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Vintage Dizzy

February 18, 2011

Dizzy Gillespie: Livein '58 & '70 (2006), part ofthe Jazz Icons series of DVDs, presents another gem with these two concerts ofDizzy Gillespie. In the earlier date from Belgium, Gillespie is in a smallgroup setting—a fantastic quintet with Sonny Stitt on sax, Lou Levy on piano,Ray Brown on bass, and Gus Johnson on drums. The hip ...

Happy Birthday, Wingy Manone!

February 14, 2011

Trumpeter, singer, and composer Joseph “Wingy" Manone was born on this date in 1900. As a boy in New Orleans, he lost an arm as a result of a streetcar accident, but this didn't stop him from taking up a musical instrument. His nickname has to rank as a bitof gallows humor, although Manone's 1948 autobiography ...

Louis Armstrong and Rex Harrison - "Now You Has Jazz" (1957)

February 12, 2011

Joey Defrancesco Trio - "Fly Me to the Moon" (1999)

February 5, 2011

Blast from the Past: Mark Cantor's Jazz Films

February 2, 2011

I had the pleasure ofattending Mark Cantor's “Jazz on Film" presentation on January 22nd here at theJewish Community Center of San Francisco and it was a blast from the past.Cantor is a jazz film archivist who has collected over 4,000 reels (yes, actualfilm) of vintage jazz performances. He shares programs of these rare films atpresentations all ...

Happy Birthday, Roy Eldridge!

January 31, 2011

Miles Plays Miles

January 25, 2011

Dingo is a little Australian-French film released in 1991 that would probably be lost in obscurity except for one fact—it stars Miles Davis. In the first image of the film, we see John “Dingo" Anderson (played by Colin Friels) playing his trumpet in the Australian outback, which sets up the tension between his life in the ...

Happy Birthday, J.J. Johnson!

January 23, 2011

Oscar Peterson Trio - "A Gal in Calico" (1958)

January 19, 2011

All the President's Jazz 2010

January 17, 2011

For the second year in a row, I have been sending CD compilations of jazz music (12 total) to Reggie Love, President Obama's personal aide, to put on the president's iPod. (How much of it has made it onto the iPod playlist I don't know.) As I stated a year ago when I posted the 2009 ...