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Vido Musso

Born: January 13, 1913

The Top 25 Songs Featuring Clarinet

by Dean Nardi
April 21, 2026

As Ian Dury might have sung had he played the clarinet, “Hit me with your licorice stick." (That is “rhythm stick" for those not fluent in punk rock.) From the intricacies of classical music to the smooth swing of jazz to Klezmer--the folk music of the Eastern European Jewish population--the instrument resonates throughout a good portion ...

Roots

By Stan Kenton

Label: Submarine Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: January 14, 1944—Introduction: Artistry in Rhythm; Begin the Beguine; Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me; Eager Beaver; Shoo Shoo Baby; Ol’ Man River; I’ll Be Around; Reed Rapture; The Goon Came On; Harlem Folk Dance; Sign Off: Eager Beaver. September 20, 1945— Introduction: Artistry in Rhythm; Blue Skies; And There You Are; Tampico; I Surrender Dear; Southern Scandal; It’s Been a Long, Long Time; The Man I Love; I Wish I Knew; Reed Rapture; Sign Off: Artistry in Rhythm. November 1945—Theme: Artistry Jumps; I Can’t Get Started; Tampico; Body and Soul/Sign Off. Bonus track: October 15, 1945—I Don’t Want to Be Loved.

Stan Kenton and His Orchestra: Roots

by Jack Bowers
March 15, 2024

Roots is a most appropriate title for this series of concerts by the Stan Kenton Orchestra recorded in 1944-45 on behalf of the Armed Forces Radio Service. While the sessions do include a handful of staples from the Kenton book ("Eager Beaver," “Reed Rapture," “Tampico," the well-known “Artistry in Rhythm" theme), it's clear that Kenton and ...

Roberto Magris: Shuffling Ivories

by Jack Bowers
April 9, 2021

In 2018, while he was in Chicago to record his ninth album, Suite!, for JMood Records, pianist Roberto Magris was introduced by tenor saxophonist Mark Colby to bassist Eric Hochberg, an artist with whom Magris formed an almost immediate bond. After performing together at Chicago's Jazz Showcase, Magris and Hochberg decided they should record together, and ...

Nick Travis: A New York Studio Jazzman

by Richard J Salvucci
February 28, 2020

It may well be that in the world of the Internet, no one is ever truly forgotten. That's obviously true of people commonly known as “the great and the good." Yet even in the more obscure branches of human endeavor, the principle holds. Nowhere, more so, it seems, than in music, and even in ...

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival - Woodchopper's Ball: Part 1-4

by Simon Pilbrow
September 22, 2018

Los Angeles Jazz Institute Festival “Woodchoppers' Ball" Four Points by Sheraton at LAX Los Angeles, CA May 23-27, 2018 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 The Los Angeles Jazz Institute (LAJI), under Ken Poston, has continued for some thirty years to ...

Discovering Wardell Gray: An Interview with Biographer Richard Carter

by Victor L. Schermer
December 9, 2015

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 [This is one of two interviews and an article intended to bring readers' attention to the under-recognized tenor saxophonist, Wardell Gray, whose brief career spanned the transition from swing to bebop and whose life was cut short by sudden and tragic circumstances.] Richard Carter ...

Speak Easy / Blues For Two

By Vido Musso

Label: Unknown label
Released: 1957

Loaded

By Vido Musso

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1956
Track listing: Moose In A Caboose; Moose In The Loose; My Jo-Ann; Vido In A Jam; Bassology; Spellbound; Let Me Go; Jam Session At Savoy; Sweet Miss; Loaded; Grab Your Axe Max; Always;