Artmanjosephgrech (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
12.00. Get washed shaved and prepare for going out. 12.20 Post brings letter advising that information re1950 care application unlikely. While dwelling on this and while writing up Blog 313 think about medical records and downloading information from Dept Health site. Chris Baber Lost and Found CD Volume 1 also in post and changes my thinking and feelings. This is a digitalised recording of live concerts...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
We all have our favourites, sometimes quite obscure ones, we can also be fickle and forget about them as newer stars come along to illuminate the jazz universe. I first fell in love with the playing of tenorist Brew Moore when I heard him blowing alongside Howard McGhee on Machito's "Cubop City" one of the first Latin/Jazz records I'd ever heard. Not that Brew was in any way a Cuban or, come...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Desiree Davis, the granddaughter of the late trumpeter {{Howard McGhee = 9259}} and daughter of alto saxophonist {{Jesse Davis = 6134}}, was shot and killed on Monday, September 7, 2009 in Oakland, California while visiting with friends. The 17-year-old, who moved to Oakland from New Orleans with her mother and sister after Hurricane Katrina, was a high school senior and attended Oakland Technical...
Hellbound Alleee (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
This week, Dobson and friends determine how to tell if your child is involved in SATANISM. This usually involves listening to that ROCK AND/OR ROLL MUSIC. Playlist Possession 1 Alleee 1 Bernard Herman * Prelude Jake Porter Combo * Go Slowly Out of Your Mind Possession 2 Ennio Morricone * La Bambola Frank Popp Ensemble * Business and Pleasure Possession 3 Howard McGhee * Stardust Fanfarlo * Comets Possession...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Years ago a jazz critic of the Hong Kong press referred to Lanny Morgan as the "old master," and the moniker has stuck ever since. Now, at the ripe young age of 75, the "old master" Morgan holds court yet again with a sextet of equal masters on a scintillating session of bebop burners, simply titled "6". A legendary alto saxophonist of the same generation and caliber as...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
To those who who knew Russ Freeman or his work it was a source of frustration that he elected during his final years not to play the piano. Freeman died in 2002 at the age of 76. He was part of the west coast jazz scene before it was called that. He worked in Los Angeles in the late forties and early fifties with Howard McGhee, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon and other bop musicians. Then he got famous...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
The question comes up every now and then. Here's the answer from a posting in the early days of Rifftides, July 12, 2005. Name That Blog Now that you ask, the name Rifftides was inspired by a 1945 Coleman Hawkins...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
For weeks, the CD reissue of Phineas Newborn, Jr.'s 1961 album A World of Piano!...
PR Leap - Recent News Releases (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will present its 35th Annual Christmas Concert on Sunday, December 16, 7:30 pm at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston, with holiday favorites, the premiere of Urban Meditations by Aardvark director Mark Harvey, and the release of the band's 9th CD, No Walls/A Christmas Concert.
Casa Valdez Studios (Free subscription) | 08/20/2007
Loyal reader Bill Mithoefer took it upon himself to write this bio of Max Roach, who recently passed away. Thanks Bill! Born in Newland, North Carolina on the 10th of January in 1924, Max Roach spent his formative years in Brooklyn, New York. When he was 19 and 20, Roach played in the bands of Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins. At 21, he became the eye of the storm that was the bebop revolution, developing...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/05/2007
Hod Oa€(TM)Brien has more than paid his dues during a long jazz career that began during the height of the bop era in the a€~50s; He has been praised by fellow pianist Barry Harris (with whom he recorded a duo piano concert CD issued by Spice of Life) as a€oeone of the pure bop pianistsa€ . The pianist took a decade-long hiatus to attend college between 1963 and 1973, but he returned...
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