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These Are a Few of My Favorite....Charts
by Jack Bowers
Whenever the topic of desert islands arises among jazz fans, the focus is invariably on which albums (discs) one would choose to cram into a suitcase if one were ever stranded on an otherwise barren island. While the consideration of particular arrangements seldom governs the debate, I really think it should. After all, few albums, however ...
Jazzed Media to produce Woody Herman documentary
Jazzed Media, a jazz record label and film production company, has started production of a documentary film on big band jazz legend Woody Herman titled Blue Flame. This is the fourth jazz documentary from filmmaker Graham Carter, owner of Jazzed Media. Woody Herman was one of the most famous big band leaders from the 1940's swing ...
Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands
by Jack Bowers
The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...
"A Swingin' Affair" Outshines Its Name
by Jack Bowers
With an appreciative bow and genial tip of the hat to the late Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, the Los Angeles Jazz Institute named its semi-annual big-band soiree May 21-24 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel “A Swingin' Affair." Was the event able to live up to its name? In the immortal words of ...
Like Basie
Label: Mighty Quinn Productions
Released: 2006
Track listing: Jump The Blues Away; Jump For Me; Like Basie; The Holy Main; Big D; P.Q.
Play Paris
By Nat Pierce
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Gypsy; Wet Back on the Left Bank; Embarkation; Thanks for You; So What Could Be New?; Just 40 Bars; Palm Caf
Nat Pierce / Dick Collins / Ralph Burns & The Herdsmen Play Paris
By Nat Pierce
Label: 482 Music
Released: 2001
Nat Pierce, Dick Collins, Ralph Burns and the Herdsmen: Play Paris
by Jack Bowers
In early 1954, while Woody Herman’s Third Herd was touring Europe, a number of Woody’s sidemen took the opportunity to pick up some spare change by collaborating on a couple of sessions in Paris for French record executive Charles Delaunay. The results of the Paris dates are documented on tracks 1–8 of this reissue on Fantasy; ...
Nat Pierce Orchestra 1948 -1950 Featuringt. Charlie Mariano - Ralph Burns - Teddy King
By Nat Pierce
Label: 482 Music
Released: 1977
The Persuasive Trombone Of Urbie Green
By Urbie Green
Label: Command
Released: 1972
Track listing: At Last; Prisoner Of Love; Dream; I've Heard That Song Before; Moonlight Serenade; Stairway To The Stars; Let's Fall In Love; My Silent Love; My Melancholy Baby; I Had The Craziest Dream;
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; I Can't Get Started.
