Group & Last Name Index to Full History:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Tracks are listed in chronological order by year, then alphabetically.
Listings do not reflect proper order by month or day: later oft precedes earlier.
Find on Page = F3. Not on this page? See history tree below.
Featured on this page loosely in order of first recording if not record release (as possible).
Names are alphabetical, not chronological, per year:
Caveats in the employment of this page: 1. It descends in chronological
order by the year the artist or band is first found on a commercial record
issue (ideally) by year only, alphabetical thereat. One musician above
another doesn't necessarily translate to earlier issue unless the year
changed. 2. Though release dates are the aim with links to YouTube, some are
recording dates and may not be everywhere clearly distinguished. 3. Reissues
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One might think of the history of jazz a little like the
ka-boom of string-theory cosmology (or one such version): in the beginning
was the big bounce of small bands (Ka . . . call Buddy Bolden the
elusive string), next the inflation of full swing orchestras (Boom . . .
Hi!-de-ho!), then the jazz universe as we know it, of solo stars in small
clusters of all variety. This page concerns the birth of modern jazz via
various string instruments, intended to index bands and musicians releasing
their first recordings before 1960. Swing musicians not noted for playing in
big bands are also on this page. Latin guitarists will be found in
Early Modern Latin Jazz. Sessions data this
page per
Lord's Disco.
A good sources for lyrics for this period in jazz is
Lyrics Playground.
Ditto songwriting credits at
Cafe Songbook,
Jazz Standards,
Songfacts and
Second Hand Songs.
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Django Reinhardt Source: Relative Esoterica |
Guitarist Django Reinhardt was a swing (era) musician born in Belgium in 1910. Burn injuries via candle early in his career had left Reinhardt with two paralyzed fingers such that he could strum chords with four fingers but could play melody with only two. Though a swing musician spanning that era, Reinhardt's was a move apart from his contemporaries in the States, his swing having a strong gypsy and Romani flavor. Nor was he a big band musician. Though he toured with Duke Ellington in 1946 he felt a little out of place. Nor was song so much the thing with Reinhardt as was instrumental virtuosity. So we place him in a seminal location here at the roots of modern jazz much characterized by global influence from without the United States and the breakaway from big bands toward smaller ensembles more affording emphasis on the skills of individuals. Thanks to such as Reinhardt & Grappelli jazz would become an increasingly higher bar for young musicians to hurdle. Just when Reinhardt first appeared on disc at a record shop is a good trick to determine, which we've not. JazzTechs notes his first recording about 1926 with a singer possibly named Chabel, that unlikely to have been issued. And that's that. Tom Lord's sessionography differs from Paul Vernon's. Both are employed by other sources, so to both I refer. Lord begins with a date of 15 March 1928 for Django at banjo with Jean Vaissade (Vissade) at accordion which Vernon gives a date of 20 June for the same matrices which are BT4115-1 for 'Ma Reguliere' and BT4116-1 per 'Griserie'. Lord points to later issues by Pathe, 'Griserie' not issued until 1971 on the compilation, 'Djangologie 1' per Pathe CO54-16001. Vernon points to 'Ma Reguliere' issued on Gramophone K-5469, and 'Griserie' on Gramophone K-5454 which 45 Worlds has issued in 1928 backed by 'Parisette' of the same session for which Lord hasn't traced release data. Probably because it's not real relevant to jazz, Lord doesn't list where Hikaru Hasegawa's sessionography begins, possibly as early as May of '28 (circa June '28 in Vernon) with Reinhardt performing banjo with Maurice Alexander at accordion for 'Parisette' issued on Henry 848 on an unidentified date. Unless the Henry was issued before the Gramophone, 'Griserie' w 'Parisette' looks like Reinhardt's first appearance on record. Reinhardt also recorded in 1928 with accordion player, V. Marceau. It was the orchestra of accordion player, Louis Vola, in 1931. Reinhardt recorded with Jean Sablon, among others, in 1933. ('Parce Que Je Vous Aime', below, also features vocalist Eliane De Creus.) More sessions with Sablon ensued into 1934 until a name session by Reinhardt in August for 'Tiger Rag', 'After You've Gone' and 'Confessin'' with Joseph Reinhardt (guitar) and Juan Fernandez (bass). In 1934 Reinhardt founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Stephane Grappelli. On December 28 they recorded such as 'Dinah' and 'Tiger Rag' with Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France. Reinhardt would also support Grappelli's Hot Four on several occasions. Lord's disco has Grappelli and Reinhardt last stringing titles together in Rome in early 1949 for such as 'What a Difference a Day Made' and 'Pigalle'. He recorded numerously thereafter until his death in Samois-sur-Seine, France, on May 16, 1953. Django was the father of guitarist, Babik Reinhardt [1944 -2001/ 1, 2, 3]. References for Django encyclopedic: 1, 2, 3, 4; musical: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Reinhardt, jazz and Nazi Europe: 1, 2, 3. Brief list of compositions w and without Grappelli. Sessionographies: DAHR, RHJ, Lord (leading 94 of 241). Discographies: 1, 2, 3, 4. Compilations: 'Djangologie'; 'Integrale' 1, 2, 3; 'The Hot Jazz'. Reinhardt in visual media. Gear. Further reading: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Who enjoy the contemporary gypsy sound in the Reinhardt tradition see the Hot Club of San Francisco with vocalist Isabelle Fontaine at Brookhill77, thunderstick5775, sleepovershows or WilliamsburgSwings. As Reinhardt and Grappelli are most famous for their collaborations together, several of the Reinhardt samples below feature Grappelli as well. Reinhardt also plays on several of tracks under Grappelli. Per below, all tracks for 1928 are with Jean Vaissade. Django Reinhardt 1928 Composition: Jean Vaissade Composition: Pourville/Fernando Silvestri Composition: Auguste Bosc/Georges Millandy/Pierre Varenne Composition: M. Puig Composition: Jean Vaissade/Fernando Silvestri Django Reinhardt 1933 'Because I Love You' With Jean Sablon Music: Pascal Bastia Lyrics: Jean Bastia With Jean Sablon Composition: Pascal Bastia Django Reinhardt 1935 Composition: Cole Porter 1934 Music: Duke Ellington 1931 Lyrics: Irving Mills Jack Palmer/Spencer Williams 1926 Music: Ted Snyder 1921 Lyrics: Harry Smith/Francis Wheeler Composition: W. C. Handy 1914 Django Reinhardt 1936 Composition: Hoagy Carmichael/Stuart Gorrell 1930 Composition: M. Van Hoorebeke Django Reinhardt 1937 Composition: Duke Ellington/Manny Kurtz/Irving Mills Composition: Grappelli/Reinhardt Django Reinhardt 1939 Composition: George & Ira Gershwin Django Reinhardt 1940 Acoustic guitar Composition: Reinhardt Django Reinhardt 1953 Electric guitar Composition: Reinhardt Django Reinhardt 1950 Music: Fats Waller 1929 Lyrics: Andy Razaf
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Stephane Grappelli was born in Paris in 1908. Though he was also a pianist (see Coleman Hawkins) he is most famous for his skill with violin. Albeit one could well categorize Reinhardt and Grappelli as swing musicians, they are placed on this page as forerunners of early modern jazz due their emphasis on individual instrumental virtuosity, a characteristic of modern jazz which big bands didn't so much afford. Another characteristic of modern jazz was its international flavor (bossa nova, etc.). Though jazz had strongly developed in Great Britain in the twenties England was more a sibling than foreign nation to the States. Grappelli and Reinhardt mark the first importation of major foreign influence to the States, that much due to Coleman Hawkins who had first toured to Europe to work with the pair in 1934, opening the door to "there's a whole globe out there" in the days of early swing. Grappelli is thought to have recorded his first tracks circa May 3 of 1929 with Gregor et Ses Gregoriens for the Edison Bell and Wolverine labels, titles like 'Sally of My Dreams' and 'L'amour ca n'a l'air de rien'. The partnership between Grappelli and Reinhardt to 1949 was something of the French version of the collaboration between guitarist Eddie Lang and violinist Joe Venuti in America that had begun some eight years earlier in 1926. As to index one is much to index the other for fifteen years, guitar in several of the samples below is by Reinhardt. Grappelli and Reinhardt first recorded together in Paris on January 15 of 1934 with the Andre Ekyan Orchestre for vocalist, Jean Sablon, such as 'Le jour ou je te vis' and 'Un sou dans la poche'. They worked with a few more ensembles together before their first date with Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France on December 28 of '34 at the Hot Club de France to put down such as 'Dinah' and 'Tiger Rag'. Grappelli's group, the Hot Four, amounted to a quintet with Reinhardt on its first recordings as such in latter 1935 for 'St. Louis Blues', 'Chinatown', 'Limehouse Blues' and 'I Got Rhythm'. Lord's disco has Grappelli and Reinhardt last stringing titles together in Rome in early 1949 for such as 'The Man I Love' and 'The Peanut Vendor'. Of Grappelli's accredited 375 sessions, more than half were his own. The year after Reinhardt's death in 1953 he recorded 'Piano a Gogo' in May of '954 with Guy Pedersen (bass) Andre Baptiste Reilles (drums). Among highlights in his latter career was a 1984 session with Indian violinist, Lakshminarayana Subramaniam, resulting in 'Conversations'. That same year he recorded 'For All Seasons' with violinist, Yehudi Menuhin, in London. Grappelli died [1, 2] in Paris after a hernia operation on December 1 of 1997. He had put down 'Spirit of Django: Years Apart' with the Martin Taylor Quintet in Scotland in March of 1996. That was followed by 'Celebrating Grappelli' in 1997 with the Spirit of Django Band and Taylor at guitar. References encyclopedic: 1, 2; musical 1, 2, 3. Brief list of compositions w and without Reinhardt. See also 'Hommage a Django Reinhardt' 1972. Sessionographies: DAHR, Lord's. Discographies: 1, 2, 3. Collaborations. Grappelli in visual media. Interviews 1970/74. Grappelli also features on several tracks under Reinhardt. Who enjoy contemporary violin in the Hot Club tradition of Reinhardt and Grappelli see the Hot Club of San Francisco, featuring violinists Julian Smedley or Evan Price, at Steve Ramirez, jasonfarmon, mething, lifewatcher101, 1001human, MP32U or sleepovershows. Stephane Grappelli 1935 Composition: George Whiting Composition: Phil Boutelje/Dick Winfree Music: Chris Smith 1930 Lyrics: Al Neiburg Composition: George & Ira Gershwin Music: Walter Donaldson Lyrics: Gus Kahn Music: Philip Braham 1922 Lyrics: Douglas Furber Composition: Will Hudson Stephane Grappelli 1937 Music: Ted Snyder 1921 Lyrics: Harry Smith/Francis Wheeler Composition: Edna Alexander/Maceo Pinkard/Sidney Mitchell Stephane Grappelli 1939 French version of Italian 'Tornerai': Music: Dino Olivieri 1936 Lyrics: Nino Rastelli Stephane Grappelli 1949 Music: Jerome Kern 1939 Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II Stephane Grappelli 1956 Composition: George & Ira Gershwin 1926 Stephane Grappelli 1973 With Oscar Peterson Music: Joseph Kosma 1945 Lyrics French: Jacques Prévert Lyrics English: Johnny Mercer Stephane Grappelli 1990 Live performance Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Stephane Grappelli 1991 Live performance Music: Morgan Lewis 1940 Lyrics: Nancy Hamilton
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Stephane Grappelli
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1913, seven-string guitarist
George Van Eps
was the son of banjoist,
Fred Van Eps. He is
thought to have first recorded banjo in 1927, at age fourteen, which is easier
to quote from multiple sources than to determine anything more about such. (An
obit by Jim Washburn
comments that such was with banjo-playing brothers, Fred and Bob. George did
have three musicians for brothers: pianist Bobby, trumpeter Freddy and tenor
saxophonist Johnny. His mother played piano as well. It's yet possible that
recording was with his father,
Fred.) Howsoever, the
first Van Eps recording that saw a record shop was in the orchestra of
Smith Ballew on October
14, 1930, playing guitar on 'You Were Only Passing Time' and 'You're Simply Delish' (Columbia
2320). Eddie Lang,
Joe Venuti and Bobby Van Eps
(piano) were also in on that. A few more sessions were held with
Ballew and both
Dorsey brothers in his band to
February 3, 1931, for 'I Hate Myself' (Harmony 1252-H). A session with Eddie Scat Davis
in October 1932 yielded 'Sugar'. He had begun working with Freddy
Martin
in 1931 but didn't record with him until January 16, 1933, with his brother,
Bobby, and vocalist, Elmer Feldkamp: 'When the Morning Rolls Around' (Oriole
2635), 'A
Tree Was a Tree' (Melody 12611) and 'Why Can't This Night Go on Forever?'. With 243
sessions to Van Eps' name in Lord, we fast forward through several sessions with
Martin
into May, then the Tasty Bread Winners and Chick Bullock in '34, to
arrive to the
Benny Goodman Orchestra on
August 16 that year for such as 'Take My Word'' and 'Nit Wit Serenade'.
Numerous sessions with
Goodman were held to July of
'35, there later reunions in '47 and the early fifties. Meanwhile another
important orchestra in the thirties was Ray
Noble's, Van Eps joining that operation in 1935 to record 'Down By the
River' in February. Van Eps worked with
Noble into 1936, later from '39 into 1941. Among others Van Eps
supported in the thirties were Louis
Prima,
Adrian Rollini
('Somebody Loves Me' '34) and
Frank Trumbauer. We
fast forward into the forties to one of Van Eps more frequent partners
through the years, that clarinetist, Matty Matlock. Their first session
together had been with Charles LaVere's Chicago Loopers on November 1 of
1944 for such as 'Lazy River' and 'Very 8'n Boogie'. Matlock and Van Eps
were nigh continual partners through numerous outfits, such as Paul
Weston's, for another sixteen years. Along the way Van Eps backed several of
Matlock's albums from 'Sports Parade' ('54) to 'Gold Diggers in Dixieland'
('60). They recorded together to as late as 1960 to back
Louis Armstrong and
Bing Crosby's 'Bing and
Satchmo'. Lord's disco has them reuniting circa 1963 with Wild
Bill Davison and His Dixie Cats toward 'Do It with Dixie' issued in
Germany circa '69/'70. Two more important figures in Van Eps career were
vocalist,
Johnny Mercer, and
bandleader, Paul Weston, Van Eps joining the latter's orchestra on September
27 of 1945 for titles with the
Pied Pipers: 'If I Knew Then' and
'Personality'. Van Eps spent two years recording numerously with
Mercer and Weston, often
with the
Pied Pipers, to December 29, 1947, for 'Down Among the Sheltering
Palms' and 'Would Ya?', also with the
Pied Pipers. Van Eps would see
Mercer again in 1951 and
'60, that last occasion in August with
Bobby Darin and the Billy May
Orchestra for 'Two of a Kind'. Van Eps would be back with Weston in 1949 to
back
Dean Martin, they to work with one another numerously to November 12 of
1953 to back trumpeter, Harry
James, on "Oh Mein Papa' and 'Serenata'. Van
Eps contributed to Weston's 'Mood for 12' in 1955 and 'Solo Mood' in '56.
Later in August Weston conducted titles for Van Eps' first album, 'Mellow
Guitar'. Van Eps' first sessions as a leader had preceded that by six years,
those in trios in April and June of 1949, the first with Jack Ryan (bass)
and Nick Fatool (drums) to bear 'I Wrote It for Joe' and 'Tea for Two', the
latter with Fatool and Phil Stephens on bass to yield 'Once in a While' and
'Kay's Fantasy'. Van Eps waited ten years after 'Mellow Guitar' to record his
next album in 1966 with Frank Flynn on vibes, 'My Guitar'. 'Seven-String
Guitar' ('67) was a trio, 'Soliloquy' ('68) was a suite of solos,
'Hand-Crafted Swing' ('92) was a quartet, 'Seven and Seven' ('93) was a duo
with Howard Alden, 'Legends' ('94) was an album shared with
Johnny Smith performing a separate
suite of solos, and 'Keepin' Time' ('94) was a quartet. Among the host of
others Van Eps supported through the years were
Wingy Manone, Peggy
Lee, Jess Stacy, the
Rampart Street Paraders, Frank Sinatra,
Glen Gray's Casa Loma, the
Four Freshmen, the Blue Angel Jazz Club and the Kings of Dixieland. Van Eps died
on 29 Nov 1998 of
pneumonia in Newport Beach, California. His last recordings are thought to
have been in 1997 toward John Pisano's 'Guitar Night' issued in December
2006. References: 1,
2,
3.
Sessions: DAHR w composing credits; Lord.
Discos: 1,
2.
Discussion: 1,
2,
3,
4.
Further reading: instructional books authored by Van Eps;
Jim Washburn. George Van Eps 1935 With Benny Goodman & Helen Ward Composition: Bill Livingston/J. Russel Robinson George Van Eps 1949 Composition: George Van Eps Composition: George Van Eps George Van Eps 1956 Music: Richard Rodgers 1937 Lyrics: Lorenz Hart George Van Eps 1979 Composition: Gershwin Brothers George Van Eps 1991 With Howard Alden Music: George Gershwin 1930 Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 1937 George Van Eps 1993 With Howard Alden Composition: Edgar Sampson 1934 George Van Eps 1994 With Howard Alden Composition: Edgar DeLange/Irving Mills/Will Hudson
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George Van Eps Source: Clean Guitar |
Bassist Milt Hinton ("the Dean") was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1910, but was moved to Chicago with his family at age nine. He was given his first violin at age 13, but began playing local gigs on tuba. It was as a tuba player that he hired on with Tiny Parham and His Musicians, but soon switched to upright bass for which his slap bass technique would become notable. He first recorded in Chicago with Parham on November 4 of 1930: 'Doin' the Jug-Jug', 'Rock Bottom', 'Down Yonder', 'Blue Moon Blues' 'Squeeze Me' (Hinton on Tuba), 'Back to the Jungle' 'Nervous Tension' and Memphis Mamie'. November 11 witnessed 'Now That I've Found You', 'My Dreams' and 'After You've Gone', all for Victor. Come Eddie South in Hollywood in late '32 or early '33 with 'Dark Eyes', 'Body and Soul' and 'Throw a Little Salt on the Bluebird's Tail' with Eddie South. A host of titles ensued with South to November of 1934 in NYC per 'Just an Old Banjo' and 'At the Ball, That's All'. In NYC Hinton hired on with Cab Calloway in 1936, his first titles with that orchestra on May 31: 'Love Is the Reason', 'When You're Smiling', et al. Calloway's band was Hinton's potatoes for fourteen years through World War II, his last tracks with that outfit traced in Lord to 1950 in NYC: 'Give Me Twenty Nickels for a Dollar' and 'The Jungle King'. Hinton would reunite with Calloway in 1958, 1973 and 1990. Hinton's first titles as a leader had long since arrived by the time he'd left Calloway in 1950, he having formed an orchestra in New York City, recording 'Broadway Holdover', 'Bass Pandemonium', 'Everywhere' and 'Beefsteak Charlie' on July 6 of '45. He recorded his first album on January 20, 1955, titled 'East Coast Jazz/5'. Joining him were Tony Scott (clarinet), Dick Katz (piano) and Osie Johnson (drums). He had first recorded titles with all three in the summer of 1953, Johnson to support pianist/vocalist, Joe Denise, for 'Joe Denise Sings', Katz and Scott to back vocalist, Jackie Paris, with the Tony Scott Orchestra on 'My Kinda Love' and 'Opus One'. There was a session with Louis Armstrong's All Stars before joining Scott and Kantz again with drummer, Sid Bulkin, in summer of '53 for a couple titles on Scott's 'Jazz for G.I.'s' released in '54. Scott would figure fairly large in Hinton's career, he and Johnson backing Scott in December of '55 for 'Scott's Fling'. Among titles recorded in '56 were Scott's 'The Touch of Tony Scott' and 'The Complete Tony Scott'. Titles followed in '58 and '68 (: 'Swara Sulina'). They had also supported other bands together on occasion in the fifties. Being a studio musician, Hinton was one the most recorded figures in jazz. Lord's disco has him at 1230 sessions, above twenty of those as a leader. This brief account will then be something incomplete, even more so without mention of Mona Clayton who met Milt in 1939 during his Calloway period and became Mona Hinton until Milt's death 61 years later. She Hinton's assistant and Mother Superior of Calloway's touring band arranging such as bed and board. Those with whom Hinton worked over the widest range of time were pianist, Hank Jones, and bandleader, Benny Goodman. His first titles with Jones may have been in 1952 with Tyree Glenn's All Stars, Papa Jo Jones on drums for 'Sidewalks of New York' and 'How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me?' ('Sultry Serenade'). Hinton and Jones would witness countless sessions together into the nineties in support of various operations, their last recordings together are thought to have been 'Live at the Blue Note' for Lionel Hampton in June of 1991. Some of Jones' albums to which Hinton contributed along the way were 'The Talented Touch' ('58), 'Porgy and Bess' ('59), 'Here's Love' ('63), 'This Is Ragtime Now!' ('64), 'Live in Buffalo 1976' and 'The Trio' ('77), the latter with Bobby Rosengarden at drums. Hinton's first tracks with Goodman are thought to have been in the latter's Octet at Basin Street West in NYC in March of 1955 for such as 'Don't Be That Way' and 'Rose Room', numerous to ensue that year. Hinton joined Goodman again in 1958-59, '67, '69 and '75, that last occasion with Goodman's quintet for 'Benny-Seven Come Eleven' joined by Jones, Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar) and Grady Tate (drums). Some of Hinton's other high impact colleagues were arranger and bandleader, Manny Albam, Helen Merrill, Hal McKusick, Chris Connor and Dinah Washington. Hinton is thought to have worked with Albam as early as 1951, the latter arranging songs on 'My Name Is Ruth Price...I Sing'. Beginning in '55 Hinton and Albam would support numerous operations to 1962, that last occasion thought to be for Curtis Fuller's 'Cabin in the Sky'. Some of Albam's own projects to which Hinton contributed were 'The Jazz Workshop' ('56), two volumes of 'The Jazz Greats of Our Time' ('57), 'The Blues Is Everybody's Business' ('57), 'Sophisticated Lady (The Songs of Duke Ellington)' ('58), 'Jazz New York' ('58), 'Steve's Songs' ('58) and 'I Had the Craziest Dream' ('61). Tracks for 'Steve's Songs' had gone down on 21 and 29 July of '58. At about that same time Hinton was working w Cannonball Adderley, Art Farmer and Barry Galbraith toward John Benson Brooks' 'Alabama Concert', between which sessions the iconic jazz photograph by Art Kane was shot on 18 Aug of '58 called 'A Great Day in Harlem' [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] for publishing in 'Esquire' magazine [1994 documentary by the same title: 1, 2]. Two days after that photograph was snapped arrived the first session for Adderley's 'Jump for Joy'. Hinton himself was a well-known photographer and photo collector with thousands of images of the jazz scene from the thirties to the nineties in his and Mona's archive. Backing up a little, Hinton had been with the Clifford Brown Sextet with Osie Johnson to support Merrill on December 22 of 1954 for such as 'Don't Explain' and 'Born to Be Blue'. Continuing with Merrill into 1955, Hinton would join her again in 1957 and '59, that last occasion on June 11 in NYC for such as 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' and 'My Heart Would Know'. Hinton and McKusick had been with Al Cohn's Charlie's Tavern Ensemble in October of '54 for titles toward 'East Coast - West Coast Scene' (with tunes by Shorty Rogers on side B). They supported other bands together numerously to as late as 1963 for Sammy Spear's 'A Little Traveling Music'. A few of McKusick's albums in which Hinton participated were 'East Coast Jazz Vol 8' ('55), 'In a Twentieth-Century Drawing Room' ('55) and 'The Jazz Workshop' ('56). The next year they backed Charlene Bartley on 'The Weekend of a Private Secretary'. Hinton's initial titles with vocalist, Chris Connor, had been with Osie Johnson on February 8 of '56 for such as 'You Make Me Feel So Young' and 'Anything Goes'. Titles ensued into '57, 1959-60 and, finally, March 11 of 1962 for 'No Strings'. Hinton was with the Quincy Jones Orchestra on November 4 of 1956 to support Dinah Washington's 'I'll Drown in My Tears' and 'You Let My Love Grow Cold'. 'The Swingin' Miss D' ensued in December. Titles followed in February of 1959. Marty Manning was Washington's arranger for titles on October 15 of 1963 like 'That Sunday' and 'They Said You'd Come Back Running'. Among the galaxy of others for whom Hinton recorded, of those unmentioned some of the more impacting Hinton's career were Buck Clayton, Teddy Wilson, Jimmy Rushing, Urbie Green, Bobby Hackett, Erskine Hawkins, Ralph Sutton and Milt Jackson. In addition to leading his own ensembles and working as a studio musician Hinton played in the television bands of Jackie Gleason and Dick Cavett. He was made an NEA Jazz Master in 1993. Hinton died in Queens in 19 December 2000 [obits: 1, 2, 3]. He had issued the album, 'Laughing at Life', in 1994. In 1999 he had participated in pianist, Jay D'Amico's, 'Ponte Novello'. Hinton had also participated in titles by banjo player, Cynthia Sayer, at some indeterminable time shortly before his death. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Sessions: DAHR, Lord. Discos: 1, 2, 3. Photographic chronology. IMDb. Analysis/ criticism: Jeffrey Kipperman. Interviews: William Taylor 1992 (pdf); Dan Del Fiorentino 1994; w Mona Hinton 1995. Further reading: Gene Lees: 1, 2, 3; NPR. Bibliography of photography by Hinton: 'Bass Line' (Temple U Press 1988), 'OverTime' (Pomegranate 1992), 'Playing the Changes' (Vanderbilt U Press 2008). See also Hinton's biography, solography, discography and photography at Milt Hinton (frames). Collections: 1, 2. Other profiles: 1, 2, 3, 4. Milt Hinton 1945 Composition: Dave Rivera Milt Hinton 1950 Filmed live with Cab Calloway Composition: Calloway/Allen Leroy Gibson Milt Hinton 1976 Music: Morgan Lewis 1940 Lyrics: Nancy Hamilton For the Broadway revue 'Two for the Show' Softly as in a Morning Sunrise Piano: Hank Jones Music: Sigmund Romberg 1928 Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II For the operetta 'The New Moon' Milt Hinton 1990 Saxophone: Jay McShann Music: Duke Ellington 1945 Lyrics: Mack David Milt Hinton 1991 Filmed live Music: Harry Ruby Lyrics: Bert Kalmar Milt Hinton 1992 Composition: Cliff Friend/Jack Reynolds
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Though Svend Asmussen wasn't
known well in the United States he joins such as
Joe Venuti,
Stephane Grappelli and Stuff Smith
as one of the finest swing jazz violinists of the 20th century. His
virtuosity, however, was individualistic in smaller formations than the big
band, thus his place on this page rather than Swing
Jazz. Born in 1916 in
Copenhagen, Denmark, Asmussen took up his instrument at age seven. He went
pro as a trick fiddler in 1933. Performing in Copenhagen would put him
contact with American musicians visiting Europe such as
Fats Waller and the
Mills
Brothers. His recording career on 78s began in 1934, releasing 'Jeg
har min Chance i Maj' and 'Damen fra Villavejen' on His Master's Voice (X
4330 per August 21 session). Numerous issues were made in 1935 by HMV as
well. 'Fiddler Magazine'
notes a collection of 15 CDs containing recordings from 1935 to 1955 on the
now nonexistent Swan and Thora labels. Nothing more about that is known. Be
as may, Asmussen recordings from 1935 to 1940 have been issued on 'Musical
Miracle Vol 1' per 1994 by Phontastic. Recordings from 1941 to 1950 were issued in 1995 on
'Phenomenal Fiddler Vol 2', also Phontastic. Recordings from 1937 to 1944
have been collected on 'Danish Jazz Vol 6' (Storyville). Asmussen also
performed in swing bands on cruise ships, which is how he met
Josephine Baker in 1938. Three tunes of his were used in the 1939 film, 'En Lille Tilfaeldighed'. World War II, however, put a jail cell across his upwardly
mobile path when he was arrested by the Gestapo as a so-called prominent citizen in
1943 and detained in Berlin. His release was somehow managed before the War
ended and he began to tour Europe upon the end of the War itself (May 1945).
In the late fifties Asmussen formed the Swe-Danes, a trio with guitarist,
Ulrik Neumann, and singer, Alice Babs.
That ensemble's first session is thought to have been held in Stockholm,
Sweden, on April 27 of 1959 for 'Side By Side'. The Swe-Danes toured the United States
as well.
Neumann and Asmusssen went back
to 1936 for an unissued recording "Honeysuckle Rose' in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Neumann backed Asmussen
numerously through the years. In October of 1959 they recorded a suite of
duets in Hollywood to get issued as 'Danish Imports' in 1961. Asmussen and Babs
would issue 'Äntligen!' as late as 1972. Asmussen had made another rare appearance in the
States in 1967 at the Monterey Jazz Festival following the release of
'Violin Summit' the previous year with
Stephane Grappelli, Stuff Smith
and
Jean-Luc Ponty. Asmussen and
Grappelli had first recorded
together in Paris in February of 1963 upon a tour to Europe by Duke
Ellington, those titles to find issue in 1976 on 'Duke Ellington's
Jazz Violin Session'. The next year ('64) Asmussen and
Grappelli co-led 'Two of a
Kind'. On January 24 of 1988 Asmussen supported
Grappelli with pianist,
Martial Solal, on 'Olympia
1988'. As for Smith, he and
Asmussen would co-lead 'Hot Violins' in 1966 in Copenhagen. May 18 of 1972
found Asmussen performing on Swedish television with conductor, Eric
Ericson, titles to get issued on 'Kammarkoren & Eric Ericson Moter Sven
Asmussen'. Another such performance on June 5 of '73 witnessed 'Kammarkören
& Eric Ericson Möter Svend Asmussen Igen'. November of 1972 had seen Asmussen
and
Toots Thielemans co-leading 'Toots
& Svend'. November of 1986 found them at Fat Tuesdays' in NYC with the
David Grisman Quintet to record 'Svingin'
with Svend'. The seventies found Asmussen working closely with clarinetist,
Putte Wickman. They issued 'Musik
I Kyrkan' in 1975 and 'Spelar För Er' in 1977. Asmussen is the
father of guitar player, Claus Asmussen. In 1999 Asmussen laid tracks for
'Still Fiddling', released in 2002. 'Makin' Whoopee...and Music!' appeared
in 2009. Asmussen was one of few musicians yet alive who could speak of jazz
of personal experience in the days
before World War II and during that conflict before he died at age 100 on 7
Feb 2017 [obit]. References: 1,
2,
3,
4.
Sessions: Aagaard; Lord.
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4.
Compilations: 'The Incomparable Fiddler: 100 years' 1937-96 on Storyville 108 8618 (2016): 1,
2,
3.
Reviews.
Transcriptions. Asmussen in visual media:
IMDb;
Lowe.
Further reading: Anthony Barnett,
Richard Brooks,
Matt Glaser,
Rich Kienzle,
Cristina Schreil.
Collections: 1,
2.
Svend Asmussen 1934 Guitar: Niels Foss Composition: Sven Kristensen/Bernhard Christensen Svend Asmussen 1935 Music: Walter Donaldson 1924 Lyrics: George A. Whiting Composition: Hermann Koppel/Bernhard Christensen Svend Asmussen 1937 Music: Kai Normann Andersen Lyrics: Mogens Dam Svend Asmussen 1938 Søde Drømme (Good-Night Angel) Vocal: Peter Sørensen Composition: Wrubel/John Leflang Guitar: Oscar Aleman Music: Victor Young 1928 Lyrics: Will J. Harris Svend Asmussen 1940 Composition: Fats Waller/Andy Razaf Svend Asmussen 1947 Music: Jule Styne 1946 Lyrics: Sammy Cahn Svend Asmussen 1949 ('Musical Train Ride') Film: 'Lattjo med Boccaccio från' Guitar: Ulrik Neumann Svend Asmussen 1962 From 'European Encounter' Recorded 2 & 3 July 1962 Piano: John Lewis Bass: Jimmy Woode Drums: Sture Kallin Composition: Ornette Coleman Composition: John LewisSvend Asmussen 1963 Piano: Duke Ellington Music: Duke Ellington 1940 Lyrics: Bob Russell Svend Asmussen 1981 With String Swing Svend Asmussen 1983 From 'String Swing' Composition: Arrangement: Asmussen Composition: Tommy Red Tompkins Svend Asmussen 1986 Filmed in Copenhagen Music: Duke Ellington 1931 Lyrics: Irving Mills Svend Asmussen 1994 Guitar: Jacob Fischer Bass: Jesper Lundgaard Drums: Aage Tanggaard
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Guitarist Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) was born in 1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He began getting called "Red" as a teenager due to his red hair. Paul dropped out of high school in October of 1932 and left Waukesha to play professionally as Rhubarb Red at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri [*]. Paul first shows up in Lord per radio transcriptions in February, April and May of 1935 in New York City to back vocalist, Kay Thompson, with Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians on 'Oh Suzanna, Dust Off the Old Piana', 'It Must Have Been a Devil in the Moon' and 'What's the Reason I'm Not Pleasing You'. Those saw later issue in 2003 on 'Kay Thompson: The Queen of Swing Vocal & Her Rhythm Singers 1933 to 1937' (Baldwin Street Music BJH 313). May 12 of 1936 saw Paul backing Georgia White on 'I'll Keep Sitting on It (If I Can't Sell It)' (Decca 7192) [45Worlds]. Lord has Paul recording as Rhubarb Red and His Rubes on 20 May of '36 in Chicago: 'Just Because', 'Answer to Just Because', 'Deep Elem Blues No. 2' and 'Deep Elem Blues' are given issue numbers MW 8012 and MW 8013 though are said to be unreleased until 1997 on 'The Trio's Complete Decca Recordings 1936-47' on MCA MCAD2-11708. Paul formed the Les Paul Trio in 1937 w Jim Atkins (guitar) and Ernie Darius Newton (bass) [Discogs]. ODP and Praguefrank's have the same recording 'Where Is Love'/'Swanee River' in Oct '39 toward unknown issue on Okeh 6027. Come radio broadcasts from 1939 to 1941 to see issue on 'The Legendary Fred Waring Broadcasts: Historic Live Performances (1939-1941)' by on Cambria CAMCD-1146 in 2004. Sometime in the early forties Paul again transcribed as Rhubarb Red & his Rubes, those broadcasts released on an unknown date in Germany on 'Les Paul's Country Roots' (Bronco Buster CD 9023). Sometime during the early forties the Les Paul Trio had come to consist of Cal Gooden (rhythm) and Clint Nordquist (bass). It was that configuration with which transcriptions were made w pianist, Art Tatum, sometime in 1944, titles like 'Ja-Da' and 'Somebody Loves Me' eventually released in 2008 on 'Art Tatum' 1934-56 (Storyville 108 8603). Paul and partners transcribed numerously in 1944 including for AFRS and McGregor. Titles per the 'California Melodies' radio program have been issued by Collectors Choice. Lord's disco has Paul with Jazz at the Philharmonic on three dates from July 2 of 1944 to May 24 of '47, that last at Carnegie Hall with Roy Eldridge for 'Perdido' (unissued), 'What Is This Thing Called Love?' (unissued) and 'Blues'. Paul's titles w the JATP have been variously issued on Mercury, Clef and Verve. Come a string of transcriptions w his trio (Gooden and Nordquist) for World in January and February of 1945, titles like 'Undecided' and 'Out of Nowhere' getting released in 2010 on 'After You've Gone' (Audiophile ACD-042). Lord has Milt Raskin or Buddy Cole at piano on those. Praguefrank's has Paul privately recording 'Hip-Billy Boogie' and 'What Is This Thing Called Love' circa March 3, 1945, not issued until April of '48 on Capitol 15070 [45Worlds]. Come a session on 12 July w his trio backing Bing Crosby on 'It's Been a Long Long Time'/'Whose Dream Are You' issued in Sep on Decca 18708. He issued 'Rumors Are Flying' w the Andrews Sisters on Decca 23656 in 1946. Paul was famous for his musical partnership with his wife, guitarist, Mary Ford. Their first meeting in 1945 had led to their first performance together in '46, touring in '47. Come recording and marriage in '49, the 'Les Paul Show' in 1950 (NBC Radio) and a number of high charting titles w Ford like 'Tennessee Waltz' ('50), 'How High the Moon' ('51), 'Tiger Rag' ('52) and 'Vaya Con Dios' ('53). Paul collaborated w Ford until their divorce in Dec 1964. Greater detail w references for Paul and Ford at *. Paul's release of 'What is This Thing Called Love?' in '48 had claimed the #11 tier on Billboard that May. Other strong solo titles during his period w Ford were 'Nola' ('50), 'Little Rock Getaway' ('50), 'Whispering' ('51), 'Meet Mister Callaghan' ('52) and 'Lady of Spain' ('52). Other notable issues were 'Lover'/'Brazil' released in 1951 on Capitol 1600 (shellac 78) and F1600 (vinyl 45). Paul's fame as a guitar player was eventually overshadowed by his collaboration w Orville Gibson on the design of the Gibson Les Paul solid body electric guitar first marketed in 1952. Paul had an innovative lean, from assembling a neck brace as a boy so he could play guitar and harmonica at once, to the invention of multi-track recording, overdubbing and, the little black box attached to his guitars called the paulverizer (on a few tracks below). Among results from his early experiments in audio engineering were the bass and percussion on recordings w Ford which were actually Paul's guitar [*]. After his period w Ford, Paul relaxed his pace. He released 'Les Paul Now' in 1968. A couple albums w Chet Atkins followed in 'the seventies: 'Chester and Lester' ('76) and 'Guitar Monsters' ('78). Often performing at the Iridium Jazz Club in NYC in his latter years, Paul issued 'Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played' in 2006, that consisting of dubbed parts played by various such as Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Buddy Guy and Steve Miller. Paul died on 12 August 2009 of pneumonia in White Plains, New York [1, 2]. He had given his final performance at the Iridium on his 90th birthday (June 15). References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Discographies: 1, 2, 3, 4. Paul in visual media. Interviews: 1993, 1994. The Les Paul Foundation. Further reading: Paul as inventor: 1, 2, 3; audio engineering and: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; the paulverizer: 1, 2; Gibson Les Paul electric guitar: *; Books: 'The Early Years of the Les Paul Legacy 1915-1963' by Lawrence (Hal Jeonard 2008); Articles: Cellini, Driscoll, Gress, Maxwell, Tianen. Other profiles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. References for Paul and Mary Ford: *. Les Paul 1936 I'll Keep Sitting On It (If I Can't Sell It) With Georgia White Music: Alex Hill Lyrics: Andy Razaf Les Paul 1944 Composition: Cole Porter Composition: Florian Hermann Composition: Eddie Seiler/Guy Wood/Sol Marcus Les Paul 1950 Composition: Felix Arndt/James Burns With Mary Ford Composition: Dick Finch/Jack Little/Tommie Malie Les Paul 1955 Composition: Juan Tizol/Duke Ellington 1936 Les Paul 1988 Live performance Music: Harold Arlen 1939 Lyrics: Yip Harburg Les Paul 2009 Final performances Filmed live in May and June
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Mary Ford & Les Paul Source: Gibson |
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Alvino Rey Source: Big Band Library |
Born Alvin McBurney in 1908 in Oakland, California, steel
guitarist Alvino Rey began his professional career in 1927 with the Ev Jones
band. Rey is said to have invented the steel guitar at age fifteen (1923), a
1927 version of which he started playing in 1928 upon joining the Phil
Spitalny Orchestra. The next year he changed his name to better align with
Latin jazz. ("Rey" is "king" in Spanish.) In 1934 Rey joined the
Horace Heidt Orchestra. The following year he issued his prototype to the Gibson Guitar
Corporation, resulting in Gibson's first commercially successful electric
guitar, the ES-150. Rey's earliest determinable recordings occurred in
1937 with Heidt, also the year he married Luise King of the
King Sisters. In
1939 Rey formed his first orchestra. He also invented the singing guitar,
later known as the Sonovox, in 1939 (see 'My Buddy' listed below). Rey's
band celebrated the grand opening of Disneyland's first season on July 18,
1955, which festivity he performed each year into the latter eighties. In
the latter fifties Rey began issuing comical recordings for Warner Brothers
as Ira Ironstrings. In 1965 Rey became musical director for the King Sisters, as well as for the 'King Family Show' for its run of five seasons.
He formally joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1969.
1980 saw the recording of 'Dance With Me'. Rey gave his last public performance in 1994, retiring with his wife, Luise, in Salt Lake City, where he died
on 24 Feb 2004
[obits: 1,
2].
References: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8.
Sessions: DAHR (w composers), Lord
(leading 23 of 30). Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4.
IMDb.
IA.
NAMM interview 1994. Further reading:
Donald Clarke,
Anne Miller,
Marc Myers,
Zeroto180.
