Tag Archives: bebop

The Cool Cole – The Nat “King” Cole Trio

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Brew

While I was at it, cataloging my record collection, I bumped into this exquisite LP, featuring the Nat “King” Cole Trio in the mid 1940s with radio show transcriptions, entitled “The King’s Court”. With Nat Cole on piano, Oscar Moore … Continue reading →

Posted in Jazz Standard, Mid 1940s, Nat "King" Cole, Radio Transcription | Tagged bebop, cool, great american songbook, jazz, jazz ballad, jazz trio, love, standard | Comments Off

30 YEARS AGO (Friday the 13th, 1988): CHET BAKER DIES IN AMSTERDAM — Memories Of A Trumpet Colleague (Update)

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Brew

In Düsseldorf’s commons (Uni Mensa in German), in 1986, Chet arrived one hour delayed. He was announced there with his fine trio, featuring guitarist Philip Catherine and bassist Jean Louis Rassinfosse, who played a half-acoustic bass. The George Adams-Don Pullen … Continue reading →

Posted in 1988, Celebration, Chet Baker, coolness, Dedication, Hollywood, Jazz History Lecture, Loneliness, Mystery, Portrait, Sadness, Spring, Trumpet | Tagged bad dream, bad habits, bebop, cool, great solo, jazz ballad, living jazz history, quiet jazz, trumpet feature | Comments Off

Update: SONNY ROLLINS’ “AIREGIN” is about “ORIGIN” is about “OXYGEN” is about “NIGERIA”

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Brew

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 | Tagged bebop, great solo, guitar, jazz, language, living jazz history, love, race, standard, up tempo | 4 Comments

BREW LITE’s 4 BLUE YULE-ITES — A SWINGIN’ CHRISTMAS @THE RECORD STORE

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Brew

Kommet zuhauf! — Before that, get inspired by the Gene Ammons/ Tom Archia Quintet and their ultimate Christmas tenorsax battle on “SWINGIN’ FOR XMAS” a.k.a. “JAMMIN’ FOR SANTA”. Gene Ammons, Tom Archia (ts) Christine Chatman (p) Leroy Jackson (b) Wesley … Continue reading →

Posted in 1948, Christmas Jazz 2015 | Tagged bebop, cold war, from swing to bop, jam session, jazz, oldie, tenor saxophone, up tempo | Comments Off

Bebop trumpeter HOWARD McGHEE: “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out”

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Brew

Trumpeter Howard McGhee, among young jazz adepts unjustly almost forgotten today, was a reliable man if you’re following his steadily flowing recorded output between 1942 & 1948, which were the heydays of the bebop era. And ‘Maggie’, so his nickname … Continue reading →

Posted in 1942, 1946, 1961, Avantgarde, Bebop, Dedication, Howard McGhee | Tagged bad habits, bebop, big band, great solo, harmon mute, jazz ballad, living jazz history, trumpet feature | Comments Off

HAPPY 95th ANNIVERSARY, CHARLIE “BIRD” PARKER! ∽ RE: KLACT-OVEESEDS-TENE

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Brew

PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT My special thanks goes to Doug Ramsey for having reminded me of Charlie Parker’s 92nd anniversary three years ago. Since I’m not too strong with such dates, I appreciate Doug’s (and everybody’s) reminder(s), and will gladly take the … Continue reading →

Posted in Birthday Party, Blogging is swell!, Dedication, Etymology | Tagged bebop, Charlie Parker | 2 Comments

THE DAY BIRD FLEW AWAY: DIZZY GILLESPIE MEETS THE ORCHESTRA — WASHINGTON, MARCH 13, 1955

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Brew

Beside the lengthy “Afro Suite” on side 1, there is this wonderful version of “TIN TIN DEO” on the pictured LP. If Dizzy, or anyone else had known what had happened the night before, in Pannonica de Koenigswarter’s apartment, on March … Continue reading →