andPOP.com News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Recordings by the Beach Boys, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, James Brown and the Doors are among the songs that have been named as the 2010 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame, reports rollingstone.com. Twenty-five recordings from various genres will be added to the Hall, which currently includes 851 songs altogether. Songs are eligible 25 years after [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Photo: Wyman/WireImage.com; Walter/WireImage.com Recordings by the Beach Boys, Bob Marley, the Doors, James Brown and Janis Joplin have been named as 2010 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Twenty-five recordings from a variety of genres will be added to the Grammy Hall, which currently includes 851 titles altogether (songs are eligible 25 years after release [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Music News: Satchmo tunes jazz up 2010 roster -- The Recording Academy announced 25 additions to its Grammy Hall of Fame on Tuesday, adding to a roster of timeless tunes that now includes 851 titles.
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
It’s 4 AM Maybe later Time means nothing To an all-night waiter. Ham on rye Eggs over easy Southern fry Spoon is too greasy. ----- It’s after hours Up on the stand Combo jamming Maybe Birdland. One last chorus Another 12 bars By-pass the moon Shoot for the stars. ----- Down in the street A hooker sighs Time for bed Alone no guys. Maybe not yet Not whilst she’s able To cop off with...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late 1950s became a winning formula for jazz in the spring of 1962. With Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd's Jazz Samba LP racing up the charts, many established jazz saxophonists took a shot at the new beat with great...
The Panic Manual (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Toronto – How do you link the following topics: traditional Bossa Nova, modern electronica, music royalty, and soul revivalists? The answer is of course Bebel Gilberto. Her latest album All In One has just been released, making it her debut on the Verve label. Furthering her work of creating Bossa-Nova infused pop, All In One [...] Related posts: Jazz in Review: Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Vignola Trio conjures up spirit of Django Reihnardt A spectacular sold-out concert ushered in the seventh year of Jazz at the Powerhouse, hosted by Elana Byrd. She welcomed audience members Celia Pearson and Karen Fazekas, daughters of Paul Pearson, who first brought jazz to Annapolis in the 1970s at Maryland Inn's King of France Tavern, showcasing for over two decades such artists as Charlie Byrd,...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Sparks' elegant fingerstyle jazz-guitar playing is more evocative of Charlie Byrd than "the king of the Klezmer clarinet". The self-proclaimed "king of Klezmer clarinet", Naftule Brandwein was born into a musical family in what is now Ukraine and emigrated to the United States in the early 20th century along with scores of other eastern European Jews. Over the course of the next...
Isomatic UK Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
This evening we went to the George & Dragon in Thames Ditton to see the John Barnes quartet, comprising John Barnes (baritone sax, alto sax, clarinet), Alan Dandy (keyboard), Mick Durelle (string bass) and Dick Esmond (drums, pictured). Our favourite numbers were: How Deep is the Ocean from the 1932 Irving Berlin musical 'Face The Music' and sung on this link by Brenda Lee , the 'Little Miss Dynamite'...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
It is a pleasure to follow pianist Fred Hersch's recorded output as he delivers creative and deeply felt solo and small group jazz, seeking to express ideas that sometimes approach the mysterious and ineffable, yet remain rooted in the best of musical expression. In this excellent release, Hersch offers nine solo piano versions of the work of the late great and beloved co-inventor and master of Brazilian...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
Aj Kluth - Twice Now (Oa2 ) Aj Kluth Quintet - Twice Now (Oa2 ) Al Caiola / Sonny Lester - Exotica: Sensuous Sounds Of The Sonny Lester Orch (LRC LTD ) Andrea Donati - Under Italian Skies (Kind Of Blue ) Andrew Morgan - Please Kid Remember (Phantom ) Andrew Previn Trio - Navy Swings (Sounds Of Yesteryear ) Anne Bisson - Blue Mind (Fidelio Audio/City Hall ) Anthony Wilson - Jack Of Hearts (Groove Note...
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Here are the songs I have that contain the word shoe . That's shoe (singular), not shoes (plural). Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley Chattanooga Shoe-Shine Boy - Dan Hicks And The Hot Licks Full Half, Thanksgiving Morning, Old Brown Shoe - Hotpoint String Band If The Shoe Fits - Leon Russell Scherzo For An Old Shoe - Charlie Byrd Stone In My Shoe - Frank Cotolo Under My Shoe - Midtown Dickens...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
Akiko Tsuruga - Oriental Express (18V ) AlasNoAxis / Jim Black - Houseplant (Winter & Winter ) Allan Browne / Margie Lou Dyer - Allfrey Street (Newmarket Music ) Ambrose - 1929-1930: The Hottest Of The Decca M Series (Retieval ) Ambrose & His Orchestra - 1929-1930: The Hottest Of The Decca M Series (Challenge ) Andy Milne - Where Is Pannonica? (Songlines Recordings ) - SACD Art Lillard - It's...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
Al Di Meola - Cielo E Terra/Soaring Through A Dream (Bgo Uk/Zoomstar ) Al Haig - Ingluwood Jam 1952 (Indies Japan/Zoom ) Al Haig - Clef Session 1953 (Phantom ) Al Haig - Piano Interpretation (Phantom ) Antoinette - Verbal Crush (Pyramid ) Art Farmer - To Sweden With Love (Phantom ) Art Farmer Quartet - To Sweden With Love (Warner Japan/Zoom ) Art Pepper - Original Quartet 1952 (Phantom ) Art Tatum...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/06/2009
Nylon-string guitarist Nate Najar channels the creative and energetic spirit of the late, great guitarist {{Charlie Byrd = 3801}} on I'm All Smiles. The album features Najar alongside Steve Boisen on bass, Chuck Redd on drums and Duduka Da Fonseca on percussion. While Najar gives ample evidence of his advanced solo guitar ability, those moments are always carefully inserted to provide contrast to the...
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