All tracks below through
year 1939 are with the Horace Heidt Orchestra. Alvino Rey 1937 With the King Sisters Composition: Henry Busse/Henry Lange/Lou Davis I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen Vocal: Larry Cotton Composition: Thomas Westendorf 1875 With the King Sisters Composition: Arthur Johnston Vocal: Larry Cotton Music: Manning Sherwin Lyrics: Frank Loesser Vocal: Lysbeth Hughes Composition: Cole Porter There's a Gold Mine in the Sky Vocal: Larry Cotton Composition: Charles & Nick Kenny Vocal: Lysbeth Hughes Composition: Rudy Vallee/Vincent Scotto Alvino Rey 1938 Vocal: Larry Cotton Music: Richard Rodgers 1938 Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Vocal: Charles Goodman Composition: Lou Holzer/Fabian Andre Alvino Rey 1940 With Luise King Composition: Alvino Rey Alvino Rey 1941 Vocal: Yvonne King Composition: Jule Styne/Frank Loesser Vocal: Yvonne King Composition: Jesse Stone Alvino Rey 1944 Rey's speaking steel guitar Composition: WC Handy 1914 Film: 'Jam Session' Alvino Rey 1946 Vocal: Rocky Coluccio ('Pu-Ti Put-Ti') Composition: WC Handy 1914 Lee Ricks/Slim Gaillard Arrangement: Andy Gibson Alvino Rey 1947 Vocal: Rocky Coluccio Composition: Frank Loesser Alvino Rey 1959 'Lawrence Welk Show' Composition: Frank Loesser Composition: Warren Barker 'Lawrence Welk Show' Music: Les Brown/Ben Homer 1944 Lyrics: Bud Green Alvino Rey 1961 Composition: Leon McAuliffe Alvino Rey 1965 'King Family Show' with the King Sisters
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Wilbur Ware Photo: Francis Wolff Source: Washington Post |
Born in 1923 in Chicago, double
bassist
Wilbur Ware
is thought to have made his recording debut in 1939 with
Big Bill Broonzy in
Chicago. Those tracks for Vocalion and Columbia were 'Let Me Dig It', 'W.P.A. Rag', 'I'm
Going Back to Arkansas.' and 'Rider Rider Blues'. Ware isn't thought to have
entered the recording studio again until latter 1949 for the Rondo label
with Johnny Perry in Chicago, those tracks: 'Tails and Limas', 'Doggin' Me Blues',
'J.P. Boogie' and 'Got Good News for Ya, Baby'. Sessions in 1955 are obscure
in date. At some time he privately recorded 'Can This Be Love?' with
Sun Ra at piano at Sun Ra's apartment in
Chicago. That saw release in 2001 on 'Standards'. He also put down 'Piano
Interlude' and 'Can This Be Love?' with
Sun Ra for Saturn. Those saw issue on
'Deep Purple' in 1973. Come titles for Music Minus One some time that year
as well, issued on an unknown date on 'Jazz Rhythm Records - Music Minus One
Guitar Vol 3'. 1955 also saw sessions with drummer, Jimmy Chapin, tracks
eventually released in 1977 on 'Profile of a Jazz Drummer'. Titles in 1956
with
Clifford Brown and
Johnny Griffin are of unknown dates
as well. The one with
Brown was a private session
bearing 'Diggin' Diz' eventually released on CD by Philology on an unknown
date. That with
Griffin resulted in the album,
'Johnny Griffin' (aka 'JG Tenor') issued in 1958. One finally arrives to a
session with a date per Art Blakey
on June 25, 1956 for 'Lil'T' and 'The New Message'. Those would see issue on
Blakey's 'Drum Suite' in 1957. Among Ware's musical associates the
combination of saxophonist,
John Coltrane, with pianist,
Thelonious Monk, was among the
significant. Their first date together was a trio on April 16, 1957, putting
down two takes of 'Monk's Mood'. The three would get together again in June
in a septet with
Art Blakey for two takes
of 'Crepuscule with Nellie'. The same septet recorded 'Monk's Music' the
next day. An unknown date in '57 saw them in a quartet with Shadow Wilson on
drums for 'Nutty', Ruby My Dear' and 'Trinkle Tinkle'. It was October 16 of
'57 in NYC that Ware's single name album, 'The Chicago Sound', went down w a
gang of John Jenkins (alto sax),
Johnny Griffin (tenor sax),
Junior Mance
(piano) and Wilbur Campbell (drums). Come another significant trio on 3 Nov
1957 w saxophonist,
Sonny Rollins, and drummer,
Elvin Jones, toward 'A Night
at the Village Vanguard' [*]. During the sixties Ware
spent an undetermined period of time in jail in association with narcotics.
1968 found him recording titles with Don Cherry,
Clifford Jordan and
Ed Blackwell that would get
issued on 'Super Bass' in 2012. Lord's disco shows last recordings in 1976
for
Jordan's 'Remembering Me-Me'. Among
others Ware supported were
Rita Reys ('56),
Zoot Sims ('56) and
Sonny Rollins ('57). Ware died in Philadelphia
on September 9, 1979, of
emphysema. References: 1,
2.
Synopsis.
Sessions: Fitzgerald: main (w composers),
multiple versions,
personnel;
J-Disc;
JDP;
Lord (leading 3 of 68). Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
Further reading: Bill Crow;
'At Once Old-Timey and Avant-Garde' by Karl Seigfried (U of Texas 2002 pdf). See also the Wilbur Ware Institute.
Wilbur Ware 1938 With Big Bill Broonzy Composition: McCoy Wilbur Ware 1954 Piano: Thelonious Monk Composition: Monk Wilbur Ware 1956 Alto sax: Ernie Henry Composition: Henry Henry LP 'Presenting Ernie Henry' Wilbur Ware 1957 From 'The Chicago Sound' Composition: John Jenkins Composition: John Jenkins Composition: Ware Composition: Gershwin Brothers Wilbur Ware 1957 Tenor sax: JR Montrose Composition: Paul Chambers Henry LP: 'J.R. Monterose' Wilbur Ware 1958 Kenny Drew Trio LP: 'Pal Joey' Piano: Kenny Drew Drums: Philly Joe Jones LP: 'Pal Joey' Recorded 15 Oct 1957 All compositions: Rodgers-Hart Softly as in a Morning Sunrise Music: Sigmund Romberg 1928 Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II For the operetta 'The New Moon' Sonny Rollins LP: 'A Night at the Village Vanguard' Recorded 3 Nov 1957 Tenor sax: Sonny Rollins Wilbur Ware 1961 Tenor Sax: Tina Brooks Composition: Brooks Recorded 2 March 1961 Issued 2002 on 'The Waiting Game'
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Classical
guitarist Laurindo Almeida began his professional career as a radio artist
and nightclub performer in São Paulo, Brazil while a teenager. Born in
Santos, São Paulo, in 1917, at age 19
(1936) he worked his way to Europe by playing guitar in a cruise ship
orchestra. While in Paris, Almeida was able to witness Django Reinhardt and
Stephane Grappelli play at the Hot Club, thereupon a major influence.
Almeida is thought to have made his first recordings in May of 1938 for
Odeon, 'Inspiracao', with Gaston Bueno Lobo playing Hawaiian guitar. The
flip side is a solo by Almeida titled, 'Saudade Que Passa', a waltz composed
by himself. Those recordings were released in October of 1938. In
1947 Almeida immigrated to the United States and found employment as a film
studio musician, working on the soundtrack to 'A Song Is Born'. He afterward
joined the
Stan Kenton Band as a featured guitarist
in time for titles on September 27 like 'Elegy for Alto' and 'Soothe Me'.
Almeida kept with
Kenton into 1948 and would record with
him numerously into 1965 through both volumes of 'New Horizons'. Almeida's first album, 'Laurindo
Almeida Quartet Featuring Bud Shank',
was released in 1955 with saxophonist
Bud Shank. In 1961 that got issued as
'Brazilliance'. Almeida had first recorded with
Shank when the latter joined
Kenton's orchestra on January 30, 1950,
for 'Salute' at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles. He and
Shank would run similar paths into the
eighties, both supporting other bands (like
Kenton's) and each other. in 1959 they
issued 'Holiday in Brazil'', that to get reissued in 1962 as 'Brazilliance
Vol 2'. The two would find reasons to record together numerously into the
eighties, their last session thought to have been with
Ray Brown's L.A. Four in San Francisco in
June of 1982 for 'Executive Suite' with Jeff Hamilton on drums.
Brown's L.A. Four had originally employed
Shelly Manne on drums in 1974
for 'The L.A. Four Scores' recorded at the Concord Music Festival on July
27. The
L.A. Four recorded once or twice a year
together, including tours to Europe, throughout the seventies into the early
eighties. As for the remainder of Almeida's some 140 sessions, well above
100 of them were in support of other musicians which can't see a lot of
discussion here. Another orchestra with which he recorded on multiple
occasions was Ray Anthony's in 1957. From 1960 to 1964 Almeida won 5 Grammy
Awards, four in classical and one in jazz. He played Carnegie
Hall in 1988. Almeida performed and recorded up to the time of his death on
July 26,
1995, of leukemia in Los Angeles [obit]. He had supported Danny Welton that year on
'The Naked Sea'. His final recordings that year were three titles to appear
on the album by various, 'A Tribute to Carl Jefferson', in 1996. (Carl
Jefferson had been the founder of the Concord Jazz Festival in 1969 and
Concord Records in 1972.) Almeida had
put his name to more than a thousand compositions, including some 800 scores for film and television. More Almeida in
1966 under
Sammy Davis Jr.. References: 1,
2,
3.
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4,
Lord (leading 25 of 138 sessions).
IMDb.
Internet Archive.
Reviews.
Interviews: Les Tomkins 1979.
Sheet Music: D Á H;
'The Complete Laurindo Almeida Anthology of Original Guitar Duets' (Mel Bay Publications 2003),
et al. Collections: LOC. Further reading:
Jazz Flashes
(w
Bud Shank),
Andrew Scott,
Vintage Music. Laurindo Almeida 1938 Composition: Almeida Laurindo Almeida 1954 From 'Laurinda Almeida Quartet' Pacific Jazz LP-7 Recorded 22 April 1954 Saxophone: Bud Shank Drums: Roy Harte Saxophone: Bud Shank Recorded 22 April 1954 Composition: Ary Barroso Recorded (April?) 1953 Recorded 22 April 1954 Composition: Matty Malneck Mitchell Parish Frank Signorelli Note: Recording dates and issues per JDP (Jazz Discography Project) and Lord. Issue date for 'Laurinda Almeida Quartet' per Friktech. Above titles also issued on 'Laurinda Almeida Quartet Vol 2' (Pacific Jazz LP-13) in 1954 [Discogs], 'Brazilliance' (World Records T 90078) in 1955, and 'Brazilliance Vol 1' (CD World Records/Jazz Heritage Society 5162596) in 2001. Laurindo Almeida 1958 Album Capitol 8406 Mezzo-soprano: Salli Terri Flute: Martin Ruderman Laurindo Almeida 1959 Composition: Gabriel Fauré 1887 LP: 'For My True Love' Capitol 8461 Flute: Martin Ruderman Mezzo soprano: Salli Terri Saxophone: Bud Shank Composition: Thelonious Monk Albums [Discogs]: 'Latin Contrasts' 1959 World Pacific WP-12814 'Brazilliance Vol 2' 1962 World Pacific WP-1419 'Brazilliance Vol 3' 1962 World Pacific WP-1425 Laurindo Almeida 1962 Composition: Hoagy Carmichael/Sidney Arodin Composition: Fernand Bonifay/Sidney Bechet Composition: Joe Sherman/Noel Sherman Laurindo Almeida 1964 Composition: Almeida LP: 'Guitar from Ipanema' Capitol 2197 Laurindo Almeida 1967 Composition: J. Rickley Dumm/Lex King LP: 'A Man and a Woman' Capitol 2701 Laurindo Almeida 1990 Composition: Billy Joel Laurindo Almeida 1992 Filmed Concert
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Laurindo Almeida
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George Barnes Photo: Jon Sievert Source: Guitarrista
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Born in South Chicago Heights in 1921, George Barnes [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] was among the first to employ the electric guitar. (Others were Alvino Rey, Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker.) Be as may, Barnes first recorded with blues musician Big Bill Broonzy in Chicago on March 1, 1938 ('It's a Low Down Dirty Shame' and 'Sweetheart Land'). It's said that those were the first commercial recordings of electric guitar, though there are other candidates, such as country western musician, Milton Brown, thought to have employed electric guitar on Decca recordings as of January 1935. Bob Dunn was his guitarist at the time. (The first electric guitar was produced in 1931 by George Beauchamp. The first marketed electric guitar was the Gibson ES-150 with a price tag of $150 in 1936.) Barnes second session is thought to have been with Louis Powell's Jazz Wizards on March 23 for 'Sissy' and 'Mushnouth Blues' issued by Vocalion. Sessions with Merline Johnson (the Yas Yas Girl) followed in spring of 1938 for such as 'Love Shows Weakness' and 'Running Down My Man'. 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' was Barnes' first record release in his own name in 1940 with 'I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me' flip side. Lord's discography has Barnes at 212 sessions, 31 of those his own. This account of his recording career is therefore necessarily truncated. One important figure with whom Barnes recorded on multiple occasions was cornetist/trumpeter, Jimmy McPartland, with whom he recorded three unissued titles on September 9 of 1949: 'Silence Please', 'I Never Thought I'd Sing the Blues' and 'Keepin' Out of Mischief Now'. They would see one another for issued titles on April 7 of '53: 'Ostrich Walk' and 'Louisiana'. May 14 saw 'I'm Coming, Virgina' and 'Riverboat Shuffle' among others. They would visit again in '55 and '59, that latter occasion resulting in McPartland's 'That Happy Dixieland Jazz'. More significant to his career was Barnes' association with arranger/conductor, Sy Oliver, first working with him in support of vocalist, Don Cherry, on titles like 'Beautiful Madness' and 'Chapel of the Roses' on January 25, 1951. Oliver employed Barnes on numerous occasions throughout the fifties. October 18, 1962, witnessed the recording of Oliver's 'Easy Walker'. That 1951 date with Oliver and Cherry also saw Barnes' first titles with trumpeter, Charlie Shavers. Their paths would interweave often in support of other operations to as late as Shavers' 'Excitement Unlimited' in 1963. Clarinetist, Artie Shaw, was also in that session with Cherry and Oliver above, Barnes to record with Shaw's orchestra the next year. Trumpeter, Yank Lawson, was another important figure in the fifties, they putting down such as 'Beale Street Blues' and 'Gulf Coast Blues' in November of '52. Lawson and Barnes recorded numerously together, supporting other bands when Barnes wasn't backing Lawson, to July 13 of 1959, that with Sy Oliver and Jean Goldkette for such as 'My Pretty Girl' and 'Dinah'. Barnes drew a royal flush on February 23, 1954, when he and Lawson were joined by trumpeter, Louis Armstrong, for titles to 'Louis' Hot 5s and 7s'. Barnes would see multiple sessions with Armstrong in January of 1957, Armstrong's 'A Musical Autobiography' among the results. Come 'Louis and The Good Book' in 1958. Latter 1954 saw multiple sessions with bandleader, Ray Anthony. Barnes began appearing on projects by pianist and 'Tonight Show' host, Steve Allen, in 1955: 'Jazz Tonight'. 'Allen's All Stars' arrived in 1958. Barnes could well be placed in Big Band Swing but that he kept pace with the times as well. Though not an R&B musician per se, he couldn't but observ the development from swing to R&B in the forties and fifties and performed with a few such musicians. One example was Big Joe Turner, Barnes first recording with Turner's All Stars on February 4, 1956, for such as 'Corrine Corrina' and 'Rock a While'. January 22 of 1958 found Barnes in the orchestra of Howard Bigg's to support Turner on such as 'Sweet Sue, Just You' and 'Blues in the Night'. Starting in 1956 Barnes would participate in all six volumes of Enoch Light's 'The Roaring 20's' with the Charleston City All Stars. Come veteran trumpeter, Wingy Manone, in January of 1957 for tracks to 'Trumpet on the Wing'. Clarinetist, Stan Rubin's, 'Dixieland Goes Broadway' followed in July. Six months later it was more R&B with Little Willie John on January 4 of '58 for 'Talk to Me', 'Don't Be Ashamed' and 'Spasms'. 'Let's Rock While the Rockin's Good' and 'You're a Sweetheart' followed on June 11. Come December 9 for 'No Regrets' and 'Made For Me'. Barnes had meanwhile recorded a number of titles in September with Della Reese from 'Good Morning Blues' to 'Stormy Monday'. Highlighting the sixties was cornetist, Bobby Hackett's, 'Jazz Impressions of Oliver' in 1963. Highlighting the seventies were numerous sessions with trumpeter, Ruby Braff. Their first on June 29 of 1973 was a concert at Carnegie Hall with their Quartet consisting of Wayne Wright (guitar) and John Giuffrida (bass) for titles like 'Ooh That Kiss' and 'With Time to Love'. They supported Tony Bennett that year as well for 'Rodgers and Hart Songs' and 'More Great Rodgers and Hart'. Their last session was at Carnegie Hall again on June 29 of 1975 with their Quartet consisting of Vinnie Currao (guitar) and Michael Moore (bass) for such as 'Them There Eyes' and 'I'm Old Fashioned'. Among Barnes' numerous albums were 'Guitars Galore' (1961), 'Gems' (1975), 'Live at The Concord Summer Festival' with Joe Venuti in 1976, 'Blues Going Up' (1977) and 'Plays So Good' released posthumously in 1978. Barnes died on September 5, 1977, in Concord, California. His last titles are thought to have been on July 7 that year at the Willows Theater in Concord, CA, for what would see issue as 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore'. A few more of Barnes' earliest recordings at age 16 under Jazz Gillum in Blues 4. Sessionographies: DAHR, Lord's. Discographies: 1, 2, 3. Mottola in visual media. See also The George Barnes Legacy and Guitar Cave. Per 1940 below, music for 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' had been written in 1918 for the Broadway musical, 'The Passing Show of 1918'. Lyrics were by Jaan Kenbrovin, a collective pseudonym for James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent. George Barnes 1938 With Big Bill Broonzy Composition: Broonzy/Ollie Shepard With Big Bill Broonzy and Jazz Gillum Composition: Jazz Gillum With Big Bill Broonzy With Big Bill Broonzy and Jazz Gillum George Barnes 1940 Composition: See above George Barnes 1961 Music: Nacio Herb Brown 1929 Lyrics: Arthur Freed Album: 'Guitars Galore' George Barnes 1971 Duet with guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli Composition: Fats Waller/Andy Razaf George Barnes 1978 Album: 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore' Composition: Larry Goldberg/Lynn Bryson/Peggy Shows
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Born in 1917 just north of the border from Mexico in Brawley, California, bassist Howard Rumsey is thought to have made his debut recording in May or June of 1938 in Hollywood with the Vido Musso Orchestra for 'Jig-a-Jive' (Davis & Schwegler 162). (That was released that year with 'I've Been a Fool' by Betty Van flip side per Davis & Schwegler 163.)Rumsey became a member of Stan Kenton's first band in 1941, recording for the Mutual Broadcasting System at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa Beach, CA, on July 25 to yield 'Artistry in Rhythm' (theme) and 'Reed Rapture'. Future sessions with Kenton for radio, studio and transcription ensued into 1942. He next supported Dave Coleman, Freddie Slack, Charlie Barnet and Wingy Manone ('49). It was 1949 when Rumsey was looking for a gig in Hermosa Beach, California, and happened upon the Lighthouse Club (Lighthouse Cafe: 1, 2, 3, 4). His first recorded session with his Lighthouse All Stars was circa December of '51, that featuring Jimmy Giuffre on parts 1 and 2 of 'Big Boy' and 'More Big Boy'. Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars made the Lighthouse Club a hot spot in West Coast jazz into the early sixties. Ensembles other than the All Stars performed at the Lighthouse as well, such as those of Chet Baker, Miles Davis and Max Roach. The All Stars appeared on the 'Stars of Jazz' television series on 3 Sep of '56 w June Christy. Christy joined the All Stars on 'Stars of Jazz' again on 3 March of '58. The group (minus Christy) had laid out 'Music for Lighthousekeeping' in December of '56 [1, 2,]. Some 75 musicians passed through Rumsey's band to what Lord's disco lists as their last session on May 19 of 1958 for the 'Stars of Jazz' television program yielding 'All the Thing You Are', 'The Nearness of You' and 'Viva Zapata'. They had released the LP, 'Jazz Rolls Royce', that year. A few of the frequent members of the All Stars were Shorty Rogers, Milt Bernhart, Bob Cooper and Frank Rosolino. Frequent drummers were Shelly Manne and Stan Levey. Bud Shank, Jimmy Giuffre and Conte Candoli were also a strong presence. From 1972 to 1986 Rumsey partly owned and operated Concerts by the Sea, a jazz club in Redondo Beach, California. He had largely stopped performing by that time. Rumsey died on July 15, 2015. References for Rumsey: All Music; Wikipedia. Sessions: DAHR; Lord (leading 42 of 70). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. Interviews: Rex Butters 2007; Marc Myers 2009; NAMM 2009. Further reading: Donald Clarke; Ken Poston. References for the Lighthouse All Stars: All Music; Jazz Research: 1, 2, 3, 4. Discos: 1, 2, 3. Internet Archive. Further reading: Marc Myers. Per below, 1941 is the recording rather than release year, those not issued before much later compilations. Howard Rumsey 1941 With Stan Kenton Composition: Colonel Sanford Faulkner c 1850: With Stan Kenton Composition: Ralph Yaw Howard Rumsey 1952 Lighthouse All-Stars 2nd group Composition: Jimmy Giuffre Howard Rumsey 1953 Lighthouse All-Stars 2nd group Composition: Jimmy Giuffre Lighthouse All-Stars 2nd group Composition: Teddy Edwards Lighthouse All-Stars 3rd group with Max Roach Composition: Bob Cooper Lighthouse All-Stars 3rd group With Max Roach & Chet Baker Composition: Harry Warren/Mack Gordon
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Howard Rumsey
Source: Bass Instincts
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Slam Stewart Source: Salitote |
Born in 1914 in Englewood, New Jersey,
Slam Stewart
[1,
2]
was originally a violinist, switching to bass at age twenty, also starting
to sing. He
is thought to have first recorded in NYC with guitarist, Slim Gaillard,
on January 19, 1938, as the other
half of the duo, Slim and Slam: The Flat Foot Floogie', 'Chinatown', 'That's
What You Call Romance' and 'Lady Be Good'. Three of those eventually got
released by Legacy in 1996 on 'The Groove Juice Special'. 'Flat Foot Floogie' went down again on 17
February for issue on Vocalion 4021. Slim & Slam was a duo in name but usually incorporated other
musicians such as Sam Allen (piano) and Pompey Guts Dobson (drums) on their
first tracks. Other popular issues in 1938 included 'Jump Session' and 'Tutti
Frutti'. IMDb has 'Flat Foot Floogie' used in the soundtrack of the
1940 film, 'it All Came True'. They performed 'Binjee
Binjee Scootta' in the 1942 release of the film, 'Almost Married'. It was
'Sharp as a Tack' in 'Star Spangled Rhythm' premiering in December. Slim and Slam remained an enterprise
also performing as Slim Gaillard
and His Flat Foot Floogie Boys from 1939 into the forties. Stewart and
Gaillard remained a team recording numerously to April 2 of 1942 as the
Flat Floogie Boys: 'Palm Springs Jump', 'Ra-da-da-da', etc.. On January 3 of
1943 Stewart joined pianist,
Fats Waller, in Hollywood
on the soundtrack to 'Stormy Weather' before his first session with the Art
Tatum Trio on March 22. That was for an AFRS 'Jubilee' broadcast (#17)
with
Tiny Grimes at guitar yielding such as
'Tiny's Exercise', 'Melody in F', etc.. That Trio was good for several
sessions to June 21, 1944, in New York City for such as 'Soft Winds', 'Topsy',
et al. On July 8 Tatum and Stewart
performed a couple duets for NBC Radio that would get included on 'Live
1944-52 Vol 9' in 2005. Slam's next trio with
Tatum was with Everett Barksdale on guitar in 1951 for VOA
transcriptions in NYC yielding 'Tenderly', 'The Man I Love', etc.. That Trio
recorded on multiple occasions to as late as March 25 of 1956 for NBC Radio,
bearing 'Sweet Lorraine' and 'September Song'. We need step back to July 28,
1944, for one of the more important figures in Stewarts early career, that
being tenor saxophonist,
Don Byas, whose tracks on that date went
toward 'Savoy Jam Party' in 1976. Stewart stayed with
Byas for more than a year into latter '45,
they last recording on November 1: 'Humoresque', 'Slamboree', etc.. By that
time Stewart had held his first session as a leader on January 30 of '45
with a quartet consisting of
Erroll Garner (piano), Mike Bryan
(guitar) and Harold Doc West (drums) for 'Play Fiddle Play', 'Dark Eyes',
Laff, Slam, Laff' and 'Jumpin' at the Deuces'.
Garner would become a fairly
important figure in Stewart's early career, both backing each other and
other ensembles. Their first session had been with
Garner's All Stars on December 26 of
'44 for such as 'Gaslight', 'Red Cross', etc..
Garner was also in the Slam Stewart
Trio with West on September 7 of '45 for 'Sherry Lynn Flip', 'Three Blind
Micesky', etc.. Stewart's second session as a leader had been on May 28 with
a quintet including vibraphonist, Red Norvo,
for such as 'Honeysuckle Rose', 'Mood to Be Stewed', et al. Stewart
preferred smaller ensembles from duos to trios and quartets. Among his duos
was Slam & Bam in 1946 with Bam Brown on piano for 'Candy'. Another was
'Dialogue' in 1978 with guitarist, Bucky Pizzarelli (1926-2020). 1981 saw 'Shut Yo'
Mouth!' released w bassist, Major Holley. We need step back to
February 4 of '45 for another major figure in Stewart's early career, that
Benny Goodman, first
contributing to
Goodman's Sextet on that date
for such as 'After You've Gone', 'Slipped Disc', etc.. Numerous recordings
went down that year to September 24 for such as 'Liza', 'China Boy' and 'My
Daddy Rocks Me'. Reunions nigh thirty years later occurred in NYC and
Germany in 1973, another in '75 in NYC and, finally, a PBS telecast from the
Marriott Marquis Hotel in NYC on October 7, 1985, for
Goodman's 'Let's Dance - A
Musical Tribute'. Among others with whom Stewart recorded were Rose Murphy,
the Newport Jazz Festival All Stars and Helen
Ward. Stewart taught bass at Binghampton University and Yale. He
died on December 10, 1987. He had recorded 'European Tour' in May in Bern,
Switzerland, and 'The Cats Are Swingin'' on November 25. More Slam Stewart
under Slim Gaillard
in Modern Jazz Song.
Discographies: 1,
2,
3.
Compilations: Stewart: 'The
Chronological Classics 1945-46'; Slim & Slam: 'Complete Columbia Master
Takes' by
Definitive 2001;
'Slim & Slam 1938 1939'
by Giants of Jazz 1996.
Sheet music.
1978
interview w Leroy Elliott. Archive. All tracks for 1938 below are the duo, Slim and Slam. Slam Stewart 1938 Composition: Slim Gaillard/Slam Stewart/Bud Green Composition: Slim Gaillard/Slam Stewart Composition: Slim Gaillard/Slam Stewart Composition: Slim Gaillard/Slam Stewart Slam Stewart 1941 Composition: Don Raye/Gene DePaul Filmed live with Slim Gaillard Slam Stewart 1945 Slam Stewart Quintet Composition: Fats Waller/Andy Razaf Tenor sax: Don Byas Composition: Gershwin Brothers 'Back Home Again in Indiana' Tenor sax: Don Byas Composition: Jack Hanley/Ballard MacDonald Slam Stewart Quintet Composition: Leonard Feather Slam Stewart 1973 With Benny Goodman Composition: Gershwin Brothers Slam Stewart 1977 Bass duet with Major Holley LP: 'Two Big Mice' Composition: Slam Stewart Slam Stewart 1981 Bass duet with Major Holley Piano: Dick Hyman Drums: Oliver Jackson LP: 'Shut Yo' Mouth!' Slam Stewart 1986 Live performance Composition: Slim Gaillard/Slam Stewart/Bud Green
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Born in 1918 in Kearny, New
Jersey, session
guitarist, Tony Mottola
[1,
2,
3], made his recording debut in 1939 with the George Hall
Orchestra backing Dolly Dawn on 'Shine' (Vocalion 5160)
[1,
2]. He began working in the CBS radio studio
orchestra in 1941, playing as an accompanist to musicians such as Frank Sinatra
comprising most of his early career. He recorded several duets in 1941 w
guitarist,
Carl Kress, issued on 'Fun on the Frets' (Yazoo L-1061) in 1988
[date by eBay vendor]. Lord's disco
picks up Mottola as a leader with a certain date on
October 18 of 1946: 'Guilty', 'Coquette' and 'Trigger Fantasy'. He also
backed vocalist, Rosemary Calvin, that year on 'Mama, Do I Gotta?' and 'You
Don't Learn That in School' during a session with the instrumental, 'Tony's
Touch'. Mottola is credited with the first soundtrack for a television show,
'Danger', premiering in 1950 with Yul Brynner. MGM released a soundtrack LP
for that show in 1951 (E-111). Among the host whom Mottola supported were
Cliff Edwards,
Pearl Bailey,
Sarah Vaughan,
Will Bradley,
Benny Goodman,
Urbie Green and
Dick Hyman. Mottola's first album,
'Let's Put Out the Lights', was issued in 1956. His album, 'Mr. Big', was released in 1959,
also containing 'Danger'. His issue of 'This Guy's in Love with You' reached
the #22 tier on the Adult Contemporary in 1962 [Music VF]. He backed
Sinatra in the seventies and eighties. He participated in Irv Cottler's
'I've Got You Under My Skins' in '82 or '83. Mottola began heading U.S.
operations for Sony Music in 1988 (Sony having swallowed Columbia/CBS
Records the prior year). In 1990 he became CEO, which position he kept until
2003. Mottola died on 9 August 2004 in Denville, New Jersey, having appeared on thousands of sessions and releasing more than 50
albums. Sessions at DAHR.
Discographies: 1,
2,
3.
Compilations: 'Guitar Jamboree' 1982.
Mottola in visual media. Tony Mottola 1951 With the Ray Charles Singers Composition: Mottola Tony Mottola 1959 Album Tony Mottola 1960 Composition: Pietro Garinei/Renato Rascel/Sandro Giovannini Album Tony Mottola 1964 Composition: Jack Lawrence/Marguerite Monnot Tony Mottola 1966 With Perry Como Music: Johnny Mandel Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster For the film 'The Sandpiper' 1965 Tony Mottola 1967 Composition: Mottola Album: 'Lush, Latin & Lovely' Composition: Mottola Album: 'A Latin Love-In' Composition: Marcos Valle/Norman Gimbel/Paulo Sérgio Valle Album: 'A Latin Love-In' Composition: Carl Sigman/Gilbert Bécaud/Pierre Delanoë Album: 'A Latin Love-In' Composition: Lennon-McCartney 1965
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Tony Mottola Source: Space Age Pop Music |
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Oscar Pettiford Source: African American Registry |
Double bassist and cello player Oscar Pettiford was born in 1922 Okmulgee, Oklahoma. He knew and played with Milt Hinton, double bassist alike, as a teenager. Pettiford began working professionally while living in Minneapolis, MN, he there making his debut recordings at the Harlem Breakfast Club on September 24, 1939, with the Jerry Jerome Quartet consisting of Jerome on tenor sax, Charlie Christian on guitar and Frankie Hines on piano: 'I Got Rhythm #1', 'I Got Rhythm #2', 'Stardust', and 'Tea For Two'. At that point Pettiford wasn't certain if he wished to pursue music, backing off until he decided to go to New York where he fell in with in with the band of Charlie Barnet in 1942. His next sessions were private jams in February of 1943 in Chicago with saxophonist, Charlie Parker, in Room 305 of the Savoy Hotel. One on the 15th included Dizzy Gillespie for 'Sweet Georgia Brown'. One with no date was with trumpeter, Benny Harris, for 'I've Found a New Baby', 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love', etc.. Pettiford's next commercial recordings were in NYC on December 4, 1943, with Leonard Feather's Esquire All Stars in support of saxophonist, Coleman Hawkins. Titles included 'Esquire Bounce' and 'Esquire Blues'. Hawkins, Feather and the Esquire All American All Stars would be of major importance to Pettiford's career for years to come. Pettiford's next three sessions that December of '43 were with Hawkins' orchestra, yielding such as 'Voodle', 'Lover Come Back to Me' and 'The Man I Love'. Pettiford recorded numerously with Hawkins to March 2 of 1945, both in his orchestra and with the Esquire All American All Stars. Their last date was with Hawkins' orchestra in Los Angeles resulting in such as 'Hollywood Stampede' and 'I'm Through with Love'. They reunited on September 23, 1955, as members of the JATP All Stars accompanied by the Stan Kenton Orchestra for a CBS telecast of 'Music 55'. Later visits occurred in '57, '58 and, finally, April 2, 1960, at Grugahalle in Essen toward Hawkins's 'Hawk in Germany'. Hawkins attended nigh all of the numerous Esquire All Stars sessions that Pettiford did, except Pettiford's last on January 16, 1946, that a giant enterprise at the Ritz Theater in NYC titled 'Esquire Third Annual Jazz Concert' with the King Cole Trio and both the orchestras of Duke Ellington and Woody Herman. As for Feather, the Esquire All Stars went on without him. Pettiford's next sessions with him after their first with the All Stars in '43 was on November 20, 1944, in Feather's Hiptet to support Helen Humes on 'If I Could But I Can't', 'Keep Your Mind on Me', etc.. Pettiford filled spot in Feather's orchestras on occasion to as late as December 7 of 1958 for pianist, Dick Hyman's 'Oh, Captain!'. We need return to February 26, 1944, to regard the first that Pettiford recorded in a trio, that pianist, Earl Hines' with guitarist, Al Casey, for such as 'My Fate Is in Your Hands' and 'Honeysuckle Rose'. Pettiford recorded again with Hines that year and in '47. His next trio was with Milt Page and an unknown guitarist in December of 1944 to harvest 'It's Only a Paper Moon' and 'Soda Pop'. It was next his own Trio in October of 1945 with Clyde Hart (piano) and Chuck Wayne (guitar) for an AFRS 'Jubilee' radio broadcast (#151)to bear 'Tea for Two'. Among other trios was one with pianist, Bud Powell, and drummer, Roy Haynes, at the Birdland in NYC on February 7, 1953, to yield such as 'Lullaby of Birdland' (George Shearing/George David Weiss) and 'Tea for Two' (Vincent Youmans/Irving Caesar). Pettiford joined drummer, Art Blakey in the Thelonious Monk Trio on March 17, 1956 for 'Liza' and 'You Are Too Beautiful', et al. On August 2, 1956 it was the Charlie Smith Trio with pianist, Hank Jones, for such as 'Blues for Sal' and 'Body and Soul'. Those got issued that year on an LP shared with the Aaron Sachs Sextet: 'Jazzville Vol 3'. In October of 1957 it was his own Trio again with Eddie Costa (piano) and Ed Thigpen (drums) for 'Taking a Chance on Love'. We need return to July 27, 1944, for Pettiford's first session as a leader, that for solos accompanied by Clyde Hart at piano netting 'Dedicated to JB' and 'Don't Blame Me'. Pettiford led his first orchestra on January 9, 1945, for 'Something for You', 'Worried Life Blues' and 'Empty Bed Blues'. On November 17, 1945, arrived the most significant figure in Pettiford's career, that being pianist, Duke Ellington. Working with Ellington didn't pay a lot, but to be able to say that one did were words of gold. That ABC Broadcast from Radio City Studio 6B in NYC yielded such as 'Walkin' with My Honey' and 'Jack the Bear'. Ellington was Pettiford's main living for another thirteen years to 1958 with countless sessions held, what is thought the last on April 24 that year for 'Hand Me Down Love', 'Duke's Place' and 'Lullaby of Birdland'. Pettiford moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1958, where he died young, age 36, on September 8, 1960, of causes apparently undisclosed if not undetermined. He had recorded 'My Little Cello' in July that year. Amidst the host of others whose tunes Pettiford had learned were Ben Webster, Boyd Raeburn, Frank Wess, Mat Mathews, Tom Talbert, Lucky Thompson, Chris Connor, Nat Pierce, Phineas Newborn Jr. and Lee Konitz. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Sessions: DAHR (w composers); J-DISC (w comps by Pettiford); Lord (leading 52 of 420). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. Compilations: 'Sessions 1958-60' by Delta 1988; 'Germany 1958/1959' by Jazzhaus 2013 (also released as 'Baden-Baden 1958/1959'): 1, 2. Further reading: Erik Friedlander; Marc Myers (reviews); Mark Saltman (analysis): 1, 2; Michael Steinman. Other profiles: 1, 2. Oscar Pettiford 1939 With the Jerry Jerome Quartet Music: Vincent Youmans 1924 Lyrics: Irving Caesar Oscar Pettiford 1943 With Coleman Hawkins Composition: Gershwin Brothers Oscar Pettiford 1959 Sax: Hans Koller Guitar: Attila Zoller Drums: Jimmy Pratt Composition: Jerome Kern Sax: Hans Koller Guitar: Attila Zoller Drums: Jimmy Pratt Composition: Pettiford Sax: Hans Koller Guitar: Attila Zoller Drums: Jimmy Pratt Composition: Pettiford Tenor Sax: Stan Getz Composition: Pettiford
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Oscar Moore
Source: Discogs |
Born in 1916 in Austin, TX, to get raised in Los Angeles, guitarist
Oscar Moore [1,
2] became an original member of the
Nat King Cole Swingsters in 1937 with
bassist, Wesley Prince. He would remain w
Cole's Trio for a decade. Prince
would be replaced by Johnny Miller in 1941. Lord's disco traces radio
transcriptions by that group to as early as October of '38 in Los Angeles
for such as 'Mutiny in the Nursery' (Standard X-76) and 'By the River Sainte
Marie' (Standard Y-132). Other titles included such as 'F.D.R. Jones',
'Don't Blame Me' and 'Lullaby in Rhythm'. Featuring
Cole at both piano and vocals, those
saw later issue in 1991 on the
Cole
compilation, 'The Complete Early Transcriptions of the King Cole Trio:
1938-1941', by Vintage Jazz Classics. That also contains transcriptions made
w
Cole's Swingsters in January of '39
including such as featuring Bonnie Lake on 'Harlem Swing' and 'I Lost
Control of Myself. Numerous transcriptions by
Cole's Trio followed to
April 18 of 1940 when the trio was assisted by drummer, Lee Young, to lay
out the trio's first commercial issues: 'I Like to Riff'/'On the Sunny Side of the Street' (Ammor 108) and 'By
the River Sainte Marie'/'Black Spider Stomp' (Ammor 109). Moore also worked with such as Lionel
Hampton ('40),
Charlie Parker ('46) and Lester
Young ('46) during his time w
Cole. He left
Cole to play
with his guitarist brother, Johnny, in the Three Blazers until the mid fifties, first recording
with that band in 1945: 'Fugue in C Major' and 'Melancholy Madeline'.
Pianists,
Charles Brown and
Floyd Dixon, both served time
in that ensemble. With the exception of a
Cole tribute album recorded in April
of 1965
('We'll Remember You, Nat'),
Moore had left the music industry to become a bricklayer in the latter
fifties. Lord's sessionography traces dates to as late as two sessions in
Hollywood on May 27, 1957, the first with vocalist Inez Jones (: 'Too
Marvelous for Words', et al), the second with bassist,
Leroy Vinnegar (: 'I Can't Get
Started', et al). Moore died on October 8,
1981. Moore is the guitarist on tracks
between '37 and '47
in Nat King
Cole Piano and
Nat King Cole Song.
Catalogs: 1,
2.
