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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The legacy of Oliver Nelson
Today, we pay a birthday tribute* to one of St. Louis' all-time jazz greats, the late saxophonist, arranger, and composer Oliver Nelson, who was born here on June 4, 1932. Called “one of the most significant jazz voices of his generation" by AllAboutJazz.com, Nelson probably is best known these days for the classic album The Blues ...
Videos: Shorty Rogers, '80s
Arranger and trumpeter-flugelhornist Shorty Rogers was one of the primary architects of West Coast jazz in the early 1950s. The dry, harmony-driven style reflected the enormous optimism and drive of superb young musician-arrangers, many of whom who settled in the Los Angeles suburbs and found abundant work in the studios and clubs just as television and ...
Jazz Scene USA: Barney Kessel
Yesterday I found a nifty video of guitarist Barney Kessel on Oscar Brown Jr.'s Jazz Scene USA in 1962. Kessel was one of the most active West Coast studio guitarists starting in the late 1950s and was featured on all types of recorded music—from film scores and ads to jazz, rock and pop. Brown asks him ...
The Milt Jackson Quartet, Then And Then
A video of The Modern Jazz Quartet has been getting wide viewership on the internet. The YouTube presentation does not disclose that the group we see and hear is the MJQ’s predecessor, the rhythm section of Dizzy Gillespie’s big band from 1946 to the early fifties. To give his brass section rests during concerts, Gillespie occasionally ...
Warne Marsh: Dahoud
In the fall of 1953, while on tour in North Africa with Lionel Hampton, trumpeter Clifford Brown and the band stopped in Algeria. There, it is assumed the essence of his composition Daahoud came together. It's unclear who Daahoud was, Daahoud being Arabic for David. When Brown returned to the States and began to record as ...
Doc: History of British Jazz
European jazz musicians looked to American jazz artists and their recordings for jazz's secret formulas and a road map. Then countries and individual artists developed their own sounds based on cultural experiences and personal aesthetics. How did jazz unfold in the U.K.? Here's a terrific BBC documentary on the evolution of British jazz: Here's Part 1... ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: 90 years of Miles Davis
The 90th anniversary of Miles Davis' birth was this past Thursday, May 26, and although StLJN shared a variety of tributes from others on social media, there was no “happy birthday" post here that day as in many years past, for a couple of reasons. First, the “Miles On Monday" feature, which has been a fixture ...
Harry Arnold: Live c. 1966
Following my post this week on Swedish arranger-conductor Harry Arnold, I figure you might want a see him in action leading the Danish Radio Big Band on a TV show from around 1966. Joining him was vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who in 1972 would become a founding member of ABBA, and Carli Tornehave, who looked and sounded ...
Phineas Newborn Jr: 1962
Yesterday I was listening to the recordings of Phineas Newborn Jr. and was struck, yet again, at how remarkable a jazz pianist he was. His strength, poetic poise and, most of all, phrasing, were stunning. Born in Whiteville, Tenn., Newborn played often in Memphis with his father and other relatives in the late 1940s in an ...
Dexter Gordon: Denmark, 1962
Let's hang in Scandinavia for another day this week. I want to show you a fabulous gig documentary made in 1962 for the German TV program, An Ort und Stelle: Jazz in Kopenhagen (or On the Scene: Jazz in Copenhagen). It featured Dexter Gordon (ts), Lars Gulin (bar), Sahib Shihab (fl/as), Harold Goldberg (p), Benny Nielsen ...
