JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Interview Part 1 Interview Part 2 Marc Myers is a New York journalist and historian. His thoughts on jazz and jazz recordings appear on jazzwax.com daily. He is author of three books, including "How to Make Luck: 7 Secrets Lucky People Use to Succeed," which has been published in 11 countries. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (1961) Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello and Gene Wright...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
You can actually hear Dave Brubeck's two-octave grin over the phone. Dave talks slowly, at a measured pace, as though playing a ballad. His Memories of You speaking pace gives him plenty of time to be pinpoint accurate and to pause for reflection. It's at those moments, when he happily thinks back in time, that the image of his winning smile and squinting, almond-shaped eyes spring to mind. His optimistic...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
The pianist and singer Joyce Collins died recently in Los Angeles following a long illness. She was 79. Highly respected in jazz circles, Collins played with a sensitive touch and subtle use of chords. Her singing was an outgrowth of...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Intelligent smooth jazz. Think "Phil Woods meets Boney James”. So far, the reviews are very postitive: “Charley Langer doesn't waste these tracks. If you take the time to listen, each one reveals a different side of his musical personality...What we see here is a jazz musician as jack of all trades, and a darn good one, to boot.” - Dan MacIntosh, Indie-Music.com; critic for...
Art Decade (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Dave Brubeck: Theme from "Mr Broadway" and Winter Ballad Two from Jazz Impressions of New York . The first was the theme song to an evidently short lived TV series called "Mr Broadway." Below you can see the opening credits, and you won't want to miss the sponsorship ad. A croquet set? And the second, "Lonely Mr Broadway", has just the right touch of menthol. The players:...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 01/24/2010
Dave Brubeck Quartet (with Paul Desmond) live in Belgium 1964 One of the things about "bad" music that drives me up the wall is unimaginative rhythm... boom, boom, boom... everything on the same beat... sequencers repeating the same simple patterns over and over again with no variation. It's downright inhuman. That said, most popular music from the past 100 years or so seems to invariably...
Life of a musician-Robin Hill (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
Back in 2007 I wrote the post, 'Robin Hill's 'Unofficial' Desert Island Discs' . For those unfamiliar with the Radio 4 programme, you can read all about it here . After this blog post I was asked by a Twitter friend, egoboss , what my choices would be... As one of the founders of the personalized news site 'Ensembli' , and also the online business development company, 'Egoboss' , and after a nudge...
Later On (Free subscription) | 01/14/2010
Horowitz came to Iowa City when I lived there and played a concert in Hancher Auditorium, which I attended. (In the same auditorium I saw performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and his band, Stan Kenton and his orchestra, the Dave Brubeck quartet with the original personnel (including Paul Desmond), and others.) Open Culture’s Dan Colman [...]
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
Saxophonist Jon Irabagon's third album makes the case for him as a major talent. Clearly, saxophonist Jon Irabagon is gunning for the big time. On The Observer, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, he fronts a band consisting of drummer Victor Lewis, bassist Rufus Reid, and pianist Kenny Barron (along with a smattering of guests), and it is to his credit that Irabagon holds his own in the fastest of fast company....
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2010
Brubeck's 1953 live album showed that jazz didn't have to follow the bebop route, and that there was even a chart audience out there for it The pianist and composer Dave Brubeck had more than his share of Great Moments: he was the first to sell a million copies of a jazz instrumental; he was one of Time magazine's rare jazz cover subjects; he has played for presidents and popes; composed everything...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 01/05/2010
Rifftides reader Ty Newcomb sent a link to video of the Dutch singer Fay Claassen doing Gerry Mulligan's "Line for Lyons." After enjoying it, I noticed that YouTube has another version of the piece by The Dave Brubeck Quintet. What...
Blog Absolute Point (Free subscription) | 01/04/2010
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JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 12/17/2009
Chet Baker - Legendary Sessions (Phantom ) Cootie Williams - Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Jukebox Lil ) Dave Quarte Brubeck - Great Concerts Amsterdam Copenhagen (Phantom ) David Parsons - Jyoti (Indie Europe/Zoom ) Django Reinhardt - Manoir De Ses Reves (Le Chant Du Monde ) Django Reinhardt - Djangologie 1 (EMI France ) Duke Ellington - Ellington,Duke Vol. 1-Brunswick Sessions (Jazz Information...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 12/12/2009
On the Jazzhouse web site, W. Royal Stokes posts a valuable column recommending recent jazz, blues and pop photography and art books. It is an extensive list, just in time for Christmas. Stokes gives each book a thorough paragraph...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Verve's admirable, no frills, reissue series, "Originals," includes a mixture of masterpieces and also-rans from its own and its associated labels' archives. This trio of albums from the September 2009 batch includes one near masterpiece, saxophonist {{Gato Barbieri = 3627}}'s Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata; an outstanding blowing session, saxophonists {{Gerry Mulligan = 9681}} and {{Paul...
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