Moore and Fender guitar. Oscar Moore 1938 ('One Horse Open Sleigh') With the Nat King Cole Trio Radio transcription Composition: James Lord Pierpont 1857 With the Nat King Cole Trio Radio transcription Composition: Anonymous English nursery rhyme See Wikipedia Oscar Moore 1940 With the Nat King Cole Trio Composition: Nat King Cole With the Nat King Cole Trio Music: Jimmy McHugh Lyrics: Dorothy Fields Rights possibly sold by Fats Waller Oscar Moore 1944 With the Nat King Cole Trio Composition: Johnny Green/Edward Heyman Robert Sour/Frank Eyton Oscar Moore 1946 Film with the Nat King Cole Trio Composition: Bob Levinson/Howard Leeds/Nat King Cole With the Nat King Cole Trio Composition: Edward MacDowell Oscar Moore 1954 Oscar Moore Quartet Piano: Carl Perkins Composition: Jay Gorney/Yip Harburg Oscar Moore Quartet With Kitty White Composition: Freed/Livingston Oscar Moore Quartet Piano: Carl Perkins Composition: Oscar Moore Oscar Moore Quartet Piano: Carl Perkins Composition: Victor Young Oscar Moore 1955 Oscar Moore Quartet Piano: Carl Perkins Composition: Oscar Moore Oscar Moore 1966 Oscar Moore Trio LP: 'We'll Remember You, Nat' 'Afterglow/ is a 1980 reissue [Discogs] Oscar Moore Quartet Piano: Carl Perkins Music: Bob Haymes 1952 (Lyrics: Alan Brandt)
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Billy Bauer Source: Jazz Wax |
Billy Bauer was a guitarist with an ear for such as bebop and cool jazz. Born in 1915 in New York City, by Bauer's account he began messing with electric guitar in 1935 at age twenty. He had earlier played ukulele, banjo and acoustic. His first professional performances were acoustic with pianist, Harry Raab, in 1936 at the Nash Tavern in South Bronx. In 1937 they performed at the Seabright Yacht Club in New Jersey and the Naughty Naught Cafe in Manhattan. In June of 1940 Bauer joined the Jerry Wald Orchestra. He first recorded on August 27, 1941, as a member of the Carl Hoff Orchestra: 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot' and When Johnny Comes Marching Home'. (Thanks to 'Billy Bauer: A Life in the Bebop Guitar Business' by Steven Beck for above information.) He left tracks with Wald's orchestra on June 25, 1942, for such as 'Strictly Instrumental' and 'Trains in the Night'. Another session in 1943 yielded such as 'Alice Blue Gown' and 'C Jam Blues'. 1944 would be a big year for Bauer, he joining the orchestra of Woody Herman in time for transcriptions by World on April 5 to include such as 'Perfido' and 'Blue Lullaby'. Bauer would become a member of Herman's First Herd, remaining with him into 1946, joining him again from 1955 to '59 and reuniting on November 20, 1976, with Herman's New Thundering Herd for issue as 'The 40th Anniversary Carnegie Hall Concert'. It was with Herman in NYC that Bauer' first recorded with one of his more important musical comrades in the person of bassist, Chubby Jackson. That was April 5, 1944, for such as 'Perdido' and 'Blue Lullaby'. Bauer next joined Jackson's Sextet in Chicago on July 1 for 'I Gotcha Covered', 'Popsie', etc.. Bauer and Jackson would clear much the same path into 1947, recording numerously together with Herman, backing other ensembles and collaborating on Jackson's projects. Bauer last appeared with Jackson for live recordings at the Pied Piper in NYC on August 24, 1947, yielding four parts of 'A Nght in the Village', et al. They reunited on July 30, 1958, for Herman's 'The Herd Rides Again...in Stereo'. Another reunion would occur per above in 1976 for Herman's 'The 40th Anniversary Carnegie Hall Concert'. Another important musical associate arrived with Herman above on April 5, 1944, in pianist/arranger, Ralph Burns. Bauer and Burns worked with Herman until Burns vacated after Herman's Woodchoppers in 1946. They would work together again in 1951 with the Metronome All Stars and variously on several other occasions to May of 1956, Bauer joining Burns' orchestra to support vocalist, Beverly Kenney, on 'Come Swing With Me'. They would reunite in 1976 per above with Herman's New Thundering Herd. Present in Jackson's Sextet above on July 1 of 1944 was another to contribute significantly to Bauers' career in the person of tenor saxophonist, Flip Phillips. Bauer and Phillips left a common wake into the early fifties with Herman, other bands and supporting Phillips's projects. Their first occasion per the latter is thought to have been with Phillips' Fliptet in NYC on October 2, 1944, for such as 'Pappilloma' and '1-2-3-4 Jump'. Their last occasion of that long stretch together is thought have been on August 7 of 1951 with the Chico O'Farrill Orchestra for 'Dance One', 'Bright One', etc.. They would reunite once again, per above, in 1976 with Herman's New Thundering Herd, a final time per below in 1995. Another with whom Bauer worked significantly was blind pianist Lennie Tristano, they joining one another in 1946 in a trio with Chubby Jackson for 'My Ideal'. Bauer first joined Tristano's Trio on October 8 of '46 with bassist, Clyde Lombardi, for 'Out on a Limb', 'I Can't Get Started', et al. Bauer kept tight with Tristano to the Metronome All Stars in 1950 for 'Double Date' and 'No Figs' with Dizzy Gillespie. (Bauer is thought to have first recorded with Gillespie per Barry Ulanov's All Star Modern Jazz Musicians in September of 1947 for a couple 'Bands For Bonds' radio broadcasts yielding such as 'Ko-Ko', 'Fine and Dandy' and 'Tiger Rag'.) Having referred to the Metronome All Stars (MAS) a couple times, it's apt to comment that Bauer was a favorite with that organization of revolving musicians. His first appearance with the MAS was on January 15 of 1946 for 'Look Out' and 'Metronome All Out'. His sixth and last appearance was July 9 of 1953 for two parts each of 'How High the Moon' and 'St. Louis Blues', those with Billy Eckstine. The year after Bauer's first recording with the MAS came vocal giant, Dinah Washington, that with the Chubby Jackson Orchestra in NYC in spring of '47 for 'Stairway to the Stars' and 'I Wanna Be Loved'. 'Mean and Evil Blues' and 'You Satisfy' went unissued. Bauer also backed Sarah Vaughan that year on 'Everything I Have Is Yours' with the Barry Ulanov Orchestra. Bauer was an all-star musician by the time he joined Benny Goodman's Septet on May 24 of 1948 for an NBC radio broadcast from the Click Restaurant in Philadelphia, PA, putting out 'Stompin' at the Savoy', 'Limehouse Blues', etc.. Bauer stuck with Goodman through numerous recordings that year and later in 1958. They would reunite a last time in September of 1961 for sessions with CBS, then NBC, for such as 'Big John's Special' and 'My Reverie'. Bauer wouldn't depart the forties without recording with another who would figure heavily in his career, that alto saxophonist, Lee Konitz, the occasion for Lennie Tristano on January 11 of 1949 for ''Progression', 'Tautology', etc.. Also present were Arnold Fishkin (bass) and Shelly Manne (drums). Bauer and Konitz would stick with Tristano to 1950, they also recording with the MAS that year per Gillespie above. Bauer and Konitz then recorded as a duo on April 7 of 1950 on 'Rebecca', that with others titles per a quartet and quintet. Bauer supported Konitz numerously for the next eight years to the latter's 'An Image' on February 6 of 1958. Another significant figure arrived in cornetist, Bobby Hackett, on May 11, 1953, for 'Soft Lights and Bobby Hackett'. 1957 would find him recording toward Hackett and Jack Teagarden's 'Jazz Ultimate'. 1959 found Bauer participating in Hackett's 'Hawaii Swings'. In the meantime Bauer had recorded his debut album in April of 1955: 'Let's Have a Session'. 'Plectrist' [1, 2, 3], Bauer's single studio LP, ensued on January 26 and March 12 of 1956, issued by Norgran that year, by Verve the next in '57. Bauer's support on that were Andrew Ackers (piano), Milt Hinton (bass) and Osie Johnson (drums). Bauer recorded throughout the sixties into 1969, among final titles in winter that year with trumpeter, Clark Terry, on 'What Is This Thing Called Love' and 'Blues For Fontana'. Woody Herman's 'The 40th Anniversary Carnegie Hall Concert' in 1976 with the New Thundering Herd was one of the few occasions that Bauer recorded in the last 35 years of his life as he concentrated on private teaching. Lord's disco has him one last time in March of 1995 with Flip Phillips at the Hilton in Dearfield Beach, FL, for 'Sweet and Lovely' and 'Perdido'. He published his autobiography, 'Sideman' [1, 2], in 1997. Bauer died on June 16 of 2005 in New York City. References: 1, 2, 3, 4. Synopsis. Sessions: DAHR (w composers); Lord (leading 7 of 258). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. Transcriptions & instruction by Bauer *. Further reading: 'A Life in the Bebop Guitar Business' by Steven Beck (Rutgers 2014). Billy Bauer 1946 Piano: Lennie Tristano Composition: Vernon Duke/Ira Gershwin Flip Phillips Hiptet Composition: Joe (Flip) Phillips Flip Phillips Hiptet Composition: Cole Porter Billy Bauer 1947 Sax: Allen Eager Composition: Dizzy Gillespie Billy Bauer 1949 Sax: Lee Konitz Composition: Konitz Lennie Tristano Sextet Composition: Tristano Billy Bauer 1956 Composition: George Forrest/Robert Wright Album: 'The Plectrist'
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George Duvivier, double-bassist, was born in New York City in 1929. Early work places him with Lucky Millinder and Cab Calloway in the forties after a time in the Army. He is thought to have first recorded with the Lucky Millinder Orchestra on November 6 of 1941: 'Hey Huss' and 'Let Me Off Upton' (with vocalist, Trevor Bacon), et al. Duvivier stuck with Millinder for a couple years, their last tracks for V-Disc on November 23 of 1943 gone unissued: 'Macon Flyer', 'Apollo Jump' and 'Shipyard Social Function'. Lord's disco has Duvivier on a remarkable 822 sessions, the high majority of which will see no light here. We jump ahead a few years from Millinder to another orchestra director, Sy Oliver, with whom Duvivier recorded on multiple occasions, beginning on January 9, 1947, for such as 'Hey Daddy-O!' and 'Slow Burn'. His last session on December 20 that year yielded such as 'Scotty' and 'Sad Story Blues'. Sessions in 1949 included Billie Holiday on August 29: 'Keeps on Rainin' and 'Them There Eyes'. Sessions in 1950 included Louis Armstrong on June 26: 'La Vie en Rose', 'C'est Si Bon', et al. A session on January 4 of 1952 for vocalist, Jeri Southern, reaped such as 'Give Me Time' and 'I Thought of You Last Night'. A session on February 13, 1953, for vocalist, Ella Fitzgerald, wrought 'Careless', 'Blue Lou' and 'I Wonder What Kind of Man'. April 5 of 1956 saw vocalist, Connie Boswell's, 'Lullaby in Rhythm', 'Honey', etc.. Duvivier backed Oliver to 1960, including a couple of obscure albums: 'Just a Minute' and 'Annie Laurie' ('Dance Music for People Who Don't Dance Anymore' per Riverside). We need return to 1947 for Duvivier's first titles with one of the more important trumpet players of his career, that Joe Wilder in May that year in the orchestra of Jimmie Lunceford for such as 'Open the Door Richard' and 'One O'Clock Jump'. Duvivier and Wilder worked frequently together supporting other bands, when not a Wilder project, into the seventies. They joined one another in May and June of 1955 to support Lena Horne per the Lennie Hayton Orchestra for 'It's Love', 'Let Me Love You' and 'It's All Right With Me'. 1956 found Duvivier backing Wilder's 'Of Thee I Sing', a suite of Gershwin titles with Hank Jones (piano), Mundell Lowe (guitar) and Max Roach (drums). They backed vocalist, Peter Dean's, 'Four Or Five Times' in 1974, to reunite in 1980 for Helen Humes' 'Helen'. Wilder was present at what is thought to have been Duvivier's final session on March 5 of '85 in Manhattan for Benny Carter's 'The Cosmic Eye Suite'. We need back up to 1949 for Duvivier's first session with guitarist, Mundell Lowe, that in the Mary Lou Williams Orchestra on March 18 for such as 'Tisherome' and 'Knowledge'. Lowe would be one of Duvivier's more important associates for decades to come, often backing other bands together when not working on Lowe's projects. Early 1956 found them with pianist, Billy Taylor, recording tracks for what would get released in 2007 as Taylor's 'Meets the Jazz Greats (Know Your Jazz)'. Saxophonist, Al Cohn, and drummer, Percy Brice, were also part of that project. Lowe and Duvivier's next session, thought in April, was a trio with Jack Greenberg on reeds for 'This Could Lead to Love', 'Wonderful One', et al. 1961 saw Lowe's album, 'Satan in High Heels'. Their last recordings together are thought to have been in Tokyo in April of 1978 with pianist, Nat Pierce, for such as 'Blues for Terry' and 'Blues for Buddy'. They would reunite in Los Angeles in April of '84 for Barry Manilow's '2:00 AM - Paradise Cafe'. We return to 1949 for Duvivier's first session with one the more important saxophonists to grace his career, that Eddie Lockjaw Davis on April 19 to support vocalist, Jesse Stone, on 'Cole Slaw', 'Do It Now' and 'Easy Walkin''. On June 17 of 1949 they backed vocalist, Fats Thomas, on 'Oo-Bob-Aloo-Bo' and 'I Give You My Love'. December of 1957 found them recording 'Count Basie Presents the Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman'. Other albums by Davis on which Duvivier appeared were his three volumes of 'The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook' from '58 to '60, 'Very Saxy' ('59), 'Jaws in Orbit' ('59), 'Bacalao' ('60) and 'The Fox and the Hounds' ('67). Their last recordings together may have been in January of 1970 in the Count Basie Orchestra for 'Chicago', 'Have You Met Miss Jones?', et al. We return to August of 1952 for Duvivier's first session with pianist, Hank Jones, that in the Leroy Kirkland Orchestra to support Ella Fitzgerald on 'Trying', 'The Greatest There Is', etc.. Duvivier and Jones interweaved numerously throughout Duvivier's career in support of various bands. January of 1977 found them in the Hank Jones Trio with Ben Riley on drums for 'Bop Redux'. Another trio in Paris with drummer, Oliver Jackson, on July 28 of 1977 saw Jones' 'I Remember You'. July 17 of '78 saw them in France again with drummer, Alan Dawson, recording Jones' 'Compassion' in Brignoles. Another trio in April of 1979 in Tokyo with drummer, Shelly Manne, came to Jones' 'Easy to Love'. Jones' 'Live in Japan' followed the next month in Kagoshima. Back in Tokyo several days later that May they supported vocalist, Junko Mine, on 'Once in the Evening'. Come Jones' 'Bluesette' in London on June 22 of 1979 with drummer, Alan Dawson. Another trip to Tokyo in October 1980 found them backing Mine again. Their last recording together is thought to have been Duvivier's final, that in NYC on March 5 of 1985 to back Benny Carter's 'The Cosmic Eye Suite'. Another important pianist was Bud Powell, for which first session we return to August 14 of 1953 per Powell's Trio with drummer, Art Taylor: 'Autumn in New York' and 'Reets and I', et al. Numerous trios with Powell occurred to January 30 of 1958, again with drummer, Art Taylor, for such as 'Big Foot' and 'Barbados'. Another significant figure was Benny Goodman, commencing on November 8 of 1954 with a Goodman quintet and sextet for 'Air Mail Special', 'Ain't Misbehavin', 'Get Happy' and 'Slipped Disc', with guitarist, Steve Jordan, on the latter two. Duvivier recorded numerously with Goodman off and on in the fifties and sixties. Their last date together may have been for the 'Timex All Star Swing Festival' television special on October 23 of 1972 in NYC for 'Avalon', 'I'm a Ding Dong Daddy' and 'Moonglow'. Another significant bandleader was Count Basie. Duvivier had first worked with Basie upon the latter arranging the soundtrack to 'The Benny Goodman Story' in August of 1955. Come December of '57, per above with Eddie Lockjaw Davis for 'Count Basie Presents the Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman'. Duvivier stuck with Basie through numerous sessions to 1960 ('String Along with Basie'). 1966 found Duvivier contributing to 'Basie Swingin', Voices Singin' with Davis and the Alan Copeland Singers. January of 1970 witnessed titles like ' 'Chicago' and 'Have You Met Miss Jones?', again with Davis. We back up to 22 May of 1956 in Paris for what Lord lists as Duvivier's only session as a leader, putting down such as ''Rue Dauphine' and 'Nautilus' w Martial Solal (piano), Michel Hausser (vibes) and Charles Saudrais (drums). Recorded for Coronet, Lord shows no releases and none are found. It was with Basie that Duvivier first recorded with another keyboardist significant in his career, that organist, Shirley Scott, their first titles thought to have occurred on December of 1957 per above for 'Count Basie Presents the Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman'. Duvivier and Scott drove much the same bumper car into the latter sixties, often supporting Davis when not working on Scott's projects. In March of 1958 Duvivier participated in 'Eddie Davis Trio Featuring Shirley Scott'. Other among Scott's projects were 'Scottie Plays The Duke' on April 24 of '59, and 'Soul Sister' in 1960. 1960 also saw 'Like Cozy', per a trio with drummer, Arthur Edgehill. August 19 of 1966 witnessed 'Soul-Duo' with Clark Terry on flugelhorn and Mickey Roker on drums. 'Girl Talk' was recorded January 12, 1967. Another important pianist, John Lewis, had come knocking on May 8, 1959, with Connie Kay on drums for 'My Heart Stood Still' and 'Now's the Time', et al. Duvivier supported Lewis numerously to late 1960, later reuniting in France in '77 and '78. That last occasion in Brignoles on July 19 resulted in Lewis' 'Mirjana'. Another important saxophonist was Oliver Nelson, the latter's 'Screamin' the Blues' recorded on May 27, 1960, with Eric Dolphy. Another Nelson LP with Dolphy was 'Straight Ahead' recorded on March 1 of 1961. Nelson began arranging and conducting his own orchestra in 1952, Duvivier to fill a spot in that in August of '62 in support of Johnny Hodges' 'Eleventh Hour'. The first album by Nelson and his orchestra on which Duvivier appeared was 'Full Nelson', recorded October 19, 1962. Nelson kept Duvivier quite busy to 1967, both backing other organizations and recording Nelson LPs. Their last recordings of that long stretch were with Nelson's Jazz Interactions Orchestra for 'Jazzhattan Suite' in November of 1967. They would see one another again in May of 1970 to support 'Louis Armstrong and His Friends'. Backing up to 1960, a vocalist important to Duvivier's career came knocking on June 21, that Etta James for 'Don't Go to Strangers'. Duvivier would also appear on 'So Warm' (1961), 'Lonely and Blue' (1962), 'Save Your Love for Me' (1980) and 'Love Me with All Your Heart' (1983). Another important organist requires mention, returning to 1962 for titles with Jimmy Smith backed by the Oliver Nelson Orchestra: 'In a Mellow Mood' and 'Step Right Up'. Duvivier backed Smith heavily into 1964, again on December 17 of 1965 for 'Got My Mojo Working', 'C Jam Blues', etc.. Highlighting some of the other recordings to which Duvivier contributed were albums by violinist, Andre Hodeir ('American Jazzmen Play Hodeir's Essais' 1957), Oscar Brown Jr. ('Sin and Soul' 1960), Jeanne Lee ('The Newest Sound Around' 1961), Aretha Franklin ('Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington' 1964) and Toots Thielemans ('Contrasts' 1966). Among the host of others with whom Duvivier recorded were Bob Scobey, Frank Wess, Pearl Bailey, Louie Bellson, Lionel Hampton, Bob Brookmeyer, Dinah Washington, Quincy Jones, Kai Winding, Illinois Jacquet, Sonny Stitt, Stanley Turrentine and Joe Farrell. Per above, Duvivier's final recordings are thought to have been for Benny Carter's 'The Cosminc Eye Suite' on March 5 of 1985. He died of cancer at home in Manhattan on July 11 that year. References: 1, 2. Sessions: DAHR, J-Disc, Lord (leading 1 of 841). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. IMDb. IA. Discussion. Biblio: 'Bassically Speaking: An Oral History of George Duvivier' by Edward Berger & David Chevan (Scarecrow Press 1993). George Duvivier 1943 Piano: Bud Powell Drums: Art Taylor Composition: Vernon Duke 1934 George Duvivier 1955 Piano: Bud Powell Drums: Art Taylor Composition: George Shearing George Duvivier 1957 Piano: Bud Powell Drums: Art Taylor Composition: George Shearing George Duvivier 1959 Filmed live Tenor sax: Ben Webster Composition: Duke Ellington 1942 Piano: Roland Hanna Guitar: Kenny Burrell Drums: Roy Burnes Hanna LP: 'Destry Rides Again' All comps by Harold Rome George Duvivier 1960 Clarinet: Bob Wilber Composition: Wilber George Duvivier 1984 Filmed live Guitar: Johnny Smith Drus: Alan Dawson
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George Duvivier
Source: Jazz Lead Sheets
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Barry Galbraith Source: Jazz Wax |
Barry Galbraith was born in 1919 in Pittsburgh, PA. He began his professional career upon ending up in New York City in time for his first session in the Claude Thornhill Orchestra on August 25, 1941, for such as 'Kim' and 'Concerto for Two'. While with Thornhill he also laid tracks with an orchestra run by Teddy Powell in support of vocalist, Ruth Gaylor, on November 11: 'I Used to Love You', 'Honey', et al. Thornhill's operation was Galbraith's engine that could into the fifties, numerous sessions held to December 17 of '47 for such as 'Yardbird Suite' and 'Let's Call It a Day'. Which they did until April of 1953 for such as 'Adios' and 'Rose of the Rio Grande', Gerry Mulligan arranging the latter. Galbraith joined Thornhill again on February 26 of 1958 for 'Claude on a Hill'. 'Dance to the Sound of Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra' saw recording on February 3 of 1959 for December issue by Decca. Other than working with Thornhill, Galbraith was a studio musician with sessions well exceeding 600. We'll pull the reins on this account of such, then, by commenting on only a couple of the more important figures in his career, those trombone player, Urbie Green, and bandleader, Manny Albam. Galbraith may have first recorded with Albam for Charlie Ventura on December 28 of 1949, Albam on baritone sax for such as 'Take the 'A' Train' and 'Prelude to a Kiss'. Beginning with Galbraith's next session with Albam the latter would be working as an arranger for Don Elliott's 'Mellophone' in early 1955. It was next the Manny Albam Orchestra supporting Milt Hinton on February 1 for such as 'Prelude to a Kiss' and 'Fump'. On Galbraith's numerous future sessions with Albam the latter would be working as an arranger and/or conductor both in mixture with other enterprises and his own projects. Albam albums on which Galbraith appeared were 'Sophisticated Lady (The Songs of Duke Ellington)' in 1958, 'I Had the Craziest Dream' in 1961 and 'Brass On Fire' in 1966. Lord's disco shows them last working on titles together in summer of 1967 for Jimmy McGriff's 'A Bag Full of Blues', Albam arranging. As for Green, the next year after wrapping up with Thornhil in '53, Galbraith joined Green in the Aaron Sachs Quintette in November of '54 to record the album by the same name. The next year they would begin another 13 years of continually interweaving sessions in support of other enterprises as well as each other, the career of the one much reflecting that of the other. On January 16, 1958, Green backed Galbraith's 'Guitar & the Wind' [1, 2]. Galbraith supported Green on 'The Message' and 'Best of the New Broadway Show Hits!' in 1959. Galbraith appeared on both volumes of Green's 'Persuasive Trombone' issued in '60 and '62, become available on CD in 2007 as 'The Complete Persuasive Trombone'. Galbraith backed 'The Urbie Green 6-Tet' in 1963 before what may have been their last recordings together, Green's '21 Trombones' in 1968. Among the hundreds of albums to which Galbraith contributed were such as Paul Quinichette's 'Moods' and Joe Puma's 'Joe Puma' in 1954. He also contributed to Puma's 'Like Tweet' in 1961. Jackie Paris' 'Paris in Swingtime' went down in November of '55. Other Paris titles in which Galbraith participated were 'The Jackie Paris Sound' in 1957, 'Jackie Paris Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin' in 1960 and 'The Song Is Paris' in 1962. Lurlean Hunter's 'Night Life' arrived in 1956, followed by Tommy Shepard's 'Shepard's Flock' the same year. Come Cannonball Adderley's 'Jump For Joy' in 1958 and Helen Merrill's 'You've Got a Date with the Blues' in '59. Galbraith had earlier held numerous sessions with Merrill in 1954-56. Ted McNabb's 'Big Band Swing' went down in November of '59, Johnny Griffin's 'White Gardenia' in 1961, Jack Teagarden's 'Think Well of Me' in 1962. Amidst the galaxy of those on whose titles Galbraith appeared were the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Dinah Washington, Tex Beneke, Joe Newman, Coleman Hawkins, Lee Wiley, Wild Bill Davison, Billie Holiday, Joe Saye, Boyd Raeburn, Sam "The Man" Taylor, Kenny Burrell and Jimmy Smith. Galbraith died in Bennington, Vermont, on January 13, 1983. He had issued 'Guitar Improve' the year before with guitarist, Mark Slifstein, and Milt Hinton on bass. References: 1, 2. Sessions: DAHR (205 w composing credits), J-Disc, Lord (leading 4 of 616). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. IMDb. Books by Galbraith: JGL (instruction): 1, 2, 3, 4; 'Jazz Guitar Study Series'; other. Barry Galbraith 1955 With Dinah Washington Composition: Lester Lee/Bob Russell 1953 For the film 'The Blue Gardenia' Composition: Quincy Jones Paul Quinichette album: 'Moods' Barry Galbraith 1956 Music: Richard Rodgers 1930 Lyrics: Lorenz Hart ('Dear Old Stockholm') Piano: John Lewis Composition: See Wikipedia LP: 'The John Lewis Piano' Barry Galbraith 1958 Composition: David Raskin LP: 'Guitar and the Wind' Barry Galbraith 1962 Gil Evans Orchestra Composition: John Carisi Evans LP 'Into the Hot' All arrangements: Evans
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Herb Ellis Photo: Vernon Hyde Source: Wikipedia |
Like novelist, Henry Miller, who wrote because he was too poor to pursue anything else, so it was with guitar and Herb Ellis. Born in 1921 in Farmersville, Texas, then raised in Dallas, Ellis was unable to finish college when not long later he was hired by Glen Gray. He may have first recorded with Gray in October 1943 with the Casa Loma Orchestra for Decca in support of vocalist, Eugenie Baird: 'My Heart Tells Me' and 'My Shining Hour', with the instrumentals, 'Birmingham Special' and 'Just an Old Manuscript'. Ellis stuck with the Casa Loma for a couple years, his final titles with that outfit thought to have been on May 3 of 1945 for 'Counting the Days' and 'While You're Away' with vocalist, Skip Nelson, and 'Gotta Be This or That' with vocalist, Fats Daniels. While with the Casa Loma Ellis attended several sessions with the V-Disc All Stars in December of 1944, yielding a string of titles from 'Jack-Armstrong Blues' to 'I'm Confessin' with jazz greats, Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden. On March 12 of 1945 Ellis joined the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra for a broadcast of 'Saturday Night' on the 'Spotlight Bands' radio program. A V-Disc session on the 15th yielded 'Brotherly Jump' and 'More Than You Know' before Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey separated to run each their own orchestras. Ellis went with Jimmy's band to record 'Dream' and 'There I've Said It Again' on March 28 with vocalist, Teddy Walters, after which he would exchange the Casa Loma for Jimmy's operation. Ellis' first recorded solos were with Jimmy, the earliest known being 'J.D.'s Boogie Woogie' in 1945. Others followed in 1946 such as 'Perdido', 'J.D.'s Jump', 'Super Chief' and 'Sunset Strip'. Ellis stayed with Jimmy to January 8 of 1947 for such as 'Heartaches' and 'No Greater Love' with vocalist, Bob Carroll, and 'Pots and Pans' with 'A Sunday Kind of Love' with vocalist, Dee Parker. In 1946 Ellis had formed the trio, the Soft Winds, with pianist, Lou Carter, and bassist, Johnny Frigo, both whom he had met while with Jimmy. Tom Lord and Scott Yanow have the Soft Winds recording from 1947 to 1949, along w a reunion half a century later in November of 1995 aboard the SS Norway in the Caribbean with Frigo on violin and Keter Betts on bass. Titles from both periods are available on the CD, 'Then and Now: 1946 · 1996' released in 1997 on Chiaroscuro 342. Three of Ellis' more important musical associates entered his space in 1953, those in the persons of Norman Granz, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald. Granz was the founder, impresario and producer of Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP). He had founded Clef Records in 1946, formed Norgran Records in 1953 and would establish Verve Records in 1956. Ellis' initial JATP session was at the Bushnell Memorial Auditorium in Hartford, CT, in May, 1953, for such as 'Cotton Tail' and 'Air Mail Special'. Ellis would hold 18 dates with the JATP to May 1, 1958, in Paris for the soundtrack to 'Les Tricheurs'. His first sessions with the JATP in '53 included Peterson on piano, from which point onward they were constant partners into the sixties supporting other operations, such as the JATP, and each other. The first Oscar Peterson Trio with Ray Brown on bass was a JATP affair at Carnegie Hall on September 19 of 1953 for such as 'Lollobrigida' and 'Pompton Turnpike'. Peterson and Brown backed Ellis' on the latter's debut album, 'Ellis in Wonderland', on December 28 of 1955. Brown, another important figure in Ellis career, mostly in association with Peterson, supported Ellis on his second album, 'Nothing But the Blues', on October 11 of 1957. Also in on that were Roy Eldridge, Stan Getz and Stan Levey. Ellis and Peterson recorded countless titles together, their last sessions with the Oscar Peterson Trio, yet with Brown, held on December 27 of 1972 toward Peterson's two volumes of 'History of an Artist'. Guitarists, Irving Ashby and Barney Kessel, also participated in that. March of 1990 saw a reunion with drummer, Bobby Durham, for 'Live at the Blue Note', 'Encore at the Blue Note', 'Saturday Night at the Blue Note' and 'Last Call at the Blue Note'. June 11 of 1991 saw them recording 'In the Key of Oscar' at the Bermuda Onion in Toronto, Ontario, with drummer, Jeff Hamilton. 'Side by Side' ensued in Astoria, New York, in April of 1994 with violinist, Itzhak Perlman, and drummer, Grady Tate. 'A Tribute to Oscar Peterson' followed on October 1, 1996, at Town Hall in NYC with drummer, Lewis Nash. Brown was in on that, though Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen as well. As for Ella Fitzgerald, Ellis' first titles with her in 1953 were a JATP affair in November in Tokyo, also with Brown and JC Heard on drums. Titles from their first session with Raymond Tunia on piano were such as 'On the Sunny Side of the Street' and 'Body and Soul'. Peterson was at piano for a second session. During that tour Ellis, Brown and Heard also backed pianist, Toshiko Akiyoshi, on her debut album, 'Toshiko's Piano'. From that date onward Ellis might as well have moved in with Fitzgerald, numerous sessions ensuing into the early sixties, largely in association with JATP, Louis Armstrong or Peterson. Ellis' last recordings with Fitzgerald are thought to have been in 1970 for several sessions stretching from January 4 to December 22, that last date yielding 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' and 'Things Ain't What They Used to Be'. Those dates per Lord's disco are contradicted, however, by Wikipedia, wanting session dates of May 26–30 of 1969 for the 1970 issue of the album, produced by Norman Granz, 'Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It)'. Discogs has that recorded on an unknown date in 1970, copyrighted and released in 1971. Howsoever, that was released on Frank Sinatra's label, Reprise Records. Other unmentioned notable figures arriving in the fifties were such as Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Blossom Dearie and Coleman Hawkins. During the sixties it were Peggy Lee, the Dukes of Dixieland and Lou Rawls. During the eighties Ellis worked with pianist, Monty Alexander, on multiple occasions for several years from 1980 to '87. In 1999 he and blues guitarist, Duke Robillard, recorded 'Conversations in Swing Guitar' and 'More Conversations in Swing Guitar'. The new millennium found him supporting Ray Brown in February of 2000 on a couple tracks to 'Some of My Best Friends Are...Guitarists'. Ellis died of Alzheimer's disease at his home in Los Angeles on March 28, 2010 [obits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. References: 1, 2, 3. Sessions: DAHR (60 1944-1968), Lord (leading 47 of 449 1943-2000). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. IMDb. IA. Further reading: Gene Lees; Marc Myers (Ellis w Oscar Peterson). Other profiles: *. Herb Ellis 1946 With Jimmy Dorsey: Composition: Jimmy Dorsey/Sonny Burke Composition: Jimmy Dorsey/Ellis/Louis Carter Arrangement: Louis Carter Herb Ellis 1955 Album Herb Ellis 1958 Trumpet: Dizzy Gillespie Composition: Benny Goodman LP: 'Nothing but the Blues' Herb Ellis 1969 From 'Hello Herbie' Oscar Peterson LP Piano: Oscar Peterson Bass: Sam Jones Drums: Bob Durham Composition: Oscar Peterson Composition: Wes MontgomeryComposition: Charlie Christian Benny Goodman Fletcher Henderson Herb Ellis 1979 Filmed live w Barney Kessel Music: Victor Schertzinger 1941 Lyrics: Johnny Mercer Herb Ellis 1986 Live performance with Dave Maslow Live performance with Dave Maslow Music: Ben Bernie/Maceo Pinkard 1925 Lyrics: Kenneth Casey
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Tiny Grimes Source: Jazz Wax |
Guitarist
Lloyd Tiny Grimes was born in 1916 in
Newport News, Virginia. He is thought to have played drums professionally
before switching to electric guitar in 1938. He joined the Cats and a Fiddle
in time for titles in NYC on January 20, 1941, such as 'I'll Always Love
You Just the Same' (Bluebird 8639) and 'I Am Singing' (Bluebird 8685), et al. A couple sessions with that
group followed in October. On March 22 of 1943, he was in Los Angeles as one
of the Art
Tatum Trio with
Slam Stewart on bass for AFRS 'Jubilee'
broadcasts in March and June. Numerous sessions with that trio were held,
including transcriptions for World, to June 21 of 1944 in NYC for such as
'Boogie' and 'Soft Winds' (Folkways FP33). On September 13 Grimes held his first
session as a leader, recording 'Tiny's Tempo' and 'Red Cross', et al, toward
issue on Savoy MG 12001. The sorts
of circles Grimes helped to populate were those of
Ike Quebec,
Billie Holiday and
Earl Hines, etc.. Among albums
released by Grimes were 'Blues Groove', co-led in February of 1958 with
Coleman Hawkins, and 'One Is Never
Too Old to Swing' in 1977 with trumpeter, Roy
Eldridge. Grimes died of
meningitis on March 4, 1989. More of Tiny Grimes with bassist
Slam Stewart, under Art
Tatum. References: 1,
2,
3. Discos:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
IMDb.
Internet Archive. Compilations:
'The Complete Tony Grimes' 1944-1954 Vol 1-5 by Blue Moon 2004:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5;
Chronological Classics
in 3 volumes: #5048 '1944-1949', #5106 '1949-1951' and #5146 '1951-1954'.
Reviews.
Lloyd Tiny Grimes 1943 With the Art Tatum Trio Composition: Grimes Lloyd Tiny Grimes 1944 Saxophone: Charlie Parker Piano: Clyde Hart Composition: Hart Lloyd Tiny Grimes 1947 Composition: Meade Lux Lewis Lloyd Tiny Grimes 1950 Composition: Grimes [45Cat] Composition: W.C. Handy 1914 Lloyd Tiny Grimes 1951 Composition: Grimes Lloyd Tiny Grimes 1972 Composition: Herbie Hancock 1962
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Guitarist Barney Kessel first recorded with the Chico Marx Orchestra in Decmber of 1942. (Marx, of the comedy group, the Marx Brothers, was a pianist.) Those titles weren't issued until 1992 on a CD shared with titles by Desi Arnaz per 'Big Bands of Hollywood'. His next session was in December of '43 for 'Bring Enough Clothes for Three Days' with Timmie Rogers and his Excelsior Hep Cats, that issued in May of '45. Come Jack McVea in April of '44 for an AFRS 'Jubilee' radio broadcast including 'St. Louis Blues' with Helen Humes, issues unknown until the 1980 LP, 'Jack McVea & His Combo: Open The Door, Richard 1944-1947'. Lord's disco has Kessel's first session as a leader, 'Tea For Two', included on that. Kessel's first appearance on record shop shelves was per 'Sam's Got Him' with the King Guion Orchestra for vocalist, Johnny Mercer, that recorded on June 21 of '44, released in August. Kessel's next session was for V-Disc, also issued in '44, that with the band of Charlie Barnet in July for titles like 'Redskin Rumba' and 'Pompton Turnpike'. He was also featured in the jazz film, 'Jammin' the Blues', released in 1944 (below). With Kessel attending about 530 sessions, more than seventy of those his own as a leader, we jump ahead a touch to Kessel's first major band, that of Artie Shaw, joining the latter's orchestra in time for such as 'Accentuate the Positive' and 'Let's Take the Long Way Home' in November of 1944 with vocalist, Imogene Lynn. Kessel remained with Shaw to April 28 of 1946 to record 'The Pied Piper'. Later that year he joined the Benny Goodman Orchestra in time record such as 'Under the Double Eagle' and 'Rattle and Roll' in October for an AFRS 'Magic Carpet' broadcast (#514). Lord's disco has Kessel with Goodman to January of '47 for broadcasts of 'The Benny Goodman Show' from Hollywood for such as 'Lonely Moments' and 'I'll Always Be in Love with You', the latter a quintet. Reunions with the Benny Goodman Quintet were held in September of '58, the last for the 'Music of Benny Goodman' television special for Johnny Green: 'Poor Butterfly', 'Avalon' and 'It's All Right With Me'. Those were released much later in 1976 on an LP titled 'Orchestras & Groups' (Rarities 30). Among notable vocalists to early come Kessel's way was Mel Tormé who had sang 'Abraham' during Kessel's first recording session per above with Chico Marx. Multiple sessions with Tormé followed in '44, '49, '57, '64 and, finally, February 1 of 1968 for 'A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde'. Among Kessel's more important musical associates was arranger and bandleader, Billy May. They first recorded together when May played trumpet for Johnny Mercer per above in June of 1944. 'Conversation While Dancing' followed on September 11 that year. They would see one another again in 1946-47 with May arranging for Charlie Barnet. Kessel joined May's orchestra in time for titles on October 26, 1950, like 'Mambo con Catalina' and 'Fat Man Mambo', et al. Kessel worked with May on multiple occasions to 1958, either in May's orchestra or with May arranging for others such as Bing Crosby in August of '58, yielding 'It Happened in Monterey', 'Love Won't Let You Get Away', etc.. After titles with Mercer above in 1944 Kessel recorded his first issued tracks as leader of the All Stars on June 7, 1945: "Atom Buster', 'What Is This Thing Called Love', 'Slick Chick' and 'The Man I Love'. Kessel was well-known for his work with major vocalists, one being Anita O'Day whom he first supported on December 23 of 1946 as a member of Benny Goodman's orchestra: 'The Christmas Song'. Kessel backed O'Day on occasion, though numerously, with various orchestras to as late as 1961, that last session to yield 'Remember', 'Some Other Spring', et al. Another important associate was pianist, Oscar Peterson, they recording their first trio with bassist, Ray Brown, on November 25, 1951, in Los Angeles, coming to such as 'Turtle Neck' and 'Pooper'. Peterson's trios, quartets on occasion, would also make Brown one of the more important of Kessel's associates, the three of them recording numerously to December 7 of 1953 for such as 'Without a Song', 'Sometimes I'm Happy', et al. The three got together again in '57, later in 1972 for both volumes of Peterson's 'History of an Artist'. Another major vocalist was Billie Holiday, Kessel supporting her for a Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) concert at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on October 7, 1946, for a rendition of 'Trav'lin' Light'. Kessel would see Holiday again in 1952 in her orchestra for 'East of the Sun', 'Blue Moon', etc.. They thereafter recorded numerously together to January 9 of 1957 for 'They Can't Take That Away From Me', 'Embraceable You', et al. Another big name vocalist came Kessel's way via the person of Ella Fitzgerald, that with Peterson, Brown, et al, at the Theatre de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland, for a JATP concert on March 14, 1953, yielding such as 'It's Only a Paper Moon', 'Someone to Watch Over Me', etc.. Kessel backed Fitzgerald numerously in 1956 and '58, later in October of 1964 for 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book'. Kessel had meanwhile recorded in '52 or '53 what would get issued on 'Swing Guitars' in 1955 on an album shared with Tal Farlow and Oscar Moore. His first album, 'Easy Like', was taped in latter 1953, 'Barney Kessel Plays Standards' in '54 and 'To Swing Or Not To Swing' in 1955. Important in Kessel's latter career was guitarist, Herb Ellis, who had joined Kessel and guitarist, Mike Deasy, in the band of Mel Tormé per above for 'A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde' in '68. Ellis participated in Peterson's 'The History of an Artist' per above in 1972 before joining Kessel and guitarist, Charlie Byrd, in their first trios at the Concord Jazz Festival in California on July 28, 1974, those included on 'Great Guitars'. Several of the projects on which Ellis and Kessel worked together were Byrd's, including their their last in Washington, D.C. in August of 1982 for 'At Charlie's Georgetown'. Others of the horde with whom Kessel recorded through the years were Howard McGhee, Bing Crosby, Billy Eckstine, Ray Anthony and Buddy DeFranco. Kessel died on May 6, 2004. His last album is thought to have been recorded in March of '88: 'Red Hot and Blues'. A stroke in 1992 had ended his professional career [obits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. References: 1, 2, 3. Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, Lord (leading 72 of 535 sessions). Audio archives: Internet Archive, Muskogee 1982 (podcast). Interviews: Les Tomkins 1969-88, NAMM 1999. Further reading: Cynthia Benedetto (alt), Spectropop, Matt Warnock (instruction). Bibliography: 'Barney Kessel: A Jazz Legend' by Maurice Summerfield (Ashley Mark Publishing 2008). Other profiles: 1, 2. Barney Kessel 1944 Short film Tenor sax: Lester Young 1: 'Midnight Symphony' Composition: Lester Young 2: 'On the Sunny Side of the Street' Music: Jimmy McHugh Lyrics: Dorothy Fields 3: 'Jammin' the Blues' Composition: Lester Young Barney Kessel 1955 Recorded 1953 Piano: Claude Williamson Bass: Red Mitchell Composition: Alan Brandt/Bob Haymes Recorded 1954 Composition: Gershwin Brothers Recorded 1954 Composition: Harry Warren/Johnny Mercer Recorded 1954 Music: Nacio Herb Brown 1940 Lyrics: Gus Kahn Barney Kessel 1958 Bass: Ray Brown Drums: Shelly Manne Composition: Earl Brent/Matt Dennis Barney Kessel 1959 Music: Tiny Bradshaw Eddie Johnson Bobby Plater Lyrics: Robert Wright (Buddy Feyne)
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Jimmy Raney Source: Cover Jazz
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Born in 1927 in Louisville, Kentucky, Jimmy Raney (father of guitarist, Doug Raney, and pianist, Jon Raney) first recorded professionally on May 24 of 1944, having traveled to NYC for a couple months to work with the Jerry Wald Orchestra. That was the tune, 'Two Heavens', with Al Haig at piano. He made another trip in 1945 to join a few sessions with Wald in February and March. In 1946 he decided Chicago was the place to be, there joining the Max Miller Quartet at Elmer's. Raney drew a royal flush when he joined Woody Herman's Second Herd in California in time for his first session on February 2, 1948, for soundtrack titles, 'Caledonia' and 'Northwest Passage'. Raney stuck with Herman's orchestra to August 8, 1948, ending up in New Jersey for an AFRS 'One Night Stand' radio broadcast (#1769) bearing 'Fan It', 'No Time', etc.. Present during Raney's first session with Herman in '48 had been tenor saxophonist, Stan Getz. Come October that year Raney joined Getz' Quintet in NYC to put down such as 'Pardon My Bop' with 'As I Live and I Bop', et al. Getz was Raney's main train to 1953, recording numerously to April that year for 'Jimmy Raney Plays'. Come Al Haig again in April of 1948 with the Buddy Stewart Quintet in NYC to put down such as 'You Wear Love So Well' and 'If Love Is Trouble'. Haig would be a strong presence in Raney's career for the next few years, both backing other bands, like Getz', and working on Haig's projects, the first of which was a quartet in late summer of '48 to support 'Bopelbaby' sung by Dave Lambert. Sessions were frequent with Haig to October 28 of 1951 in the Stan Getz Quintet at the Storyville Club in Boston, MA, for 'Budo', 'The Song Is You', etc. A reunion in 1974 resulted in their joint LP, 'Special Brew'. Another, 'Strings Attached', followed in '75. We need step back to April 23, 1953, for Raney's first session as a leader, that to be issued as 'Jimmy Raney Plays'. Another strong presence in Raney's career followed a couple years later, that valve trombonist, Bob Brookmeyer, on June 30, 1955, for 'The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer'. The next year on May 14 Brookmeyer backed Raney on 'Jimmy Raney in Three Attitudes'. It was 'Jimmy Raney Featuring Bob Brookmeyer' on July 23. Come December of '57 it was Brookmeyer's 'The Street Swingers' with Jim Hall (guitar), Bill Crow (bass) and Osie Johnson (drums). Brookmeyer's 'Trombone Jazz Samba' went down in August of '62, 'Samba Para Dos' on February 7 of '63. In the meantime Brookmeyer and Raney backed other enterprises together, such as Mary Ann McCall's 'Detour to the Moon'. Raney's career had been good for a minimum of 200 sessions, 37 his own as a leader. Among the host of others whom Raney supported were Buddy DeFranco, Artie Shaw, John Carisi and Cal Tjader. Raney had issued numerous albums leading smaller ensembles from duos to a sextet. Among the latter was 'Strings & Swings' released in 1972, recorded in '57. Come 'Two Jims and a Zoot' in May of '64 w a gang of Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Jim Hall (guitar), Steve Swallow (bass) and Osie Johnson (drums). Raney issued 'Solo' in 1978. 'Stolen Moments' went down on 19 April 1979 with his guitarist son, Doug Raney [b '56/d '16: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. Two days later they recorded 'Duets for issue in 1980. Jimmy's last album is thought to have been 'But Beautiful' recorded December 5 of 1990 with George Mraz (bass) and Lewis Nash (drums). He had contributed to Tramaine Hawkins' 'To a Higher Place' issued in 1994 before his death on 9 May 1995 in Louisville [obit]. Raney is survived by his second son, pianist, Jon Raney [1, 2], born in 1961. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Synopses: 1, 2. Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, Lord (leading 37 of 201 sessions). Compilations: 'Complete Recordings 1954-1956' by Fresh Sound 2001: 1, 2. Compositions. Transcriptions. Select recordings (Jon Raney). Workshops 1993 (see Teachings). Discussion. Further reading: Zachary Streeter. Jimmy Raney 1948 Sittin' In With 509 Vocal: Terry Swope Piano: Al Haig Bass: Don Russo Drums: Charlie Perry Composition: Robert Ellen Jimmy Raney 1949 Seeco 10002 Piano: Al Haig Composition: Leon Wexler See 'Billboard' Jimmy Raney 1952 Recorded 28 Oct 1951 Live at the Storyville Club Boston, MA Royal Roost EP312 Tenor sax: Stan Getz Piano: Al Haig Bass: Teddy Kotick Drums: Tiny Kahn Music: Richard Rodgers 1927 Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Jimmy Raney 1952 Sax: Stan Getz Composition: Raney Recorded 1952 Issues unidentified Note: 'The issue of 'Parker 51' above is left unidentified w personnel as documented. Getz and Raney had first recorded 'Parker 51' at the Storyville Club on 28 Oct 1951. They recorded it 'again at the Birdland on 15 April 1952 w Horace Silver (piano), Charles Mingus (bass) and Connie Kay (drums) toward issue on Alto AL704 and Fresh Sound FSRCD149 [Lord]. Jazz Discography Project (JDP) prefers 5 April w Gene Ramey at bass. Fresh Sound prefers April 5 w Mingus. Discogs prefers 15 April w either Mingus or Nelson Boyd ['Birdland Sessions 1952']. Getz and Raney recorded 'Parker 51' again at Carnegie Hall on 14 Nov 1952 with Bill Crow at bass and Frank Isola on drums toward issue on Fresh Sound FSCD1003. JDP and Lord have them recording it at the Birdland again on 18 Nov of '52 w the same ensemble toward Natasha Imports 4005. All to say that I myself can find no instance of Boyd and Phil Brown backing Getz and Raney together on 'Parker 51'. Otherwise, JDP explains the subtitling of 'Cherokee' in Lord w 'Parker 51' as a labeling error, the tune based on Charlie Parker's 'Ko Ko' of 1945 which was itself based on Ray Noble's 'Cherokee' of 1938. Jimmy Raney 1953 From 'Jimmy Raney Plays' Recorded 23 April 1953 (Other issues below may substitute) Tenor sax: Sven Coolson (Stan Getz) Piano: Hall Overton Bass: (Keith) Red Mitchell Drums: Frank Isola Composition: Raney Composition: Thelonious Monk Composition: Raney Jimmy Raney 1956 Valve trombone: Bob Brookmeyer Composition: Brookmeyer LP: 'Jimmy Raney featuring Bob Brookmeyer' Jimmy Raney 1975 Recorded 21 July 1972 NYC Composition: John Klenner/Sam Lewis LP: 'Momentum' Note: RateYourMusic has MPS ULS-1619-P issued in 1975. Discogs 1978. Jimmy Raney 1987 Live performance Composition: John Green
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Franco Cerri Source: Umbria 24 |
Born in 1926 in Milan, Italy, Franco Cerri
began his vocation with guitar rather late, he seventeen and working as a
mason when his father gave him one. He studied under Italian guitarist,
Michael Ortuso. He swiftly got hired into orchestras (Gorni Kramer's his
first) and moved on to radio while it was yet World War II. Not even
Italians can escape my eye for Latin talent, though with Cerri they tried.
