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Anaïs Reno: Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno sings Ellington & Strayhorn featuring Emmet Cohen
by Richard J Salvucci
The first time someone told me that Billy Strayhorn was a teenager when he wrote “Lush Life," I didn't believe it. Not so much because of the harmonic gymnastics, which were daunting enough, but because of the lyrics. “Romance is mush stifling those who strive, I'll live out a lush life in some small dive." No, ...
746th Far East Army Air Force Band: Sentimental Journey
by Richard J Salvucci
Picture this, if you will. You are in a war zone, in the Philippines. You are alone in the jungle. It is so hot that you are naked from the waist up. You are going on your third hour of trumpet practice. Only an occasional tropical bird mars the silence, scaring you half to death. You ...
Lauren White and the Quinn Johnson Trio: Ever Since The World Ended
by Richard J Salvucci
There is an interesting take of “Ever Since the World Ended" on You Tube. It is an evocative video, a kind of visual essay on Mose Allison's blues which could serve as an anthem to the pandemic and accompanying mess we are in. Lauren White (accompanied by Dolores Scozzesi) is appropriately downbeat, ...
Angela's Ring: An Opera Revue of the European Debt Crisis
by Richard J Salvucci
Kabir Sehgal, Marie Incontrera, et al. Angela's Ring Tiger Turn 2021 Opera, we are told, has long been political, and not just since Verdi and Wagner. What would West End musical theater be without Les Mis? Or drama without Barbara Garson's 1966 play, Macbird? Yes, even economics makes a token appearance ...
Harvey Husten Presents "Jazz in Jersey": The Red Hill Inn
by Richard J Salvucci
On October 13, 1957, there was a concert at the Red Hill Inn in Pennsauken, New Jersey. According to Downbeat, 3,000 fans wanted in, but there wasn't room for more than 1,000. Leonard Feather was there. Erroll Garner too. And Cannonball Adderley, Gerry Mulligan, and Oscar Pettiford. The occasion was the first annual memorial concert for ...
Nick Travis: A New York Studio Jazzman
by Richard J Salvucci
It may well be that in the world of the Internet, no one is ever truly forgotten. That's obviously true of people commonly known as “the great and the good." Yet even in the more obscure branches of human endeavor, the principle holds. Nowhere, more so, it seems, than in music, and even in ...
Gene Krupa Quartet: The Gene Krupa Quartet: Live 1966!
by Richard J Salvucci
This was a period, late in Gene Krupa's career, when he really wasn't up to much, or so some critics said. Whether that's fair or not is not for me to say. When Krupa appeared in the summer of 1965 at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City he only rated second billing to The Supremes. He ...
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