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These Are a Few of My Favorite....Charts
by Jack Bowers
Whenever the topic of desert islands arises among jazz fans, the focus is invariably on which albums (discs) one would choose to cram into a suitcase if one were ever stranded on an otherwise barren island. While the consideration of particular arrangements seldom governs the debate, I really think it should. After all, few albums, however ...
Lorraine Feather: The Girl With the Lazy Eye
by Carl L. Hager
While writing the tune “Scrabble" for her recently released CD Ages (Jazzed Media, 2010), lyricist and singer Lorraine Feather's songwriting partner, Dick Hyman, had an unusual request that bordered on a dare: could she work the name of the venerable pianist/composer's family friend Dushka into the lyrics? After all, the middle section of his stride composition ...
RIP Tommy Newsom
by Jack Bowers
Big bands lost a true and loyal friend when Tommy Newsom died April 28 of liver and bladder cancer at age seventy-eight. Newsom, who gained a measure of fame as the butt of host Johnny Carson's jokes on The Tonight Show about his presumably drab personality and outfits to match, was a superb saxophonist and arranger ...
Friendly Fire
By Tommy Newsom
Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Close Your Eyes; Just Friends; Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise; Do Nothin
Tommy Newsom: Friendly Fire
by Jack Bowers
Tommy Newsom, the butt of many a Johnny Carson joke when he played in the Tonight Show band, isn’t nearly as colorless as Johnny would have had us believe. Beneath that bland exterior lies the soul of an impassioned swinger, as Newsom proves on Friendly Fire, his long–overdue debut for Florida–based Arbors Records. Tommy has chosen ...
Friendly Fire
By Tommy Newsom
Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Close Your Eyes; Just Friends; Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise; Do Nothin
Tommy Newsom Sextet: Friendly Fire
by Mike Neely
You may know Tommy Newsom as the congenial big band sidekick on the Johnny Carson Show. But you may not know that he plays a bluesy, big-assed saxophone with intelligence, and style. On Friendly Fire he’s put together a quintet of pros who swing with something to say. Included is trombonist Bob Enevoldsen. Anyone who’s listened ...