Because his early discography is murder I must write this posthumously.
Cerri seems to have begun his recording career in 1945. Lord's disco
would appear to have him recording in 1945 with the orchestra of Bruno Martelli:
'Learn to Croon', 'Shoe Shine Boy', etc., those issued by VdP at an unknown
time. Cerri continued with Martelli into 1946, meanwhile recording such as
'South Avenue Express' and 'Tuxedo Junction' with pianist, Giampiero Boneschi
on June 5 of '45. Cerri would also back Boneschi on 'Stringendo' in '49.
Other early recordings were made with the Quartet Galli ('48), Natalino Otto
('Donkeys Classroom' '48) and the aforementioned Kramer ('49). The Cerri
website also has Cerri recording as Franco Cerri and his Orchestra in 1950,
titles in Lord's listed as 'Caravan', 'Gavottin del nonni', Cherokee' and 'E
l'alba' in October and November for the HMV imprint, Voce del Padrone,
issues unknown. (Cerri would release an album titled 'Voce del Padrone' in
1981.) In late 1950 Cerri would record such as 'September Song' and
'Le tue mani' with the Quartetto
d'Archi, Voce del Padrone issue again unknown. The Franco Cerri Quintet put down a string of titles on August 2, 1952,
including 'Don't Blame Me' and 'Where or When' for the Musica label. Cerri's
first confirmable release wasn't until 1958: 'Jazzin' with Franco Cerri', an
EP (Fox EPF 114). He'd meanwhile spent the fifties touring with his Franco
Cerri Quintet. That was after an opportunity to play for a couple of weeks
in 1949
at the Astoria in Milan with
Django Reinhardt and
Stephane Grappelli. The fifties
found Cerri entering into television in the capacity of a conductor for
various jazz programs. Among Cerri's more important associates in the
fifties was alto saxophonist, Flavio Ambrosetti. There first session is
thought to have been on September 25, 1953, for such as 'There's a Small
Hotel' and 'Tenderly'. in that quartet were Francis Burger (piano) and
Gilberto Cuppini (drums). Ambrosetti and Cerri would collaborate on numerous
projects in the early and latter fifties. Ambrosetti participated in Cerri's 'Franco Cerri and his European Jazz Stars' on December 19, 1959.
June of 1961 saw him contributing to Cerri's 'International Jazz Meeting'.
They would reunite as late as 2006 with the Bocconi Jazz Business Unit for
'Jazz & Movies'. Cerri supported touring American trumpeter, Chet Baker, on
a number of occasions in 1959 and 1962. Their first occasions in September of
'59 wrought 'Chet Baker in Milan'. Their last occasion in Brussels, Belgium,
resulted in Baker's 'Stella By Starlight'. Another American musician Cerri
hosted was saxophonist,
Buddy Collette, in 1961, recording titles that would
include La Scala Quartet ('Soft Touch', 'Skylark', et al). Lord's disco has Cerri recording with pianist,
Enrico Intra, as early as 1964 in Milan: 'Polkadots
and Moonbeams', 'Blues deui framasteni' and 'Star Dust'. Cerri would later
collaborate with
Intra on multiple projects from the eighties
into the new millennium like 'Omaggio a Bill Evans' ('81), 'From: Milan To:
Frankfurt/Main' ('85), 'Pregiata Ditta Dal' ('89), '3e Rossegna Jazz
Franciacorta' ('90), 'From Milan to Brussels' ('97) and 'Double Trio' ('07). Cerri made his first journey to the United States in
1966 to perform at Lincoln Center in NYC. He filled out his career with a
variety of musicians in the sixties as a session musician, the meanwhile
composing. In 1982 Cerri wrote a sixty lesson guitar instruction manual with
classical guitarist, Mario Gangi, handled by Fabbri Publishing and said to
currently be in its fifth edition. Having issued nigh forty albums as a leader or co-leader, in
addition to backing others, among latest releases in the new millennium were 'La
Sera A Casa Con Te' in 2014, and 'Antonio Onorato &
Franco Cerri' by Abeat Records in 2017 consisting of performances in Naples
in 2005 and Udine in 2011 w Simone Serafini on bass and Luca Colussi on
drums. References: 1,
2.
Sessions: Lord (leading 69 of 154); SCRIBD.
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
Interviews: Renato Catania
2013,
Darren Bromley 2015.
IMDb.
IA. Franco Cerri 1948 ('La Classe Degli Asini') Vocal: Natalino Otto Composition: John Green Franco Cerri 1958 Composition: C. Williamson Album: 'Jazzin' with Cerri' Franco Cerri 1960 From 'Jazz in Italia: 4 Dimensions' RCA LPM-60000 Recorded 9 April '59 Rome Composition: Cerri From 'Franco Cerri Quartet' Columbia SEMQ 153Recorded 10 Nov '59 Milan Composition: Cerri Music: Jimmy Van Heusen 1939 Lyrics: Eddie DeLange Composition: John Klenner/Sam Lewis Composition: Victor Young From 'Franco Cerri and His European Jazz Stars' Columbia 33-QPX 8010 Recorded 19 Dec '59 Milan Composition: Brooks Bowman Franco Cerri 1961 Composition: Buddy Collette LP: 'The Polyhedric Buddy Collette' Franco Cerri 1967 'Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars' Composition: Tom Jobim Telecast Music: Arthur Johnston 1936 Lyrics: Johnny Burke Filmed with Stephane Grappelly Franco Cerri 1968 Telecast Composition: Paolo Conte Telecast Composition: Cerri Franco Cerri 1976 Composition: Gershwin Brothers LP: 'Nuages' Franco Cerri 1977 Televised with Tony Scott Franco Cerri 2001 Filmed live Music: Jerome Kern 1919 Lyrics: Buddy DeSylva Franco Cerri 2005 Filmed with Nicola Arigliano Franco Cerri 2011 Filmed live Filmed live Franco Cerri 2015 Filmed at the Blue Note Milano Music: Billy Strayhorn 1939 Lyrics: Joya Sherrill 1944
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Curtis Counce
was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1926, moving to Los Angeles in 1945.
He began his career on double bass as a studio musician, thought to have
seen his first sessions on September 13 of 1945 with Johnny Otis for such as
'My Baby's Business' and 'Preston Love's Mansion'. Another session on
October 15 for an AFRS 'Jubilee' broadcast (#152) resulted in what would get
issued in 1986 as 'Start to Jump Because It's Jubilee'. Counce would see
more of Otis in the latter fifties. In 1953 Counce joined a circle of musicians including
drummer,
Shelly Manne, and trumpeter,
Shorty Rogers.
Rogers was
arranger for the April taping of
Manne's 'You and The Night and The
Music'/'Gazelle' and 'Mallets'/'La Mucura'. Later that August they joined
Teddy Charles on vibes for
volumes 3 and 4 of 'New Directions' issued that year. Other tracks that
month would appear on 'Collaboration West' in 1956 and 'Evolution' in 1957.
Counce and
Rogers also contributed titles to Jack Millman's 'Jazz Studio 4'
in 1955. Counce had been in
Frank Rosolino's Sextet on March 12 of 1954 for
'Stan Kenton Presents Jazz: The Frank Rosolino Sextet'. In that operation
was pianist,
Claude Williamson, whom Counce would join on multiple future
occasions in support of various bands. June 26 of 1954 found him in
Williamson's Trio with
Stan Levey at drums for 'Stan Kenton Presents Jazz:
The Claude Williamson Trio'. In 1955 Counce appeared on a couple albums by
pianist, Pete Jolly: 'Jolly Jumps In' and 'I Get a Kick Out of You' (a 7"
45). Counce and Jolly had earlier worked with
Rogers and
Manne since 1954. Counce joined
Stan Kenton's orchestra at the Sweets Ballroom in Oakland, CA, on January 30 of
1956 for titles like 'Artistry in Rhythm' and 'Stompin' at the Savoy'.
Sessions ensued to May for 'Cuban Fire', a couple more unissued titles in
1957 with the Modern Men: 'Women Usually Do' and 'Opus in Chartreuse'.
Counce backed
Clifford Brown on August 11 of 1954
for 'The Boss Man'. On Oct 8 and 15 of '56 Counce recorded his debut LP, 'The Curtis
Counce Group', for release the next year. The Curtis Counce Group consisted
of Frank Butler (drums),
Harold Land (tenor sax),
Jack Sheldon (trumpet) and Carl
Perkins (piano). That same group backed
Anita O'Day in Nov of '56 on a
segment of the 'Stars of Jazz' television show.
Titles from that and another show in July of '57 saw issue on 'Sessions,
Live' (Calliope CAL 3021) in 1976. Upon Perkins' death of drug overdose at age 29 in March of
'58 he was replaced by
Elmo Hope. (Perkins had done a lot of
side work, particularly with
Buddy DeFranco in the latter fifties, but had issued only one album,
'Introducing Carl Perkins', in 1957.) December of 1958 found Counce in the
orchestra of Maxwell Davis recording titles like 'Loch Lomond', 'My Wild
Irish Rose', 'School Days' and 'Lonesome Road' for Crown Records. Albums on
which Counce appeared with Davis were 'Music by Lionel Hampton and Others'
('59), 'Persistent Percussion' ('60) and 'Compositions of Duke Ellington'
('60). Counce died unexpectedly
of heart attack in Los Angeles in July of 1963, only 37 years of age, leaving a legacy of five of his own albums. His last, 'Exploring the
Future', had been recorded in April of 1958. References: 1,
2.
Sessions: DAHR,
Lord (leading 10 of 113).
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4. Compilations:
'Complete Studio Recordings | The Master Takes' 1956-58
by Gambit 2007.
IA. Further reading:
Bob Gordon.
Other profiles: 1,
2.
Curtis Counce 1945 With Johnny Oti Composition: Earle Hagen/Dick Rogers 1939 Curtis Counce 1953 With Shelly Manne and His Men: Composition: Bill Russo Arrangement: Bill Russo Composition: Shorty Rogers You and the Night and the Music Music: Arthur Schwartz 1934 Lyrics: Howard Dietz Curtis Counce 1956 Recorded 31 Aug 1953 Composition: Teddy Charles Teddy Charles LP: 'Collaboration West' Recorded Dec '52 & Aug '53 Curtis Counce 1957 From 'The Curtis Counce Group' Recorded 8 & 15 Oct '56 Composition: Harold Land From 'You Get More Bounce!' Recorded 8 & 15 Oct '56 Composition: Irving Berlin Composition: Alexander Borodin George Forrest Robert Wright Composition: Jerry Bock Larry Holofcener George David Weiss Curtis Counce 1958 From 'Exploring the Future' Composition: Harold Land Composition: Denzil Best Composition: Elmo Hope Curtis Counce 1960 Composition: Horace Silver LP: 'Carl's Blues' Recorded 1957-58 Curtis Counce 1989 Composition: Dizzy Gillespie LP: 'Sonority' Recorded 1956-58 Posthumous release
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Born in Cleveland in 1921,
Bill DeArango played in Dixieland
bands while attending Ohio State University before serving in the army for a
couple years. Upon release from active duty in 1944 he headed for New York
City where he quickly found himself working with some of the top names in
jazz (Don Byas,
Ben Webster,
Charlie Parker,
Ike Quebec,
Slam Stewart, to name a few). It is thought that DeArango first
recorded with
Sarah Vaughan in May of 1945. Those
tracks were 'What More Can A Woman Do?', 'I'd Rather Have A Memory Than A
Dream' and 'Mean to Me'. Sessions with
Slam Stewart,
Ike Quebec and
Eddie Lockjaw Davis followed
before DeArango led his initial name session for the Haven label on May 3,
1946,
with
Webster on tenor sax. Those included
the Ellington compositions, 'The
Jeep Is Jumpin'' and 'I Got It Bad', and the
Webster compositions, 'Dark Corners'
and 'Blues Mister Brim'. After a concert at Carnegie Hall on April 5 of 1947
with
Charlie Ventura, DeArango suddenly left NYC for Cleveland to perform only locally
the rest of his career, recordings in which he otherwise participated
sparse (Barry Altschul in '78, Kenny Werner in '81 and '83). DeArango had
recorded the album, 'De Arango', in May of 1954 with pianist, John Williams,
titles also found on a 7" EP called 'The Gypsy in My Soul'. Nigh forty years
later he emerged again on 'Anything Went' in 1993. His last titles are
thought to have been in support of poet, Daniel Thompson, for the 1998 issue
of 'Even the Broken Letters of the Heart Spell Earth'. DeArango had to enter a nursing home in 1999 where he lived with
dementia until his death on December 26, 2005 [obits: 1,
2]. References:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
Sessions: 1,
2, Lord (leading 21 of 21).
Discos: 1,
2,
3.
IA.
Tribute sites: 1 (Adobe Flash),
2
(Facebook). Bill DeArango 1945 I'd Rather Have a Memory Than a Dream With Sarah Vaughan Composition: Jessyca Russell/Leonard Feather Tenor sax: Ike Quebec Composition: Quebec With Sarah Vaughan Composition: Dave Barbour/Peggy Lee Bill DeArango 1946 With Dizzy Gillespie Composition: Thelonious Monk With Dizzy Gillespie Composition: Charlie Parker Credited: Dizzy Gillespie With Eddie Lockjaw Davis Composition: Davis Bill DeArango 1981 Drums: Jeff Papez
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Bill DeArango Source: Bill DeArango |
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Charles Mingus Photo: Andy Freeberg Source: Arts Fuse |
Another musician at the avant-garde of modern jazz was phenomenal bassist and composer Charles Mingus who studied classical before leaving his home in Nogales, Arizona, to play with Barney Bigard and tour with Louis Armstrong (1943). Mingus' first completely dated recordings in Lord were on 12 February of 1945 in Los Angeles with Billie Holiday and Jazz at the Philharmonic: 'Body and Soul'/'Strange Fruit' (Clef MGC718). He also recorded in Los Angeles in early 1945 on an uncertain date with Russell Jacquet and his All Stars: 'Penny's Worth Of Boogie'/'Look What You've Done To Me' [see also JDP]. Lord's disco lists a title that year without a date with vocalist, Pearl Traylor, for 'Lonesome Gal'. Mingus recorded 'Deep Meditation' with the Howard McGhee Sextet in May of '45 before his first name session the next month as the Charles Mingus Sextet for the Excelsior label: 'The Texas Hop', 'Baby, Takes a Chance With Me', 'Lonesome Woman Blues' and 'Swingin' an Echo'. He spent a momentous year with Stan Kenton from latter '47 to latter '48. May 3 of 1950 brought his first session with the Red Norvo Trio including guitarist, Tal Farlow, for such as 'Swedish Pastry' and 'Cheek to Cheek'. That trio recorded numerously to April of 1951 for such as 'If I Had You' and 'I'm Yours'. In 1951 Mingus decided New York City was the place to be, his first sessions there with Miles Davis' All Stars at the Birdland on September 29 for such as 'Jumpin' with Symphony Sid' and 'Move'. A session in October yielded such as 'Conception' and 'Out of the Blue'. Mingus would see Davis again in '53 and '55, that last with a quintet for 'Nature Boy' and 'Alone Together', et al, on July 8. September 20 of 1952 had found Mingus with the Charlie Parker Quartet at the Birdland for 'Ornithology' and '52nd Street Theme'. Mingus collaborated with Parker on numerous occasions to a trio with Billy Taylor circa August of '53 for multiple takes of 'Bass-ically Speaking'. Another early trio was Bud Powell's with drummer, Roy Haynes, they recording Powell's 'Inner Fires' on April 5 of 1953. Future sessions into summer would come to employ drummers, Max Roach, then Art Taylor. In September of '53 Mingus contributed to JJ Johnson's 'Trombone Rapport' with Kai Winding. August of 1954 brought 'Reflections'. September of '54 saw 'The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson' with Winding out. On May 5 of '59 Mingus recorded 'Original Faubus Fables' (below) as an instrumental titled 'Fables of Faustus' because Columbia Records found the lyrics questionable (LP: 'Mingus Ah Hum': 1, 2). The vocal version ('Original Faubus Fables') was released the next year on the Candid label (LP: 'Mingus Presents Mingus'). Mingus had a worse problem with passion than than did Buddy Rich. Rich was known to rag on his band, using its members to vent. But Mingus dispensed with bark and simply bit, punching members of his band upon his displeasure on two known occasions in the early sixties. Mingus recognized his problem with anger and may well have cursed it, being such that only his enormous talent saved him from destruction by it. Sedation by drugs wasn't his manner, he disliking that aspect of the jazz climate, so he attempted solutions in other ways. Howsoever, he met and married Sue Graham Ungaro [1, 2, 3, 4] in 1964 and 1966, he doing so richly the latter year that he was evicted from his apartment [Wikipedia]. Charles and Sue remained together until his death thirteen years later. Mingus issued his memoir, 'Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus', in 1971 w Alfred A. Knopf. Feb 13 of 1973 saw a concert at the Strata Concert Gallery in Detroit that eventually saw issue in 2018 on 'Jazz in Detroit/Strata Concert Gallery/46 Selden' by BBE [criticism: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Mingus was working with Joni Mitchell on her album, 'Mingus' [*], when he died in 1979 in Cuernavaca, Mexico [obit]. He had put down 'Me, Myself an Eye' in 1978. His ashes were spread over the Ganges. In 1988 Andrew Homzy discovered Mingus' composition of 500 pages, 'Epitaph' [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], in a trunk of manuscripts belonging to Mingus' widow, Sue, and contacted Gunther Schuller to put it on record. A shorter version of 'Epitaph' had been released in 1962 per Parts 1 and 2 on 'The Complete Town Hall Concert'. Those coming to twelve minutes, Schuller's later extended version required an hour and a half to perform. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Sessions: J-Disc; JDP; Lord (leading 127 of 260). Discographies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Compilations: 'Charles 'Baron' Mingus: West Coast 1945-49' by Uptown Records 2000: 1, 2, 3; 'The Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection' 1959-72 + Schuller's 1989 'Epitaph' 2012 *. Mingus in visual media. Documentaries: 'Triumph of the Underdog' by Don McGlynn 1997: 1, 2. Reviews. Mingus and composition: 1, 2, 3. Authorship: 1, 2. Further reading: articles: 'A Musician Beyond Category' by Hentoff, 'What About Mingus?' by Hentoff, 'Requiem for the Underdog' by Goldsher, 'Charles Mingus in the 1950s' by Jones; books: 'Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus' by Krin Gabbard (U of CA Press February 8, 2016) [*]. Charles Mingus 1945 Composition: Mingus Composition: Jack Griffin Composition: Mingus With Russell Jacquet Issued on Globe 105 Composition: Mingus Composition: Mingus/Jack Griffin Charles Mingus 1951 Red Norvo Trioo Guitar: Tal Farlow Vibes: Red Norvo Composition: Richard Rodgers Charles Mingus 1954 Album Charles Mingus 1956 Composition: Mingus Recorded 23 Dec 1955 LP: 'Mingus at the Bohemia' Charles Mingus 1957 Album Charles Mingus 1959 Composition: George Duke/Ira Gershwin Album: 'Jazz Portraits' Recorded 16 Jan 1959 Album Recorded 5/12 May 1959 Charles Mingus 1960 Recorded 4 Feb 1959 Composition: Mingus LP: 'Blues & Roots' Charles Mingus 1961 Recorded 1959 Composition: Mingus LP: 'Mingus Presents Mingus' Charles Mingus 1962 ('Osmotin') Composition: Mingus Charles Mingus 1963 The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Album Charles Mingus 1964 Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach Album recorded 23 Dec 1955 Note: Personnel on the above are George Barrow (tenor sax), Eddie Bert (trombone) and Mal Waldron (piano). Roach plays drums on 'Drums' and 'I'll Remember April'. Drummer all other titles is Willie Jones. Live performance Composition: Mingus Filmed live Music: Billy Strayhorn 1939 Lyrics: Joya Sherrill 1944Filmed in Belgium, Norway & Sweden Charles Mingus 1972 Charles Mingus 1974 Live performance Composition: George Adams See also the studio LP 'Mingus Moves' 1973 Charles Mingus 1975 Live performance Composition: Mingus Remember Rockefeller at Attica Composition: Mingus LP: 'Changes One' Charles Mingus 1993 Mingus Big Band Mingus out (died '79) Composition: Mingus Album: 'Nostalgia in Times Square'
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Born Charles Jagelka in 1923 in NYC, guitarist Chuck Wayne returned to New York Citty after two years in the military to work the 52nd Street clubs. He is thought to have first recorded as early as November 20 of 1944 with pianist, Leonard Feather's, Hiptet in support of Helen Humes' 'I Would if I Could' (Savoy 5513), 'Keep Your Mind on Me' (Savoy 5514), etc.. Feather's Hiptet also supported Lloyd Thompson's 'I Wonder' (Savoy 5512) on that date. Feather and Wayne would back other enterprises on multiple occasions into the latter forties. On November 29th, 1944, Wayne joined Joe Marsala (clarinet) and Joe Thomas (trumpet) to support Linda Keene on 'Unlucky Woman' and 'Blues in the Storm' (Black & White 1203) , et al. Sessions followed that year with Wingy Manone, Clyde Hart, Etta Jones and Barney Bigard until Wayne backed Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie on New Year's Eve of 1944: 'Signing Off' (Continental 6024), 'No Smokes Blues' (alt take Continental 6061), et al. Wayne followed that in January the next year with Marsala and Gillespie for 'Perdido' (Phoenix LP16), 'Cherokee' (Black & White 18), et al. Wayne's next tracks with Gillespie were on February 9 of 1945 for 'Groovin' High' and 'Blue n Boogie' (Guild 1001). Other of the more important figures in Wayne's career were Woody Herman and George Shearing. We fast forward to Wayne replacing guitarist, Billy Bauer, in Woody Herman's First Herd in 1946. His first session with Herman was May 31 that year in Chicago for an AFRS radio broadcast ('Wildroot' #34) of 'Crazy Rhythm', 'Strange Love', et al. Wayne didn't travel with Herman long (Michigan, Texas, California, back to NYC), only into early '47, but it was a tour de force of recording sessions to March of that year for 'My Desire'. As for pianist, George Shearing, Wayne joined his Quintet in time to participate in 'George Shearing Quintet' on January 31, 1949, issued in 1950 by Discovery. Wayne spent a good three years with Shearing, recording numerously for MGM to December 8 of 1951 in NYC for 'Appreciation' (MGM 11545), 'Over the Rainbow' (MGM 30625), etc.. On April 13 of 1953, Wayne held his first sessions as a leader, the first with tenor saxophonist, Brew Moore, the second with tenor saxophonist, Zoot Sims, those toward the album, 'Chuck Wayne Quintet', Discogs estimating release of that in the UK in 1956. They would later be found on 'The Jazz Guitarist' in 1992. Other of Wayne's albums and the years in which he recorded them were 'The Fourmost Guitars' (1956), 'String Fever' (1957: 1, 2), 'Tapestry' (1963: trio w Ernie Furtado on bass and Jimmy Campbell on drums), 'A Christmas Gift' (1964), 'Morning Mist' (1964: trio w Joe Williams on bass and Ronnie Bedford on drums), 'The Guitar Album' (1971: trio w Joe Williams on bass and Ronnie Bedford on Al Harewood), 'Interactions' (1973: duo with Joe Puma on guitar) and 'Skyliner' (1976). Among the highlights of Wayne's career was five appearances on the 'Art Ford's Jazz Party' television program in 1958. Wayne had also authored a few instructional books. In 1965 he and Ralph Patt published 'Guitar Arpeggio Dictionary' via H. Adler. Shortly before his death thirty years later he began his School of Chuck Wayne Guitar Studies series w the publishing of 'Scales' by Second Floor Music in 1996, co-authored by Agostino DiGiorgio. The latter also assisted w 'Chords' published posthumously (for Wayne) in 1998 by Hal Leonard. Among the many others on whose work Wayne can be found are Phil Napoleon, Miles Davis, Terry Gibbs, Music Minus One, Gil Evans and Warren Chiasson. Wayne died on July 29, 1997 [obit]. Lord's disco has last recordings with Tom Butts for 'Alberta Clipper' circa 1996. References: 1, 2. Sessions: Craftone; JDP; Lord (leading 14 of 152). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. IBDB. Discussion. Other profiles: * (alt). Wayne is also the guitarist on tracks by Tony Bennett in Jazz Song. Per 1945 below, all but 'Blue n Boogie' were recorded in late 1944. Chuck Wayne 1945 With Dizzy Gillespie Composition: Dizzy Gillespie/Frank Paparelli Joe Marsala Sextet Composition: Ray Noble 1938 Interlude (A Night in Tunisia) With Dizzy Gillespie & Sarah Vaughan Composition: Dizzy Gillespie With Dizzy Gillespie & Sarah Vaughan Composition: Leonard Feather/Jessyca Russell With Linda Keene & Joe Marsala Composition: Leonard & Carol Feather Chuck Wayne 1950 Piano: George Shearing Composition: Ray Noble 1938 Film Piano: George Shearing Composition: Shearing Film Piano: George Shearing Composition: Alec Wilder 1942 Chuck Wayne 1953 Composition: Ben Oakland/Irving Mills/Mitchell Parish Tenor sax: Zoot Sims Composition: Al Cohn You Brought a New Kind of Love Composition: 1930: Sammy Fain/Irving Kahal/Pierre Norman
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Ray Brown Source: Journal of Life |
Upon graduating from high school bassist Raymond Matthews Brown was born in 1926 in Pittsburgh, PA. He toured with such as Snookum Russell, until he thought it time to go to New York City, where he was hired in 1945 (age 19) by Dizzy Gillespie. Brown's first recording experience in Lord's sessionography was in Hollywood on December 17, 1945, for a radio broadcast from NBC Studios with a sextet led by Gillespie and Charlie Parker, that backed by Boyd Raeburn's orchestra for "I Waited For You', 'How High the Moon' and '52nd Street Theme' [see also J-Disc: Gillespie]. Personnel filling that sextet were Milt Jackson (vibes), Al Haig (piano) and Stan Levey (drums). His next recording followed with the same gang on the 29th for an AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) 'Jubilee' radio broadcast in Hollywood: 'Shaw Nuff', 'Groovin' High', 'Dizzy Atmosphere' and 'A Night in Tunisia' ('Tunisia' moot, possibly recorded at another session). Gillespie would become one of Brown's most important musical associates for another quarter century. Brown's earliest period with Gillespie was a busy two years in New York City recording titles like 'Ow!' and 'Stay On It", et al, on August 22, 1947. Lord's disco has Brown's last sessions of that period with Gillespie in Barry Ulanov's All Star Modern Jazz Musicians including Parker in September of '47 for a couple 'Bands For Bonds' broadcasts yielding such as 'Hot House' and 'On the Sunny Side of the Street'. He next joined Gillespie for a Norman Granz jam session with trumpeter, Roy Eldridge, on September 2 of 1953, bearing such as 'Jam Blues' and 'Blue Lou', those for Clef (founded by Granz in 1946). He finished that year with Gillespie on December 9, 1953, for 'Diz and Getz' with Stan Getz, the latter also to become one of the more important figures in Brown's career for a couple decades to come into the early eighties. 1954 found Brown and Gillespie supporting Ben Webster's 'New Jazz Sounds' before a few more sessions for Granz with Eldridge, including Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP), and another jam session on October 30 yielding 'Stompin' at the Savoy', Lullaby in Rhythm' and 'Funky Blues No. 2'. 1955 found Brown touring Scandinavia, Europe and the United States with Gillespie, Eldridge and Granz' JATP. Brown was also with Gillespie and Eldridge for 'Gene Krupa Meets Buddy Rich', 'Tour De Force' and, Eldridge out, 'Around the Horn with Maynard Ferguson in '55. 1956 saw another trip to Europe and sessions in Seattle with Eldridge and the JATP. Brown also backed Gillespie on 'For Musicians Only' in '56. It was Gillespie, Eldridge and the JATP again in 1958, Brown joined Gillespie's Big Four in 1974 with Joe Pass (guitar) and Mickey Roker (drums) for such as 'Tango' and 'Hurry Home'. 1975 found him with Gillespie, Eldridge and Roker on 'Jazz Maturity ... Where It's Coming From'. Gillespie, Roker and Brown joined Count Basie in Las Vegas on February 3 of 1977 for 'The Gifted Ones'. 1977 saw a tour to the Montreux Jazz Festival with Milt Jackson resulting in 'Dizzy Gillespie Jam'. 1980 found Brown backing Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard and Clark Terry in Oscar Peterson's Big Four 'The Trumpet Summit Meets The Oscar Peterson Big 4' and 'The Alternate Blues'. Come Gillespie's 'Concert of the Century' with Jackson in Montreal, Ontario, the same year. Returning to 1945 with Gillespie and Charlie Parker, it's apt to mention that Brown backed Parker numerously to 1952, with a few JATP sessions between in 1949. As for JATP, that organization was one of the more important gears in Brown's transmission, attending about 25 dates between 1946 and 1972. His first JATP was June 3 of '46 with Buck Clayton on trumpet at Carnegie Hall for unissued titles of 'How High the Moon' and 'I've Found a New Baby'. His first issued performance was September 27, 1947, at Carnegie Hall with Howard McGhee on trumpet for 'Perdido', 'Mordido', 'Endido' and 'I Surrender Dear'. His last on June 2 of 1972 was at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, CA, with Sweets Edison and Roy Eldridge on trumpet for 'In a Mellow Mood' 'Loose Walk', et al. Brown's first session as a leader arrived on September 25, 1946, with His Be Bop Boys including Dizzy Gillespie for 'For Hecklers Only', 'Smokey Hollow Jump', 'Boppin the Blues' and 'Moody Speaks', et al. His next in November and December of 1947 at the Royal Roost in NYC were in support of vocal giant, Ella Fitzgerald, on such as 'Love That Boy' and 'Heat Wave'. Another session with Fitzgerald on 20 December of '47 for Decca resulted in 'My Baby Likes to Re-Bop', 'No Sense' and three takes of 'How High the Moon'. That was 10 days after Brown's marriage to Fitzgerald on the 10th. Adopting Ray Brown Jr. along the way in 1949, they divorced in 1953. Fitzgerald would remain, however, among the more important figures in Brown's career, recording with her numerously for more than three decades to as late as March of 1989 for 'All That Jazz'. Another figure requiring mention in any account of Brown was pianist, Oscar Peterson, with whom he first recorded at Carnegie Hall with Roy Eldridge on trumpet: 'Fine and Dandy', 'I Only Have Eyes For You' and 'Carnegie Blues'. Their next tracks were as a duo in March, 1950, for the Clef label bearing such as 'Debut' and 'They Don't Believe Me'. A like session in August yielded such as 'Easy to Love' and 'Air Mail Special'. Another duo at Carnegie Hall in September wrought 'Carnegie Blues' ('Air Mail Special'), 'Gai', etc.. Brown and Peterson were a partnership of half a century nigh to the new millennium, they appearing on numberless titles together, usually in smaller ensembles like trios when not backing other operations such as JATP. Peterson supported Brown on the latter's 'This Is Ray Brown' in February of 1958. He also filled a couple tracks on Brown's 1994 'Some of My Best Friends Are...the Piano Players'. Their last recordings together are thought to have been September 24-26, 1998, at the Blue Note in NYC with Peterson's Very Tall Band to result in the latter's 'Live at the Blue Note' and 'What's Up?'. Also in attendance were Milt Jackson on vibes and Karriem Riggins on drums. Jackson had long been one of Brown's more important comrades since the latter's first recordings in 1945. Another figure of major importance in Brown's career was guitarist, Herb Ellis. Brown was already a big shot in the jazz domain when he first recorded with Ellis in May of 1953 for JATP at the Bushnell Memorial Auditorium in Hartford, CT, for such as 'Cotton Tail' and 'Air Mail Special'. Theirs was a partnership on strings for nigh half a century, found on numberless titles together. They supported other operations together, particularly JATP and Oscar Peterson, as well as each other. Brown first backed Ellis on December 28 of 1955 in Los Angeles for 'Ellis in Wonderland'. Ellis joined the Walter Paich Orchestra in Hollywood on November 21 of '56 to support Brown's 'Bass Hit!'. They recorded 'Bass Ball' as a trio with Stan Levey on drums for Playboy Records in Los Angeles on July 31, 1957. Ellis also joined Peterson per above in 1958 for 'This Is Ray Brown'. Other personnel were Jerome Richardson (flute) and Osie Johnson (drums). Ellis filled a couple titles on Brown's 2000 'Some of My Best Friends Are...Guitarists', thought to be their last recordings together: 'I Want to Be Happy' and 'Blues For Junior'. Brown's album, 'Some of My Best Friends Are...the Trumpet Players', was recorded during those sessions. Brown's career was a virtual history of jazz as one of the most prolific recording artists well exceeding 900 sessions, 71 of those his own projects. Much of that was due to being a favored session musician also working in television orchestras. It was also due to forming important relationships with such as Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, Lester Young, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster, Quincy Jones and Cannonball Adderley. Other significant associations and events included Max Roach, Ray Anthony, Billie Holiday, Blossom Dearie, Stuff Smith, André Previn, Willie Ruff, Carmen McRae, the Aurex Jazz Festival in Japan in September of 1981, the L.A. Four, Joe Pass, Gene Harris, Sheena Easton, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Manhattan Transfer, Diana Krall, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Stanley Turrentine. Among more recent titles prior to his death was the first live music session held at a Starbucks coffee shop, that at 23rd and Jackson in Seattle on 22 and 23 of Nov 1999 toward 'Live at Starbucks' w Geoffrey Keezer (piano) and Karriem Riggins (drums). Lord's discography traces Brown to as late as March of 2002 with Monty Alexander at piano and Russell Malone on guitar for 'Ray Brown Monty Alexander Russell Malone'. Brown was blessed to die at sleep after a game of golf before a performance in Indianapolis on July 2, 2002 [obits: 1, 2]. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Discos: 1 (strike Ray Brown and the Whispers), 2, 3, 4. Brown in visual media. Interviews: 1963-80 w Les Tompkins, 1996 w Ted Panken, 1999 w Willard Jenkins. Further reading: 'A Walking Sound' by Cerra. Other profiles: 1, 2. Per below, all titles 1946 and '47 are w Dizzy Gillespie. Ray Brown 1946 Composition: Charlie Parker Composition: Dizzy Gillespie Composition: Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker Film Composition: Leonard Feather Film: 'Jivin' in Be-Bop' Composition: Ray Brown/Gil Fuller/Dizzy Gillespie Composition: Thelonious Monk Composition: Dizzy Gillespie Ray Brown 1947 Recorded 10 Nov 1946 [Lord] Issued on Musicraft 447 Composition: Dizzy Gillespie/Milton Shaw Ray Brown 1964 Filmed live with Oscar Peterson Composition: Duke Ellington 1942 Ray Brown 1970 Film Ray Brown 1976 Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte Album with the L.A. Four Ray Brown 1977 Concert Filmed live with Oscar Peterson Ray Brown 1992 Filmed live in France Piano: Gene Harris Trumpet: James Morrison Music: Fats Waller 1929 Lyrics: Andy Razaf Filmed live in France Piano: Gene Harris Music: George Gershwin 1934 Lyrics: Ira Gershwin/DuBose Heyward Aria for the opera 'Porgy & Bess' Ray Brown 2001 'Orfeu Negro' Filmed live Composition: Luis Bonfa 1959 For the film same title Filmed concert Jazzwoche Burghausen Violin: Regina Carter Composition: Gershwin Brothers 1924 For the Broadway musical 'Oh, Lady Be Good!'
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Mundell Lowe Photo: Trigger Alpert Source: Mundell Lowe |
Born in 1922 in Laurel, Mississippi, guitarist
Mundell Lowe is thought to have first recorded
on February 28 of 1946 with Ray McKinley,
that an AFRS 'One Night Stand' broadcast (#940) from the Hotel Commodore in
NYC to yield such as 'Have You Got Any Gum, Chum' and 'No Baby, Nobody But
You', et al. Sessions rapidly ensued with
McKinley into the fifties. Lord's
disco has Lowe on 365 sessions, 35 of those his own as a leader, so we leap
past numerous sessions with McKinley
and others such as
Helen Humes,
Cootie
Williams and
Dinah Washington to arrive to the
Benny Goodman Septet on
November 2 of 1948 for 'Stealin' Apples' with
Fats Navarro on trumpet. Lowe
joined
Goodman's orchestra in 1952 and
recorded with the latter's Sextet that year as well. We leap past sessions
with various others in the forties to a clarinetist with whom Lowe's path
interweaved fairly often during the fifties, that being Tony Scott
whose first session with Lowe was in March of 1950 for a 'Cafe Society'
radio broadcast with
Charlie Parker on '52nd Street
Theme' and
Kenny Dorham on 'Lullaby in Rhythm'. They met on a couple more
occasions to back other bands until Lowe participated in 'Both Sides of Tony
Scott' on January 26 of 1956. 'The Touch of Tony Scott' ensued on July 2.
