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Storyville Records: A Treasure Trove of Swinging Jazz
by Chris May
Since its foundation during the European revivalist movement of the early 1950s, Copenhagen-based Storyville Records has grown into a major repository of New Orleans, big band and mainstream recordings. With something approaching 600 releases in its back catalogue, the label is a treasure trove of jazz that swings. Founded in 1952 by Danish jazz ...
Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection
by AAJ Staff
Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to ...
Jazz Oracle: Portal to Antiquity
by Nathan Holaway
“Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been."--George Eliot The world will never be able to hear exactly how Beethoven or Bach played their instruments, but it can hear how artists such as clarinetist Wilbur Sweatman and clarinetist and ...
Flat Earth Society: Cheer Me, Perverts!
by Ian Patterson
Fifteen-piece Belgian big band Flat Earth Society is the sonic equivalent of a freak show--weird, wonderful and like nothing you've come across before. Cheer Me, Perverts! is bursting with the energy of punk--sharing some of the anarchy, too--yet the CD exhibits intricate section harmonies and wonderful contrapuntal melodies. The soloists revel in their freedom, and the ...
Take Five With Chico Hamilton
by AAJ Staff
Meet Chico Hamilton: Known for representing jazz in its purest form, octogenarian Chico Hamilton shows virtually no signs of fatigue. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a “Living Jazz Legend," and appointed to the National Council on the Arts, Chico Hamilton is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers. He is currently ...
Phil Woods: Philology
by George Kanzler
When pianist Jim McNeely replaced Hal Galper in the Phil Woods Quintet in 1990 it was the current winner--repeating in 1991--of the Downbeat Readers Poll as top jazz small group. But, as McNeely remembers, his first days with the alto saxophonist's band included a benefit concert for the local volunteer fire department in Delaware Water Gap, ...
Louie Bellson: Tasteful Drummer, Sweeter Guy
by Jack Bowers
To say that drummer extraordinaire Louie Bellson, who left us on February 14, 2009 at age eighty-four, had a remarkable career would be to explicitly understate the record. Bellson's success at age 17 in a nationwide contest sponsored by one of his idols, Gene Krupa, and Slingerland Drums set the talented wunderkind on a path that ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Greer
All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Greer's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Sonny GreerSonny Greer - drums, recording artist, bandleader (1895-1982) Despite the fact that he was an important member of one of the most famous bands in the history of jazz, and during its finest period... ...
The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1977
Track listing: The Star Spangled Banner; Black and Tan Fantasy; Rockin in Rhythm; Moon Mist; Jumpin Punkins; A Portrait of Bert Williams; Bojangles; Portrait of Florence Mills Black Beauty; KoKo; Stomp Johnny Come Lately; Are You Sticking; Black First Movement of Black Brown and Beige; Brown Second Movement of Black Brown and Beige; Beige Third Movement of Black Brown and Beige; Bakiff; Jack the Bear; Blue Belles of Harlem; Cotton Tail; Day Dream; Boy Meets Horn; Rose of the Rio Grande; Dont Get Around Much Anymore; Going Up; Mood Indigo.
