just be going for a long bike ride or working over the long weekend. How does three hours of uninterrupted Charles Earland sound to you? I ...

News: Video / DVD

Rhoda Scott: Live in Hungary

June 30, 2022

Rhoda Scott is a marvelous organist still on the scene today. When I interviewed her in 2011 (go here), she talked about starting out “tickling the keys" of an organ at home and in church, and fell in love with the instrument. In 1972, she was on tour in Europe and performed in Budapest, Hungary, when ...

News: Video / DVD

Backgrounder: 'Ella Swings Lightly'

June 29, 2022

One of my favorite Ella Fitzgerald albums is Ella Swings Lightly. Recorded for Verve in November 1958, the album was arranged by Marty Paich and features his Dek-tette backing Ella on a bright batch of songs outside the realm of her tiresome American songbook fare. The all-star Hollywood 10 included Don Fagerquist and Al Porcino (tp), ...

News: Music Industry

Virgil Gonsalves: Sextet and Big Band

June 28, 2022

We tend to think of West Coast jazz as a style centered exclusively in Los Angeles. While much of the relaxed, contrapuntal sound did evolve in the suburbs of the city in the 1950s, San Francisco also had a West Coast sound that was slightly more intensive. Artists who emerged from the San Francisco jazz experience ...

News: Video / DVD

Recreating a Famed Bossa Rehearsal

June 24, 2022

As a Brazilian teenager and guitarist in the late 1950s, Nara Leão befriended many of the singer-songwriters pioneering the bossa nova in Rio de Janeiro. These musicians included Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Employed at hotels as musicians along the Copacabana beachfront, these musicians were often ...