Results for "Storyville Records"

Thad Jones: The Danish Radio Big Band & Eclipse

by Chris Mosey
December 24, 2013

US trumpeter, composer and arranger Thad Jones remains by and large unknown in his homeland but has had a street named after him in Copenhagen. Jones became a household name in the Danish capital as leader of the Danish Radio Big Band from 1976-85. Brother of pianist Hank and drummer Elvin, Thad Jones ...

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows Vol. 17

by Chris Mosey
December 21, 2013

Don Lowe's exultant cry, “Here he is, and in person, the Duke himself!" kicks off the 17th of the Duke Ellington Treasury Show radio broadcasts, part of a massive reissue project by the Danish Storyville label. Anxious to show how hip, perhaps even hep, he is, the American Broadcasting Corporation announcer goes on ...

Clara Vuust: Here’s To Love

by Chris Mosey
December 3, 2013

Denmark's Clara Vuust has a voice as clean and clear as the “ping" you get when you flick your fingernail against a piece of Scandinavian crystal glassware." She uses it to come up with a quite stunning debut album. Hitherto she was known in her homeland only as the sister of saxophonist Christian ...

Jasper Lundgaard / Bob Rockwell / Doug Raney / Henrik Gunde, Aage Tanggaard: Love & Peace: The Music of Harold Parlan

by Chris Mosey
September 11, 2013

Maybe it was the mournful sound of the foghorns belonging to the ships passing below the Great Belt Bridge. Or the music he'd just been listening to, and featured on this album. But Harold Parlan's thoughts strayed from the care home where he now lives in the small Danish coastal town of Korsør (pop. 14,501) to ...

Ben Webster: In Norway

by Chris Mosey
September 10, 2013

Ben Webster refused to fly. When he visited Norway from Denmark, his adopted homeland, he went by boat and when he got there would blame his somewhat uncertain gait on his “sea legs," rather than the large amounts of alcohol he had consumed in the vessel's bar. Sometimes his “sea legs" were so bad, initial concerts ...

Duke Ellington: The Duke At Fargo 1940 Special 60th Anniversary Edition

by Chris Mosey
April 21, 2013

An historic double album, the only one to feature the Duke Ellington band in the greatest of its many incarnations, playing a dance date. It captures the immediacy and chaotic magic of the 1940 orchestra in a way the carefully manicured studio recordings and even radio broadcasts of the time just can't do. ...

Sidney Bechet & Mezz Mezzrow: The King Jazz Records Story

by Chris Mosey
April 9, 2013

Three decades before Norman Mailer in 1957 drew attention to the social phenomenon of the “white negro," Mezz Mezzrow claimed to be just that. To use his own terminology, he was “a voluntary negro." Actually an American Jew, he played clarinet in the 1930s and 40s, often, as here, alongside Sidney Bechet. He ...

Full House

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Just Friends; Body And Soul; Impressions; Chiming In; Like Someone In Love; Old Folks; Sandu.

Full House

By Alex Riel

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2012

Alex Riel Special Quartet: Full House

by Chris Mosey
November 6, 2012

In 1963, at the tender age of 23, Alex Riel became the house drummer at Montmartre-the Copenhagen jazz club-backing such US giants as Dexter Gordon, Paul Gonsalves, Don Byas, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Kenny Dorham and Archie Shepp. In 2010, he returned to the legendary Scandinavian venue which had recently reopened as a jazz ...