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The Arrival of Victor Feldman
Multi-instrumentalist Victor Feldman was a musical prodigy who sat in on drums with Glenn Miller’s Army Air Force Band at the age of 10 and was hailed by the English press as “Kid Krupa.” After continuing his rise to fame in the 1950s British jazz world, Feldman moved to America and eventually made his way to ...
A Great Jazz Band: NPR on the Lexington Program
All Things Considered did a story tonight on the Addiction Research Center that was a part of the federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky. The segment alludes to the many talented jazz musicians who passed through this program in the 1940s and 1950s, including Sonny Rollins and Tadd Dameron, who took what came to be known as ...
Ghostly Jazz and Popular Song for Halloween, Part 1
This week on WFIU's Afterglow we get into the “spirit" of things, so to speak, with “Ghost of a Song," a program of otherworldly songs in honor of the Halloween holiday. Prominent among our ethereal cast are Fred Astaire ("Me and the Ghost Upstairs"), Nina Simone ("I Put a Spell On You"), Lambert, Hendricks and Ross ...
Jazztimes Editor Responds to Prex Critique
JazzTimes editor Lee Mergner responds to the PREX critique of Downbeat and JazzTimes: Objectively, I believe he's overreacted to our cover choices, including most recently Return to Forever, Esperanza Spalding, Freddie Hubbard and David Sanborn. I'm not sure why he dropped the cover artist Rahsaan Roland Kirk; I suppose it didn't fit his argument. Apparently, picking ...
Jazz Magazines Bad for Jazz?
A blogger at the Princeton Record Exchange Club takes jazz media to task for “vacuous writing, PR cliches, and tame thinking," singling out Downbeat and Jazz Times as primary suspects. The writing and argument is a little rough around the edges, but it's a provocative point. Like the author, I subscribe to both magazines, and there's ...
Update on Ahmad Jamal Mosaic Box
A few months ago Mosaic Records confirmed a forthcoming Ahmad Jamal box-set, covering the pianist's trio recordings from the late 1950s and early 1960s, currently projected for a March or April 2009 release. Some more details have emerged now on the box's contents (supposedly 9 CDs). It will contain the following Argo and Chess-label albums: Argo ...
Second Magic City: Sun Ra in Chicago
Sun Ra, whose real name was Herman or “Sunny" Blount, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1920s and 30s, living within sight of a huge sign welcoming Birmingham visitors to “the Magic City." It's a prophetic sign in the Sun Ra legend, for Herman Blount--who was named by his mother after the popular vaudeville magician ...
