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BEAUTY AND SERENITY: CONNIE JONES, KRIS TOKARSKI, BRYAN BARBEROT (New Orleans, 2014)
Published: December 21, 2024 07:19
An episode of pure beauty, so typical of the late cornetist Connie Jones (1934-2019) — here meditatively and lovingly considering a Johnny Mercer ballad with Kris Tokarski, piano; Bryan Barberot, drums, recorded in 2014 in New Orleans. Kris said, “I ……
NANCY HARROW HAS CREATED A NEW CD!
https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/nancy-harrow-has-created-a-new-cd/
Published: December 20, 2024 15:28
There’s special, there’s extra-special, and there’s Nancy Harrow. She deserves more than one exclamation point. If you know her and her work (singer, composer, lyricist, playwright, thinker) the news that she has created a NEW compact disc, SECOND…
ALI MAKES A FULL AND FRANK CONFESSION
https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/ali-makes-a-full-and-frank-confession/
Published: December 19, 2024 21:41
Not criminal. Endearing. Last June, Ali Affleck and The Traveling Janes created beauty at the Ascona Jazz Festival. They are Ali Affleck, vocals and percussion; Katie Cavera, banjo and guitar; Susanne Ortner, clarinet and alto saxophone; Danielle Price,…
“SAVE MUSIC, SAVE THE ARCHIVE!”
https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/save-music-save-the-archive/
Published: December 19, 2024 01:04
I know first-hand how few musicians are paid fairly for their work. This has been true all the way back to the vocal quartet on the corner in New Orleans singing MY BRAZILIAN BEAUTY (DOWN ON THE AMAZON) and forward … Continue reading →
TWO TIMES: MATTHEW RIVERA, SCOTT WENZEL, and ME (WKCR-FM)
https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/two-times-matthew-rivera-scott-wenzel-and-me-wkcr-fm/
Published: December 18, 2024 14:30
Any excuse to play this record is a good thing (Lips Page, Eddie Barefield, Bill Basie, Eddie Durham, Walter Page, Willie McWashington, at the end of the monumental December 13, 1932 Moten date for Victor). The song — one that … Continue reading →
HOT AND RARE: BILL RIDDLE, DON EWELL, FRANK CHACE, JERRY BLUMBERG, EPHIE RESNICK, MARTY GROSZ (1948-50)
Published: December 17, 2024 16:22
What follows is a thirty-minute tape from the private collection of Joe Boughton, made available by his family. It is small-band hot music performed in Chicago and Baltimore by some of the greatest practitioners of the art, although some of … Continue…
ALWAYS LOOKING FORWARD TO SOMETHING: JOHN SCURRY’S MUSICAL STORIES
Published: December 15, 2024 17:50
John Scurry has a surfeit of identities, but that causes no problem for any of us. Guitarist, “a left-handed banjo player” with a Red Onion past, composer, painter. All those identities coalesce happily because John is a born teller of … Continue reading →
MARTIAL SOLAL and LEE KONITZ (October 30, 1980)
https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2024/12/14/martial-solal-and-lee-konitz-october-30-1980/
Published: December 14, 2024 13:03
In honor of the extravagantky gifted pianist and composer Martial Solal, who moved to another neighborhood on December 12. He was 97 and still active. Here he is in a duet recital with alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, performed and recorded … Continue reading…
MORE HOT MUSIC FROM NEWCASTLE: BENT PERSSON, THOMAS WINTELER, GRAHAM HUGHES, RICHARD EXALL, DAVID BOEDDINGHAUS, PHIL RUTHERFORD, JACOB ULLBERGER, RICHARD PITE, GUNTER ANDERNACH (Friday, November 5, 2016)
Published: December 14, 2024 12:39
After the formal presentations concluded at the Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party on Friday, November 5, 2016, the unbuttoned lively fun began anew in the Victory Pub (of the Village Hotel, Newcastle) and I was there to record the hot … Continue reading →
LESTER SMILES WITH OSCAR (Cleveland, 1951)
https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2024/12/09/lester-smiles-with-oscar-cleveland-1951/
Published: December 9, 2024 11:17
For bid on eBay, a slide, captured by Harvey Singerman of the Character Arts photography studio. The site was the Cleveland Music Hall, October 1951, presumably a Jazz at the Philharmonic show: I’d guess pre-concert, and I’d also like some … Continue…
STRONG INDIVIDUALISTS: BARNEY WILEN, LEE KONITZ, JIMMIE ROWLES, BUCKY PIZZARELLI, REGGIE JOHNSON, SHELLY MANNE (Nice Jazz Festival, July 6, 1978: radio broadcast)
Published: December 8, 2024 21:38
Fault-finders will deem this tape imperfect: the beginning is truncated and unheard, and there’s some messy sound midway through. But the combinations created by the Nice Jazz Festival in the Seventies and Eighties are irreplaceable and precious. They…
“A PRETTY GIRL IS LIKE A MELODY”: DUKE HEITGER, BOB HAVENS, BOB REITMEIER, JAMES DAPOGNY, MARTY GROSZ, VINCE GIORDANO, ARNIE KINSELLA (Jazz at Chautauqua, September 18, 2009)
Published: December 7, 2024 18:40
Between 2004 and 2017, September would have meant an annual pilgrimage for music and friendships, both of those entities being deeply life-affirming. First, Jazz at Chautauqua in the Athenaeum Hotel in Chautauqua, then the Allegheny Jazz Party, finally the…
IN A SPIN, or DIGITALIS (December 2024)
https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/in-a-spin-or-digitalis-december-2024/
Published: December 5, 2024 00:58
A particularly inquisitive vistor to our apartment would notice several small stacks of compact discs in several rooms. If you asked, “Is this a new filing system?” I would say, with some embarrassment, “These are the CDs I’ve asked for … Continue reading…