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Barrett Deems: Deemus
by Nic Jones
Drummer Barrett Deems was a man with a pedigree, who took in stints with violinist Joe Venuti from 1937 to 1944, and a four-year run with trumpeter Louis Armstrong in the 1950s. The first years of the following decade found him keeping the musical company of trombonist Jack Teagarden. All of these affiliations are clues to ...
Eddie Gomez: The Playing is Free
by Donald Elfman
Eddie Gomez is known throughout the world as a consummate bassist, sterling educator and a musician active in a wide variety of musical settings. He has been on the music scene for more than 40 years and has worked with everyone from Bobby Darin to Giuseppi Logan. Gomez moved from Puerto Rico as a child and ...
Sam Stephenson: A "Loft-y" Vision of Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
When, in 1997, writer, scholar, and archivist Sam Stephenson serendipitously came across audio tapes, photographs and other documents involving jazz musicians congregating in photographer W. Eugene Smith's Manhattan loft in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was surprised as anyone. The wall of cartons had been unopened since before Smith's death in 1978. Stephenson and ...
Marian McPartland: Living Through the History
by Maxwell Chandler
Marian McPartland, whose personal artistic history is deeply entwined with that of jazz, continues writing, touring and educating. Following her muse, she has encountered a who's who of jazz while leaving her own indelible mark on the music. Her radio program, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, is the longest running show on National Public Radio, and she ...
Garvin Bushell: One Steady Roll
by Nic Jones
Garvin Bushell's autobiography, published in 1988, is called Jazz From The Beginning. There's no hyperbole about that title considering he was a musician who worked with both Fletcher Henderson and John Coltrane. This session was recorded later in his life--in California in 1982--and the music hews closer to the Henderson model than it does the Coltrane, ...
George Wein: George Wein Is Alive And Well In Mexico
by Michael Steinman
Impresario George Wein has given the music he loves invaluable support for more than half a century and no one would dare question that. But Wein also insists on being taken seriously as a jazz pianist and bandleader of the Newport All-Stars. His taste in musicians is excellent and his groups have provided gigs and record ...
John Burnett Swing Orchestra: West Of State Street / East Of Harlem
by Nic Jones
Accolades from the likes of Buddy De Franco and Louie Bellson might lend this band additional legitimacy as keeper of the flame, but its sheer love for the music, as manifested in countless ways here, is more than sufficient in itself. In times like these it takes love as much as anything else to put music ...
Mort Weiss: All Too Soon - A Jazz Duet For Clarinet and Seven String Guitar
by Samuel Chell
Mort Weiss All Too Soon: A Jazz Duet for Clarinet and Seven String Guitar SMS Jazz 2008 Not the least of this album's attractions is the title. To those few listeners familiar with the tune, “All Too Soon" might summon up one of Duke Ellington's more obscure compositions, were it ...
Portrait Of Pee Wee
Label: Empire Musicwerks
Released: 2006
Track listing: That Old Feeling; World On A String; Exactly Like You; It All Depends On You; If I Had You;
Out Of Nowhere; Pee Wee Blues; I Used To Love You; Oh No!
Pee Wee Russell: Portrait Of Pee Wee
by David Rickert
Pee Wee Russell was an early pioneer, a Dixieland veteran, and an inspired clarinetist with an unusual voice. No less than Gene Krupa once said that he had “the most fabulous musical mind... I've never run into anybody who had that much musical talent. During the fifties, long after his style of music had fallen out ...
