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CT, Zoot And Friends In New Orleans, 1969
As mentioned in Rifftides from time to time, many who attended or played in the original New Orleans Jazz Festival remember it as an example of what a jazz festival can be. The 1968 and 1969 editions of JazzFest were intimate compared with what later became the Jazz And Heritage Festival, a massive Crescent City party ...
The Word is Beat: Jazz, Poetry & the Beat Generation
by Jakob Baekgaard
It is the aspiration of much literature that it wants to change the way we look at the world, but few authors and poets have been as influential as the group of writers labeled the Beat Generation. They saw a lot that they did not like about American society in the fifties when they came of ...
Al + Zoot: Happy Over Hoagy
One of the prettiest and least known recordings by Zoot Sims and Al Cohn is their tribute to songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. Recorded in 1957, the album was released on the Jass Twelve label only in the 1980s. I have no idea why it wasn't recorded for a mainstream label then or why its released was delayed ...
Sonorama: New Treasures from the Past
by Jakob Baekgaard
To find a forgotten record is often part of the pleasure and path of the dedicated record collector. Looking for the right record becomes a journey where flea markets and other strange places are examined, but it is also about having the right connections. Ekkehart Fleischhammer is not only an expert in finding the recorded treasures ...
More From Zoot's Tribute: '86
Yesterday I posted on a video that Bret Primack sent along from a memorial concert for Zoot Sims in 1986. Today, Bret sent along another, this time featuring Ira Gitler announcing Al Cohn and Friends, with saxophonists Al Cohn, Turk Mauro, Lew Tabackin, Al Klink and Bob Wilbur, and pianist Benny Aranov, bassist Bill Crow and ...
Zoot's Memorial Concert, 1986
Tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims died in March 1985. A year later, a memorial concert was held in his honor. Bret Primack sent along the following video, featuring Gerry Mulligan (bs), Roger Kellaway (p), Bill Crow (b) and Bobby Rosengarden (d). The date of the concert and location aren't immediately known. The video is courtesy of Turk ...
Burt Eckoff: A Pianist's Close Encounters With the Greats of Jazz
by Idelle Nissila-Stone
Active in the New York City jazz scene since the 1960s, pianist Burt Eckoff played with many jazz greats, among them Howard McGhee, Maynard Ferguson, Art Blakey, Sonny Stitt and Archie Shepp. He is known for exceptional artistry in his work with vocalists Dionne Warwick, The Drifters, Eddie Jefferson, and most importantly Dakota Staton, with whom ...
Glenn Zottola: A Jazz Life - The Early Years
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 World-renown trumpeter, saxophonist, musical director, producer and entrepreneur. These are but a mere handful of words that describe the vast talent in Glenn Zottola's bag of musical marvels. There are others: child prodigy, creative genius, “musical natural" and aural savant also percolate rapidly to mind. Now ...
The Roberto Magris Trio: An Evening with Herb Geller: Live in Europe 2009
by Jack Bowers
To followers of jazz in general and West Coast jazz in particular, the late alto saxophonist Herb Geller should need no introduction. Geller, a master of his horn, was a fixture on the West Coast scene and elsewhere in the States until he moved to Germany in 1962 and spent the last half-century of his life ...
Artt Frank: Talking Chet Baker
by Nicholas F. Mondello
In Chet Baker: The Missing Years--A Memoir (BooksEndependent,LLC), drummer/composer Artt Frank delivers an in-the-room intimate, yet no-holds-barred tale of his professional and personal relationship with the mythologized jazz trumpeter. Drawn from deep admiration for and loyal friendship with Baker, as well as his 14 years performing with him, Frank has painted a distinctive, poignant and dramatically ...
