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Bill Evans: What Is There to Say?
If there's a single song that represents a turning point in the career of pianist Bill Evans from soloist to leader, it might be What Is There to Say? from his trio album Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Riverside). Recorded in December 1958, the song provides a glimpse of what's to come in Evans's development as a ...
Could Video Save The Radio Star?
Many artists may think of music videos as being the be all and end all of video, but the medium has much greater potential beyond that. As artists like Fugazi, the Foo Fighters, and Action Bronson have shown, subscription based video content can be an excellent way to engage with fans while generating some supplementary income. Guest Post ...
Fats Domino: Birthday Doc
It's hard today to fully appreciate the innovation and influence of Fats Domino. Back in the spring of 1952, Domino already had three hits on the R&B chart and was about to have his first No. 1 with Going Home. Up until Fats, R&B in the post-war years was largely a “jump blues" affair, powered by ...
Surfing on a Reed
In 1947, Jimmy Giuffre wrote and arranged a song called Four Brothers for Woody Herman. The arrangement was designed to showcase the band's new lineup of three tenor saxophones and a baritone saxophone, which was unusual, since most bands featured two altos, two tenors and a baritone. Herman's new band, known as the Second Herd, had ...
Bill Evans: Live at Town Hall
Yesterday, long-time reader Kurt Kolstad sent along the program sheet (front and back) for the Feb. 21, 1966 concert by pianist Bill Evans at New York's Town Hall. The album, Bill Evans at Town Hall, has always had a “Volume One" tagged onto the end of the title. Yet a “volume two" was never issued by ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: James Carter's Organ Trio and more
This week, let's check out some videos featuring the versatile saxophonist James Carter, who will be back in St. Louis with his organ trio to perform starting Wednesday, March 2 through Saturday, March 5 at Jazz at the Bistro. Carter, who was here most recently in 2013 for a week with organist Dr. Lonnie Smith at ...
Phil Urso and Carl Saunders
One of the finest albums of the early 2000s is Phil Urso and Carl Saunders Salute Chet Baker. Recorded in 2002 for the Jazzed Media label, the album featured tenor saxophonist Phil Urso and trumpeter Carl Saunders backed by a trio of Keith Waters (p), Colin Gieg (b) and Paul Romaine (d). The album revived the ...
Count Basie: July '61 and '68
On July 20, 1961, the Count Basie Orchestra was in the south of France at the Antibes International Jazz Festival. There, the band played Splanky, Blee Blop Blues (the first two songs were incorrectly labeled on the film), Shiny Stockings, I Need to Bee'd With, Every Day I Have the Blues (with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross ...
Bill Evans And Camera Three
Last month’s Rifftides post titled “Evans After LaFaro” included video of the Bill Evans Trio in a 1962 performance that I credited to Italian television because of its imprint RAIDUE, the name of an Italian broadcast company. Reader Peter Levin’s detective work turned up the true source of the clip. He wrote: “Here is my two ...
Video: Evans and Bennett
You probably know that at the end of September 1976, Bill Evans and Tony Bennett completed recording their second duet album, Together Again, for Tony's Improv label. What you don't know is that soon after they finished, Evans and Tony were taped in a studio performing The Bad and the Beautiful (solo by Evans) Lucky to ...
