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Storyville Records: A Treasure Trove of Swinging Jazz
by Chris May
Since its foundation during the European revivalist movement of the early 1950s, Copenhagen-based Storyville Records has grown into a major repository of New Orleans, big band and mainstream recordings. With something approaching 600 releases in its back catalogue, the label is a treasure trove of jazz that swings. Founded in 1952 by Danish jazz ...
DownBeat: The Great Jazz Interviews - A 75th Anniversary Anthology
by Florence Wetzel
DownBeat: The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary AnthologyFrank Alkyer and Ed Enright, EditorsSoftcover; 352 pagesISBN: 9781423463849Hal Leonard2009 In a 1988 interview, trombonist J.J. Johnson declared: “Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will." There's no better proof than this remarkable ...
Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Rekindles Cuban Fire Suite
by Jack Bowers
On June 5, 2010, with the temperature in Albuquerque hovering around 100 degrees, the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra couldn't have wished for a better time to perform Johnny Richards' incendiary Cuban Fire suite, first recorded in 1956 by the Stan Kenton Orchestra. The sold-out concert was the opening event in the city's annual Jazz and Blues Under ...
Carol Morgan Trio: Opening
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Opening is an album so rich in the intricacies of melody that it never fails to surprise at every turn. The saddest aspect of the album is that it is all too short. But the biggest surprise of all is Carol Morgan, a trumpeter who seems to have awakened the urge to find parallels in phrasing ...
The Story of Jazz Trumpet
by AAJ Staff
The trumpet was the lead instrument in early jazz: it is the loudest solo instrument, the natural leader of a group of individuals, if you will. So, early trumpet pioneer Buddy Bolden (there is a photograph of him with a jazz band in 1894!) is most likely the first known jazzman simply because he was a ...
Lejazzetal: A Collision of Cultures with Jazz
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There are those who might call Dave Kelbie a dreamer, wearing somewhat the John Lennon persona in “Imagine." After all he forms Lejazzetal, a London-based artist's collaborative work-in-progress that promotes live jazz, conjures up the spirit of Basin Street wherever in the world a (Lejazzetal) concert may happen to create a scene--from London and Paris to ...
Chatter Jazz by Rex Stewart and Dickie Wells
By Rex Stewart
Label: Unknown label
Released: 1999
Rex Meets Horn
By Rex Stewart
Label: Green Line Records
Released: 1990
Track listing: Boy Meets Horn; Mood Indigo; I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Solitude; Take The "A" Train; Sweethearts On Parade; My Blue Heaven; Perdido; Honeysuckle Rose; Organ Grinder's Swing; Caravan;
The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1977
Track listing: The Star Spangled Banner; Black and Tan Fantasy; Rockin in Rhythm; Moon Mist; Jumpin Punkins; A Portrait of Bert Williams; Bojangles; Portrait of Florence Mills Black Beauty; KoKo; Stomp Johnny Come Lately; Are You Sticking; Black First Movement of Black Brown and Beige; Brown Second Movement of Black Brown and Beige; Beige Third Movement of Black Brown and Beige; Bakiff; Jack the Bear; Blue Belles of Harlem; Cotton Tail; Day Dream; Boy Meets Horn; Rose of the Rio Grande; Dont Get Around Much Anymore; Going Up; Mood Indigo.
