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Lalo Schifrin "Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You"
First, a little history. In 1965, Woody Allen's comedy What's New Pussycat? became a surprise hit, boasting an all-star cast including Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capuchine, Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress. Tom Jones' performance of Burt Bacharach's title song also became a hit, goofy as it is, becoming even more memorable and enduringly campy ...
Eric Alexander "Don't Follow the Crowd"
If jazz today has a brand, then saxophonist Eric Alexander is its standards bearer. He upholds the tradition and champions the cause like no other instrumentalist from the contemporary jazz realm. Two decades and dozens of recordings into his career, Alexander has flourished while the power of many of his peers has faded, disappeared or proved ...
Cornell Dupree - R.I.P.
The legendary guitarist Cornell Dupree died on Sunday, May 8, 2011. He was 68 years old. Dupree had earlier been diagnosed with emphysema and was to have had a lung transplant. A benefit concert was held at BB King's New York City club on March 11 to help raise funds for Dupree's medical expenses. Born on ...
Gil Evans/Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumiere
Shortly after graduating college in 1987, I ventured to New York City with the naïve hope of finding a job. It was a miserable time and a memorably awful experience. My hope was to land a job in advertising. I ended up with a film pass for a great foreign film from a prestigious film distributor ...
Sweat Band
Recently reissued on CD for the first time since 1994 by reissue greats Get On Down, this little-known and barely-remembered album is a 1980 Bootsy Collins/P-Funk joint that deserves far better than it ever got. Between 1976 and 1979, Bootsy's Rubber Band was a hugely successful offshoot of the P-Funk mothership, distinguished by equal parts funk ...
"Barabajagal" by Donovan
The music of Donovan (b. 1946, Glasgow, Scotland) has long remained a perverse and pervasive fascination for me. Like most “flower power" hits of the sixties, “Mellow Yellow" and “Sunshine Superman" are emblazoned upon my musical transom. But whether it's the dated oddities of either song or the mere fact that we've all heard them a ...
Wax Poetics - Issue 46
The great Wax Poetics has come out with one of its best ever issues with its marvelous 46th. This issue's theme is “Jazz's Mad Men"—presumably tied to guys who came out of the '60s when TV's Mad Men takes place—and has any number of features of interest that nearly all of today's jazz press avoids completely ...
An Evening with Dave Grusin
The music of the great composer, pianist, conductor and arranger Dave Grusin has graced many a jazz album and film/TV soundtrack. And along the way Grusin has scored some particularly notable and memorable music that matter to both genres. Indeed it's difficult to delight in either jazz or film this day in age without appreciating a ...
"Children's Song" by Roberta Flack
This song has always been one of my very favorites. “Children's Song" is a little-known tune from Roberta Flack's little-known soundtrack to the little-known Richard Pryor/Cicely Tyson film Bustin' Loose (1981). This touching film, suggested by a story from Richard Pryor himself, finds ex-con and parole violator Joe Braxton (Pryor) hired by a school teacher, Vivian ...
Peter Herbolzheimer "Soul Puppets"
The great composer, arranger and trombonist Peter Herbolzheimer (1935-2010) probably ranks as one of Germany's best-known bandleaders, having helmed not only his popular Rhythm Combination & Brass (RC&B) but leading many big band orchestras on stage, TV and radio. The RC&B made for a unique sound in the seventies, mixing jazz with fresh rock, funk, Gospel ...
