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Curtis Fuller - Live in Chicago
While on vacation last week, I had the pleasure of catching legendary hard bop trombonist Curtis Fuller at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago on September 16. Andy's, just north of the Loop, was founded in 1951 by Andy Rizzuto and it is still one of the best places to hear jazz in Chicago, every day of ...
This Week in Jazz History: September 23 to September 29
September 23 Saxophonist/composer John Coltrane born 1926 in Hamlet, NC. Saxophonist/composer Frank Foster born 1928 in Cincinnati OH. Pianist/vocalist Ray Charles born 1930 in Albany, GA. September 24 Trumpeter Fats Navarro born 1923 in Key West, FL. Bassist Charles Mingus records Let My Children Hear Music, 1971. Sarah Vaughan records My Funny Valentine 1973. September 25 ...
Happy Birthday, Cat Anderson!
Jazz trumpeter William “Cat" Anderson (1916-1981) was born in Greenville, South Carolina. His parents died when he was only four years old, so Cat grew up in an orphanage in Charleston. It was here that he learned how to play the trumpet. Fellow orphans gave him the nickname “Cat," not for his trumpet playing but for ...
A Fine Vintage Wein
George Wein knew and/or worked with just about everyone in jazz over the last half century. His autobiography, Myself Among Others (Da Capo, 2004), written with Nate Chinen, is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the life of a jazz producer and sometime performer. Wein grew up in the Boston area and opened the Storyville Club there ...
Jazz Poetry - "Lester Young"
By Ted Joans Sometimes he was cool like an eternalblue flame burning in the old KansasCity nunnerySometimes he was happy 'til he'd thinkabout his birth place and its bloodstained clay hills and crow-filled treesMost times he was blowin' on the wonderfultenor sax of his, preachin' in very cooltones, shouting only to remind you ofa certain point ...
Happy Birthday, Gene Harris!
Pianist Gene Harris (1933-2000) recorded prolifically during his long career. He started out playing in Army bands during the early 1950s. In 1956, he formed The Three Sounds with Andy Simpkins on bass and Bill Dowdy on drums. (Actually, it was originally The Four Sounds, but saxophonist Lonnie “The Sound" Walker dropped out after a year.) ...
