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Jake Hanna, 1931-2010
Drummer Jake Hanna died last night in Los Angeles of complications from a blood disease. He was 78. Versatile across all jazz styles, in small groups and large Hanna swung with unremitting flexibility and power. He was the spark plug of big bands led by Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson and Toshiko Akiyoshi. Here is Hanna in ...
Other Places: Jazzhouse Update
Author Nick Catalano recently had occasion to revisit the JazzHouse in Copenhagen. The club is the successor to the Montmartre, which presented dozens of the world's best jazz artists in the 1950s and '60s. Rifftides pieces about Bud Powell and the Montmartre's masks stimulated considerable comment. The staff thought you'd be interested in Nick's observations about ...
Monk and Mingus in Seattle
Once in a great while, I encounter a photograph so good that it is necessary to dream up a reason to use it. In the case of this one, no dreaming was necessary. The lighting, sharpness and definition are so right, the shot looks like 3-D. The tenor saxophonist is Hadley Caliman. The conductor is Michael ...
Compatible Quotes: Youth
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.--Friedrich Nietzsche It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.--George Bernard Shaw For God's sake give me the young man ...
Keep an Ear out for Gadi Lehavi
With fairness, it could be charged that Rifftides has been too concerned lately with the old and the dead. Well, certain observances and acknowledgments needed to be made. But let's move on. David Liebman wrote with an antidote. Here's his message: ok--it's a cliche now that “they" (meaning the kids) get better earlier-check this out--he's already ...
Weekend Extra: Woody Herman&Apos;S Second Herd
Browsing YouTube, I came across what must be among the rarest pieces of jazz film, a sequence of Woody Herman's Second Herd, the celebrated Four Brothers band. We hear Herman's vocal and a bit of Stan Getz's tenor saxophone on “Caldonia," then most of “Northwest Passage," both pieces holdovers from the First Herd destined to be ...
The Willis Conover Facebook Page
What three administrations in the White House have refused to do, the people have done. They have recognized Willis Conover, the Voice of America broadcaster who may have been America's greatest cultural diplomat of the Cold War. He now has his own Facebook page, The Willis Conover Club. Will that lead to his getting a long ...
Correspondence: About Mike Wofford
Rifftides Washington, DC, correspondent John Birchard has rediscovered pianist Mike Wofford and filed this appreciation: I've been listening lately to Mike Wofford. I first heard his work on an Epic LP titled Strawberry Wine back in the early 60's and was impressed, especially with a couple of his originals, “Strawberry Wine" and “Three For All." In ...
CDs: Going, Going...
Daedalus Books and Music is a company that sells remaindered or overstocked books and recordings. It is the beneficiary of what we might conservatively call a state of flux in the fields of book publishing and recorded music. Daedalus and similar overstock specialists gather the fruits of catalogs thinned or, in some cases, decimated by publishers ...