Scott participated in Lowe's 'Porgy & Bess' in July of '58 and the first
volume of 'TV Action Jazz' in '59. That same year Lowe contributed to
Scott's 'Gypsy'. Among the higher impact names Lowe backed in the
fifties was
Sarah Vaughan, their first occasion
on May 19 of 1950 in an ensemble with Miles
Davis at trumpet for such as 'Mean to Me', 'Come Rain Or Shine', etc..
Lowe packed that year with
Vaughan and would reunite with her on
multiple occasions in '61, '71 and '84, that last in April for 'Blue' on
Barry Manilow's '2:00 AM Paradise Cafe'. Another fairly important figure
during the fifties was pianist,
Billy Taylor, whose quintet Lowe
joined on November 1, 1951, for such as 'Cuban Caper' and 'Cu-Blue', et al.
They happened along a couple more times to back projects for others until
Taylor participated in Lowe's 'A Grand
Night For Swinging' on March 7 of '57. A session followed the next month
with Lowe's quintet resulting in 'Blues Before Freud', 'Love Me or Leave
Me', et al. Lowe joined
Taylor's band in April of '58 for a
couple segments of 'The Subject Is Jazz' television program.
Lowe's major meal ticket through the fifties was the Sauter-Finegan
Orchestra which he had joined in 1952 in time for a session on July 14
yielding 'Moonlight on the Ganges' and 'Camptown Races'. Lowe recorded
numerously with that operation to June 15, 1961, in NYC for 'Messin'
Around', 'You Can Depend on Me' and 'That Old Black Magic'. A couple of
years into that outfit Lowe held his first session as a leader per a septet
including guitarist,
Sal Salvador, on February 12, 1954,
for 'Spring Is Here' and 'There Goes Rusty'. His next couple sessions in
March resulted in his first album, 'The Mundell Lowe Quintet'. His third
album, 'The Mundell Lowe Quartet', went down in
August and October. Another high impact name with whom Lowe recorded on
multiple occasions in the fifties was
Carmen McRae, their first date on
October 6, 1954, for her debut LP, 'Carmen McRea'. Lowe would join
McRae again in '55, '58, '61 and,
finally, May 20 of 1964 for
McRae's 'Bittersweet'. It was Lowe who introduced pianist,
Bill Evans, to Riverside Records to
record his first name LP in 1956. Recording well into the new millennium,
projects have included 'Mundell's Moods' issued in 2000, and a session in
latter 2008 in a trio with guitarist, Gene Bertoncini, and bassist, Bob
Magnusson, for an album called '2+2=1'. Lowe had returned
to his birthplace in Laurel, Mississippi, in 2009 where he lived until his
death on 2 Dec 2017 [obits: 1,
2,
3].
Amidst the horde of others for whom Lowe had learned titles were
Billie Holiday,
Lee Wiley, Georgie Auld,
Chris Connor,
Ruby Braff,
Helen Merrill and
Ella Fitzgerald. References:
1,
2,
3.
Timeline.
Sessions: DAHR (w composing credits);
JDP; Lord (leading 35 of 368).
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4.
IMDb.
IA. Interviews:
NAMM 2002;
Marc Myers 2008.
Further reading: George Varga.
Lowe doesn't do much but contribute rhythm to tracks for '48
and '49 below. Mundell Lowe 1948 With Benny Goodman Composition: Fats Waller/Andy Razaff Mundell Lowe 1949 With Billie Holiday Composition: Leonard Feather Credited: Billy Moore Jr. ('Mon Homme') With Billie Holiday Music: Maurice Yvain Lyrics French: Jacques Charles/Albert Willemetz Lyrics English: Channing Pollock Mundell Lowe 1955 Composition: Gus Kahn/Matty Malneck/Frank Signorelli Album: 'The Mundell Lowe Quartet' Keyboards: Dick Hyman Bass: Trigger Alpert Drums: Ed Shaughnessy Mundell Lowe 1956 Composition: David Rose Album: 'Guitar Moods' Bass clarinet/flute: Al Klink Oboe/English horn: Phil Bodner Bass: Trigger Alpert Drums: Ed Shaughnessy Mundell Lowe 1957 It's a Grand Night for Swinging Composition: Billy Taylor LP: 'A Grand Night for Swinging' Alto sax: Gene Quill Piano: Billy Taylor Drums: Ed Thigpen Composition: Billy Taylor Mundell Lowe 1985 Duet with Johnny Smith Composition: Charlie Christian/Benny Goodman Mundell Lowe 1990 Music: Philip Braham 1921 Lyrics: Douglas Furber Note: "Limehouse" refers to the Limehouse district of London, become that city's Chinatown by the time of World War I. Mundell Lowe 2005 With Joe Byrd & Vince Lewis Composition: Thelonious Monk Mundell Lowe 2010 Theme from the Bad & the Beautiful Composition: David Raksin
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It is
thought Toots Thielemans,
guitarist and harmonica player born in Belgium
in 1922, first recorded in March of 1943 in Brussels, those titles with the
Het Trio unissued: Les Yeux Noirs', Solitude', etc.. He played guitar on
those with Gilbert DeLange on drums. His next recordings are thought to have
been with the Robert De Kers Orchestra in early 1946, those for Animated
Cartoons which Lord's disco links to the Belgian film, 'Modern Moods'.
February 8 of 1946 found Thielemans in the band of Rud Wharton for titles
like 'Don't Fence Me In' and 'Amor, Amor'. Theielemans was a prolific
recording career of some 470 sessions, nigh a couple hundred of those his
own. We'll not attempt to squeeze that into this pill box, and mention but a
very few of its more significant events. Among the first would be his debut
recording on harmonica rather than guitar. Thielemans was host to not a few
American jazz musicians who toured to Europe during his career. Benny
Goodman was the first visiting American with whom Thielemans recorded, that
on harmonica for BBC Radio in London on July 16, 1949, with the
Benny Goodman Quintet for 'After You've Gone'. Thielemans would see
Zoot Sims,
more of
Goodman and Leonard Feather as well before moving to the United
States in 1951 (citizenship in '57). His last recordings in Europe had been
in October in Brussels that year for 'High School Cadets March', 'Michigan'
and 'Birds and Bees'. His first in the States was a trio with
Dick Hyman
(organ) and Harry Reser (banjo) in NYC on June 12 of 1952 for 'The Jazz Me
Blues', 'Smoke Rings', et al. His next session would be one of his more
important in that it was for pianist, George Shearing,
who would become a major figure in Thieleman's career. That was at the
Birdland on December 6 of '52 for such as 'Pick Yourself Up' and 'Tenderly',
et al. Thielemans spent the next seven years in countless sessions with
Shearing to October, 1959, for
Shearing's 'Satin Brass'. Among highlights in the early sixties was a
trip to Europe in June 1962 to perform at the Ruhr Festival in Germany with
Hans Koller and
Rolf Ericson, et al, that to be
found on 'Jazz Workshop - Ruhr Festival 1962'. Another important figure in
Thielemans career was bandleader,
Quincy Jones. Thielemans
contributed harmonica, guitar and whistling to
Jones' 'Explores the Music of
Henry Mancini' on February 5 of 1964. He was with
Jones again on May 21 of 1966 to
support Peggy
Lee's 'Happy Feet', 'The Shining Sea' and 'Stay With Me'. Albums with
Jones followed from 1969 to
1972, 'Mellow Madness' in '75, 'The Dude' in 81 and 'Live at Budokan' in '85
in Tokyo. Thielemans contributed to numerous soundtracks during his career
from 'The Pawnbroker' in 1964 to 'French Kiss' in 1995. He also worked in
television, such as the theme to 'Sesame Street' in 1969 ('Can You Tell Me
How to Get to Sesame Street?' Joe Raposo). He appeared on
Billy Eckstine's last album
in 1984: 'I Am a Singer'. Thielemans was made an NEA Jazz
Master in 2009, a title that brings with it a $25,000 award. He recorded as late as '90 Years' in 2011, also contributing
to 'Grégoire Maret' that year. Thielemans died [1,
2] on August, 22, 2016. Among
the host of others on whose recordings Thielemans can be found are Bill
Ramsey, JJ Johnson, Dannie Richmond,
Sylvia Vrethammar, Monica Zetterlund, Pat Metheny and
Shirley Horn. References: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8. Sessionographies:
1, Lord's Disco.
Discographies: 1,
2,
3.
Interviews:
Les Tomkins 1978,
NAMM
2005, DownBeat 2006,
Anthony Brown 2011
(pdf). Compilations: 'Blues Pour Filter', 2000; 'Hard to Say Goodbye', 2000;
'The Best Of', 2012.
Toots Thielemans on harmonica. Toots Thielemans 1959 Piano: Ray Bryant Composition: Charlie Parker Piano: Ray Bryant Composition: Django Reinhardt 1940 Piano: Ray Bryant Composition: Jimmie Davis/Charles Mitchell 1939 Toots Thielemans 1961 Composition: Thielemans Toots Thielemans 1962 Composition: Thielemans Toots Thielemans 1964 Music: Richard Rodgers 1938 Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Toots Thielemans 1967 Composition: Ralph Flanagan/Herb Hendler Composition: Eddie Snyder/Rudy Vallee/Stanley Kahan Composition: Harry M. Woods/Jimmy Campbell/Reginald Connelly Toots Thielemans 1970 With Mads Vinding Composition: Thielemans Toots Thielemans 1998 Filmed live Composition: Duke Ellington/Irving Mills 1928
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Wendell Marshall Source: Discogs |
Born in 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri, double bassist
Wendell Marshall,
wasn't well-known to the general public, but among musicians he was in large
demand in a support role. He'd studied at Lincoln University and performed briefly with Lionel
Hampton's
orchestra in 1942 before serving in the military during World
War II. Upon release from service he returned to St. Louis where he made a
number of recordings in December of 1946 with violinist, Stuff Smith: 'Won't
You Take a Lesson in Love?', 'Take a Walk', 'Night Falls Again' and 'Up
Jumped the Devil'. He then headed for NYC where he eventually recorded some
tracks in February of 1950 with Chubby Kemp and the
Johnny Hodges Sextet,
among them: 'Hello Little Boy' and 'The Greatest There Is!'. On the 21st of
September he joined
Hodges and trumpeter, Red Rodney, on numerous recordings
with the Ellingtonians (Duke and/or Mercer Ellington). Vocalists included
Chubby Kemp, Al Hibbler and Sara Forde. Duke
Ellington's long-time partner,
Billy Strayhorn, provided piano on a number of those tracks. Marshall
continued with Ellington until 1955, meanwhile recording the first four
tracks of
Carmen McRae's debut album, 'Carmen
McRae', in '54 ('55 release). He also contributed to a couple tracks by Gene Krupa in December of '54:
'Undecided' and 'Gene's Bass Blues'. By the time Marshall stepped outside
Ellington's square he was well in business.
Lord lists Marshall's only session as a leader on 26 Jan of 1955 for 'The
Continental', 'Careless', 'How Blue Was My Bass' and 'Tenderly'. Those saw
issue on RCA Victor EP 547-0647 and
'Basses Loaded!' (RCA Victor 1107)
w an ensemble consisting of Jimmy Nottingham (trumpet), Billy Byers
(trombone),
Hal McKusick (sax), Danny Bank
(clarinet),
Barry Galbraith (guitar) and
Osie Johnson (drums). Marshall
directed that project but didn't perform, his position at upright bass
assumed by Wyatt Ruther. Marshall recorded three albums with
Milt Jackson in '56. In 1957 he
joined
Gigi Gryce and
Herbie Mann on three
albums each. His first of six with
Gene Ammons, 'Twisting the Jug', was released in December
of '59 if not 1960. He participated in three LPs by
Coleman Hawkins in 1960. His first of eight with
Willis Jackson was 'Cool "Gator"'
in 1959, issued the next year. In 1966 Marshall recorded three albums with
Johnny Hammond Smith. Those were only a portion of the musicians Marshall backed in
the decade after he left Ellington.
He seems to have never put down his instrument until 1968 when he up and
became an insurance salesman back in St. Louis, permanently retiring from
the exhausting music business for hard labor with better hours. Marshall
died of colon cancer on 6 February 2002 in St. Louis, Missouri.
References:
1,
2,
3,
4.
Sessions: DAHR;
J-Disc; Lord (leading
1
of 381).
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4.
IMDb. Wendell Marshall 1951 With Duke Ellington: Composition: Duke Ellington Composition: Lester Young Composition: Duke Ellington/Tyree Glenn Wendell Marshall 1953 Piano: Duke Ellington Composition: Duke Ellington Recorded 13 April '53 Hollywood Issued 1972: 'Piano Reflections' Wendell Marshall 1955 Piano: Ray Bryant Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Ted Koehler Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Nat Adderley LP: 'That's Nat' Wendell Marshall 1956 From 'Wilder 'n' Wilder' Joe Wilder LP Recorded 19 Jan '56 NYC Reissued as 'Softly with Feeling' '88 Joe Wilder Quartet Trumpet: Joe Wilder Piano: Hank Jones Drums: Kenny Clarke Composition: 1939 Jimmy Van Heusen/Eddie DeLange For the musical 'Swingin’ the Dream' Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Wendell Marshall 1957 From 'Easy Living' Mary Ann McCall LP Recorded Aug '56 NYC Vocal: Mary Ann McCall Composition: Richard Carpenter From 'The Warm Sound' Francis Wayne LP Recorded 27 April '57 NYC Vocal: Frances Wayne Composition: Bart Howard Composition: Guy Wood/Robert Mellin Wendell Marshall 1958 Composition: Gene Bianco/Norman Beatty Album: 'Harp, Skip & Jum...P' Harp: Gene Bianco Guitar: Mundell Lowe Vibraphone: Joe Venuto Drums: Don Lamond Wendell Marshall 1959 Composition: Ray Noble 1938 Coleman Hawkins LP: 'Soul' Recorded 7 Nov '58 Tenor sax: Hawkins Piano: Ray Bryant Guitar: Kenny Burrell Drums: Osie Johnson Wendell Marshall 1960 Composition: Lonnie Johnson Johnson LP: 'Blues & Ballads' Electric guitar/vocals: Johnson Acoustic guitar: Elmer Snowden
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Joe Pass Photo: Tom Marcello Source: High Fidelity Report | By the time Joe Pass recorded 'Sounds of Synanon' on July 1 of 1962 jazz had long since developed beyond the big swing orchestra, due to such as foreign influence from abroad in the thirties (such as Reinhardt and Grappelli via Coleman Hawkins), then the bebop of Dizzy Gillespie and small-band individualists such as Nat King Cole in the forties. The fifties had brought West Coast jazz, one of its major hubs the Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach, California, and the "cool" jazz of Miles Davis ('Birth of the Cool' recorded in 1949-50 though not released until 1957). String musicians such as guitarist, Larry Coryell, and bassists Jimmy Garrison and Sam Jones, were in preparation to take jazz through the sixties, a decade that would see hugely influential recordings such as 'Desafinado' per Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz, and 'Take Five' per Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond. Pass, however, would be absent from some of that. Born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalacqua of Sicilian heritage in 1929 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he is thought to have begun playing professionally at age 14. In 1947 he was working with Charlie Barnet and Tony Pastor, recording what are thought his first titles with the latter in June of that year, such as 'Movin' Along', 'Solid Geometry', et al. 'Movin' Along' eventually got issued on an unknown date per 'Tony Pastor and His Orchestra 1945-1949' (First Time Records 1516). All were issued variously on CD by Circle (121, 178, 179). Lord's disco shows another six sessions with Pastor to November of '47. The earliest titles with certain timely issues were 'Gonna Get a Girl' with Pastor and the Clooney Sisters backed by the instrumental, 'Your Red Wagon'. Recorded on September 29, those were Columbia 37973, advertised in the December 27, 1947, issue of 'The Billboard'. Sessions followed to November 10 when Pass participated in such as another rendition of 'In a Persian Market' in NYC. Sometime between those and the end of the year Pass held his last session with Pastor and the Clooney Sisters at the Click Club in Philadelphia: 'There'll Be Some Changes Made', 'Tales from the Vienna Woods' and 'The Click Song', etc.. The latter got issued in 1948 backed by 'You Started Something' (Columbia 38297). Later CD compilations of Pastor with and without the Clooney Sisters on which Pass contributed tracks were issued on CD by Circle Records on unknown dates: 'Tony Pastor and His Orchestra 1945-1950' (CCD 121), 'Tony Pastor and His Orchestra 1946-50' (CCD 178) and ''My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time (CCD 179). Those are thought to have been Pass's last recordings until the sixties, he having dropped out of the jazz scene in the fifties due to heroin addiction. It was during two and a half years of rehabilitation, begun in the latter fifties, that he resumed guitar, reemerging at Pacific Jazz Studios in Los Angeles in 1962 while yet an outpatient at the Synanon Drug Center. From unknown dates early that year to dates in summer he contributed to 'Something Special' (Richard Groove Holmes PJ 51), 'Bee's Back in Town' (Bumble Bee Slim PJ 54), 'After Hours' (Richard Groove Holmes PJ 59) and 'On Time' (Les McCann PJ 56). Pass had also participated in Johnny Griffin's 'Grab This!' for Riverside before recording his first LP, 'The Sounds of Synanon' (PJ 48 '62), for Pacific Jazz on July 2. (More on 'Sounds of Synanon' at Jazz Scene USA and Morning Star.) That was followed by Gerald Wilson's 'Moment of Truth' (PJ 61) in August. Pass was well back in the groove by that time after about a decade of missing from action. His next three decades would place him among the more important jazz guitarists of the twentieth century. He began 1963 on January 30 with initial tracks toward 'Catch Me!' released that year. Lord's disco has Pass leading what would amount to about sixty albums during his career to 'My Song' in February of 1993. Solo titles among those include 'Virtuoso' in '73, 'Virtuoso in New York' in June of '75, 'What Is There to Say' in September of '90 and 'Meditation' on February 1 of 1992. Duets include 'Checkmate' w Jimmy Rowles on piano in 1981 and 'Duets' in 1991 w John Pisano on guitar. Trios include 'Eximious' in 1982 w Martin Drew (drums) and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (bass), and 'Sentimental Moods' in 1987 w Tommy Gumina (polycorus) and Jimmie Smith (drums). In January of 1994 he co-led 'Roy Clark & Joe Pass Play Hank Williams'. Returning to Pass' earlier career in the sixties, such included commercials and television talk show bands. A large event arrived in 1973 upon Norman Granz, founder of Verve Records, contracting Pass to his new label, Pablo Records. Lord's disco shows his first titles with Pablo per Duke Ellington's 'Duke's Big Four' on January 8 of 1973. Titles by himself began with 'Virtuoso' on August 28, 1973. In addition to performances with Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) in Switzerland in 1975 and Tokyo in October of 1983, Pass's relationship with Granz would affect the addition of three of the more important figures in his career: pianist, Oscar Peterson, bassist, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and vocal giant, Ella Fitzgerald. It was for Pablo that Peterson's Trio with Pass and Pedersen recorded 'The Good Life' and 'The Trio' at the London House in Chicago in May of 1973. Pass, Pedersen and Peterson were a tight team into the eighties backing various other operations when not fulfilling Peterson's numerous projects. 'The Paris Concert' was another trio performed on October 5 of 1978. Pass and Pedersen recorded duets on Pass's 'Chops' in London on November 19, 1978. 'Digital III at Montreux' and 'Northsea Nights' were duets at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in July of 1979. Those had followed a trio with Stephane Grappelli ('Live Tivoli Gardens') and Peterson's 'Skol' with Grappelli earlier that month in Copenhagen. Pedersen supported Pass's 'Eximious' in 1982, a trio with Martin Drew at drums. Their last mutual session for Peterson is thought to have been on April 30, 1985 with clarinetist, Buddy DeFranco, in the crew for 'Hark'. In October of '91 Pedersen provided rhythm on Pass's 'What's New'. They both supported guitarist, Damir Dicic's, 'Be My Guest' sometime in 1991 as well. Among Pass's sessions for Peterson was a string of duets in 1973 of undetermined issue per RCA KJL1 0196: 'Green Dolphin Street', 'I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'' and 'Wave'. Lord's disco has them last recording together for 'Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson' on November 14, 1986. Pass's initial session with Ella Fitzgerald is thought to have been live at the Newport Jazz Festival held at Carnegie Hall in NYC that year on July 5, 1973. Numerous recordings with Fitzgerald included tours to Europe in '74, '75, and '76 ('Hamburg Duets' 1976). They reunited from 1980 ('Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Antonio Carlos Jobim Song Book' aka 'Ella Abraça Jobim') to 1986, including tours to Japan (JATP) and Switzerland. Lord's disco shows their last session to be another suite of duets in February of 1986, this time in Hollywood for 'Easy Living', that for Pablo as well. Lord's disco shows Pass recording for Granz' label (Pablo) to as late as his suite of solos, 'Songs for Ellen', in 1992. Pass's latest recordings were in 1994, either 'Roy Clark & Joe Pass Play Hank Williams' or Juanita Williams' 'Introducing'. Among the numerous others he'd supported through well above a couple hundred sessions were the United States Air Force Airmen of Note, Sarah Vaughan and Zoot Sims. Pass died of liver cancer in Los Angeles on May 23, 1994 [obit]. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, Lord (leading 76 of 227 sessions). Pass in visual media. 1974 interview w Steve Barker. Instructional: Rick Beato: 1, 2, 3; Jens Larson: 1, 2, 3, 4; Joe Pass: 1, 2, 3, 4; Steve Raegele: *; Matt Warnock: 1, 2, 3. Gear: guitars: Epiphone Emperor II: 1, 2; Ibanez JP-20: 1, 2, 3, 4. Archives: David W. Niven Collection [1, 2] 1963-83; Colman Andrews for 'New York' 1979. Further reading: Jazz Profiles; Mike Joyce. Other profiles: 1, 2, 3. Per 1993 below, all edits were filmed live with Roy Clark. See also the 1994 issue of 'Roy Clark & Joe Pass Play Hank Williams'. Joe Pass 1962 Album Joe Pass 1963 There Will Never Be Another You Piano: Clare Fischer Music: Harry Warren 1942 Lyrics: Mack Gordon For the film musical 'Iceland' Joe Pass 1964 Album Joe Pass 1973 Album with Ella Fitzgerald Joe Pass 1974 Trumpet: Dizzy Gillespie Bass: Ray Brown Drums: Mickey Roker Composition: Gillespie Album with Ray Brown & Oscar Peterson Album Joe Pass 1975 With Ella Fitzgerald You Are the Sunshine of My Life Filmed live in Montreaux Composition: Stevie Wonder Joe Pass 1978 Bass: Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Composition: Sonny Rollins 1954 Joe Pass 1979 Music: Vernon Duke 1932 Lyrics: Yip Harburg For the Broadway musical 'Walk a Little Faster' Joe Pass 1980 Piano: Oscar Peterson Joe Pass 1984 Filmed live in Berlin Composition: Ray Noble 1938 Joe Pass 1985 Filmed live with Oscar Peterson Composition: Tom Jobim Joe Pass 1988 Filmed live in Vienna Composition: Leigh Harline/Ned Washington 1939 Joe Pass 1992 Concert filmed live Music: Felix Bernard 1934 Lyrics: Richard B. Smith Joe Pass 1993 With Roy Clark: Composition: Hank Williams I'll Never Get Out . . . Alive Composition: Hank Williams/Fred Rose Composition: Hank Williams Composition: Hank Williams Composition: Hank Williams Joe Pass 1994 Roy Clark & Joe Pass Play Hank Williams Album
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Percy Heath Photo: Richard Laird Source: All About Jazz |
Born in 1923 in Wilmington, North, Carolina, bassist Percy Heath was older brother to tenor saxophonist, Jimmy Heath (b '26), and drummer, Albert Heath (b '35). After a time in the Army (drafted 1944) Percy enrolled at the Granoff School of Music in Philadelphia where he played clubs and is thought to have first recorded on December 1 of '47 with the band of Al Steele per Hi-Lite 503: 'Down' and 'D.M.F'. He is next found in Chicago in the latter week of December '47 with the Howard McGhee Sextet featuring Milt Jackson for such as 'Merry Lee' and 'Short Life'. Heath would see multiple dates with McGhee into the sixties. Their first occurred to May of '48 in Paris with McGhee's Boptet. The last was on the 18th for titles like 'Denise' and 'Nicole'. Upon returning to the States Heath joined trumpeter, Joe Morris, on a few dates, including with vocalists, Lucille Little and Stick McGhee. But with 335 sessions accredited to him, we'll not pursue a session-by-session account of Heath's career and focus on only those peers more important to his career. At the spearhead was vibraphonist, Milt Jackson, who we saw above with Howard McGhee in December of '47. After McGhee, Heath and Jackson next recorded together with the Dizzy Gillespie Sextet on December 16, 1950, that yielding 'She's Gone Again', 'Nice Work If You Can Get It', 'Thinking of You' and 'Too Much Weight'. They both bopped with Gillespie until February 29 of '52 with another sextet, putting down such as 'Dizz' Tune' and 'Love Is Here to Stay'. Along the way Heath had supported titles like 'Autumn Breeze' and 'Bluesology' for Jackson's Quartet on September 18, 1951, consisting of John Lewis (piano) and Al Jones (drums). Some mark that as the inception of the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) but the name came later. Heath joined Jackson again for sessions in April of 1952. In years to come the two would back other operations together, such as Miles Davis, as well as record numerous Jackson titles. The major portion of their relationship together was membership in the MJQ. They are thought to have first recorded by that name (Modern Jazz Quartet) on December 17, 1951, per Lord's discography, Sonny Rollins one of its members on several tracks with Kenny Drew (piano) and Art Blakey (drums). It would be well here to cite Wikipedia concerning that session included on 'Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet' released in 1956. The MJQ definitely went by that name when it recorded 'MJQ' on December 22, 1952, consisting of Jackson, Heath, John Lewis (piano) and Kenny Clarke (drums). Connie Kay [1, 2, 3, 4] replaced Clarke in 1955. The quartet appeared on the television special, 'Belafonte, New York', in 1960 [IMDb]. The MJQ remained in business until 1974 when Jackson dropped out due to too much touring. They reformed in 1981 and recorded numerously to what is thought their final session on July 16, 1993, at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland with tenor saxophonist, Nino Tempo. As ever since '55 the Quartet consisted of Jackson, Heath, Lewis and Kay for a rendition of 'Darn That Dream'. That would be included with prior sessions in NYC on 'MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration' in 1994. Lewis and Heath had gone back to before the MJQ to Pairs, above, with Howard McGhee on May 14, 1948, for such as 'Maggie's Drawers' and 'Out of Nowhere'. They had recorded with both Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie before a Jackson quintet with Lou Donaldson on alto sax and Kenny Clarke on drums, on April 7, 1952, for such as 'Tahiti' and 'Lillie'. That was elementally the MJQ with Donaldson guesting. They recorded with Charlie Parker at Lewis' first session with the official MJQ on November 1 of 1952 for 'How High the Moon', Embraceable You' and '52nd Street Theme'. Through the decades to their last sessions with the MJQ per above in 1993 Heath and Lewis had also recorded numerously with other ensembles, one such instance being Jazz at the Philharmonic in Seattle on October 11 of '56 for such as 'Groovin' High'. An earlier session that day as the MJQ yielded such as 'D & E' with Kay again at drums. Future JATP sessions were held in '57. Heath supported Lewis' albums, '2 Degrees East / 3 Degrees West' ('56 w Chico Hamilton at drums), 'Afternoon In Paris' ('56), 'The John Lewis Piano' ('56) and 'European Windows' ('58). They are thought to have last recorded together per above with the MJQ in '93 in Montreux, Switzerland. Sonny Rollins also weighed heavily in Heath's career, their first tracks together on January 17, 1951, with the Miles Davis Sextet for such as 'Morpheus' and 'Down'. A session later that day with the Sonny Rollins Quartet wrought 'I Know' with Davis at piano and Roy Haynes on drums. Heath held numerous sessions with Rollins into the latter fifties backing other operations, like those of Davis, when not supporting Rollins' projects. In August of '58 Heath contributed to Rollins' 'At Music Inn / At Falcon's Lair', followed seven years later by 'In Europe', recorded in Berlin on October 30, 1965. As might be indicated thus far, Miles Davis was also a major figure in Heath's early career, their first session together per above with Rollins in December of '51. Heath worked with Davis nigh continuously to November 12, 1956, in Freiburg, Germany, recording 'How High the Moon' and 'Lester Leaps In' for German television station, SWF. Requisite to mention per Heath's latter career is the Heath Brothers with Albert and Jimmy. That tripartite first recorded on October 22, 1975, with Stanley Cowell at piano in Oslo, Norway, resulting in 'Marchin On'. Numerous albums ensued to May 29-31, 1998, for 'Jazz Family'. Others with whom Heath recorded on multiple occasions were Art Farmer, Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans. Heath's last recordings are thought to have been his album, 'A Love Song', on May 1 of 2002. Beyond music, Heath loved to fish striped bass, he an expert surfcaster. Montauk Point at the tip of Long Island was his favorite spot. He died April 28, 2005, of bone cancer in Southampton, New York. References for Percy Heath: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Sessions: JDP, Lord. Discographies: 1, 2. Interviews: Smithsonian Jazz 2001 (pdf) 2001, Myers 2009. Documentaries: 'Brotherly Jazz' 2005: 1, 2. Further reading: Cerra/ JazzProfiles. References for MJQ: 1, 2, 3, 4. Sessions: JDP, Lord. Discographies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Compilations: 'The Modern Jazz Quartet: Lost Tapes: Germany 1956-1958': 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, YouTube. MJQ in visual media. Criticism: Steven Cerra at JazzProfiles, Carla Marie Rupp at CUNY. Further reading: Eric Levin at People. Other profiles: 1, 2. References for the Heath Brothers: 1, 2. Sessions. Discographies: 1, 2, 3, Documentaries: 'Brotherly Jazz' 2005 directed by Jesse Block, produced by Danny Scher. Percy Heath 1949 Recorded 22 Dec 1948 Trumpet: Joe Morris Composition: Joe Morris Percy Heath 1952 The Best Things in Life Are Free Alto sax: Lou Donaldson Composition: Lew Brown/Buddy DeSylva/Ray Henderson Recorded 1952 Issue unidentified Percy Heath 1954 Tenor sax: Sonny Rollins Trumpet: Art Farmer Piano: Horace Silver Drums: Kenny Clarke Composition: Art Farmer Recorded 1954 Issue unidentified Tenor sax: Sonny Rollins Trumpet: Art Farmer Piano: Horace Silver Drums: Kenny Clarke Composition: Ben Oakland/Oscar Hammerstein II Recorded 1954 Issue unidentified Miles Davis Quartet Piano: John Lewis Trumpet: Miles Davis Drums: Max Roach Composition: Miles Davis LP: 'Miles Davis Quartet' Recorded 1953 Tenor sax: Sonny Rollins Trumpet: Art Farmer Piano: Horace Silver Drums: Kenny Clarke Composition: Art Farmer Recorded 1954 Issue unidentified Percy Heath 1955 Saxophone: Gigi Gryce Trumpet: Art Farmer Piano: Horace Silver Drums: Kenny Clarke Composition: Art Farmer LP: 'When Farmer Met Gryce' Modern Jazz Quartet 1955 Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise Music: Sigmund Romberg 1928 Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II For the operetta 'The New Moon' LP: 'Concorde' Modern Jazz Quartet 1956 Composition: Earl Brent/Matt DennisLP: 'Fontessa' Recorded 22 December 1952 Composition: John Lewis For the operetta 'The New Moon' LP: 'Modern Jazz Quartet/Milt Jackson Quintet' Percy Heath 1960 East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) Alto sax: Paul Desmond Guitar: Jim Hall Composition: Brooks Bowman LP: 'First Place Again' Alto sax: Paul Desmond Guitar: Jim Hall Composition: Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn LP: 'First Place Again' Modern Jazz Quartet 1960 AlbumModern Jazz Quartet 1966 Composition: Milt Jackson Modern Jazz Quartet 1982 Filmed in London: Composition: John LewisComposition: John Lewis Composition: Milt JacksonModern Jazz Quartet 1983 Composition: Milt Jackson 1952 Composition: Milt Jackson
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Born in 1923 in Indianapolis, guitarist, Wes Montgomery, was younger brother to Monk Montgomery born in 1921. Even younger to Monk than Wes was vibraphonist, Buddy Montgomery, born in 1930. Wes received his first big break in 1948, touring with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. Hampton is said to have hired Montgomery for his ability to play pieces by Charlie Christian. He is thought to have first recorded with Hampton in 1948, a series of radio broadcasts beginning from an undeterminable location on June 5: 'Giddyup', 'Midnight Sun', etc.. Those are available on a Hampton CD titled 'Live in 1948'. His first name recording took place in June 1955 for Columbia with his brothers, Buddy (piano) and Monk (bass guitar): 'Love for Sale'. The debut vinyl of trumpeter, Freddie Hubbard, was in support of 'The Montgomery Brothers and 5 Others' on December 30, 1957. Among those in whose projects Montgomery participated were Jon Hendricks, Nat Adderley, Cannonball Adderley, Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Smith. Montgomery recorded steadily until his early death of heart attack on 15 June of 1968 in Indianapolis, only 45 years of age. His last titles are thought to have been recorded in May that year for 'Road Song'. References for Wes Montgomery: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (Japan). Sessionographies: Cohen, JDP, Gould, Lord, WMFC (Japan). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. Compilations: 'Beginnings' 1957-59 by Blue Note 1975; 'In the Beginning' 1949-58 by Resonance 2015: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Compositions. Chords/tabs; transcriptions: 1, 2 (Japan). Instruction: analysis; guitar licks. Interviews: w Ira Gitler 1964, w Valerie Wilmer 1965, w Crescendo Magazine 1965. Awards. Gear. Further reading: John Duarte, Aravind Iyer, Marc Myers, Chuck Stewart, Josef Woodard. References for the Montgomery Brothers: 1, 2. Discos: 1, 2, 3. With George Shearing. Per '49 and '50 below, Montgomery is listed on those sessions, though you wouldn't know it. Earlier '48 solos by Montgomery with Hampton exist at YouTube (as of this writing): recorded in July in Geneva, they're half-minute rough edits from 'Adam Blew His Hat' and 'Brant Inn Boogie'. Wes Montgomery 1949 With Lionel Hampton Composition: Hampton/Curley Hamner/Melvln White Wes Montgomery 1950 With Lionel Hampton Vocal: Jimmy Scott Composition: Harry Warren/Mack Gordon Wes Montgomery 1958 From 'Far Wes' With Buddy & Monk Montgomery Composition: Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Composition: Willard Robison/Dedette Hill Wes Montgomery 1959 Wes Montgomery Trio Organ: Melvin Rhyne Drums: Paul Parker Composition: Duke Ellington Billy Strayhorn Johnny Mercer Wes Montgomery 1960 Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery Album Piano: Tommy Flanagan Bass: Percy Heath Drums: Albert Heath Wes Montgomery 1961 Album Piano: Hank Jones Bass: Ron Carter Drums: Lex Humphries Conga: Ray Barretto There Will Never Be Another You Music: Harry Warren 1942 Lyrics: Mack Gordon For the film musical 'Iceland' Album: 'Live at Jorgies Jorgie's Jazz Club' Wes Montgomery 1962 Full House Album Tenor sax: Johnny Griffin Piano: Wynton Kelly Bass: Paul Chambers Drums: Jimmy Cobb Wes Montgomery 1963 Composition: Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer Album: 'Boss Guitar' Recorded 22 April 1963 Organ: Melvin Rhyne Drums: Jimmy Cobb There Will Never Be Another You Recorded Nov 1963 Issued 2001 on 'Complete Live at Jorgies' Piano: Billy Taylor Bass: Ben Tucker Drums: Grady Tate Music: Harry Warren 1942 Lyrics: Mack Gordon For the film musical 'Iceland' Wes Montgomery 1965 Film Album Piano: Wynton Kelly Bass: Paul Chambers Drums: Jimmy Cobb Wes Montgomery 1966 Composition: John & Michelle Phillips Album: 'California Dreaming' Wes Montgomery 1967 Composition: John Lennon/Paul McCartney Wes Montgomery 1968 Piano: Herbie Hancock Bass: Richard Davis Drums: Ed Shaughnessy Music: Richard Rodgers 1959 Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II For the Broadway musical 'The Sound of Music' Film premiere: 2 March 1965
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Born in 1922 in Birmingham, Alabama, upon
leaving military service in 1946 guitarist Johnny Smith began his music
career as a trumpeter for WCSH Radio in Portland before crossing the States
to work for NBC, first as a freelancer until he obtained his union card
(Local 802), then as a staff musician. That was 1946, and on just what
recordings he first appeared at the time is a good trick to determine, though Lord's
disco has him with Mary
Lou Williams sometime in 1947 for 'Mary Lou' and
'Kool' issued on Disc 5033 in 1948 [see 'Billboard'].
Joining them were
Kenny Dorham on trumpet and
Kenny Dorham on bass. Circa 1949 Smith found himself with the Sanford Gold Orchestra
for 'It's Christmas Every Day', no issue date identified for Wheeler
P100. Lord's puts Smith with Jerry Jerome some time in 1950 for 'Winston
Cigarettes Montage', that not issued until Jerome's 'Something Old,
Something New' in 1997. Smith joined
Benny Goodman's Sextet for 'Oh Babe', 'You're Gonna Lose
Your Gal' and 'Walking with the Blues' on October 10, 1950 (Columbia 39045). Smith spent a
year of rapidly successive sessions with
Goodman to September of '51 for
'When Buddha Smiles', 'Sunrise Serenade' and 'You Can't Pull the Wool Over
My Eyes'. Smith's first session as a leader was March 11, 1952 with a
quintet of
Stan Getz (tenor sax), Sanford Gold
(piano), Eddie Safranski (bass) and Don Lamond
(drums) to result in 'Where or When', 'Tabu', 'Moonlight in Vermont' and
'Jaguar'. Those would get issued in 1953 with titles from a session in April
of '52 on Roost 410: ''Johnny Smith Quintet "jazz n.b.c." series featuring
Stan Getz''. Sessions on November 9 of '52 and August of '53 resulted in
'Johnny Smith Quintet featuring Stan Getz Roost 413', thought issued that
year. Those would get reissued with future recordings on Smith's 'Moonlight
in Vermont' in 1956. Among his compositions was 'Walk Don't Run' in 1954,
rendered by
Chet Atkins in '57, the
Ventures in '60, the
Shadows in '61. Lord has Smith recording
'The Sound of the Johnny Smith Guitar' [*] in latter 1960 or early 1961 for
release on Roost LP 2246 in '61, he joined on that by
Hank Jones (piano),
George Duvivier (bass) and Ed Shaughnessy (drums). Those witnessed reissue on a
compilation in 2001 also titled 'The Sound of the Johnny Smith Guitar' per
Roulette 7243 5 31792 2 9. The rest of that compilation consisted of 'Johnny
Smith Plus The Trio' (Roost LP 2243) recorded earlier in 1960 w Bob Pancoast
(piano), George Roumanis (bass) and Mousie Alexander (drums). Smith withdrew from the big
city (NYC) in the early sixties upon the death of his second wife to Colorado Springs, Colorado,
to raise his daughter, teach and run a
music shop. The last album of his career in the big time in NYC was 'The
Sound of the Johnny Smith Guitar' issued in 1961. He recorded on rare
occasions thereafter both in Colorado Springs and NYC. His first session in
Colorado Springs was a suite of solos in early '62 resulting in 'The Man
with the Blue Guitar'. Several albums followed to a suite of solos on
February of 1976, not issued until 'Legends' in 1994, a CD shared with
George Van Eps, recorded four years before his death in '98. Lord's disco
has Smith in final sessions in Mysen, Norway, and London, England, in 1977
with Joe Bushkin toward '100 Years of Recorded Sound'. Smith died decades
later on June 11, 2013 [obits: 1,
2,
3]. References: 1,
2,
3,
4. Discos:
1,
2,
3, Lord (leading 36 of
68 sessions).
Select YouTube.
The Gibson Johnny Smith Guitar. Interviews:
Leigh Kamman c 1959;
Tom Ross 1988; NAMM 2005;
Matthew Warnock 2007.
Discussion.
Biblio: 1,
2. Further reading:
Jim Bastian;
Jim Carlton;
Jazz Profiles.
See also the the Johnny Smith Estate.
