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A Sudhalter Memorial
A concert in memory of Richard M. Sudhalter, the distinguished jazz musician, historian, biographer, and critic, will be held on Monday, January 12, at St. Peter's Lutheran Church 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York City, from seven to ten p.m. Sudhalter died last September. For a remembrance and appreciation of this extraordinary man. The ...
Service for Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard's family has released information about his funeral service.1:00 PM, Tuesday, January 6, 2009 -- viewing from 11 AM Faithful Central Bible Church's Tabernacle 321 North Eucalyptus Avenue Inglewood, CA 90301 The trumpeter died December 29. For a Rifftides appreciation of his career, go here. ...
Bill Ramsay, Octogenarian Swinger
LISTENING TIP Bill Ramsay is a veteran saxophonist widely admired in jazz circles across the US but little known to the public outside the Pacific Northwest. Accomplished on alto and baritone saxes, he co-leads the Ramsay-Kleeb band and is the baritone sparkplug of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. Ramsay has been a first-call sub on the ...
The Film Music of Ralph Rainger
The release of a new CD, The Film Music Of Ralph Rainger, is the occasion for my piece in today's Wall Street Journal. Coupled with an article about the contemporary motion picture composer A.B. Rahman, it is headlined,Another Who Has Been Unjustly Forgotten and begins: For years, Jack Benny opened his CBS radio and television ...
Meet Ralph Rainger
Rainger was a very good pianist. In 1933, Paramount featured him playing his music in apromotional short subject that included cameo appearances by Bing Crosby and Maurice Chevalier. It ends with superimposed shots of Rainger improvising separate parts simultaneously on three pianos. Sound familiar? Of course, but it was three decades before Bill Evans recorded Conversations ...
Freddie Hubbard is Gone
Freddie Hubbard died this morning in the Sherman Oaks district of Los Angeles. He was hospitalized there since he had a heart attack on November 26. Hubbard was 70. From the trumpeter's first recording with the Montgomery Brothers in 1958, it was evident that reports coming out of Indianapolis were true: the city had ...
Weekend Extra: Lester Young
With so little video of Lester Young, every foot of him performing on film is precious. Loren Schoenberg calls attention to a performance by Young that showed up recently on You Tube. Whoever submitted the clip from a kinescope of Art Ford's Jazz Party television program provided no information beyond Young's name. Ray Bryant is the ...
CDs: Bley and Silver
While probing the mysteries of the Macintosh universe and meeting with frustrations, roadblocks and delights (man, this thing is FAST), I have continued to listen. Here are impressions of two of the CDs that have kept me company during my slam-bang self-tutorial and late-night iMac school. Carla Bley And Her Remarkable Big Band: Appearing Nightly ...
The Bill Evans Christmas Serenade
Christmas week is underway, time to listen to the only vocal performance Bill Evans is know to have recorded. I wish I had thought of posting the audio clip, but full credit goes to Jan Stevens of The Bill Evans Web Pages. Rifftides reader Russ Neff called it to our attention. Click on this link. When ...
Weekend Extra: Two Violins with "Four Brothers"
All I can tell you about this is that the violinists are Katica Illenyi and Csaba Illenyi.The Hungarian Wikipedia entry did not help me learn more. I only wish that JimmyGiuffre had heard this version of his best-known composition and arrangement. Thanks to ...
