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I’ve written a couple of reviews recently that spotlight recordings of legendary performances from the Monterey Jazz Festival, but this time around I’m focusing on an artist who will soon be making his very first appearance at the storied show. Vocalist Jamie Davis will be bringing his mellow baritone to Monterey in September, close on [...]
Jamie Wood grew up in Natchez, Mississippi, about 170 miles from New Orleans. She eventually moved to California, and now divides her time living between the U.S. and Quebec. Her band in Quebec is comprised of Martin Gagnon (piano), Colin Perry (guitar), Ben Caissie (drums), and Costa Zafiropoulos (stand-up bass). Notably, she recently appeared in the Grandes Dames du Blues Tour and the Heritage Jazz...
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...
Walk right up to the playlist and selected quotes below from last week’s show by Bob Dylan on XM Satellite Radio. Jack Scott — The Way I Walk Frankie Lee Sims — Walkin’ With Frankie (clip) ( “showing that you don't need more than one chord.” ) Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers — Walk Right In ( “According to some [...]
“Did You Ever Hear The Blues'” BIG MILLER (1922-1992) does “deep blues” by Langston Hughes. United Artists. Clarence Horatio Miller’s first influence in music came from his father’s church but he also heard the blues sung by men working on the railroad. In the 30s, while still a student, he formed a band, but with [...]
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 East 126th Street New York, NY 10035 212 348-8300 Jazz Museum Events, November 13-19, 2007 Count Basie on film November 13, 2007, 7pm Jazz Film Month continues with a classically representative example of swing and swingin' at the very highest levels of aesthetic endeavor. The Count Basie Orchestra was for decades a pinnacle of the big band sound that defined...
We kick the week off with drummers Art Blakey, Max Roach and Elvin Jones. We follow up on Cuba's Telmary Diaz who has a new album. We conclude with blues men Sunnyland Slim, Leroy Carr, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Rushing all doing "train" songs.
If you had been a young man living in Oklahoma City in the nineteen-thirties – not a place and time often recalled with fondness -- this is what you remember: “In those days I lived near the Rock Island roundhouse, where, with a steady clanging of bells and a great groaning of wheels along the rails, switch engines made up trains of freight unceasingly. Yet often in the late-spring night I could hear...
Jazz fans that love to get their swing on will thoroughly enjoy Jumpin’ & Jivin’ Volume 1 . The DVD features 27 filmed performances by jazz greats of the 1940s and ‘50s. The collections features short subjects, excerpts from film and television, and “soundies,” which were shorts films that played on Panoram visual jukeboxes. These clips are the ancestors of music videos. The impressive lineup begins...