Johnny Smith 1951 With Benny Goodman Composition: Henry Lodge Johnny Smith 1952 Tenor sax: Stan Getz Music: Karl Suessdorf 1944 Lyrics: John Blackburn Johnny Smith 1953 Tenor sax: Stan Getz Composition: Ray Noble 1938 Johnny Smith 1954 Composition: Johnny Smith Johnny Smith 1957 Composition: Charles Henderson/Rudy Vallée Johnny Smith 1961 From 'The Sound of the Johnny Smith Guitar' Piano: Hank Jones Bass: George Duvivier Drums: Ed Shaughnessey Composition: Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn Composition: Gershwin Brothers Composition: Erroll Garner/Johnny Burke Johnny Smith 1965 Music: Frank Foster 1955 Lyrics: Ella Fitzgerald Johnny Smith 1984 What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life? * Music: Michel Legrand 1969 Lyrics: Alan & Marilyn Bergman For the film 'The Happy Ending'
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Born in 1921 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Tal Farlow didn't start playing guitar until age 20 or 21. He is said to have manufactured his own electric guitar because he couldn't afford to buy one. He was working professionally in NYC by 1945 where he made his first recordings with pianist, Dardanelle Breckenridge. The first of three sessions in July wrought 'Gold Braid', 'Oh, What a Beautiful Morning' and 'C Jam Blues'. Titles from those sessions would be issued in 1956 as 'Gold Braids' by the Dardanelle Trio with Paul Eldenfield (bass). It was around that period that he had worked in NYC with bassist, Marshall Grant. He also performed with pianist, Teddy Napoleon, at the Hickory Log Cabin. He is thought to have worked in a trio with Marjorie Hyams and Charlie Parker at the Three Deuces for a brief stint in 1948. His next sessions don't appear in Lord's disco until the Buddy DeFranco Orchestra on April 23, 1949, for titles thought to have been issued (unconfirmed) by Capitol (80853): 'A Bird In Igor's Yard'/'This Time the Dream's On Me'. Farlow would later contribute to DeFranco's 'Sweet and Lovely' ('55), 'Cookin' the Blues' ('55) and 'Like Someone in Love' ('77). A bit later Red Norvo, upon Mundell Lowe''s recommendation, then drove Farlow to California where they were joined by Charles Mingus for Farlow's next session in Hollywood on May 3 of 1950, resulting in such as 'Swedish Pastry' and 'Cheek to Cheek'. From that point onward Norvo would be the most important of Farlow's musical associates to October 2 of 1955, that with bassist, Red Mitchell, for titles toward the album, 'Red Norvo Trio', issued by Fantasy Records that year. In February 1969 Farlow and Norvo backed pianist, George Wein's, 'Newport All-Stars'. In August, 1976, they recorded 'On Stage' at the Concord Pavilion in California with Hank Jones (piano), Ray Brown (bass) and Jake Hanna (drums). February 20 of 1983 saw them participating in 'Swingin' the Forties with The Great Eight' recorded in Berlin. Farlow had formed his own group in 1953 and released his first album, 'The Tal Farlow Quartet', in 1954 with Don Arnone (guitar), Clyde Lombardi (bass) and Joe Morello (drums). That debut album was followed by 'The Tal Farlow Album' the same year. Farlow retired from the national scene to Sea Bright, New Jersey, in 1958, playing only locally after albums released in 1960. He released the LP, 'The Return of Tal Farlow', in 1969, but didn't reemerge until the latter seventies. His last issue during his lifetime is thought to have been a suite of duets with guitarist, Lenny Breau, 'Chance Meeting', in 1997. Farlow died of esophageal cancer on 25 July 1998 in NYC. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Sessions: DAHR; JDP; Lord (leading 29 of 75). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. IA. Interviews: 'Guitar Magazine' 1981. Discussion: 1, 2. Facebook tribute. Guitars: 1, 2. Biblio: 'Un accord parfait: A life in jazz Guitar' by Jean-Luc Katchoura & Michele Farlow (Paris Jazz Corner Edition 2014) *; 'The Jazz Style of Tal Farlow' by Steve Rochinksi (Hal Leonard 1994) *; 'Tal Farlow' by Guy Littler-Jones (2009) *. Collections: Duke U. Further reading: Steven Cerra; Marc-Andre Seguin. Per below, all tracks for 1950 are with vibes player, Red Norvo. Tal Farlow 1950 With vibraphonist, Red Norvo: Composition: Denzil Best Composition: Cole Porter Composition: Barney Kessel Composition: Robert Bilder Tal Farlow 1953 Bass: Charles Mingus Vibes: Red Norvo Composition: Richard Rodgers Tal Farlow 1954 From 'The Tal Farlow Quartet' Debut LP Composition: Cole Porter Composition: Farlow Composition: Farlow Reissues also reference Althea H. Sylvern(e) Composition: Farlow Arrangement: Travis Edmonson Tal Farlow 1978 Music: Joseph Kosma 1945 Lyrics French: Jacques Prévert Lyrics English: Johnny Mercer Tal Farlow 1982 Vibes: Red Norvo Composition: Gerald Marks/Seymour Simon 1931 Tal Farlow 1983 Trumpet: Billy Butterfield Vibes: Red Norvo Composition: Charlie Shavers 1938
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Jazz guitarist Hank Garland [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] was born in Cowpens, South Carolina, in 1930. He began playing guitar at age six, appearing on radio at age twelve. Garland started early and well in country music at age fifteen by joining Paul Howard's Georgia Cotton Pickers with whom he played at the Grand Ole Opry. Praguefrank's commences its discography of Garland on August 25 of 1949 for 'I'll Never Slip Around Again'/'This Cold War with You' (Decca 46183) and 'Sugarfoot Rag'/'Some Other World' (Decca 46204). Those were issued in '49 per 45worlds. All of those were Floyd Tillman compositions with the exception of 'Sugarfoot Rag' written by Garland and George Vaughn. Praguefrank's has Garland recording 'Sugarfoot Rag' again with Red Foley on November 11 of '49 for issue on Decca 46205 in 1950. Both versions produced by Paul Cohen, Garland's band on the first consisted of Jack Shook or Harold Bradley on guitar, Ernie Newton (bass), Tommy Jackson (fiddle), Farris Coursey (drums), Owen Bradley (piano) and an unknown at steel. Foley's band on the second employed only Shook, Newton and Jackson. Garland had first backed Foley a few days earlier on the 6th and 9th for 'When God Dips His Love in My Heart' (9-46255), 'Steal Away' (Decca 9-14505) and 'Tennessee Border No. 2'/'Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age (Decca 9-46200). Ernest Tubb was at vocals on 'Tennessee Border No. 2' Garland hung with Foley into late 1950, they holding multiple sessions with Tubb again in 1953. Garland performed with Elvis Presley from '57 to '61 [1, 2]. Another of Garland's important associates was Chet Atkins both as a fellow musician and producer. Atkins regarded Garland to be the best guitarist to ever arrive to Nashville. Praguefrank's lists Garland backing Atkins as early as June 10 of 1959 for titles toward Atkins' LP, 'Mister Guitar'. They held a couple more sessions in 1959 before recording 'After the Riot at Newport' on July 4, 1960, as a result of the cancellation of their scheduled appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival as the Nashville All Stars that day [1, 2]. In 1961 Garland released a couple of jazz albums: 'Jazz Winds from a New Direction' and 'Velvet Guitar'. It was also 1961 that Garland's car left the highway near Springfield, Tennessee. The result was brain damage and inability to play his instrument. Though Garland spent years in the endeavor he wasn't able to attain to his former ability. Praguefrank's lists him on only two sessions thereafter, once in '66 with the Nashville Cats, once again toward the 1979 issued of 'Jazz in New York' [rocky52]. Garland dropped away from the music industry, eventually settling in Orange Park, Florida. He there died on December 27 of 2004 of staph infection. As a session player Garland can be heard on titles by such as, in no particular order, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline ('I Fall to Pieces'), Moon Mullican, Dottie West, Brenda Lee and Patti Page ('Just Because'). Compositional credits to some of his recordings at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Garland in visual media. Earlier Garland at Country Western: Garland. Hank Garland 1960 From the LP 'Velvet Guitar': Composition: 1945 Originally 'Les Feuilles mortes' ('The Dead Leaves') Music: Joseph Kosma Lyrics: Jacques Prévert Composition: Oscar Levant/Edward Heyman 1934 Composition: Hank Garland Hank Garland 1961 From the LP 'Jazz Winds Fom a New Direction': Composition: Denzil Best/Paul Walsh Composition: Boots Randolph/Hank Garland
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Born in New York City in 1927, bassist Red Mitchell is thought to have first recorded in 1948 with trumpeter Tony Fruscella, for release by Spotlite the next year. Those included such as 'Foo's' and 'Flues'. Lord's disco next estimates him with the Chubby Jackson Big Band in May of 1949 for 'Three Men on a Bass' (Red Kelly also on bass). Recordings followed on July 21 with Joe Roland: 'Leaving Town Tonight' and 'A Fool and His Love'. Come the orchestra of Charlie Ventura in August and September before joining Woody Herman's Woodchoppers, first recording with Herman in January 6 of 1950, for 'Tasty' and 'The Old Pail'. Mitchell then joined Herman's larger orchestra. He also began working as a session musician about that time, later to work at film and television studios in Los Angeles as well. which goes toward explaining his prolific number of sessions at 577 per Lord's disco. Mitchell was among the towering figures in jazz in the 20th century whose career to pace is a marathon of relays from one significant figure to the next, not a few requiring mention. After Herman, then, in '51, we jump past Tony Fruscella and Gil Mellé to arrive to Gerry Mulligan on June 10, 1952, in a trio with drummer, Chico Hamilton, for 'Get Happy', ''S Wonderful' and 'Godchild'. Mitchel supported Mulligan numerously, often in quartets, through 1954, to reunite again in 1958 for Mulligan's 'I Want to Live'. In 1959 they joined André Previn for the soundtrack to the film, 'The Subterraneans'. At some time in '52 Mitchell joined Jimmy Dorsey in a short film titled 'Varieties' with vibraphonist, Red Norvo, released in September that year. Mitchell and Norvo recorded their first trio with Tal Farlow on guitar on July 1 of 1952: 'Tenderly' and 'Aren't You Glad You're You?'. Mitchell hung tight with Norvo for another five years, supporting other bands together when not working on Norvo's projects including future trios to include both Jimmy Raney and Farlow. In the meantime Mitchell had toured to Great Britain with Mulligan and Shorty Rogers to record with the orchestra of British bandleader, Vic Lewis: 'Begin the Beguine', 'Stop Short', etc.. Mulligan arranged the former, Rogers the latter. Mitchell played piano on all. A similar tour ensued in '55 for more tracks with Lewis at Royal Festival Hall in London for 'Progressive Jazz Vol 1'. Mitchell again contributed piano, Mulligan, Rogers, et al, arrangements, including a title arranged by Pete Rugolo: 'The Peanut Vendor'. Reason to the madness of mentioning such is that both Rogers and Rugolo were important figures in Mitchell's career to 1961. Mitchell and Rogers interweaved frequently in the support of various bands when Mitchell wasn't backing Rogers on such as 'Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers' ('57), 'An Invisible Orchard' ('61) and 'The Fourth Dimension In Sound' ('61). Likewise, Rugolo was the arranger or conductor of numerous orchestras with which Mitchell recorded, such as Stan Kenton's in '58 or in support of Patti Page earlier that year. Some of Rugolo's projects on which Mitchell appeared were 'The Music from Richard Diamond' ('59), 'Jack the Ripper' ('59), 'Thriller' ('60), 'Ten Trombones Like Two Pianos' ('60) and 'Ten Saxophones and Two Basses' ('62). We need return to January 22, 1954, to regard another important figure in Mitchell's career, that being vocalist, Billie Holiday. On that date Mitchell joined Holiday on their first session during a tour to Europe, that in Cologne, Germany, for such as 'Billie's Blues' and 'All of Me'. Several sessions were held during that tour including Belgium and Switzerland. Mitchell would see Holiday again in Los Angeles for numerous sessions in 1956-57, a last session on January 9 yielding such as 'They Can't Take That Away From Me' and 'Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You?'. Another important associate had arrived on March 8, 1955, in pianist, André Previn, the latter arranging titles with Shorty Rogers for Milt Bernhart, Previn contributing to 'Hillside' and 'Looking for a Boy'. IMitchell's next sessions with Previn were with Al Hendrickson (guitar) and Irv Cottler (drums) April of 1955 for such as 'Let's Get Away From It All', 'San Francisco' and 'Sidewalks of Cuba'. From 'Pal Joey' in 1957 to 'My Fair Lady' in 1964 Mitchell supported Previn on too many LPs to here list. Along the way they supported Shelly Manne, a frequent partner of theirs, on 'The Bells Are Ringing' on April 15 of 1958. Mitchell was also with Previn in support of other groups, such as that of violinist, Itzhak Perlman, in what are thought Mitchell's last with Previn in May of 1980 for Perlman's 'It's a Different Kind of Blues' and 'It's a Breeze'. Manne was also in on those. We need return to February 1, 1955, for Mitchell's first session as a leader, that with Conte Candoli (trumpet), Bob Brookmeyer (valve trombone), Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Claude Williamson (piano) and Stan Levey (drums) for titles that would appear on side B of an LP shared with Oscar Pettiford: 'Jazz Mainstream'. Mitchell released his first album titled simply 'Red Mitchell' in 1955 as well. Another major player in Mitchell's career was guitarist, Barney Kessel, whose septet he joined on March 28 of 1955 (Manne on drums) for 'To Swing or Not to Swing'. Tenor saxophonist, Bill Perkins, was in on that, who would also figure big in Mitchell's career. When Mitchell wasn't backing Kessel they were maneuvering through numerous sessions together in support of other operations to as late as Dean Martin's 'Dream of Me'. They joined one another again in 1967 to back 'Hugh Masekela's Latest'. Their last recordings together may have been in Stockholm on October 2, 1973, for the duo, 'Two Way Conversation'. As for Perkins, Mitchell's next tracks with him were with Bud Shank (also a strong presence in Mitchell's career) on May 2 of 1955 for such as 'Fluted Columns' and 'I Hear Music'. When Mitchell and Perkins weren't backing other bands Mitchell was supporting Perkins on such as 'On Stage' ('56), 'Tenors Head On' ('56) and 'Just Friends ('56). They worked together frequently to Pete Rugolo's 'Ten Saxophones and Two Basses' on November 8 of 1961. Five years later Mitchell backed Perkins' 'Quietly There'. A session followed in 1967 for vibraphonist, Tommy Vig. Twelve years later they backed vocalist, Junko Mine, on 'You're the Top'. Another strong partnership was that with pianist, Hampton Hawes, they first recording per the tune, 'I Hear Music', in a trio with drummer, Mel Lewis, on May 2 of 1955. When they weren't supporting other enterprises together Mitchell appeared on too many of Hawes' projects to here list, those from 'Hampton Hawes Trio Vol 1' with Chuck Thompson on drums in June of 1955 to 'The Seance' and 'I'm All Smiles' in 1966 with Donald Bailey on drums. Sessions with Hawes in November of 1956 for three volumes of 'All Night Session' had been joined by guitarist, Jim Hall. January of 1957 saw Mitchell participating in Hall's 'Jazz Guitar'. They got mixed together a couple more times before April 1 of 1980 witnessed the Modern Jazz Trio with Red Kelly on bass because Mitchell played piano, that for 'Good Friday Blues'. Hall and Mitchell worked variously together on occasion over the years. 1973 saw them in Hanover, Germany, recording 'Body and Soul' in a trio with Daniel Humair on drums. Recordings as a duo followed in 1976 (unissued) and 1978 ('Valse Hot'). They last recorded together per violinist, Itzhak Perlman, above in 1980 in Pittsburgh at Heinz Hall. We need return to July 12, 1957, for titles like 'Yesterdays' and 'Mine' by the Four Freshman. Mitchell held about twenty sessions with that vocal group to February 1 of 1960 for 'Polka Dots and Moonbeams', 'First Affair', etc.. On October 14, 1961, Mitchell collaborated with Harold Land in a quintet to record 'Hear Ye! Hear Ye!'. In 1968 he moved to Stockholm. His latter career would thus be filled with recordings in collaboration with Scandinavian musicians like vocalist, Alice Babs, with whom he held several sessions from 1972 to 1978. Among the more notable figures of Mitchell's latter career was pianist, Roger Kellaway. They had actually first recorded together in 1966: 'Stride!'. On February 10 of 1987 they recorded 'Fifty-Fifty', a duo with whistler, Brad Terry. Numerous duos and trios ensued to 'Life's a Take' in May of 1982. In 1992 Mitchell returned to the U.S., settling in Salem, Oregon, where he died on November 8 that year. He had recorded the duo, 'Live at Salishan', with guitarist, Joe Beck, in March that year. His final tracks are thought to have been per 'Live at Port Townsend' on July 25. Amidst the horde of others with whom Mitchell recorded were June Christy ('57, '58, '61), Bob Thompson ('58, '59), the Soundstage All Stars ('More Peter Gunn' '59), Frank Sinatra ('60) and Berndt Egerbladh ('68, '74). References: 1, 2, 3, 4. Sessions: DAHR; Lord. Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. Select YouTube. Transcriptions: 1, 2 (songbook of compositions). Interviews 1985-2002. Poetry by Mitchell. Per 1954 below, Mitchell joins baritone saxophonist, Gerry Mulligan. Tracks below also include pianist, Hampton Hawes, in the fifties. Red Mitchell 1949 With the Tony Fruscella Quintet: Composition: Unknown Composition: Johnny Green/Edward Heyman Red Mitchell 1950 With Woody Herman's Second Herd Composition: Ted Shapiro Red Mitchell 1954 Gerry Mulligan Quartet Baritone sax: Gerry Mulligan Composition: Mulligan Music: Bernie Miller 1952 Lyrics: Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller Composition: Mulligan Composition: Mulligan Composition: Mulligan Red Mitchell 1955 From 'California Concerts' Gerry Mulligan Quartet Featuring Zoot Sims & Bob Brookmeyer Also as the Gerry Mulligan Sextet Recorded Nov & Dec '54 Stockton High School Stockton Hoover High School San Diego Composition: Zoot Sims Recorded 14 Dec '54 Hoover HS San Diego Note: The title above went down as a quintet w trumpeter, Jon Eardley, out, otherwise listed on both the label (Pacific Jazz) and in Lord's discography as by the Gerry Mulligan Sextet. Red Mitchell 1955 Composition: Dizzy Gillespie Hampton Hawes Trio Piano: Hampton Hawes Drums: Shelly Manne Red Mitchell Sextet Composition: Charlie Parker 1947 Composition: Gershwin Brothers Hampton Hawes Trio Piano: Hampton Hawes Drums: Chuck Thompson Red Mitchell 1956 Composition: Dizzy Gillespie With Hampton Hawes Composition: Lennie Niehaus Lennie Niehaus Quintet Composition: Sonny Rollins Composition: Buddy DeSylva/Ballard MacDonald With Hampton Hawes Red Mitchell 1958 Composition: Mitchell Hampton Hawes LP: 'Four!' Piano: Hampton Hawes Guitar: Barney Kessel Drums: Shelly Manne With André Previn Music: Jimmy Van Heusen 1943 Lyrics: Johnny Burke Red Mitchell 1962 Composition: Carmell Jones LP: 'Hear Ye!!!!' Harold Land Quintet Drums: Leon Petties Piano: Frank Strazzeri Sax: Harold Land Trumpet: Carmell Jones Red Mitchell 1974 Alto Sax: Lee Konitz Composition: Cole Porter Red Mitchell 1980 Tenor sax: Warne Marsh Composition: Benny Harris/Charlie Parker Red Mitchell 1986 Trumpet: Clark Terry Composition: Frank Foster Red Mitchell 1987 Filmed live with Clark Terry Composition: Duke Ellington 1932
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Red Mitchell 1992 Photo: Gordon Blanz
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Born in 1933 in
Whiteville, Tennessee,
Calvin Newborn
was brother to pianist,
Phineas Newborn. He first recorded
in 1949 with his brother and
BB King. He also laid early tracks with
Big Walter Horton. Newborn began to become more
jazz oriented upon playing with his brother,
Phineas, in the early fifties. In
1953 he recorded a couple duos with
Phineas in Houston on which he
played guitar, bass and drums: 'How High the Moon' and ''Round Midnight'
(Progressive Jazz 500).
They recorded together numerously to 1958 (: 'Fabulous Phineas'), then put
down 'Down Home Reunion' on January 30 of 1959 with the Young Men From
Memphis. They reunited in May of 1979 for Cybill Shepard's 'Vanilla'. Newborn began recording with
Earl Hines in 1959, he thereafter
supporting all number of jazz luminaries from Lionel
Hampton to
Wild Bill Davis to Ray Charles
to
Count Basie. Newborn co-led
'Centerpiece' with pianist/saxophonist,
Hank Crawford, in 1980.
Crawford supported 'From the
Hip' in 1982. 'UpCity' arrived in 1998, 'New Born' in 2005 and 'Clazz' in
2011. Newborn was living in Jacksonville, Florida, when he died on 1 Dec 2018
[obit].
References: 1,
2.
Sessions: DAHR
(w
Wild Bill Davis); Lord (leading 6 of 45).
Discos: 1,
2,
3.
IMDb.
Further reading: Matt Soergel.
Other profiles *. Edits below from 2006
to 2010 are live performances. Calvin Newborn 1949 Backing BB King Composition: Tampa Red Calvin Newborn 1951 Mouth harp: Big Walter Horton Composition: Horton Credited to Leonard Allen Calvin Newborn 1958 Piano: Phineas Newborn Music: Gene de Paul 1942 Lyrics: Patricia Johnston/Don Raye For the comedy 'Ride 'Em Cowboy' Calvin Newborn 1959 Things Ain't What They Used to Be Music: Mercer Ellington 1942 Lyrics: Ted Persons Album: 'Down Home Reunion' Trumpet: Booker Little Piano: Phineas Newborn Calvin Newborn 1978 With Hank Crawford Composition: Hubert Laws Calvin Newborn 2006 Composition: 1930 Hoagy Carmichael/Stuart Gorrell Music: Erroll Garner 1954 Lyrics: Johnny Burke Composition: Stanley Turrentine Calvin Newborn 2010 Live in Memphis Composition: Jimmy McGriff
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Born in 1929 in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, phenomenal jazz guitarist Thomas Grady Martin [1, 2] was also a country western musician who liked to work in both genres. Martin got his professional break early, performing regularly for WLAC radio in Nashville at age fifteen. Several years later in '49 he joined Red Foley on 'Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy' [Lord's disco] for release in January of 1950. In 1951 Martin put together a band called the Slew Foot Five and made his first recordings as a leader that year ('Bully Of the Town', below, among them). The early fifties saw sessions with such as Bing Crosby and Burl Ives, as well as recordings with his band now called the Winging Strings. During the latter fifties Martin became a Nashville A-Team session guitarist, thereat to participate in titles by such as Marty Robbins and Johnny Horton. In 1964 he contributed to jazz trombonist, Kai Winding's 'Modern Country'. Others employing his talents in '64 were Roy Orbison and Lefty Frizzell. Martin issued the LP, 'Instrumentally Yours', in 1965. 1966 found him on clarinetist, Pete Fountain's, 'Mood Indigo'. His LP, 'A Touch of Country', appeared in 1967. He appeared on Joan Baez' 'Any Day Now' in '68 and 'David's Album' in '69. In the seventies he worked with such as J J Cale, Sammi Smith, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty and Kris Kristofferson. 1977 saw the issue of the LP, 'Country Classics'. In 1978 Martin traded session work for the road to tour with Jerry Reed. He's also said to have joined Willie Nelson's band that year, with which he worked until retirement in 1994 for health reasons. In the meantime he'd supported the jazz group, the Four Freshmen, on 'Graduation Day' in 1982, then shifted back to country the next year on Merle Haggard's 'That's the Way Love Goes'. Martin died of heart attack on December 3, 2001, in Lewisburg, Tennessee, leaving a legacy of nearly 400 sessions. Early recordings on which Martin features. Production and songwriting credits for recordings by Martin with and without the Slew Foot Five: *. See also Discogs 1, 2, 3. Further reading: 1, 2. See also Grady Martin Country and Grady Martin Rock. Most of the tenor sax on the recordings below is by Dutch McMillin. Grady Martin 1950 With Red Foley Composition: Jack Stapp/Harry Stone Grady Martin 1951 Composition: Charles E. Trevathan 1895 Arrangement: Owen Bradley/Grady Martin Grady Martin 1955 Composition: Henry Busse/Henry Lange/Lou Davis Grady Martin 1957 Composition: Harry Warren/Mort Dixon 1928 Grady Martin 1959 Composition: William Handy
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Attila Zoller Source: Just Jazz Guitars |
Born in 1927 in Visegrád, Hungary, guitarist
Attila Zoller
began his professional career playing in Budapest nightclubs. He managed to
leave Hungary for Vienna on foot with his guitar in 1948, just prior to the Soviet blockade. His
first recordings are thought to have occurred in 1950 with accordion player,
Vera Auer, on the Harmona label:
'Nachts Ruft Ein Lied' and 'Meine Augen Sagen Ja'. Tittles
with Auer ensued into 1951, such as 'Apple Honey' and 'Pick Yourself Up'.
Zoller had also privately
recorded 'How High the Bach' in 1950 in the Roland Kovac Quartet.
Lord's disco has Zoller possibly recording 'Say Si Si' for Tempo with Auer
in 1950, which would have been his first title in Germany. His first session
with a date was on March 12 of 1953 in Germany with
Albert Mangelsdorff on trombone:
'I Can't Get Started'. Mangelsdorff would
become among the more important figures in Zoller's career, they recording
numerously for the next six years in Germany before Zoller's immigration to
the United States in '59. There would be later reunions in '64, '67 and '86
on Zoller's return visits to Germany.
Albert's brother,
Emil Mangelsdorff, saw a few of
Zoller's sessions with
Albert. Zoller also backed pianist, Jutta Hipp,
in Germany in '55. Zoller's first sessions as a leader were on July 28 of
1955: 'You Go to My Head' and 'Autumn in New York', those available on a
compilation with other German artists like Hipp
and
Hans Koller issued in 2000 titled 'Cool
Jazz Made in Germany'.
Koller was another important figure in
Zoller's career, they putting down 'Blues for Joe' on May 1 of 1956 for SWF
Radio (Südwestfunk). Numerous sessions ensued with reunions in '62, '65 and
'79 ('Trinity' w Roland Hanna) on Zoller's revisits to Germany. Much contributing to Zoller's
move to the United States was a tour to Europe in 1958 by bassist,
Oscar Pettiford.
Going down in November and December that year were 'We Get the Message' and
'Blues in Mind'. 'The Legendary Oscar Pettiford' ensued in January of 1959.
Zoller's second session as a leader had been a trio with
Pettiford and
drummer,
Kenny Clarke, yielding 'Willow
Weep for Me' for an Austrian telecast on November 15 of 1958. Lord's disco
shows Zoller's last recordings in Germany (not counting later tours) on
February 24 of '59 with the
Pettiford/Koller Qunitet, issued in 1963 on
Koller's 'Exclusiv'.
Pettiford convinced Zoller, who had already toured to
the States a couple times in '56 and '58, that he would do well there. So upon being accepted on scholarship to the Lenox School of Jazz in
Massachusetts Zoller moved across the pond in 1959, that something of an
exchange since Pettiford had
decided to live in Copenhagen where he died in 1960. Zoller's first tracks
in the United States were with the Lenox School on August 28, 1959: 'Monk's
Sphere' and 'Jingles'. Upon hooking up with drummer, Chico Hamilton,
and saxophonist,
Bobby Jaspar, they made private
unissued recordings at the Vanguard in NYC in 1960. Zoller's revisit to
Germany in 1962 for NDR Jazz Workshops #24 and #25 (recorded) also resulted
in a string of titles with pianist, Carlos Diernhammer, to be eventually
issued in 2000 as 'Night Bounce'. Frequent revisits to Germany would mean
numerous soundtracks such as for the 1962 release of 'The Bread of Our Early
Years'. A collection of such was issued in 2013 as 'Jazz Soundtracks:
Original Music from the Arthouse Films of Hans Jurgen Pohland 1962-67'. Among Zoller's more important associates
in the States was flautist,
Herbie Mann, first backing him on
July 7 of 1963 for 'Live at Newport'. Multiple sessions ensued to March 22,
1966, for 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy', The Oud and the Pussycat'' and 'Rhythm in
9/8' (unissued). Also in that session at the Newport Jazz Festival was
pianist,
Don Friedman, among Zoller's more important comrades for the next
several years. Zoller supported
Friedman's 'Dreams and Explorations' in
1964. On March 15 of '65
Friedman backed Zoller's 'The Horizon Beyond'. They
joined
Albert Mangelsdorff at
the Newport Jazz Festival in July. On February 22, 1966, it was
Friedman's 'Metamorphosis'. They
recorded in Germany for an NDR Jazz Workshop in 1967. They would visit
again as late as 1995 in Switzerland for a session on March 30 to support
Lee Konitz' 'Thingin''. Zoller also
joined sessions with such as
Cal Tjader and
Benny Goodman in the sixties.
Frequently visiting Europe during his career, Zoller also toured to Japan in
June of 1970, recording 'Guitar Genius in Japan' in Tokyo with Larry Ridley
(bass), Lenny McBrowne (drums),
Jim Hall (guitar) and
Kenny Burrell (guitar). He also left
behind
'Duologue' with pianist, Masahiko Sato, that month. In 1971 Zoller patented
a bi-directional pickup (transducer: device that converts string vibrations
into electric signals). He also designed his own signature line of guitars.
It was 6 May of '79 when he joined
Ron Carter (bass) and Joe Chambers (drums) in NYC
toward 'Common Cause' [1,
2]. Zoller founded the Vermont Jazz Center in 1985 where he taught until 1998.
Lord's disco gives his last tracks on January 7, 1998 in a trio with
Tommy Flanagan (piano) and
George Mraz (bass) for 'There
Will Never Be Another You', 'Lament' and 'I Love You'. He passed away not
three weeks later on the 25th of 1998 in Townshend, Vermont w above twenty
albums to his name. References: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5
(alt).
Sessions: DAHR (w
Dave Pike);
Fitzgerald:
main,
multiple versions,
personnel;
J-Disc;
JDP; Lord (leading 45 of 120).
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4.
IMDb.
IA.
Discussion.
Interview w Bill Donaldson for 'Cadence Magazine' 1999: 1,
2
(alt).
Further reading: Richard Boukas,
Jon Potter,
Attila Zoller 1959 Bass: Oscar Pettiford Drums: Kenny Clarke Composition: Pettiford Television performance with Oscar Pettiford Composition: Pettiford Attila Zoller 1965 Piano: Martial Solal Tenor sax: Hans Koller Composition: Zoller Piano: Martial Solal Tenor sax: Hans Koller Composition: Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II Attila Zoller 1967 Duet with Jim Hall Composition: Zoller Attila Zoller 1972 Composition: Masahiko Sato/Zoller Recorded 7 Nov '71 LP: 'A Path Through Haze' Piano: Masahiko Sato Bass: Yasuo Arakawa Drums: Masahiko Ozu Attila Zoller 1973 Filmed live Duet with Jim Hall Composition: Oscar Pettiford Filmed live Duet with Jim Hall Composition: Zoller Filmed live Duet with Jim Hall Composition: Hall Attila Zoller 1992 Filmed Live Composition: Zoller Filmed Live Vibes: Wolfgang Lackerschmid Composition: Lackerschmid Attila Zoller 1995 Composition: Zoller Album: 'When It's Time' Attila Zoller 1997 Filmed Live Composition: Zoller Composition: Zoller
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Max Bennett Source: Brian & Kaye Runner |
Born in 1928, bassist and bass guitarist, Max Bennett grew up in Kansas City and Oskaloosa, Iowa, he attending college in that state. His first professional gigs were with clarinetist, Herbie Fields, in 1949. Bennett is thought to have first recorded with Fields in November of 1949, a live session at the Flame Club in St. Paul (available on CD) for unissued titles such as 'Ow!' and 'Indiana'. One of the more important figures in Bennett's career was in on that session, trombone player, Frank Rosolino. Bennett and Rosolino would clear much the same path as studio musicians throughout the fifties, appearing on countless titles together, finally backing Peggy Lee on 'Blues Cross Country' in April 1961. They would reunite in 1974 for Quincy Jones' 'Body Heat' and '75 for Jones' 'Mellow Madness'. On January 26 of 1951 Bennett backed the Georgie Auld Quintet in NYC for 1951 Roost releases of such as 'Seh! Seh!' and 'New Airmail Special' (also available on CD). Come Flip Phillips on March 3 for 'Love Come Back to Me' and 'Everything Happens to Me'. Come Charlie Ventura on May 5 of '53 for titles like 'The Great Lie' and 'Turnpike' with Jackie Caiin and Roy Kral (piano) on vocals. Bennett joined the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra (founded 1952 by Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan) later that year in time for a September 30 session for 'Doodletown Races', 'Of Thee I Sing' and 'What Is This Thing Called Love?' Bennett hung with that orrchestra into February of 1954 for 'Inside Sauter-Finegan'. With Bennett filling well above two hundred sessions during his career this account needs skip like a stone across a watery surface, touching upon only a few of Bennett's major contributions. We jump ahead a touch to Stan Kenton who had made a career of breaking in new talent. Bennett's first recorded titles with Kenton were on September 21, 1954, in Portland, OR, for such as 'Saxonia' and 'Cuba Jazz'. Bennett stuck with Kenton into 1955, last in that band for NBC radio broadcasts from the Birdland in NYC for a two-week engagement beginning November 24 and ending December 7, recording such as 'Imagination' and 'I Hear Music' with Ann Richards at vocals. Bennett's first experience with vocal giant, Ella Fitzgerald, had been with Kenton on August 2 of '55: 'How How the Moon', 'Someone to Watch Over Me', etc.. Bennett joined Fitzgerald on a tour to Europe in 1958 to record 'Ella In Rome: The Birthday Concert'. He toured to Europe with her again in summer of '59 for a Jazz at the Philharmonic performance in Cannes, France, on July 1, bearing such as 'Lover Come Back to me' and 'Angel Eyes'. Bennett was a draw for vocalists. He first recorded with Mel Tormé (Porgy) in 1956 on the huge production of 'The Complete Porgy and Bess' with Russell Garcia arranging titles from George Gershwin's original opera in 1951. Bennett also supported Tormé on 'Sings Fred Astaire' that year. 1957 saw Bennett on Tormé's 'Songs for Any Taste', 'At the Crescendo' and 'Dedicated to the Golden State'. Considerably more significant to Bennett's career was vocalist, Peggy Lee, Bennett first supporting her in June of 1956 for her album, 'Dream Street'. April sessions in Hollywood in 1957 went toward Lee's album, 'The Man I Love'. 1960 witnessed 'Pretty Eyes' and 'Christmas Carousel'. 1961 saw 'Basin Street East', 'Peggy at Basin Street East', 'Blues Cross Country' and 'If You Go'. Come 'Sugar 'n' Spice' with 'Mink Jazz' in 1962, followed by 'I'm a Woman' and 'In Love Again' in 1963. Further titles followed in '66 and '67, they to reunite in 1979 for 'Close Enough For Love'. Another talent Bennett supported in the latter fifties was vibraphonist, Terry Gibbs, first recording with Gibbs in September of '57 for 'A Jazzband Ball'. Come 'More Vibes On Velvet' in November of '58, 'Launching a New Band' in February of '59, 'Dream Band' and 'Flying Home' the next month, and 'One More Time' recorded between March and November. 1962 saw Bennett participating in titles toward Gibbs' 'Straight Ahead'. Highlighting the sixties were saxophonist, Charlie Barnet, and guitarist, Laurindo Almeida. Bennett's first titles with Barnet were in Hollywood on May 24 and 25 of '62 for such as 'Cherokee Raid', 'Mood Indigo', 'Indianapolis' and 'I Love Paris'. Tracks for Barnet's 'Wings Over Manhattan' followed on September 13. A few sessions followed in 1966, they to reunite on December 1 and 2 of '69 for such as 'The Beat Goes On' and 'The Girl From Ipanema', those for Reader's Digest. As for Almeida, Bennett first supported him in October of '62 for 'Viva Bossa Nova!'. The next month saw 'Ole! Bossa Nova!'. Bennett is thought to have first traded upright bass for electric bass guitar per Bob Thiele's 'Light My Fire' on August 11, 1967. It was on bass guitar that Bennett backed blues giant, T-Bone Walker, in Los Angeles on August 18 of 1969 for the latter's album, 'Everyday I Have the Blues'. Titles in Hollywood and NYC in 1973 went toward Walker's 'Very Rare'. Bennett also supported Frank Zappa's 'Hot Rats' in August and September of 1969. He was with Tom Scott's L.A. Express in 1974 to back Joni Mitchell on the title, 'Love Poem', that on the album, 'Tom Cat'. Bennett assumed leadership of the L.A. Express in 1975 to record the album by the same name, 'L.A. Express', he to later from the group, Freeway. Bennett's first couple albums as a band leader had been released in 1955: 'Max Bennett Quintet' with Frank Rosolino, and 'Max Bennett Plays', the latter a quartet. Bennett led the band, Private Reserve, until his death on 14 Sep of 2018 [obits: 1, 2]. He had released 'Max Is the Factor' in 2006. References: 1, 2, 3. Discos: 1, 2, 3. IMDb. NAMM interview 2007. Per 1949 below, Bennett performs with the Herbie Fields Septet at the Flame Club alongside trombonist, Frank Rosolino. Max Bennett 1949 With the Herbie Fields Septet at the Flame Club: Composition: James Hanley/Ballard MacDonald Composition: George Wallington Composition: Tiny Kahn Composition: Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields Composition: James Hanley Note: Titles above not released until 2000 on 'Live at the Flame Club, St. Paul, 1949' (IAJRC 1014). Max Bennett 1955 Composition: Frank Rosolino Note: 'Rubberneck' saw recording in Los Angeles on 27 January 1955. First released that year on the album, 'Max Bennett' (Bethlehem BCP 1028), it saw issue again in 1956 on 'Max Bennett Plays' (Bethlehem BCP 50) [per Birka Jazz and JDP; Discogs and RYM show release in '57]. Music: Victor Young 1928 Lyrics: Will J. Harris Note: 'Sweet Sue, Just You' saw recording in New York City on 14 Dec 1955. It was released in 1956 per above on 'Max Bennett Plays' (Bethlehem [per Birka Jazz and JDP; Discogs and RYM show release in '57]. Max Bennett 1967 Television performance Vocal: Peggy Lee Drums: Jack Sperling Note: The date of the above broadcast is given as 1967 per 1, 2. It is not Lee's earlier performance of 'Fever' in 1962 on the 'Andy Williams Show'. 'Fever' was authored by Otis Blackwell and Eddie Cooley under Blackwell's pseudonym, John Davenport. The song was first issued by Little Willie John in 1956, produced by Henry Glover. Lee's first issue arrived in '58 upon Bennett's suggestion she do the song. Original lyrics had gotten revamped by Sid Kuller and Lee. More on 'Fever'. Max Bennett 1993 Album: 'Great Expectations' All comps by Bennett Max Bennett 2010 Live performance KSBR Birthday Bash Guitar: Mike Miller Vocal: Amber Whitlock Composition: John Davenport (Otis Blackwell/Eddie Cooley) Composition: Bennett Guitar: Mike Miller Vocal: Amber Whitlock Max Bennett 2012 Live performance NAMM Guitar: Mike Miller Music: Wardell Gray Lyrics: Annie Ross
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Kenny Burrell/font> Source: Al Morton
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Guitarist Kenny Burrell was born in 1931 in Detroit. He began his recording career on March 1, 1951 with Dizzy Gillespie in Detroit: 'Love Me', 'We Love to Boogie', 'Tin Tin Deo' and 'Birk's Works'. In 1952 Burrell formed a group called the Four Sharps, his first name recordings thought to have been in Detroit circa 1953 with that group (including Tommy Flanagan and Yusef Lateef): 'Kenny's Sound'/'My Funny Valentine' (JVB #58). That (per 'The Gentle Giant' by Yusef Lateef), however, is moot, Lord's disco and JAZZDISCO lending circa 1950. We've also seen 1957 at organissimo. 'Before Motown' by Lars Bjorn has that issued on 78 as very rare. Which murky waters we abandon because Burrell's recording career of above 600 sessions presently seems to prefer another wormhole through which to commence this account, that per Gillespie above: Also in that ensemble were John Coltrane, Percy Heath and Milt Jackson. Burrell's next session with Coltrane was for Paul Chambers' 'Whims of Chambers' on September 21 if 1956. The next year he and Coltrane joined tenor saxophonist, Bobby Jaspar, toward 'Interplay For 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors'. April of '57 found them recording 'The Cats' with Idrees Sulieman (trumpet) and Tommy Flanagan (piano). March of '58 found them co-leading 'Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane'. Returning to Gillespie above, Burrell's next date with Heath was on July 9, 1956, in the Thad Jones Sextet for 'The Magnificent Thad Jones'. The next year they joined Jaspar on flute for Milt Jackson's 'Bags and Flutes'. Also in on that were Flanagan and Art Taylor (drums). April 10 of '58 found them supporting Ray Charles' 'Soul Meeting', also with Jackson. Burrell went on with Jackson to record 'Bean Bags' on September 12 of '58. Among Burrell's more frequent partners from '56 to as late as 1962 was saxophonist/flautist, Frank Wess. Their first session together is thought have been in Frank Foster's Septet on March 5, 1956, for 'No Count'. Two days later Burrell was backing Wess for titles like 'What D'ya Say?' and 'Salvation'. Burrell participated in Wess' 'Opus in Swing' on June 20, 1956, and 'Jazz for Playboys' on January 5, 1957. They found themselves together several more times backing other bands until Shirley Horn's 'Loads of Love' with the Jimmy Jones Orchestra in 1962(?). Burrell had recorded his debut album, 'Introducing Kenny Burrell', in May of 1956, the month before vocal giant, Billie Holiday, came his way with the Tony Scott Orchestra in June of '56 for titles like 'Trav'lin' Light' and 'I Must Have That Man', etc.. A few more occasions with Holiday followed to March 3 of '59 with the Ray Ellis Orchestra for 'All the Way', 'It's Not for Me to Say', et al. Dinah Washington had come along the prior month on February 19, 1959, with the Belford Hendricks Orchestra for such as 'I Won't Cry Anymore' and 'Time After Time'. Burrell would see Washington a few more times to August 22 of 1962, yielding 'There Must Be a Way' and 'What's New', etc. Among male vocalists whom Burrell supported was Jimmy Witherspoon with the Jesse Stone Band on June 21 of 1957 for 'I Can't Stand It' and 'Many Things', et al. December 4 found him with Witherspoon again in Jay McShann's Band: 'Jumpin' the Blues', 'Hootie Blues', etc.. Albums by organist, Jimmy Smith, to which Burrell contributed were 'House Party' (1957), 'Softly as a Summer Breeze' (1958), 'On the Sunny Side' (1958), 'Six Views of the Blues' (1958) and 'Home Cookin'' (1959). Other projects in which he participated during his early career were such as Illinois Jacquet's 'The Cool Rage' in '58, Erskine Hawkins' '25 Golden Years of Jazz Vol 1 & 2' in '62 and Ike Quebec's 'Bossa Nova Soul Samba' the same year. Jacquet contributed to Burrell's 'Bluesin' Around' on November 21, 1961. Stanley Turrentine added moonlight to Burrell's 'Midnight Blue' in '63. Gil Evans arranged titles on Burrell's 'Guitar Forms' issued in 1965. Duke Ellington, who held Burrell in high esteem, contributed by legacy to Burrell's 'Ellington Is Forever' in 1975, Ellington having died the year before on May 24, 1974. Burrell began teaching at UCLA as an Ellington authority in 1978. He was made Director of Jazz studies at UCLA in 1996, and an NEA Jazz Master in 2005. With his work appearing on several hundred albums, including no few number of his own, Burrell is yet active, having released 'The Road to Love' as recently as 2015 followed by 'Unlimited 1: Live at Catalina's' the next year (recorded 2015-16). Regardless of Hall's virtuosity, "things happen" (as was once sufficiently explained to me as I go pinballing about life's table) such that financial pressures moved his wife, Katherine, to launch a successful gofundme campaign in May of 2019 1, 2, 3, 4. References: 1, 2, 3, 4. Sessions: DAHR (w composer credits); J-Disc (w comps by Burrell); JDP; Lord (leading 140 out of 615). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. IMDb. Reviews: 'Freedom' (recorded '63 and '64 toward release in 1980). Analysis: Vinnie DeMasi. Interviews: NAMM 2008, Jake Feinberg 2013, Wolf Marshall 2014. Facebook. Gear. Further reading: Hall and UCLA: Fukushima; Heckman; O'Connell. Other profiles: 1, 2, 3, 4. More Burrell under Ike Quebec in Modern Jazz Sax. Stanley Turrentine plays tenor sax on a number of tracks for 1963 below. Kenny Burrell 1951 Trumpet: Dizzy Gillespie Composition: 1947: Walter Gilbert Fuller Chano Pozo Trumpet: Dizzy Gillespie Composition: Gillespie Kenny Burrell 1956 Album Piano: Tommy Flanagan Kenny Burrell 1957 Duet with Jimmy Raney Music: Billy Reid 1945 Lyrics: Buddy Kaye Kenny Burrell 1959 Composition: Dizzy Gillespie Kenny Burrell 1963 Organ: Jimmy Smith Composition: Smith Burrell-Smith LP 'Blue Bash!' Recorded July 1963 From 'Midnight Blue' Recorded 8 Jan 1963 All tracks below composed by Burrell: Tenor sax: Stanley Turrentine Tenor sax: Stanley Turrentine CD reissue bonus track only Tenor sax: Stanley Turrentine Kenny Burrell 1964 Note: 'What Child Is This?' is a Christmas carol written by William Chatterton Dix in 1865, fit to the tune of the English folk song, 'Greensleeves'. Kenny Burrell 1966 Composition: Burrell Kenny Burrell 1979 Composition: Burrell Kenny Burrell 1984 Sax: Frank Foster Organ: Jimmy Smith Composition: Will Hudson/Irving Mills/Mitchell Parish Kenny Burrell 1990 Composition: Duke Pearson Kenny Burrell 1992 Composition: Duke Ellington/John Latouche/Billy Strayhorn Album: 'Soft Sounds for a Summer Night'/font> With Grover Washington Jr. Kenny Burrell 2009 Composition: Michael Jackson Kenny Burrell 2011 Catalina Jazz Club w Stevie Wonder Composition: T-Bone Walker
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Sam Jones Source: Blue Note |
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1924, double bassist and
cellist,
Sam Jones, was a
prolific recording artist who provided rhythm to a virtual encyclopedia of
jazz ensembles. He
is thought to have first seen vinyl in 1951 per a session in NYC for saxophonist,
Paul Williams, on July 25 resulting in 'Rockin' Chair Blues' and part 1 of
'Sinner's Hop' (Savoy 814), other titles unissued. A couple more sessions were held with
Williams before those with
Tiny Bradshaw from 1953 to '55.
