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"Many jazz musicians prefer recording their own original songs and rarely want to feature a song by anyone outside of their band—unless the composer is dead and gone.
A few major jazz musicians are bucking this trend, and I applaud them. I just wish more improvisers would follow their lead."
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Category Archives: Blues
BREW LITE & HIS HOLY JAZZ SPIRITS — PENTECOST JAM — MAY 23, 2010
Dear folks & followers – It’s a great pleasure for me to present the best from our concert at a small Greek restaurant in Cologne, on Pentecost Sunday three years ago. Here we go with almost 60 minutes of swingin’ … Continue reading →
Posted in Anniversary, Blogging is swell!, Blues, Dedication, It's been a ball!, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, May, Paul Gonsalves, Pentecost, Portrait, Spring, Thelonious Monk, Tongue In Cheek, Trumpet
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Tagged bass feature, bebop, blues, cool, drum feature, endless solo, ghosts, great american songbook, holy spirit, jam session, jazz, jazz ballad, living jazz history, love, oldie, standard, trumpet feature, up tempo
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JUMPIN’ into MAY with “MY” MAN PAUL GONSALVES and “DIMINUENDO & CRESCENDO IN BLUE”
Thanks, Doug, for reminding us on International Jazz Day. For me, every day is a Jazz Day. Let’s celebrate it anyway, with Paul Gonsalves, featured in his very special showcase and 35 chorusses + a splendid coda on Diminuendo & … Continue reading →
Posted in All American Rhythm Section, Anniversary, Blogging is swell!, Blues, Dedication, Duke Ellington, It's been a ball!, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Madness, May, Paul Gonsalves
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Tagged big band, endless solo, great solo, jam session, jazz, living jazz history, tenor saxophone
HAUNTED HOUSES IN HARLEM, A LONELY COTTAGE FOR SALE & A DESERTED FARM
This darkest of all my articles is about mysterious houses I have shot during a recent trip through the eastern part of Germany, the former DDR: Rostock, Magdeburg, Dresden, Leipzig & Görlitz. I was lucky because some of the impressive … Continue reading →
Posted in Artie Shaw, Blues, Dedication, Etymology, Film Noir, Germans, Glen Gray, Henry "Red" Allen, Jazz Adaptation, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Portrait, Trumpet, Winter
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Tagged bad dream, big band, blues, ghosts, great american songbook, haunted houses, jazz, jazz ballad, jazz soundtrack, living jazz history, love, oldie, soundtrack, standard
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ALSO WHITEMAN (sic!) & SHAW COULD PLAY THE BLUES – CARNEGIE HALL, CHRISTMAS CONCERT (1938)
Let’s briefly return to Artie Shaw for some minutes. — I always wanted to post these rare gems for your listening pleasure. The first track is entitled “The Blues”, and it features the upcoming superstar Artie Shaw with Paul Whiteman … Continue reading →
Posted in Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Artie Shaw, Buddy Rich, Bernie Privin, Jive, Big Band Vocalist, Swing Era, Dedication, Winter, Christmas, Blues, Madness, Georgie Auld, Tony Pastor
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Tagged blues, big band, oldie, great solo, jazz, jazz vocal, great american songbook, standard, up tempo, Clarinet, living jazz history, hotel gig, Carnegie Hall
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Nancy Ames & Harry James in 1967 with “BLOW, GABRIEL, BLOW!” (enhanced)
The sound of the original video was so badly distorted that I decided to re-edit the version of the video which is already on JazzTube. As you can hear, have I cleaned the audio track and slightly enhanced the picture as … Continue reading →
Posted in Blues, Dedication, Harry James, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Trumpet
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Tagged big band, great american songbook, jazz, language, love
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