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Jimmy Heath: Holland, 2012
A mysterious CD arrived a couple of weeks ago from a reader. The album's title is The Voice of the Saxophone, featuring the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw of the Netherlands, conducted by Henk Meutgeert and featuring solos by tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath. That's all the information that came with the CD, and the sender said ...
Chet Baker: Time Unhinged
Chet Baker was a jazz romantic quietly frustrated that the passage of time refused to slow down. The early 1950s was his moment, and the years that followed moved like sand through his hands, leaving him confounded and depressed. Like a movie star who suddenly grows too old for the parts he or she played best, ...
Get Out and Get Under the Moon
I was 12 on July 20, 1969. We had just moved to the Town of Cortlandt, a wooded hamlet an hour north of New York. The public schools were becoming too rough and classes too crowded in northern Manhattan, and my artist parents didn't have the means for private school. So on that Sunday, I was ...
Rose Max: Bossa Nova 2013
On March 21 and 22, 2013, Brazilian vocalist Rose Max was in Costa Rica with guitarist Ramatis Morais, pianist Michael Orta, bassist Jamie Ousley and drummer Carlomagno Araya. They were backed by Costa Rica's National Symphony Orchestra at the National Theatre of Costa Rica in San José. The orchestra was arranged and conducted by Jeremy Fox, ...
Five Tadd Dameron Clips
The beauty and sophistication of Tadd Dameron's compositions and arrangements are impossibly seductive. Let's extend the Dameronia week with five YouTube clips: Here's Vanessa Rubin singing Dameron's On a Misty Night... Here's John's Delight in 1947, named for a line guitarist John Collins conceived... Here's Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1947 playing Good Bait... Here's Barry ...
Bob Gordon + Jack Montrose
Bob Gordon was a fabulous West Coast baritone saxophonist whose brilliant jazz career was cut short at age 24 in a car accident. On August 28, 1955, Gordon and trumpeter Earl McCrea were driving to San Diego to play in a Pete Rugolo concert. Gordon's car was proceeding north on St. Andrew Place in Los Angeles ...
The Music of Memorial Day
Today is Memorial Day in the U.S., a day when Americans celebrate the start of summer and honor the soldiers who died while in the service of the U.S. Armed Forces (and our allies worldwide). The holiday's origins can be tracked to 1861, when the graves of fallen soldiers began to be decorated in the U.S. ...
Playing Like Jim Hall
Guitarist Jim Hall had a way with notes. His improvisational style often involved taking a song apart and reassembling it in jagged pieces. He enjoyed the dissonances as much as the resolutions, and below it all was the most swinging, seductive rhythm. Jim was a huge inspiration for many guitarists and still is. Here are seven ...
Prez Day: Lester Young Clips
Here in the U.S. today, the country is celebrating President's Day, a national holiday set up in the 1880s to cover both George Washington (22nd) and Abraham Lincoln's (12th) February birthdays. At JazzWax, we celebrate Lester Young, whom Billie Holiday nicknamed the President or Prez of the tenor saxophone. Whether or not you're familiar with Prez ...
10 Favorite September Songs
With the arrival of September, summer is unofficially over and autumn is sort of here. It's just a matter of time now in New York when the temperature will downshift into the low 70s and then the 60s. Apples, suede and boots follow, with Central Park turning color and the distant smell of brownstone fireplaces on ...
