Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
. September 20, 2008 > Richard M. Sudhalter, 69, author and Jazz musician, Is dead > By DOUGLAS MARTIN > > Richard M. Sudhalter, who won wide respect as a mellifluous trumpet > player (cornet, actually- JD) and perspicacious jazz historian — and ignited controversy for > a book arguing that jazz was shaped by white as well as black > musicians [...]
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
BUD FREEMAN The Man – Live In Dublin 1976 *** Nagel Heyer 105, £12.99
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
For almost three decades, Nick's Steakhouse was revered as "the place" in Greenwich Village to hear classic, hot, improvised jazz. Music stands and orchestrations were banned from the stage. Muggsy Spanier led his group there, as did Bud Freeman and Eddie Condon. Booked for a one-nighter, Benny Carter stayed for five weeks. Fats Waller would drop by to play 'for fun,' and so did Jack Teagarden...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND THE ALL STARS
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
George Wein Is Alive And Well in Mexico MCD-1018 In 1967, George Wein took his passion, the Newport All-Stars, on a tour of Mexico. He assembled Ruby Braff, Bud Freeman and Pee Wee Russell, each one the leading exponent of mainstream jazz on his instrument and fueled the fire with bassist Jack Lesberg and drummer Don Lamond. The result was a loose, jaunty band that played its ass off. In preparation...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Your birthday today: You have perseverance, are energetic and versatile. You are easy-going and when thwarted in your purpose you are resourceful in accomplishing it in other ways. You are quiet and reserved, uncommunicative and do not make friends easily, but hold the few you make. Your love is sincere and steadfast. Just ask Thomas C. Zimmerman 1949, if you can persevere in a search for him. Or,...
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 03/22/2008
My oldest son and his girlfriend have seen the Mississippi River for the first time, from the heights of Chickasaw Bluff in Memphis. A Missouri poet wrote: “I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god—sullen, untamed and intractable…” They started a road trip last weekend in New York City, bound for North Carolina, Nashville and Memphis. It was a music-fueled odyssey....
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/23/2008
The Inaugural BET HONORS, ground-breaking documentary series HISTORY MAKERS, and The Premiere of Two DAVID E. TALBERT STAGE PLAYS Are Featured During February WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- This February, BET Networks and BET J will feature a spectacular lineup of programming that highlights the amazing accomplishments of modern-day history makers, chronicles the influence and contributions...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 11/16/2007
3 Cohens - Braid (Anzic Records ) Actis Band - Cina (Leo Records Uk ) Al Cohn / Bill Perkins - Brothers! (Mosaic Select ) Art Blakely - Hard Bop (Mosaic Select ) Art Farmer - Time & The Place / Lost Concert (Mosaic Select ) Best Of Smooth Jazz 3 - Best Of Smooth Jazz 3 (Wnua ) Bill Anschell / Brent Jensen / Jeff Johnson - One More Mile (Origin Records ) Bobby Hutcherson - Mosaic Select - Bobby Hutcherson...
Boot Sale Sounds (Free subscription) | 10/20/2007
Watched part of a fascinating profile of Al Bowlly on BBC 4 last night and this remined me of a couple of the novelty songs he sang before he became more well known as a "crooner". Wikipedia says- "In the 1930s, he was to sign two contracts which were to change his fortunes - one in May 1931 with Roy Fox, singing in his live band for the Monseigneur Restaurant in London, the other a record contract...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/25/2007
In a jam session or reading an arrangement, the gifted reedman Dan Levinson summons up noble ghosts--Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Frank Trumbauer and Rosy McHargue. But he is his own man with his own ideas. In spirit, he resembles Dick Hyman, creating historically accurate but radically lively music. Although Levinson is called "traditional" by those who revel in labels, his approach to the past is...