On Nat
Adderley's 1956 issue of 'To the Ivy League from Nat'. He also
recorded with
Kenny Dorham in '56, toward the January 1957 issue of 'Round
About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia',
Kenny Burrell also appearing on that
LP. Jones released a couple more albums with Nat into the sixties, but it's
Cannonball Adderley with whom
he issued above fifteen albums between 1958 and 1975, the first being 'Somethin'
Else', the last, 'Phenix'. Jones recorded prolifically, much in demand as a
sideman. We mention only those with whom he recorded at least three albums:
Jone's first of four with
Lou Donaldson was 'The Time is Right'
in 1959. He also appeared on the first of three
Red Garland LPs that year. Jones
released his first of more than ten LPs as a leader in early 1960: 'The Soul
Society'. His first of seven albums with Bobby Timmons
emerged in 1960, 'This Here is Bobby Timmons'. Jone's first of seven albums
with
Oscar Peterson was 'Blue Etudes' in
1966. His first of five with Art Farmer
arrived in 1971: 'Homecoming'. His first of five with
Gene Ammons was 'Jug & Dodo' the next
year, though recorded ten years earlier in 1962. Also in '72 Jones released
the first of three LPs with
Charles McPherson: 'Siku Ya Bibi (Day of the
Lady)'. Jones and
Cedar Walton issued eleven albums
together, their first two being the two volumes of
Walton's 'A Night At Boomers' in 1973.
He issued eight albums with
Clifford Jordan, beginning with
'Glass Bead Games' in '74. The next year Jones released the first of three
albums with
Duke Jordan, 'Misty Thursday'. Three
albums with
Al Cohn commenced in 1976 with 'Al Cohn's
America'. Of the 414 sessions ascribed to Jones, 14 of those were as a
leader. His first on March 8, 1960, resulted in 'The Soul Society'. His last
LP was
'Somethin' New' put down on June 4, 1979. He had recorded 'The Bassist' the
day before with
Kenny Barron at piano and Keith
Copeland on drums. Jones' last recordings may have been on January 23, 1981,
in Tokyo at Yubin Chokin Hall in a quartet for
Kenny Drew with
Junior Cook (tenor sax) and
Jimmy Cobb (drums). He died on
December 15, 1981. Others notable in Jones' career had been Dizzy
Gillespie,
Abbey Lincoln,
Thelonious Monk and
Blue Mitchell. References:
1,
2,
3.
Sessions: J-Disc;
JDP; Lord (leading 14 of 417).
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
Transcriptions: 'Hi-Fly'
(composed by Randy Weston).
Discussion. Sam Jones 1951 With saxophonist, Paul Williams Composition: Thompson/McFarland Composition: Paul Williams & Co. Sam Jones 1956 From 'To the Ivy League from Nat Adderley' 'Sam's Tune' composed by Sam Jones Tracks below w cello by Jones Sam Jones 1958 Composition: Gigi Gryce Cannonball Adderley Quintet LP: 'Portrait of Cannonball' Sam Jones 1960 Composition: Sam Jones Cannonball Adderley Quintet LP: 'Them Dirty Blues' Recorded 1 Feb 1960 Composition: Randy Weston Cannonball Adderley Quintet LP: 'The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco' Recorded 18/20 Oct 1959 Composition: Tina Brooks Freddie Hubbard LP: 'Open Sesame' Recorded 19 June 1960 Debut LP Recorded 8/10 March 1960 Sam Jones 1961 'Jazz Casual' television broadcast Sam Jones 1962 Composition: Sam Jones Album: 'Down Home' Sam Jones 1963 Filmed live w Cannonball Adderley Sextet Sam Jones 1967 Live with Oscar Peterson Trio Sam Jones 1976 Also on bass: Ørsted Pedersen Guitar: Philip Catherine Drums: Billy Higgins Percussion: Albert Heath Album by guitarist Jimmy Raney Trio w drums by Leroy Williams
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Sal Salvador
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Blue Note
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Born in Monson, Massachusetts in 1925, guitarist
Sal Salvador may have first recorded
with
Phil Woods and
Joe Morello in late 1947 at Wood's
home in Springfield, MA. Those tracks are said to exist on a CD called
'Bird's Eyes', cut, owned or in the care of the Philology label (perhaps
Philology Jazz Records in Italy). Howsoever, those rare tracks aren't
offered to YouTube. In 1949 Salvador left Springfield, MA, for New York City
where he was employed at Radio Music Hall as a staff guitarist together with
Johnny Smith. July 2, 1951 found him recording with the Cabineers for
Prestige, such as 'Each Time', 'Lost', etc.. On August 28 it was the Terry Gibbs
Sextet for 'Swing's the Thing', 'Begin the Beguine', et al. Come the Eddie
Bert Quintet on March 19 of 1952 for 'Mol-Shaja', 'First Day of Spring', et
al, before Salvador's first titles with Stan Kenton,
on June 15: 'Love for Sale', 'Delicado', etc.. Salvador remained with
Kenton only three years, though in
that time not a few sessions were held to September 3 of 1955, that with the
JATP All Stars for a telecast of 'Music 55' by CBS: 'Artistry in Rhythm'
(theme), 'This Can't Be Love', etc.. Salvador
had released his debut album, 'Sal Salvador Quintet' in 1954, briefly before
the album 'Stan Kenton Presents Sal Salvador'. He later taught at a
couple universities in Connecticut. He recorded steadily into the early
eighties, occasionally thereafter. Lord's disco has him down for only two
sessions in the nineties, those at the Carriage House in Stamford, CT, in
1994 and '95 for 'The Way of the Wind' and 'Lorinda's Kitchen'. Salvador died in
Stamford on September 22 of 1999 [obit]. He had published numerous
instructional books [1,
2,
3]. References: 1,
2,
3,
4.
Sessions: DAHR;
Lord (leading 34 of 151). Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4.
IMDb.
Reviews. Sal Salvador 1952 With Stan Kenton Arrangement: Bill Russo Sal Salvador 1953 With Stan Kenton Composition: Earle Hagen Sal Salvador 1954 Debut LP: 'Sal Salvador Quintet': Composition: Allie Wrubel/Herbert Magidson Composition: Arthur Johnston/Sam Coslow Composition: Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler Composition: Rodgers & Hart Composition: Richard Whiting/Johnny Mercer Sal Salvador 1956 From 'Frivolous Sal': Composition: Kern & Hammerstein Composition: Manny Albam/Salvador Composition: Salvador Sal Salvador 1957 From 'Shades of Sal Salvador': Composition: Edward Eliscu/Gus Kahn/Vincent Youmans Composition: Salvador Composition: Ray Noble Composition: Irving Berlin Composition: Hoagy Carmichael/Frank Loesser Composition: Walter Donaldson Sal Salvador 1958 Album Sal Salvador 1963 From 'Music to Quit Smoking By' Piano: Ray Sterling Bass: John Beal Drums: Lenny McBrowne I'm Beginning to See the Light Composition: 1944: Duke Ellington/Don George Johnny Hodges/Harry James Composition: Cole Porter Composition: John Coots/Haven Gillespie Sal Salvador 1979 Composition: Billy Taylor Album: 'Juicy Lucy' Recorded 5 Sep '78 Piano: Billy Taylor Bass: Art Davis Drums: Joe Morello
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Howard Roberts Photo: Andrea Augé Source: Vintage Guitar Magazine |
Howard Roberts was largely a sessions guitarist who supported jazz musicians w one hand and popular composers for the entertainment industry with the other. Born in 1929 he left Phoenix, Arizona for the West coast jazz scene in Los Angeles as a teenager where he began to play gigs with musicians such as Jack Marshall, Chico Hamilton and Barney Kessel. His earliest known session was in May of 1952, recorded live at the Haig in Los Angeles with Gerry Mulligan: 'Out of Nowhere', 'Our Delight', etc.. He also recorded with Wardell Gray at the Haig in September that year, that to be found on 'Live in Hollywood'. In 1953 he laid tracks in August with Bobby Troup for Capitol. His next sessions in January of '54 with June Christy saw 'Lonely House', 'I Should Care', etc.. That was a significant occasion in the Pete Rugolo Orchestra with Shorty Rogers and Bud Shank. Christy, Rugolo, Rogers and Shank would be important figures in Roberts' career. He supported Christy numerously in the fifties in Rugolo's orchestra, also backing her 'The Cool School' in 1960 with the Joe Castro Quartet. Rugolo's big band was a major vehicle for Roberts to as late as 1961, both backing Rugulo's projects and other enterprises. After supporting Christy in January of '54 he participated in 'Introducing Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra' on February 8. Numerous dates ensued to as late as November of 1961 for Rugolo's 'Ten Saxophones and Two Basses'. Future dates with Rogers in support roles included Christy with Rugolo, the Pete Jolly Sextet and Patti Page until Rogers' 'Chances Are It Swings' went down in December of 1958. Rogers participated in Roberts' 'Somethin's Cookin'' in July of 1964. They later recorded with Carmen McRae in '67. Shank continued with Christy and Rugolo as well, he and Roberts also backing other operations, like Patti Page, until Shank's 'Flute 'n Oboe' with the Bob Cooper Quintet on November 29 of 1956. Shank's 'The Swing's to TV' went down on January 21 of '58, they in the meantime supporting Christy, Rugolo and other enterprises together. The sixties saw multiple supporting roles together until Shank's 'The Windmills of Your Mind' in 1969 and 'Let It Be' in 1970. Their last sessions are thought to have been in 1971 with Gerry Mulligan for the latter's 'The Age of Steam'. Between the two sessions it took to make that, Mulligan, Shank and Roberts also contributed to 'Gandharva' by Beaver and Krause. We need step back to October 22, 1956, for Robert's first session as a leader resulting in 'Velvet Groove'. Between that and 'Turning to Spring' in 1979 Lord's disco has Roberts recording about eighteen more albums. His second was 'Mr. Roberts Plays Guitar' in '57, his third 'Good Pickin's' in '59, his next to last 'The Real Howard Roberts' in 1977. Roberts also recorded themes for television, his most memorable likely the theme to 'The Twilight Zone' (Marius Constant) in 1959 (below). During the sixties Roberts designed the Epiphone Roberts guitar and founded Benson, an amplifier company. He let the guitar breathe a little in the seventies as he founded Playback Music Publishing Company, wrote instructional books and toured giving seminars. The latter led to his co-founding of the Guitar Institute of Technology, now the Musician's Institute [1, 2, 3]. He died of prostate cancer on 28 June 1992 in Seattle [obits: 1, 2]. Michael Evans lists Roberts' possible final tracks per guitarist, Michael Tomlinson's, 'Living Things' in 1991. Among others Roberts supported were Buddy DeFranco, Jack Marshall, Peggy Lee, Bob Thompson, Gary Crosby, the Four Freshmen, Jack Sheldon, Willie Ruff, Bob Thiele, Chico Hamilton and Barney Kessel. References: 1, 2, 3. Sessions: DAHR; Evans; Lord (leading 36 of 320). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4. Film & television. Select YouTube. Books authored: 'The Praxis System Guitar Compendium Vol 1-3' w Garry Hagberg (Jamey Aebersold Jazz 1989). Guitars: 1, 2. Interviews. Further reading: Michael Evans: 1, 2. See also: The HR Project; Roberts Music Institute. Per 1952 below, Roberts joins Wardell Gray at the Haig in Hollywood. Howard Roberts 1952 Live at the Haig Hollywood 9 Sep '52 Tenor sax: Wardell Gray Trumpet: Art Farmer Piano: Amos Trice Bass: Joe Mondragon Drums: Shelly Manne Composition: Tadd Dameron Music: Johnny Green Lyrics: Edward Heyman Howard Roberts 1955 Composition: Eddie Miller/Johnny Mercer Howard Roberts 1957 Backing June Christy Music: Pete Rugolo Lyrics: Bob Russell Howard Roberts 1959 Television theme Composition: Bernard Herrmann Howard Roberts 1963 Composition: Herbie Hancock From 'H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player' Organ: Burkley Kendrix Bass: Chuck Berghoffer Drums: Earl Palmer Howard Roberts 1965 Composition: Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer From 'Something's Cookin'' Recorded July & Aug '64 From 'Goodies' Recorded June '65 Composition: Richard & Robert Sherman Composition: Bart Howard Howard Roberts 1966 Composition: Henry Mancini Music: Burton Lane Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner Howard Roberts 1968 Composition: Earl Brent/Matt Dennis Howard Roberts 1969 Composition: Pat Upton From 'Spinning Wheel'
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Born Vincenzo Bucci in 1921 in Newark,
New Jersey, bassist
Vinnie Burke
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played with Joe Mooney, Tony Scott, Cy Coleman (3 years) and the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra before what may have been his first recordings
in New York City in
October of '53 with pianist,
Marian McPartland. Those tracks were released
on 'Jazz at the Hickory House' by Savoy that year. Burke left
McPartland's trio that
December, they apparently not getting along. On June 10 of 1954 Burke recorded with pianist, Johnny Mehegan:
'Taking a Chance on Love', 'Sirod', 'Uncus' and 'Stella by Starlight'.
He also recorded his
first name session as the Vinnie Burke Quartet in 1954 on an
undetermined date. Those saw issue in 1957 on an album with
Oscar Pettiford on side A
called 'Bass by Pettiford/Burke'. They also saw issue in 2000 on 'East Coast
Jazz/2'. Others Burke sided in 1954 were George Handy ('Handyland USA'),
Chris Connor, Eddie Shu ('I Only Have
Eyes For Shu') and Joe Puma. Burke's first session in 1955 was March 25 with
the Lou Mecca Quartet for such as 'You Go to My Head' and 'Bernie's Tune'
(Bernie Miller). On September 25 of 1955 he recorded 'Jazz- Young Blood'
with Ole Hansen (trombone), Chuz Alfred (tenor sax), Chuck Lee (piano) and
Kenny Clarke (drums). His next
date with Mehegan was a trio with pianist,
Eddie Costa, for 'A Pair of Pianos'.
Burke and
Costa next backed tenor saxophonist,
Mike Cuozzo, for 'Mighty Mike' on November 22 of '55. They formed another
trio with Nick Stabulas (drums)for the Jubilee label in February of '56 to
see issue as 'Eddie Costa Vinnie Burke Trio'. Another of the more well-known
musicians with whom Burke worked was guitarist,
Tal Farlow, with whom he and
Costa formed a trio in 1956 to put out
'The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow' and 'Tal'. That December they recorded
what would get issued as 'Fuerst Set' in 1975 and 'Second Set' in 1977. In
the meantime
Costa had supported Burke for ''The
Vinnie Burke All-Stars', consisting of Joe Puma (guitar) and Jimmy Campbell
(drums), on July 22 of '56. They had also recorded 'Gil's Guests' with
Gil Mellé, on August 10. Burke and
Costa would record some more titles
together until joining Manny Albam's orchestra in 1957 to participate in
'The Blues Is Everybody's Business', another bassist,
Milt Hinton, also employed. On December
5 of 1957 Burke joined baritone saxophonist,
Gerry Mulligan, in NYC for such as
'May-Reh' and 'The Preacher'. In 1958 he appeared on the 'Art Ford's Jazz
Party' radio and television program sixteen times, the incipient on May 15
for titles like 'Basin Street Blues' and 'Muskrat Ramble', the last on
November 6 for 'Ballin' the Jack', 'Runnin' Wild', et al. Burke followed
those with a December session resulting in 'Chet Baker Introduces Johnny
Pace'. Another well-known name Burke sided was cornetist, Bobby
Hackett, recording 'Jazz Impressions of Oliver' in February of 1963.
He then disappeared into obscurity, though continuing to perform into the
eighties. Burke died on February
1, 2001. Discos: 1,
2,
3.
IMDb. Vinnie Burke 1953 With pianist, Marian McPartland Recorded 8 Oct '53 NYC Jazz at the Hickery House (Suite) Vinnie Burke 1954 From 'Chris Connor Sings Lullabys for Lovers' Recorded 21 Aug 1954 Composition: Larry Conley/Willard Robison From 'Handyland U.S.A.' Recorded 16/17 August 1954Piano: George Handy All comps by Handy Vinnie Burke 1955 From 'East Coast Jazz/2' Vinnie Burke Quartet Recorded 1954Clarinet: Ronnie Odrich Accordion: Don Burns Guitar: Joe Cinderella Music: Con Conrad 1934 Lyrics: Herb Magidson Note: 'The Continental' was first performed by Ginger Rogers in the 1934 film, 'The Gay Divorcee'. It was the first to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the seventh annual Academy Awards ceremony in 1935. Composition: Fats Waller/Andy Razaf Composition: Gus Kahn/Isham Jones/Joe Lyons Softly as in the Morning Sunrise Music: Sigmund Romberg 1928 Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II For the operetta 'The New Moon' Composition: Burke Note: Both the Jazz Discography Project and Tom Lord have Barry Galbraith rather than Cinderella on tracks above for 'East Coast Jazz/2'. The album sleeve on rear clearly states Joe Cinderella in bold type [Discogs]. RYM also shows Cinderella. From 'The First Mehegan' John Mehegan Quartet Recorded 10 June 1954 Piano: John Mehegan Guitar: Chuck Wayne Drums: Joe Morello From 'Mighty Mike Cuozzo' Tenor sax: Mike Cuozzo Recorded 22 Nov 1955 What Is This Thing Called Love Composition: Cole Porter 1929 For the musical 'Wake Up and Dream' Vinnie Burke 1956 From 'The Vinnie Burke All-Stars' Trombone: Urbie Green Recorded July/Aug 1956 'Unison Blues' 22 July NYC All others 20 Aug NYC Composition: Vinnie Burke I'm Getting Sentimental Over You Composition: George Bassman/Ned Washington From 'Eddie Costa - Vinnie Burke Trio' Piano: Eddie Costa Drums: Nick StabulasRecorded Feb 1956 Composition: Gershwin Brothers Composition: Cole Porter From 'Mike Cuozzo with The Costa Burke Trio' Recorded Sep 1956 Tenor sax: Mike Cuozzo Piano: Eddie CostaDrums: Nick Stabulas Composition: James Edward Davis Jimmy Sherman Roger Ramirez Vinnie Burke 1960 Composition: Vinnie Burke/Graboff
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Bill Crow Source: Jazz Profiles |
Born in 1927 in Othello, Washington, in the living space
behind his grandmother's novelty shop, double bassist, Bill Crow,
hauled about a sousaphone (type of tuba) as a student at the University of
Washington Seattle. He played baritone horn, trombone and drums in the
military, having joined the US Army in 1946. He returned to UW after his
service was up and gigged in a quartet, playing bongos for Buzzy Bridgeford.
He thought NYC the place to be in 1950, performing on valve trombone with
Lennie Tristano. Crow didn't begin
playing double bass until 1950. His first was a $75 Key which took a long
time to purchase, he renting basses for gigs until he could make his final
payment. He would replace that in '53 with an old upright made in
France, the same he's used ever since. Crow's website has him recording two
untitled sides in 1950 with Mary
Lou Williams, but no releases with her are known. In October of 1952 he
joined Claude
Thornhill's band at Hotel Statler in NYC for such as 'Come Rain
or Come Shine' and 'Sorta Kinda' in support of
Chris Connor. Those wouldn't
appear to have been issued at the time. Nor would titles from his next
session with the
Stan Getz Quintet on November 13 of '52
for a radio broadcast from the Birdland in NYC of 'Sweetie Pie' and
'Moonlight in Vermont'. Numerous of Crow's early sessions were delayed in
release. He recorded with
Getz at Carnegie Hall ('At Carnegie
Hall' '91), put in a couple more appearances at the Birdland, and recorded
at the Hi-Hat in Boston before arriving to tracks on December 12 of 1952
that would see issue in 1953 as 'Stan Getz Plays'. Titles for Clef on April
16, 1953, took until 1954 to issue: 'Cool Now', 'Rustic Hop',
'Have You Met Miss Jones?' and 'Erudition' (Clef MGC 143). Crow would also
contribute a track ('Fools Rush In') to
Getz' 1954 release of 'Split Kick'. After
Getz Crow joined
Al Haig on March 13, 1954, for 'Jazz Will O' the
Wisp', not issued until 1957. A second session the same day, also including Lee Abrams on drums, saw
more timely issue that year ('54) as 'The Al Haig
Trio'. A session with guitarist,
Jimmy Raney, on August 11 of '54
doesn't seem to have seen issue until CD, titles like 'Stella by
Starlight' and 'Jo Anne'. Come pianist,
Marian McPartland, for 'At the
Hickory House' in September of '54, issued the next year before the
recording of 'After Dark'. Crow would see more of
Marian McPartland with husband,
Jimmy McPartland in
1958, the year after recording 'Jummy McPartland's Dixieland'. In January and September
of 1956 Crow recorded tracks for
Gerry Mulligan's 'Mainstream of
Jazz', released that year.
Mulligan was a major figure in
Crow's career into the mid sixties. They recorded 'Holliday with Mulligan'
in April of 1961 with vocalist, Judy Holliday. Another important associate was valve
trombonist,
Bob Brookmeyer, with whom he
recorded 'Whooeeee' in February of '56. Crow had worked with Brookmeyer
since
Getz in 1952 at the Hi-Hat in Boston.
They would partner often, particularly with
Mulligan, into the sixties.
Lord's disco shows them working together as late as 1965 toward 'Suitably
Zoot'. Crow found himself in
Benny Goodman's orchestra in
1962, first for 'The Bell Telephone Hour' television program in April, next
a tour to Russia from May to July. Crow also supported several Broadway
shows. Among the highlights in his latter career was the publishing of his
autobiography, 'Jazz Anecdotes', in 1991. He contributed to titles for Bob
Dorough and Barbara Lea's 'Hoagy's Children' in 1993. Having appeared on more than 110 albums including his own,
Crow's first was 'From Birdland to Broadway' recorded in November of '95.
'Jazz Anecdotes' was put down a year later. Among Crow's
latest issues was 'Bill Crow Sings' in 2011 with guitarist, Armand Hirsch.
He also issued 'Embraceable You' about that time with a trio of Hiroshi
Yamazaki (piano) and John Cutrone (drums), that followed by 'You and the
Night and the Music' a couple years later. Crow yet actively performs as of
this writing in Aug 2019. References: 1,
2,
3,
4.
Sessions: JDP; Lord (leading 5 of 159).
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4.
Authorship: articles,
books.
Crow at Facebook.
Further reading: Jazz Profiles: 1,
2;
A Modernist: 1,
2. Per 1952 below, tracks were
recorded that year but not issued until later. Release years begin with
1953. Bill Crow 1952 From 'At Carnegie Hall' Stan Getz LP 1991 Tracks below recorded 14 Nov '52 Composition: Ray Noble Composition: Victor Young/Ned Washington Composition: John Jacob Loeb/Getz Bill Crow 1953 From 'Chamber Music' Stan Getz LP Tracks below recorded 19 Dec '52 Music: Joseph Kosma 1945 Lyrics French: Jacques Prévert Lyrics English: Johnny Mercer Music: Jack Strachey 1936 Lyrics: Holt Marvell (Eric Maschwitz) Bill Crow 1954 Composition: Rube Bloom/Johnny Mercer Stan Getz LP: 'Split Kick' Bill Crow 1955 From 'Stan Getz Plays' Recorded 12 Dec '52 From 'Marian McPartland at the Hickory House' Drums: Joe Morello Recorded Sep '54 How Long Has This Been Going On Composition: Gershwin Brothers 1928 For the musical 'Funny Face' From 'After Dark' Marian McPartland LP Recorded Oct '55 Composition: Billy Strayhorn 1941 Composition: Lil Hardin Armstrong Bill Crow 1963 From 'Night Lights' Gerry Mulligan LP Composition: Mulligan Composition: Mulligan Composition: Frédéric Chopin 1838-39 Bill Crow 1964 Album by Gerry Mulligan Bill Crow 1989 Filmed live With Chris Potter & Red Rodney Filmed live With Chris Potter & Red Rodney Bill Crow 1996 Composition: Crow LP: 'From Birdland to Broadway' Bill Crow 2012 Composition: Horace Silver Filmed in Long Island NY Bill Crow 2013 Marty Napoleon Quartet Music: 1925: Ben Bernie/Maceo Pinkard Kenneth Casey When It's Sleepy Time Down South Marty Napoleon Quartet Composition: 1931: Clarence Muse/Leon & Otis René
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Born in 1927 in Lexington, Mississippi,
Malachi Favors began playing double
bass at age fifteen, to play professionally upon graduation from high
school. Figuring Chicago the place he ought to be, he relocated there, where
his first recording would be as a member of Paul Bascomb's group in 1953.
Those are thought to have been Bascomb's band backing
Dinah Washington on 'My Man's an
Undertaker' with 'Mean and Evil' for the Mercury label. Favors also joined
Bascomb on both parts of 'Jan' for the Parrot label (Cat 792) that year.
1956 found him taping 'So In Love' with
Andrew Hill (piano) and James
Slaughter (drums), issued in 1960 (Hill's debut album). Favors continued
gigging in Chicago, working with such as Dizzy
Gillespie and
Freddie Hubbard. He was attending
Wilson Junior College in 1963 when he met the most important musical
associate of his career, saxophonist,
Roscoe Mitchell. In 1965 they taped
tracks for what would be released in 2011 as 'Before There Was Sound'.
Favors had also joined
Muhal Richard Abrams's
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in '65. In
1966 Favors appeared on
Mitchell's debut album, 'Sound', with the Roscoe
Mitchell Sextet. That group which included
Lester Bowie, another of
Favor's major partners over the years, would undergo various formations, recording
several albums along the way, until the debut LP by Mitchell's Art Ensemble
appeared in 1969: 'Congliptious'. That band, including
Bowie, would become the
Art Ensemble of
Chicago (AEC) [1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7], of which Favors was a member throughout his career, participating in
well above forty albums by that band, issuing seven in 1969 alone including
'A Jackson in Your House' [1,
2]. Along
with the AEC Favors recorded with others
such as the Kahil El'Zabar Ritual Trio from the latter eighties throughout
the nineties and
Wadada Leo Smith in the
early 21st century. Though Favors had issued several albums as a co-leader,
his only name solo album was 'Natural & Spiritual' in 1978 as Brother
Malachi Favors Magoustous. Favors died of pancreatic cancer in 2004 in
Chicago [obits: 1,
2]. References
for Favors:
1,
2;
discos: 1,
2,
3,
4,
Lord (leading 4 of 142 sessions);
IMDb; further reading: Dennis Gonzalez.
References for the Art Ensemble of Chicago: discos: 1,
2,
3, Lord (54 sessions);
reviews.
Malachi Favors 1953 With Paul Bascomb Composition: Norman Simmons With Dinah Washington Composition: Leroy Kirkland/Mamie Thomas Malachi Favors 1960 Album by Andrew Hill Recorded 1959 [Lord] Piano: Andrew Hill Drums: James Slaughter Malachi Favors 1966 LP by the Roscoe Mitchell Sextet All comps by Mitchell Malachi Favors 1968 Composition: Lester Bowie LP: 'Congliptious' Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble Art Ensemble of Chicago 1969 Composition: Joseph Jarman/Lester Bowie Malachi Favors/Roscoe Mitchell LP: 'People in Sorrow' Art Ensemble of Chicago 1970 Music: AEC Lyrics: Noreen Beasley LP: 'Les Stances À Sophie' Art Ensemble of Chicago 1974 Filmed live Art Ensemble of Chicago 1975 Album Malachi Favors 1976 Trumpet: Lester Bowie Composition: Bowie Bowie LP: 'Rope-A-Dope' Album by Muhal Richard Abrams Title track composed by Abrams Art Ensemble of Chicago 1978 Album Malachi Favors 1978 Composition: Arthur Blythe/Bowie/Favors Amina Claudine Myers/Phillip Wilson Bowie LP: 'African Children' Alto sax: Blythe Trumpet: Lester Bowie Keyboards/vocals: Myers Drums: Wilson Art Ensemble of Chicago 1979 From 'Nice Guys' Composition: Joseph Jarman Composition: Lester Bowie Malachi Favors 1979 LP w Cheikh Tidiane Fall & Sunny Murray Recorded 5 June 1979 Producer: Rudolf Kreis Art Ensemble of Chicago 1980 Composition: Roscoe Mitchell LP: 'Urban Bushman' Art Ensemble of Chicago 1987 From 'Ancient to the Future Vol 1' Composition: Vincent Ford/Bob Marley Composition: Jimi Hendrix Malachi Favors 1987 Percussion/Voice: Kahil El'Zabar Trumpet: Lester Bowie Art Ensemble of Chicago 1991 Filmed at the Berlin Jazzfest Composition: Joseph Jarman Art Ensemble of Chicago 1995 Filmed live Art Ensemble of Chicago 1998 Composition: Roscoe Mitchell LP: 'Coming Home Jamaica' Malachi Favors 2001 Filmed at the Knitting Factory Art Ensemble of Chicago 2003
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Born in 1921 in Indianapolis,
William Monk Montgomery was older brother
to
Wes Montgomery by about a year and a
half. His much younger brother, by some eight years, was vibraphonist,
Buddy Montgomery. Monk didn't begin his career as a professional musicianuntil he was age thirty.
Though he played double bass, he is more notable as the first to
successfully introduce the electric bass guitar to the jazz ensemble
(Fender's technology with that instrument having trailed that of their
guitar). Monk's brother,
Wes, had just finished two years
with Lionel
Hampton when Monk joined
Hampton's organization in 1951. However, before leaving on tour to Europe with
Hampton's
outfit in latter 1953 he recorded four tracks with Art Farmer that would end
up on 'The Art Farmer Septet' (tracks 1 -4), released in 1956. His next
recordings were during a number of engagements in Europe in
Hampton's outfit
in latter 1953, both concert and studio recordings in Stockholm in September
(including
Annie Ross and
George Wallington) with tracks issued that year, a
concert in Basel with tracks issued, and further recordings in Paris and
Basel as well. Monk began recording with his brother,
Buddy and
Wes, as
the Montgomery Brothers in 1955, the three of them putting down 'Love for
Sale' w Alfonso Johnson (tenor sax) and Robert Johnson (drums), that to
eventually see issue in 1983 on 'Almost
Forgotten' (Columbia FC 38509). The same bunch recorded at the Turf Club in
Indianapolis on 25 August 1956 toward what would see issue in 2014 on 'Live
at the Turf Club' per Resonance Records HLT 8015. In 1957 Monk and
Buddy got together with drummer,
Benny Barth, and pianist, Robert Cranshaw, to form the Mastersounds,
releasing both 'Jazz Showcase' and 'The King and I' that year per World
Pacific Records. More
recordings by the Mastersounds followed into the early sixties, including
one with
Wes, 'Kismet', released in 1958. Montgomery worked as a sideman
until his first release as a leader in 1969, 'It's Never Too Late'. An
interest in African rhythms began in 1970 with trumpeter,
Hugh Masekela, they recording
'Reconstruction' that year. Montgomery's fourth and last album, 'Monk
Montgomery in Africa...Live!', would be recorded in Soweto, South Africa in
1974, released the next year. He spent his latter years in Las Vegas,
forming the Las Vegas Jazz Society and hosting a radio show before his death
of cancer on 20 May 1982. References for Monk Montgomery: 1,
2,
3.
Sessions: Lord. Catalogs: 1,
2,
3. References for the
Montgomery Brothers: 1,
2. Catalogs:
1,
2,
3. With
George Shearing.
References for the Mastersounds: 1,
2,
3.
Catalogs: 1,
2. Per 1953 below,
titles were recorded on 28 Sep
1953 in Paris. Later various issues include 'Lionel
Hampton – The Complete 1953 Paris Session' released in 1976 on Cetra DPU 62
[Discogs]. Vibes are by Hampton. Monk contributes electric bass. Monk Montgomery 1953 Composition: Harry Warren Composition: Lionel Hampton Composition: Lionel Hampton Composition: Lionel Hampton Monk Montgomery 1956 Recorded 1953 Composition: Art Farmer/Quincy Jones Album: 'The Art Farmer Septet' The Mastersounds 1957 Album: 'Jazz Showcase' Piano: Richie Crabtree Vibes: Buddy Montgomery Electric bass: Monk Montgomery Drums: Benny Barth Music: Burton Lane 1947 Lyrics: Yip Harburg For the musical 'Finian's Rainbow' The Mastersounds 1959 Album Piano: Richie Crabtree Vibes: Buddy Montgomery Electric bass: Monk Montgomery Drums: Benny Barth Monk Montgomery 1961 Album by the Montgomery Brothers Drums: Bobby Thomas Monk Montgomery 1971 Album From 'Bass Odyssey' Composition: Monk Montgomery From 'Bass Odyssey' Composition: Monk Montgomery Monk Montgomery 1974 From 'Reality': Composition: Neal Hefti Arrangement: Monk Montgomery Composition: Bobby Martin
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Born in 1943 in Pittsburgh, PA, guitarist George Benson
(not to be mistaken with the Detroit saxophonist) wouldn't come to
prominence until the sixties. But he'd been attempting to play
professionally since seven years old and released a couple early singles at
age eleven in 1954: 'She Makes Me Mad' followed by 'It Should Have Been Me'.
Eight years later he recorded 'Godchild' in 1962 with a quintet, not issued
until 'I Giganti Del Jazz 72' in 1981. The next year he began recording with
Jack McDuff, first appearing
on
McDuff's '63 release of
'Brother Jack McDuff Live!'. Benson worked at
McDuff's side steadily into
1965 issuing seven more albums with him to that year, and eight more
afterward until 'Bringin' It Home' in 1999. 'The New Boss of Guitar George
Benson' was Benson's debut album, recorded in May of 1964 with
McDuff and issued that
year. Benson would issue more than forty studio and live albums during his
career. He co-led another nine and backed enough musicians in the studio to
populate Andromeda with stars. It was in the latter seventies that Benson
came to no uncertain international recognition with the song, 'Masquerade' in
1976. Composed by
Leon Russell, that song would send
Benson's containing album, 'Breezin', platinum, the first jazz release ever
to do so. Benson's 1977 album, 'In Flight', also went platinum. 'Weekend in
L.A.', containing 'On Broadway', was issued in 1978, also going platinum.
Benson was baptized as a Jehovah's Witness in 1979, then was entered into
the periodic table of chemical elements as number 78 thanks to his 1980
album, 'Give Me the Night', that going platinum as well. To a total of four
platinum LPs. As his silvery white aura was getting him mistaken for
Jehovah, Jehovah made him knock it off, not permitting any more. Benson
toured internationally the remainder of his remarkable career. Among the
more important of Benson's musical associates was organist, Dr.
Lonnie Smith, who had been with him in 1962 for 'Godchild'. They would
see one another again in December of 1965 to support
Red Holloway's 'Red Soul'. Other
Benson albums on which Smith
appeared were 'It's Uptown' in '66 and Benson Burner' the next year, the
same year they supported
Lou Donaldson's 'Alligator Bogaloo'
followed by 'Midnight Creeper' in 1968.
Smith albums to which Benson contributed were 'Finger Lickin' Good' in
'66, and 'Live At Club Mozambique' recorded in
Detroit on May 21, 1970. Benson appeared on Miles
Davis' 'Miles In the Sky in 1968. He,
Davis and Dizzy
Gillespie joined
Quincy Jones for 'Back on the
Block' circa 1989. Another important personality was flautist,
Hubert Laws, Benson backing
Laws on 'Crying Song' in 1969.
Benson and
Laws backed other bands,
particularly
Freddie Hubbard's, and each
other numerously to as late as 1993. Benson appeared on
Laws' 'The Chicago Theme' in
1975.
Laws appeared on Benson's 'White
Rabbit' in 1971, 'George Benson In Concert In Carnegie
Hall' in 1975 and 'Pacific Fire' in 1984.
Hubbard was also figured
significantly in Benson's career,
Hubbard first joining Benson
for the latter's 'Body Talk' in 1969. Benson and
Hubbard interweaved often
into the latter eighties backing other operations when Benson wasn't
supporting
Hubbard's projects.
Hubbard albums to which
Benson contributed were 'Straight Life' in November of 1970, 'First Light'
in 1971, 'Sky Dive' in 1972, 'Polar AC' in 1974, 'Super Blue' in 1978 and
'Life Flight' in 1987. Come
Stanley Turrentine in
November of 1970 for tracks to the latter's 'Sugar'. Benson participated in
a couple titles on
Turrentine's 'The Sugar
Man' in February of 1971: 'More' and 'Just as I Am'. Benson and
Turrentine backed other
operations together on multiple occasions to as late as Lou Rawls'
'At Last' in 1989. Among those occasions was at the Hollywood Palladium on
July 18, 1971, with the CTI All Stars for 'California Concert' for CTI
Records. They would also appear together on the first three volumes of 'CTI
Summer Jazz at The Hollywood Bowl Live' recorded in 1972, released in 1977. Other highlights
in Benson's career included Roberta Peck's 'Extraordinary'
in 1966,
Jimmy Smith's 'The Boss' in 1968 and
'Off the Top' in 1982,
Helen Humes' 'Talk of the Town'
in 1975, and the Harlem Underground Band in 1976 for 'Harlem Underground'.
1977 brought three Grammy awards for 'Theme from Good King Bad', 'Breezin'
and 'The Masquerade'. Another Grammy arrived in '79 for 'On Broadway'. Three
more were acquired in 1981 for 'Moody's Mood', 'Off Broadway' (disco) and
'Give Me the Night' (disco). 'Being with You' won a Grammy in 1984. Benson
was forced to live with nary a new Grammy for 23 years until his 9th and
10th arrived in 2007 for 'God Bless the Child' and 'Mornin''. As
compensation
Benson
was made a Jazz Master
in 2009 by the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts).
Benson released 'Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole' in 2013
[1,
2,
3]. The
only composition on that by Cole is
'Straighten Up and Fly Right' written with
Irving Mills. He published his memoir, 'Benson: The Autobiography' (Da Capo Press)
in 2014 w
assistance by Alan Goldsher. Benson's most recent issue was 'Walking to New
Orleans' as of April 2019. Yet active, Benson is
touring internationally as
of this writing.
References: 1,
2,
3.
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4,
Lord (leading 137 of 253 sessions to date).
