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Quote Of The Day
"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."
Ted Gioia, jazz historian & trumpet colleague, in an interview @ Marc Myers' JazzWax about his new book The Jazz StandardsAnother lovely Lady named Diana
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SYNCHRONICITY
Amazingly, JazzWax blogger Marc Myers and I will both be delivering jazz historic lectures on next Tuesday, April 30. Mr. Myers will read from his book Why Jazz Happened at the State University of New York, and I will talk … Continue reading →
Posted in Artie Shaw, Blogging is swell!, Clarinet, Jazz Book, Jazz History Lecture, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Lester Young, Oran 'Hot Lips' Page, Portrait, Saxophone, Swing Era, World War II
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Tagged bad habits, bebop, big band, blues, drugs, from swing to bop, hotel gig, jam session, jazz, language, living jazz history, race, standard, tenor saxophone
SONNY ROLLINS’ “AIREGIN” is about “ORIGIN” is about “OXYGEN” is about “NIGERIA”
I guess that headline sums it up what Sonny subconsciously wanted to tell us with “Airegin” which is one of his greatest hits beside “St. Thomas”, “Oleo”, and “Doxy”. Here it is in its initial performance, as played by the … Continue reading →
Posted in Anniversary, Chet Baker, Dedication, Etymology, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Native Americans, Portrait, Saxophone, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Trumpet, Wes Montgomery
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CLAP HANDS, HERE COMES CHARLIE BARNET WHO JOYFULLY PROCLAIMS: “THANKS FOR 50.000.000 HITS @ BREW LITE’s JAZZ TALES!!!”
… ??? …Say what? …Oopz, he certainly meant 50.000+ … Anyway, a big thanks also from me, dear readers! It’s always the right idea to drop by here; especially when you’ll get the chance to listen to the complete Charlie-Barnet-with-strings … Continue reading →
Posted in Big Band Vocalist, Charlie Barnet, Cherokee, Count Basie, Dedication, Duke Ellington, Etymology, Film Noir, Glenn Miller, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Miles Davis, Portrait, Roy Eldridge, Swing Era, Tongue In Cheek, Trumpet
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Tagged big band, drum feature, great american songbook, jazz, jazz ballad, jazz vocal, language, living jazz history, race, standard, world war 2
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ARTIE SHAW WAS FREE TO DO IT ALL — Some Sounds From 1934, 1937, 1938 & 1939
For Artie Shaw it surely wasn’t “his finest orchestra”, the Rhythmakers (sic!), who nevertheless did some greatly swingin’ sides in 1937 & 1938. No, this outfit was more or less the same orchestra which made him a rich man, a … Continue reading →
Posted in Artie Shaw, Bernie Privin, Big Band Vocalist, Buddy Rich, Etymology, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Lana Turner, Swing Era
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Tagged big band, blues, Clarinet, great american songbook, great solo, hindsight, jazz, jazz ballad, jazz vocal, living jazz history, love, oldie, race, standard, the uncollected, up tempo
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HOW A BRITON, SOME SWING KINGS & TWO BOPPERS SAW “THE BEAUTIFUL INDIANS”, OR…
… 13 JAZZ REFLECTIONS ON THE NATIVE AMERICAN It’s all about love, dear folks, and also about a guilty conscience… ? …Now, meditate a while on that. Dave Brubeck must have felt this guilt, or rather shame, paired of course … Continue reading →
Posted in Casa Loma, Charlie Barnet, Cherokee, Dedication, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Etymology, Glen Gray, Jazz Adaptation, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Native Americans, Portrait, Ray Noble, Swing Era, Trumpet
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