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Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection
by AAJ Staff
Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to ...
Guitarist Gabor Gado: Two Views from Budapest
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Herewith two records released at about the same time, on the same label (Hungary's Budapest Music Center), both prominently featuring Hungarian guitarist Gábor Gadó. If, however, it's pleasing to play the discs side by side--and it really is--it's as much because of the two records' differences as their similarities.Budapest Concerts is a concert recording ...
Peter Nero and the Philly Pops Celebrate the Music of the “Greatest Generation”
by Victor L. Schermer
Philly Pops Orchestra Revisits “The Stage Door Canteen"Peter Nero, Artistic Director Lynn Roberts, featured vocalistThe Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsPhiladelphia, PA March 27, 2010 Why a concert review of the popular music of World War II on a jazz-focused website? The very question suggests how misguided it ...
Benny Goodman: Benny Goodman Yale University Archives Volume 1
by Andrew Velez
The sound of the opener is unmistakable; it's the familiar, driving urgency of Benny Goodman's clarinet, which made him the undisputed “King of Swing," heard again in all its electrifying glory on “Sweet Georgia Brown," the 1967 take which opens this collection. Recorded live in New York's old Rainbow Grill, Goodman is in solid company with ...
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.
Paul Quinichette & His Basie-ites: Like Basie
by Nic Jones
Like Basie has already seen the light of day in the CD era as an OJC release, but given its qualities, its reappearance here is welcome anyway. Paul Quinichette's career was perhaps more dogged than aided by the lazy “Vice-Pres" tag that was placed upon him because of his stylistic allegiance to Lester Young. As ever ...
The Vice Pres
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2000
Track listing: Crossfire, Sandstone, Prevue, No Time, P.Q. Blues, Bot Bot, The Hook, Samie, Shad Roe, Paul's Bunion, Crew Cut, I'll Always Be In Love With You, Sequel, Bustin' Suds, Let's Make It, Galoshes and Rubbers, People Will Say We're In Love, Rose of Birdland, No Parking, Sunday, Crossfire (2 alternate takes), Sandstone (alternate take), No Time (alternate take), Paul's Bunion (alternate take), Crew Cut (alternate take)
Paul Quinichette (: The Vice Pres
by C. Andrew Hovan
Although much has been said and written to suggest that tenor man Paul Quinichette was merely a Lester Young clone, down to the “Vice Pres’ that became his moniker, the fact remains that Quinichette was really a vital player who just happened to work a few of Young’s more popular devices into his own vernacular. While ...
Paul Quinichette: Basie Reunion
by Derek Taylor
The Count Basie Band in all its multiplicity of incarnations was, and still is, a jazz institution. From its Kansas City beginnings to its various resurgences after the Count’s passing into the great jazz hereafter it’s held a stature rivaling that of the Ellington dynasty. Back in 58’ when this session was waxed Basie was still ...
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