Skylark
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
“Skylark” Jackie Paris Brunswick Records. (1955) Only Yesterday, If Love Is Good To Me. (JACKIE PARIS, vocal; NORMAN LEYDEN, leader, arranger; BILLY TAYLOR, [...]
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Test of Time Releases "Holy Mama" by Junior Mance
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Test of Time Records proudly announces the release of the remastered Holy Mama by the Junior Mance. This album was originally released in 1976 and is now available on CD for the first time here in the U.S. This work by the Junior Mance-led trio, with Martin Rivera on bass and Salvatore LaRocca on dr...
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Aug. 25, 1996: Kenny Burrell remains a giant among jazzmen
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Originally published August 25, 1996 Kenny Burrell had been in New York for about a year when the grapevine brought tales of a wizard named Jimmy Smith who was playing modern jazz on the organ and tearing up the East Coast clubs.
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Junior Mance: Eighty Years Young
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Chicago native Junior Mance doesn't sound like a man approaching his 80th birthday. The pianist, who credits Gene Ammons, Cannonball Adderley and Dizzy Gillespie with helping him grow as a musician, has led over 30 recordings of his own and made numerous appearances as a sideman during a lengthy career. An enthusiastic conversationalist with a great sense of humor, it's hard not to feel quickly at...
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Podcast 113: Music from My Wedding
Straight No Chaser - A Jazz Show (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
I'll be marrying my dear Nancy this Sunday in a small ceremony held with family and friends in Forest Park, Springfield, Massachusetts. My son Matt will be my best man, and Nancy's two sisters and two oldest friends will make up the bridal party. Then we're off for an Italian honeymoon , so it will be a few weeks before I blog again. Since I can't invite you all to be guests at the reception, I thought...
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Scott Hamilton - "Across The Tracks"
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Scott Hamilton & Friends - Across The Tracks - In Stores May 6, 2008 Scott Hamilton has long been known as keeper of the flame for swinging tenor saxophone in the tradition of such icons as Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Gene Ammons, Illinois Jacquet, and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis. He has also been a Concord Jazz recording artist since 1977!—some thirty years, longer than any other Concord artist recorded...
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Junior Mance: Groovin' with Junior
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Nearing 80, Junior Mance is among the last still-vigorous performers of his generation, the master of a blues-drenched piano style that fuses bop harmony and block chords with tremolos and funky pentatonics. His biography is also his tradition, including stints with Gene Ammons, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie and Dinah Washington...
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Patti Bown
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Patti Bown died last Friday in a Pennsylvania nursing home, little known not only to the general public but also to many jazz listeners. Despite her talent as a pianist, Miss Bown never became celebrated to the degree that she...
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The Dodo Swings (And Flies With Jug).
MoreWriting 10 latest works (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
For Michael 'Dodo' Marmarosa... Musician.
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Walkin’ Miles
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Miles Davis All-Stars “Walkin” with Jay Jay Johnson (Trombone), Lucky Thompson (Tenor), David Schildkraut (Alto) Horace Silver (Piano), Percy Heath (Bass) and Kenny “Klook” Clarke (Drums). Prestige Records. Cover design by Hannah. The Miles Davis Quintet digs into this Richard Carpenter classic on November 7, 1967 at the Stadthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany. [...]
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Ray Barretto: Que Viva La Musica, Indestructible and Live at the Red Garter, Vol. 1 and 2
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
Ray Barretto Que Viva La Musica Fania 2006 Ray Barretto Indestructible Fania 2006 Fania All-Stars Live at the Red Garter, Vol. 1 Fania 2006 Fania All-Stars Live at the Red Garter, Vol. 2 Fania 2006 Well-known in jazz circles for his early work as a ubiquitous sideman with the likes of Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Lou Donaldson and Red Garland and for fronting his own world class Latin jazz ensemble...
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Inventive Tiptons draw from many roots
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/24/2007
The Seattle-bred outfit -- named for musician Billy Tipton, a woman who spent 50 years passing as a man in the jazz world -- brought its vibrant music back to the city after a monthlong tour in which it visited cities as far-flung as Dusseldorf and San Francisco.
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The Engines -- The Engines
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/19/2007
Chicago is indeed a city of big shoulders. Great architecture, huge pizza, and musicians with heavyweight sound. Think of Buddy Guy, Gene Ammons, Lester Bowie, and Fred Anderson to name just a few. Pretension has never been an ingredient of their music. When four of Chicagoa(TM)s sons got together to form a band called The Engines, you get the idea that power will not be lacking. The members of the...
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DAVID AXELROD - HEAVY AXE
Orgy in Rhythm (Free subscription) | 09/08/2007
David Axelrod for Fantasy from 1974. I'm sure you dont need me to tell you this is an album with some staggeringly good wide screen sound originals (Mucho Chupar/Everything Counts/My Family)and some fucking awful covers(You're so Vain/Dont You Worry About A Thing). Here's the notes from the inner sleeve of the original release: David Axelrod is a composer/arranger/producer who has worked with such...
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Harry Allen and Joe Temperley -- Cocktails For Two
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/07/2007
Swing is the thing on this enormously enjoyable outing by baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley and tenor saxophonist Harry Allen. The album features the 77-year-old Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra stalwart Temperley and the 40-year-old ex-wunderkind Allen leading a superbly sympathetic rhythm section (John Bunch on piano, Greg Cohen on bass and Jake Hanna on drums) in front of an appreciative audience...
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