Compilations: 'Benson Burner' 1966-67:
1,
2.
Benson in visual media.
Gear.
Interviews: Les Tomkins
1974/78,
Anthony Brown 2011
(pdf).
Official YouTube channel.
Benson at Facebook.
Further reading: Marc-Andre Seguin;
Belinda Ware.
Other profiles: 1,
2. George Benson 1954 Composition: King Curtis Composition: Lincoln Chase George Benson 1963 From 'Brother Jack McDuff Live!' Tenor sax: Red Holloway Organ: Jack McDuff Drums: Joe Dukes Composition: Jack McDuff Composition: Jack McDuff Composition: Frank Churchill/Larry Morey George Benson 1964 Composition: Ralph Rainger/Leo Robin Debut studio LP: 'The New Boss of Guitar' Brother Jack McDuff Quartet Filmed live Drums: Joe Dukes Tenor sax: Red Holloway Brother Jack McDuff Quartet Filmed live Drums: Joe Dukes Tenor sax: Red Holloway Composition: Benson Album: 'The New Boss of Guitar' George Benson 1966 Filmed live George Benson 1968 Composition: Benson Album: 'Giblet Gravy' George Benson 1972 Composition: Paul Webster/Johnny Mardel George Benson 1975 Filmed live with Red Norvo Hammond was a producer for Columbia Records. George Benson 1976 Album Composition title track: Bobby Womack George Benson 1978 Composition: Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller Album: 'The New Boss of Guitar' Filmed live Album Composition title track: Benson George Benson 1980 Composition: Rod Temperton Also on the LP 'Give Me the Night' George Benson 1981 Composition: Bill Champlin/Jay Graydon/Steve Lukather George Benson 1983 Composition: David Paich/James Newton Howard Album: 'In Your Eyes' Composition title track: Dan Hill/Michael Masser George Benson 1985 Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You Composition: Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin Album: '20/20' George Benson 1986 Composition: Rod Temperton Filmed live in Montreux George Benson 2000 Filmed live Composition: Eddie Jefferson/James Moody George Benson 2006 Album with Al Jarreau George Benson 2011 Filmed live George Benson 2012 Filmed live Piano: Herbie Hancock Composition: Richard Carpenter George Benson 2013 From 'Inspiration: Tribute to Nat King Cole' Vocal: Judith Hill Composition: Sidney Lippman/Sylvia Dee Composition: Irving Gordon George Benson 2019 Album Composition title track: Bobby Charles/Fats Domino
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Guitarist
Joe Cinderella, brother of bassist, Don Cinderella,
is thought to have first recorded with
the
Vinnie Burke Quartet in 1954 and
vocalist
Chris Connor on April 21, 1954: 'Lush
Life', 'Out of This World', etc.. Largely an uncredited
studio musician, the relatively few examples featuring Cinderella at YouTube belie his reputation among musicians as a brilliant guitarist
who also worked the 52nd St jazz clubs in New York City performing with such
as
Billie Holiday,
Sarah Vaughan,
Bill Evans,
Charlie Parker, Miles
Davis.
Among the few recording credits Cinderella was made were with
Gil Mellé, found on 'Patterns in Jazz'
('56), 'Melle Plays Primitive Modern' ('56), 'Gil’s Guests' ('56) and 'Quadrama'
('57). He appeared on Tony Argo's 'Jazz Argosy' in 1960. He also backed such
as
Warne Marsh,
Conte Candoli,
Donald Byrd,
Zoot Sims,
Pepper Adams, Clark
Terry, Judy
Garland,
Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, the
Beach Boys,
Billy Joel and
John Cage. Cinderella also
worked as a staff guitarist for various television stations. Beginning in
1969 he taught jazz guitar at Paterson State College (William Paterson
University). In 1983 he published 'Jazz Arpeggios for Guitar'. In 1990 he
published 'Chord Melody Playing'. Cinderella played a Gibson but in 2000
began to customize his own eight-string guitars. He died on October 27 of 2012
[obit].
References: 1,
2.
Discos: 1,
2,
3, Lord (leading 0 of 9 sessions:
a discrepancy in both Lord and JDP has
Barry Galbraith recording 'East
Coast Jazz/2', below, instead of Cinderella).
Facebook tribute. Joe Cinderella 1954 From 'Chris Connor Sings Lullabys for Lovers' Recorded 21 Aug 1954 Vocal: Chris Conners Composition: Larry Conley/Willard Robison Joe Cinderella 1955 From 'East Coast Jazz/2' Vinnie Burke Quartet Recorded 1954Clarinet: Ronnie Odrich Accordion: Don Burns Bass: Vinnie Burke Music: Con Conrad 1934 Lyrics: Herb Magidson Note: 'The Continental' was first performed by Ginger Rogers in the 1934 film, 'The Gay Divorcee'. It was the first to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the seventh annual Academy Awards ceremony in 1935. Composition: Fats Waller/Andy Razaf Composition: Gus Kahn/Isham Jones/Joe Lyons Softly as in the Morning Sunrise Music: Sigmund Romberg 1928 Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II For the operetta 'The New Moon' Composition: Burke Note: Both the Jazz Discography Project and Tom Lord have Barry Galbraith rather than Cinderella on tracks above for 'East Coast Jazz/2'. The album sleeve on rear clearly states Joe Cinderella in bold type [Discogs]. RYM also shows Cinderella. Joe Cinderella 1956 From 'Melle Plays Primitive Modern' Recorded 1 June 1956Baritone sax: Gil Mellé Bass: Billy Phillips Drums: Edmund Thigpen All comps by Melle Joe Cinderella 1998 Joe Cinderella Quartet 8-string guitar: Cinderella
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Joe Cinderella
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Born in 1930 in Chicago to eventually appear on a few
thousand recordings,
Richard Davis began playing double
bass in high school. Upon taking his bachelor's in music in 1952 from
Vandercook College Davis played with dance bands until recording with the
Ahmad Jamal Trio in January of 1954 with Ray Crawford on guitar: 'But Not
For Me', 'Seleritus', et al. Upon moving to NYC with
pianist, Don Shirley, in 1954 they recorded the duo album, 'Tonal
Expressions. 'Piano Perspectives' ensued in 1955, 'Improvisations' in 1956,
the year Davis joined the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra.
Come a
Charlie Ventura quintet in July of
1956 for 'Plays Hi-Fi Jazz' and on September 13 for 'The New Charlie Ventura
in Hi-Fi'. In 1957 Davis appeared on a couple of albums by
Sarah Vaughan: 'Swingin' Easy' and
'At Mister Kelly's'.
Vaughan would be an important figure
to 1961. Davis also put down several unissued tracks with the Jimmy Jones
Trio in 1957 with
Roy Haynes at drums: 'Ill Wind',
'Lush Life', 'A Foggy Day', et al. Davis showed up on
Kenny Burrell's 'A Night at the
Vanguard' in 1959, a trio again with Haynes
on drums. Davis has appeared on the albums of all number of largely jazz musicians. In
1963 Davis would record albums with
Booker Ervin,
Brother Jack McDuff and
Andrew Hill. He would record five
more albums with
Ervin, two more with
McDuff and seven more with
Hill. 1963 had also seen the
recording of 'New Dimensions' with the American Jazz Ensemble. 1964 saw
Davis' first album with
Cal Tjader: 'Soul Sauce',
followed by 'Soul Bird' ('65) and 'Soul Burst' '66). 1965
saw Davis' first release with three more important musical associations:
Clifford Jordan with whom he issued
three albums,
Elvin Jones with whom he
recorded six, and Shirley
Scott with whom three LPs would result. Davis' first of three albums with
pianist,
Jaki Byard, was 'Freedom
Together' in 1966. Davis recorded three LPs with guitarist,
Pat Martino, beginning in 1968
with 'Baiyina'. Davis had issued his debut album, 'Heavy Sounds', in 1967
with
Elvin Jones. 'Muses For Richard
Davis' was recorded in Villingen, Germany, in December of '69, a duo with
drummer, Sir Roland Hanna.
Davis' LP, 'The Philosophy of the Spiritual', ensued in 1971. Davis would issue
nearly thirty more LPs as a leader or co-leader into the new millennium, a
dozen of those his own. His latest was
recorded in 2007 with pianist,
Junior Mance, 'Blue Monk', for issue
in 2015. Davis
was made an NEA Jazz Master in 2014. He has taught
at the University of Wisconsin Madison for a quarter of a century, currently
holding a class titled Black Music History. Davis is
thought to be working on his memoirs as of this writing. References: 1,
2.
Sessions: DAHR (w Bill Potts);
J-Disc; Lord (leading 26 of 594).
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4.
Compositions.
Interviews: Ted Panken 1993;
Jon Liebman 2011;
NEA 2013;
Ralph Miriello 2014: 1,
2;
NEA 2014.
Further reading: Samantha Brooks;
Ryan Madora;
Doug Ramsey;
Aaron Steinberg. Other
profiles: 1,
2.
See also the Richard Davis Foundation. Richard Davis 1957 Album by Sarah Vaughan Composition: Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Sarah Vaughan LP: 'At Mister Kelly's' Richard Davis 1965 Andrew Hill LP: 'Point of Departure' Recorded 21 March 1964 All comps by Hill Composition: Kenny Dorham Joe Henderson LP: 'In n Out' Recorded 10 April 1964 Tenor sax: Joe Henderson Trumpet: Kenny Dorham Piano: McCoy Tyner Drums: Elvin Jones Richard Davis 1967 Composition: Kenny Dorham Album: 'Heavy Sounds' Recorded June '67 Tenor sax: Frank Foster Piano: Billy Greene Drums/guitar: Elvin Jones Richard Davis 1970 With Tax Free Richard Davis 1972 Composition: Charlie Parker Tenor sax: Clifford Jordan Trumpet: Marvin Hannibal Peterson Piano: Joe Bonner Drums: Freddie Waits Guitar: Ted Dunbar Filmed live Music: George Gershwin 1934 Lyrics: DuBose Heyward Richard Davis 1974 LP: 'Dealin' Recorded 14 Sep '73 All comps by Davis Richard Davis 1976 LP w pianist, Jill McManus Recorded Oct '75 NYC Richard Davis 2014 Filmed live at the NEA Jazz Masters Concert
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Lou Mecca
Source: Jazz Music Archives
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Born in 1923, guitarist Lou Mecca
is thought to have first recorded in September of 1954 with
Gil Mellé, replacing
Tal Farlow (LP: 'New Faces-New Sounds'
by Blue Note.) Mecca released his first recordings as a leader the next year
on a 10" for Blue Note: 'Lou Mecca Quartet'. As Mecca was unable to make a living as a musician,
he began to study chiropractics in 1961, which he then pursued professionally in 1967, music taking
backseat. Mecca released the album, 'Bridging the Gap', in 1999. He died on 27
June 2003 [obit]. Unfortunately, what little there was to be found of Mecca at
YouTube, especially with
Mellé, has been removed. Records by
Mecca, who did very little recording, are rare. It's known that a copy of
one of his two ten inchers for Blue Note are valued at well above $1000.
References: 1,
2.
Sessions: JDP; Lord (leading 2 of 4).
Discos: 1,
2.
Other profiles*. Lou Mecca 1955 From 'Lou Mecca Quartet' Recorded 25 March '55 Vibraphone: Jack Hitchcock Bass: Vinnie Burke Drums: Jimmy Campbell Composition: Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II Composition: Cole Porter Composition: Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II Composition: Stan Purdy Lou Mecca 2003 From 'Bridging the Gap' Recorded 21 March '99 Bass: Mickey Golizio Drums: Nat Garratano Music: Walter Gross 1946 Lyrics: Jack Lawrence
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Jazz noise guitarist,
Masayuki Takayanagi
was born in 1932 in Tokyo, Japan. Also known as Jojo, he first surfaced on vinyl in 1954 on Shotaro
Moriyasu's album, 'Memorial'. He formed the Swing Journal Ninetet and Swing
Journal All-Star Orchestra in 1956, found on 'Jazz in Japan'. He formed the
New Directions Quartet in 1957. Lord's discography has him leading the All Stars in November of
1957 for 'April in Paris' (Toshiba JLP 1001). 1959 found Takayanagi in the Jazz
Academy Quartet. In 1964 he formed the Jazz Contemporary Quintet. In 1965 he
assisted in the formation of New Century Music Laboratory, then formed
King's Roar. He released a couple bossa nova albums in '67 and '68: 'Flower
Girl' and 'The Smile I Make'. Takayanagi put together the Jazz Contemporary
in the latter year. In 1969 he formed a quintet with guitarist, Masahiko
Togashi, then led the group, New Directions. 1972 saw Takayanagi performing
with the
Gil Evans Orchestra on tour to Tokyo for
the albums 'Satin Doll' ('72) with Kimiko Kasai and 'Masabumi Kikuchi with
Gil Evans' ('72). In '71 he formed New Direction
for the Arts. 1972 found him with Jazz Contemporary again, then New
Direction Unit in '75, recording two volumes of 'Axis: Another Revolable
Thing'. 1977 saw multiple sessions with Tee & Company. In 1978 he put together Second Concept.
1983 saw him leading the Angry Waves. Among the more important figures in Takayanagi's career was alto saxman, Kaoru Abe. Takayanagi died
on June 23 of
1991. Having issued above twenty albums, 'Reason for Being' and 'Inanimate Nature'
arrived in 1990, the
former with Masayuki Takayanagi (guitar). References: 1,
2.
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4,
Lord (leading 25 of 46 sessions). Select
YouTube.
Reviews.
Other profiles *.
Takayanagi's career doesn't see coverage at YouTube until 1970 when he was
already composing free jazz. Masayuki Takayanagi 1970 From 'Independence' All comps by Takayanagi Masayuki Takayanagi 1971 Album Masayuki Takayanagi 1972 LP: 'Free Form Suite' Masayuki Takayanagi 1975 Second Session (Mass Projection) LP: 'Eclipse' Recorded 14 March 1975 Tokyo Issued 1975 on Iskra 001 LP: 'April Is the Cruellest Month' Recorded April/May 1975 Issued 1991 on April Disk AP-1 All comps by Takayanagi Relevance TS Eliot's 'The Waste Land' (1922) Masayuki Takayanagi 1982 From 'Lonely Woman' Composition: Ornette Coleman Composition: Takayanagi Composition: Charlie Haden Masayuki Takayanagi 1983 LP: 'Mass Hysterism in Another Situation' Recorded 14 Aug '83 Issued 2006 on Jinya Disc B-09 LP: 'Pulsation' Recorded 27 May '83 Issued '83 on Paddle Wheel K28P 6244 Comps by Takayanagi Masayuki Takayanagi 1984 LP: 'Meta Improvisation' Recorded Nov '84 Issued 2011 on Jinya Disc B-26/JDR-006 Masayuki Takayanagi 1987 From 'Action Direct' Recorded 5 Oct 1985 Zojoji Hall Tokyo
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Leroy Vinnegar
Source: Longshot's Blog
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Born in 1928 in Indianapolis, double bassist Leroy Vinnegar was self-taught in Chicago and would become known for his "walking bass" style. Beginning his professional career in 1948, he was became a member of the house band at the Bee Hive in 1952. In 1954 he left Illinois for Los Angeles where his first recordings occurred with saxophonist, Herb Geller, in Los Angeles in 1954 in a trio with Eldridge Freeman (drums) for 'At the Piano' issued that year by Dot. He would see Geller again in '55 for 'Vone Mae', 'Tardi at Zardi's', 'Owl Eyes' and 'Gin for Flugelhorns' on August 22, and 'Days I Never Knew', 'Domestic Harmony', 'Love Is Like a Turtle' and 'Sweet Vinnegar' on the 24th. Vinnegar was with Stu Williamson on January 20, 1955, for 'Shu's Due Blues' and 'The Lady Is a Tramp', et al. Come Frank Morgan on March 31 for 'The Champ' and 'Get Happy', et al. Vinnegar completed well above 250 sessions during his career, meaning this brief account of such will be largely abbreviated. Vinnegar held sessions with both Bill Holman and Conte Candoli in '55 before arriving to Lionel Hampton that year on August 1 for 'Hamp and Getz' featuring Stan Getz. Drumming on that was Shelly Manne, one of the more important figures in Vinnegar's career. Manne and Vinnegar cleared much the same path for the next six years, recording numerously together in support of other bands when not working on Manne's projects, the first of which was 'Concerto for Clarinet and Combo' in December of '55. Several albums ensued to 'My Fair Lady' in 1956, a trio with André Previn at piano, after which support roles for such as Helen Humes followed to Howard McGhee's 'Maggie's Back in Town' in '61. The reunited in 1967 in a trio with organist, Rieber Hovde, for 'Rieber Hovde and Associates', again in December of 1975 with trumpeter, John Rinaldo, for 'Jazz Is a Four Letter Word'. We step back to April 1, 1956, to a session for Zoot Sims in Beverly Hills, CA, toward 'Live at Falcon Lair' (2004). That was with pianist, Joe Castro and drummer, Ron Jefferson, both of whom would figure big in Vinnegar's career. Castro would join Vinnegar's Quartet in December of 1958 for the 'Stars of Jazz' television program with Teddy Edwards (tenor sax) and Billy Higgins (drums) for 'Love for Sale', 'Old Folks' and 'Walk On'. Edwards and Higgins would also be among Vinnegar's more important musical associates. In January of 1959 Vinnegar backed Castro on such as 'Billie's Bounce' and 'Feeling the Blues' with Edwards and Higgins. Sometime in 1959 they supported Edwards on 'Billie's Bounce' and 'A Foggy Day' with Higgins. Those got issued on an LP shared with Sonny Rollins titled 'Sonny Rollins at Music Inn/Teddy Edwards at Falcon's Lair with Joe Castro' that if not the next year. That quartet then recorded Castro's 'Groove Funk Soul' in July of '59. It was Edwards' 'It's About Time' in August, Jefferson replacing Higgins. Edwards and Vinnegar had first recorded together on July 15 of '57, that for Vinnegar's debut album, 'Leroy Walks'. Vinnegar and Higgins had fallen in together in 1958 with Fred Katz and His Jammers for such as 'Old Folks' and 'Ruby My Dear'. Vinnegar, Castro, Jefferson, Edwards and Higgins made a full hand in one combination or another into the sixties, Edwards and Higgins much later, they both thought to have last recorded with Vinnegar in March of 1991 for Edwards' 'Mississippi Lad' featuring Tom Waits. Another important pianist was Les McCann, joining Jefferson in support of Edwards' 'It's About Time' in August of 1959. McCann, Vinnegar, and Jefferson for several years, would be tight for another decade, Vinnegar backing McCann when they weren't both supporting other operations. Vinnegar is thought to have first supported McCann in latter 1959 in a trio with Jefferson yielding such as 'Little Girl from Caspar' and 'Vakushna'. The next ten years saw one session upon the next to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on June 21, 1969 with Benny Bailey (trumpet) Eddie Harris (tenor sax) and Donald Dean (drums) for 'Swiss Movement'. Vinnegar moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1986, there dying of heart attack on August 3, 1999 [obits: 1, 2]. His last of several LPs, 'Boss of the Walking Bass', had been recorded at Atwater's Nightclub in Portland on 26 Oct '1996 w Jessica Williams (piano) and Mel Brown (drums). The same trio had released Williams' 'Encounters' in '94. Lord traces Vinnegar to as late as Oct 1997 at Oswego Lake, Oregon, toward Randy Porter's 'Modern Reflections', again w Brown at drums, Nancy King vocals. Joining the long list of other musicians Vinnegar supported are Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew, Gerry Mulligan, Benny Goodman, Lee Konitz, Sonny Stitt, the Jazz Crusaders ('Live at The Lighthouse '66'), Shorty Rogers, Chet Baker, Serge Chaloff and Red Garland. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Sessions: JDP; Lord (Leading 13 of 256). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. IMDb. IA. Further reading: Jazz Profiles; Jessica Williams. Per 1969 below, Vinnegar joins Eddie Harris at tenor sax and Les McCann at piano at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Leroy Vinnegar 1955 Composition: Geller From 'The Herb Geller Sextet' Recorded Aug '54 Leroy Vinnegar 1956 From 'Cy Touff, His Octet & Quintet' Recorded Dec '55 Composition: Johnny Mandel Composition: Cy Touff/Lester Young/Richie Kamuca Composition: Cy Touff/Richie Kamuca Composition: Tiny Kahn Composition: Duke Ellington Leroy Vinnegar 1958 Debut LP Recorded July/Sep '57 Leroy Vinnegar 1963 Composition: Harry Warren/Al Dubin Album: 'Leroy Walks Again!' Leroy Vinnegar 1969 Composition: Gene McDaniels Montreux Jass Festival Tenor sax: Eddie Harris Piano: Les McCann Leroy Vinnegar 1970 Piano: Hampton Hawes Composition: Lou Willie Turner Leroy Vinnegar 1973 Composition: Vinnegar Album: 'Glass of Water'
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Paul Chambers
Source: Wikipedia |
Born in 1935 in Pittsburgh, PA, bassist Paul Chambers began playing professional gigs in New York City where he met such as pianist Barry Harris and trumpeter Thad Jones. Chambers would later appear on albums by Jones: 'After Hours' in '57 and 'Motor City Scene' in 1960. Chambers' first session in Boston in 1954 with the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio included drummer, Ed Thigpen. That resulted in the album, 'Toshiko', estimated to have been issued in 1956 with titles like 'Between Me and Myself', 'Manhattan Address' and 'Blues for Toshiko'. Chambers would record with Akiyoshi again in Tokyo in 1964 ('Toshiko Mariano and Her Big Band') and '65 ('From Japan With Jazz'). Chambers is thought to have first recorded with Paul Quinichette in NYC on November 4, 1954, for the EP, 'Moods', with an estimated release of 1955. His third and last session of 1954 was on December 7 in the Quincy Jones Band for King Pleasure, bearing such as 'Don't Get Scared' and 'I'm Gone'. Chambers' first certain date in 1955 was June 6 for JJ Johnson (who had been with the Quincy Jones Band): 'The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Vol 3' issued that year. Chambers would have occasion to work with Jones a few times in the fifties. He saw more of Johnson in the sixties with both Miles Davis and Elvin Jones. Come 1955 Chambers would have only 14 more years to perform, during which time, however, he attended above 350 sessions (averaging out to a couple per month). As first recording with Akiyoshi might indicate, a great many of those were top rank jazz artists. Among the first was Cannonball Adderley with whom Chambers first recorded on June 28, 1955, toward Kenny Clarke's 'Bohemia After Dark'. His next session was with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet on July 14 for 'Spontaneous Combustion', 'Still Talkin' to Ya', 'Caribbean Cutie', 'A Little Taste', 'Flamingo' and 'We'll Be Together Again'. Multiple sessions followed that year as well as in 1958-59. His last titles with Adderley may have been for Miles Davis at the Birdland in NYC on August 25 of '59 for a version of 'So What'. Chamber's career was very much a career with Davis, first siding for the latter in Davis' Quintet in NYC on October 26, 1955 for such as 'Two Bass Hit' and 'Ah-leu-cha', et al. Chambers would hang with Davis for another eight years, including the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. They recorded numerous titles while touring in Europe in 1960, such as those per a radio broadcast in Manchester on September 27 resulting in 'Free Trade Hall Vol 1 & 2'. Lord's disco has Chambers recording with Davis to as late as April of 1963 on 'So Near, So Far'. Among saxophonists with whom Chambers frequently worked was Jackie McLean. They first fell into a session together at the Cafe Bohemia in NYC on September 9 of 1955 as members of the George Wallington Quintet for the latter's 'Live ! At The Cafe Bohemia'. On August 31 of 1956 Chambers supported 'Jackie's Pal' featuring trumpeter, Bill Hardman. Chambers appeared on numerous McLean albums into the sixties, also joining each other in the support of other ensembles, particularly Lee Morgan's, Morgan himself among the more important figures in Chambers' career. McLean and Chambers are thought to have last recorded together on September 29, 1966, for Morgan's 'Charisma'. As for Morgan, he and Chambers had first seen a studio together on November 25 of 1956 in the Hank Mobley Sextet with Donald Byrd for such as 'Double Whammy' and 'Barrel of Funk'. 'Lee Morgan Volume 2' followed on December 2, 'Lee Morgan Volume 3' on March 24 of '57. Chambers and Morgan found numerous occasions to record together in support of other ensembles, particularly Mobley's. Chambers also appeared on numerous Morgan albums to as late as 'The Rajah' in 1966. Among pianists Chambers worked with numerously was Red Garland, their first tracks together per Davis above in October of '55. Chambers and Garland partnered often with Davis and John Coltrane. Chambers also sided numerous of Garland's projects, starting with the Red Garland Trio on May 11, 1956, with Philly Joe Jones on drums for 'Ahmad's Blues'. The first Garland album Chambers supported was 'A Garland of Red' on August 17, 1956. The two would participate in countless titles together to as late as a radio broadcast with the Miles Davis Sextet at the Birdland on January 3, 1959, for 'Bag's Groove' (with Cannonball Adderley) and 'All of You'. Another trumpeter Chambers saw a lot of was Donald Byrd, their first tracks together per above in June of '55 for Kenny Clarke's 'Bohemia After Dark'. Byrd and Chambers' paths interweaved often for another six years, both supporting each other and other ensembles. On September 29, 1955, Chambers backed 'Byrd's Word'. A year later on September 21 Byrd contributed to 'Whims of Chambers'. May 19 of 1957 witness Byrd participating in 'Paul Chambers Quintet'. Two months later Chambers began backing Byrd's 'New Formulas from the Jazz Lab'. 1960 saw Chambers contributing to Byrd and Art Pepper's 'Motor City Scene'. They last recorded together for pianist, Tadd Dameron, on December 14, 1961, for titles that would get issued in 1999 on 'The Lost Sessions'. In the meantime Chambers had recorded his first album, 'Chamber's Music', on March 2 of '56. In that quartet were John Coltrane (tenor sax) Kenny Drew (piano) and Philly Joe Jones (drums). Another important pianist in Chambers' career was Wynton Kelly, they first putting down tracks together on March 24, 1957 for Lee Morgan's 'Lee Morgan Vol 3'. Kelly and Chambers traveled similar paths both supporting other operations and each other. They are thought to have first recorded as a trio in NYC in January of 1958 with Kenny Burrell on guitar for the simply titled, 'Piano'. Kelly would support Chambers' album, 'Go!', on February 2 of 1959 with Freddie Hubbard (trumpet) Cannonball Adderley (alto sax) and Jimmy Cobb (drums). Among projects by Kelly was 'Kelly at Midnight' on April 27, 1960. Chambers and Kelly would often record together as a trio to 1968. Another important figure was, Gil Evans. Evans arranged and directed the Miles Davis Orchestra on May 6 of 1957 for 'Miles Ahead'. Evans then employed Chambers for 'Gil Evans and Ten' on September 6, 1957. One reason Chambers and Evans worked so often together was that Evans was Davis' arranger and bandleader for some years. Chambers and Evans also worked with other operations together. On April 9, 1958, Chambers sided Evans for 'New Bottle, Old Wine'. Chambers' last titles for Evans may have been at Webster Hall in NYC on May 25 of 1964 for 'Concorde' and 'Spoonful'. Among the more important drummers along Chambers' path was Art Taylor. They first recorded at the Birdland in NYC in September of 1955 in a trio with pianist, Bud Powell: 'That Old Black Magic', 'Star Eyes', et al [Lord]. Chambers and Taylor laid much the same rail nigh like hammer and stake into the sixties. On 14 July of 1957 they left behind 'Bass on Top' [1, 2, 3] w Hank Jones (piano) and Kenny Burrell at guitar. They were together as late as 1963 to back 'Phil Porter and His Organ'. Chamber's last session is thought to have been with the Wynton Kelly Trio including Jimmy Cobb on drums in Chicago on August 4 of 1968 for 'Powertree'. His was an untimely death in his prime at age 33 of tuberculosis on January 4, 1969. Among others with whom Chambers recorded titles were pianist, Horace Silver, and saxophonist, Jimmy Heath. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Sessions: DAHR; J-Disc; JDP; Lord (leading 11 of 353). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. IMDb. Further reading: Jazz Profiles: 1, 2. Other profiles: 1, 2. Per 1956 below, John Coltrane plays tenor sax on all tracks except 'Tale of the Fingers'. Per 1957 below, Chamber's is joined on 'Bass on Top' by drummer, Art Taylor, guitarist, Kenny Burrell and pianist, Hank Jones. Paul Chambers 1954 Composition: Harry Edison/Count Basie Tenor sax: Paul Quinichette Quinichette LP: 'Moods' Paul Chambers 1955 With alto saxophonist, Cannonball Adderley Recorded variously 1955 Issued variously Composition: Cannonball Composition: Quincy Jones Composition: Cannonball/Nat Adderley Composition: Cannonball Composition: Cannonball From 'Bohemia After Dark' Kenny Clarke LP Recorded June/July 1955 Alto sax: Cannonball Adderley Tenor sax: Jerome Richardson Trumpet: Donald Byrd Cornet: Nat Adderley Flute: Jerome Richardson Piano: Hank Jones (track 6)/Horace Silver Drums: Kenny Clarke Composition: Oscar Pettiford Composition: Cannonball/Nat Adderley Composition: Carl Fischer/Frankie Laine Piano: Hank Jones Composition: Ann Ronell Composition: Cannonball/Nat Adderley Paul Chambers 1956 From 'Chambers' Music' Recorded March 1956 Tenor sax: John Coltrane Piano: Kenny Drew Drums: Philly Joe Jones Composition: Charlie Parker Composition: Kenny Drew Composition: John Coltrane Composition: Benny Golson Composition: Chambers Paul Chambers 1957 From 'Whims of Chambers' Recorded 21 Sep 1956 Composition: Chambers Composition: John Coltrane Composition: John Coltrane Composition: Chambers Composition: Donald Byrd Composition: Chambers From 'Bass on Top' Recorded 14 July 1957 Piano: Hank Jones Guitar: Kenny Burrell Drums: Art Taylor Composition: Allen Neiburg Doc Daugherty Ellis Reynolds Composition: Swedish traditional * Composition: Jerome Kern/Otto Harbach Paul Chambers 1959 From 'Go...' Composition: Cannonball Adderley Composition: Chambers Composition: Gershwin Brothers Reissue of 1998 Composition: Chambers Composition: John Klenner/Sam Lewis Composition: Isham Jones/Marty Symes End 'Go...' Album Trumpet: Miles Davis Recorded March/April 1959
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Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1930, Jim Hall received instruction from the Cleveland Institute of Music. after which he left for California in 1955 to begin his professional career. He first recordings were that year in April and May with the Ken Hanna Orchestra, appearing on the album, 'Jazz for Dancers'. In January 1956 he recorded 'Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Buddy Collette'. Hall saw multiple sessions with Hamilton and Collette to Hamilton's 'Ellington Suite' in January of 1959. Among them had been titles to 'Chico Hamilton in Hi-Fi' put down in January 1956. The next month he contributed titles like 'Blues on the Rocks' (George Duvivier) to the album, 'Chico Hamilton Trio' with George Duvivier at bass. Hall and Hamilton supported Collette's 'Tanganyika Jazz' in September of '56. It was Louie Bellson on drums for Buddy Collette's 'Porgy and Bess' in July of 1957. On January 10 of 1959 Hall participated in Collette's 'At the Cinema'. Their last recordings together may have been in 1963 to support 'The Sensational Pete Jolly Gasses Everybody'. Another important associate was pianist, John Lewis, Hall first backing him with bassist, Percy Heath, on titles toward 'Grand Encounter: 2 East/3 West' on February 10 of 1956. Hall and Lewis found numerous occasions to mix things up into the sixties, both backing other operations and working on projects for Lewis such as 'Odds Against Tomorrow' ('59), 'The Wonderful World of Jazz' ('60) and 'Essence' ('62). Their last recordings together may have been to back Sonny Stitt's 'Stitt Plays Bird' on January 29 of 1963. Hall's first sessions with bassist, Red Mitchell, are thought to have been in the Hampton Hawes Quartet with Bruz Freeman (drums) for three volumes of 'All Night Session' in November of 1956. Hall and Mitchell wove much the same chord to 1960 is support of other ensembles. Of interest along the way was a trio for Jimmy Giuffre's '7 Pieces' in February and March of 1959. The Modest Jazz Trio followed with Red Kelly on drums on April1 of 1960 for 'Good Friday Blues'. Mitchell's 'Rejoice!' was recorded at the Renaissance Cafe in Hollywood in October of 1960. They would reunite on multiple occasions in the seventies, thought to have last strung titles together at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, PA in May of 1980 with Itzhak Perlman (violin) André Previn (piano) and Shelly Manne (drums) for ' It's a Different Kind of Blues' and 'It's a Breeze'. Clarinetist, Jimmy Giuffre, was also a frequent companion beginning with 'The Jimmy Giuffre 3' on December 3 and 4 of 1956 with drummer, Ralph Pena. Hall worked numerously with Giuffre into the sixties, notably in Giuffre's trios employing various third men. Their last such combo is thought to have been with Wilfred Middlebrooks at bass in Paris in February of 1960 for what would get issued in 1999 as 'Olympia 23 Fevrier 1960 - 27 Fevrier 1965'. Hall's first session as a leader employed pianist, Carl Perkins, and bassist, Red Mitchell in January of 1957 for 'Jazz Guitar'. Drums by Larry Bunker are thought to have been dubbed in 1963. Another important comrade was valve trombonist, Bob Brookmeyer, with whom he first fell in at the loft of artist, David X Young, for titles that would get issued as 'Jazz Loft' in 2000. The first of Brookmeyer's albums on which Hall appeared was 'Traditionalism Revisited' in July of 1957. Brookmeyer and Hall often partnered in other operations as well, notably projects by both Giuffre and Gerry Mulligan. Working together frequently into the latter sixties, they reunited on July 14, 1979, for 'Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival' at the Hague in Netherlands. 1990 found Brookmeyer contributing to a couple titles on Hall's 'Live at Town Hall Vol 1'. In 1959 Hall toured a bit with Jazz at the Philharmonic, but isn't thought to have recorded with that enterprise. He did record fairly often, however, with pianist, Bill Evans. Hall and Evans are thought to have first strung titles together the same year in July in the John Lewis Orchestra for 'Odds Against Tomorrow'. They backed both Lee Konitz and Gunther Schuller on projects before recording their duo album, 'Undercurrent', in 1962. They mixed on several occasions backing other operatiions until their duo album, 'Intermodulation', went down in February of 1966. Evans died in 1980, but Hall joined the Kronos Quartet in 1985 for 'Music of Bill Evans'. Another important sax player came along in Paul Desmond in September of 1959 for 'First Place Again'. Hall worked with Desmond fairly steadily to 1965, numerous sessions yielding several albums. April 29 of 1969 saw them attending Duke Ellington's 70th birthday party with Gerry Mulligan at the White House in Washington D.C., that getting issued in 2002 as '1969 All-Star White House Tribute'. Desmond later contributed to a few titles on Hall's 'Concierto' in April 1975. Sax player, Sonny Rollins, was also a significant figure, Hall supporting Rollins' 'The Bridge' in early 1962. Multiple sessions ensued to 'The Standard Sonny Rollins' in 1964. Forty-six years later Hall contributed to 'In a Sentimental Mood' for Rollins' 'Road Shows Vol 2', that at the Beacon Theater in NYC on September 10 of 2010. Among the more important trumpeters to come Hall's way was Art Farmer, in whose orchestra Hall performed on August 10 of '62: 'My Romance' and 'Street of Dreams' for the album, 'Listen to Art Farmer'. Guitarist, Barry Galbraith, also participated in that. Hall would support Farmer numerously to 1964, they also backing Mulligan during that period. Their last album of that two-year stretch was 'Art Farmer Meets Mulligan & Hall' on June 27, 1964. In June of 1976 Farmer contributed to Hall's 'Commitment'. Farmer also participated in Hall's 'Big Blues in February of 1978 and 'Panorama: Live at The Village Vanguard' in December of 1996. Another important trumpeter was Quincy Jones, though Jones was employing trumpeters in his orchestra so he could arrange and conduct. Hall's first session with Jones' band was on August 13 of '62 for a couple titles on 'Big Band Bossa Nova'. Hall worked on several of Jones' projects to 1964, then joined his orchestra again for 'Smackwater Jack' in 1971. Another important bassist was Ron Carter with whom Hall first strung titles for Bill Evans' Quintet on August 21 of 1962 with Zoot Sims (tenor saxophone) and Philly Joe Jones (drums), those not to see issue until 1982 as 'The "Interplay" Sessions'. Hall and Carter crossed paths a few times in the sixties supporting various bands until they recorded the duo album, 'Alone Together' on August 4 of 1972 at the Playboy Club in NYC. Carter also contributed to Hall's 'Concierto' in April of '75 before their duo 'Live at Village West' in November of '82. Another duo ensued at the Concord Pavilion in California in August of 1984 for 'Telephone'. It was then 'Live at Town Hall Vol 1' in June of 1990. Lord's disco credits Hall with 367 sessions with above 100 of those his own, meaning we're going to make this a brief trip with mention of stray ends like 'Breakin' It Up On Broadway' in 1961 with the Dukes of Dixieland and Hall's 1975 album, 'Jim Hall Live!' with Don Thompson on bass and Terry Clarke on drums. Among the host of others with whom Hall had worked were Jack Montrose and Tommy Flanagan. During the nineties Hall toured internationally. He was made an NEA Jazz Master in 2004 prior to his release of 'Magic Meeting' in 2005. He was active playing gigs and touring abroad up through 2012, dying in his sleep in December 2013 in his Manhattan apartment [obits: 1, 2, 3, 4]. Hall had released 'Conversations' in 2010 with drummer, Joey Baron. 'Live at Birdland' had been recorded in October of 2010 with Baron, Greg Osby (alto saxophone) and Steve Laspina (bass) for issue in 2012. References: Wikipedia, All Music. Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, Lord (leading 104 of 370 sessions). IMDB. Compositions. Reviews: 1. 2. Books written by Hall (instruction w transcriptions): 1, 2. Interviews: Molly Murphy 2003; Larry Appelbaum 2009 (audio); Marc Myers 2009: 1, 2, 3; Devra Hall Levy 2011 (pdf). Gear. Further reading: Tom Cole, R. J. DeLuke, Marc Myers (Hall w Art Farmer), Marc-Andre Seguin, Jason Shadrick, Peter Watrous. Jim Hall website. Gear. Other profiles: 1, 2. Jim Hall 1956 With the Chico Hamilton Trio: Composition: George Duvivier With the Chico Hamilton Quintet: Composition: Russ Freeman Jim Hall 1957 Album Jim Hall 1975 Album Album Jim Hall 2009 Filmed concert
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Double bassist Doug Watkins was born in 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. His first recording per Lord's disco was in Columbus, OH, circa 1954 with Wild Bill Moore: 'Football Boogie' and 'Blue Journey', et al (Sensation 17). Both 'Billboard' and 'Detroit Free Press', however, show those titles (Sensation 17) issued by October 1, 1949. Lord's reference is either to a different Doug Watkins or Watkins was age fifteen at the time. With no discussion on the matter to be found we regard Lord's listing as dubitable and pick up Watkins where documentation generally agrees after his leaving Detroit for New York City. His initial session is thought to have been on November 17, 1954, for Blue Note with the Horace Silver Quintet: 'Room 108', 'Creepin' In', et al. A session on February 6 of 1955 wrought 'Hippy', 'Hankerin'', etc.. Personnel on those were Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Hank Mobley (tenor sax) and Art Blakey (drums). See volumes 1 and 2 of 'Horace Silver Quintet' (Discogs listing Vol 2 as Vol 4). Sessions followed that year with Will Bradley Jr., then Hank Mobley on March 27, that with a quartet consisting Silver and Blakey. That was issued as 'Hank Mobley Quartet' that year. A session on October 21 followed with Jackie McLean, to which we will return. Watkins' first session with Blakey's original Jazz Messengers was on November 23, 1954, at the Cafe Bohemia: 'Like Someone in Love', 'I Waited for You', et al. Both volumes of 'At The Cafe Bohemia' were issued on 1956. The Jazz Messengers had emerged out Horace Silver's Quintet, above, with identical personnel also consisting of Dorham and Mobley. All those characters, especially Mobley with whom he held above twenty sessions in one manner or another, would be of major importance in Watkin's brief career. McLean, and especially Donald Byrd with whom he held above 30 sessions, were major figures as well. Trumpeter Byrd was in McLean's quintet per above on October 21, 1955, for 'New Traditions'. Also in that group were Mal Waldron (piano) and Ronald Tucker (drums). Waldron and Watkins would also see a lot of each other. On January 27 of 1956 Watkins supported McLean on 'Lights Out'. That was with pianist, Elmo Hope, and drummer, Art Taylor. Watkins and Taylor would lay nigh parallel rails in years to come, attending more than forty sessions together. Another musician of especial weight was tenor saxophonist, Gene Ammons, with whom Watkins recorded 'Jammin' with Gene' on July 13, 1956. In that ensemble were Art Farmer (trumpet), Byrd, McLean, Waldron and Taylor. Several sessions occurred with Ammons to 'Nice an Cool' and 'Jug' in January of 1961. Another drummer with a strong presence in Watkins' career was Louis Hayes with whom he first got mixed on November 10, 1956, for Horace Silver's, '6 Pieces of Silver'. They would see several sessions together in years to come. Guitarist, Kenny Burrell, was also a significant figure, joining Watkins on the latter's first name album, 'Watkins at Large', recorded on December 7, 1956. Also in Watkin's sextet were Duke Jordan (piano), Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley and Art Taylor. A few weeks later on the 28th Watkins joined Burrell on the latter's 'All Night Long'. Their last of multiple sessions together is thought to have been with the Cats for 'The Cats' ('59) on April 18 of 1957. In that sextet were Idrees Sulieman (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Tommy Flanagan (piano) and Hayes. Another saxophonist important to Watkins' career was Pepper Adams (baritone), they both members of the Prestige All Stars on April 20, 1957, for 'Baritones and French Horns' with Cecil Payne (baritone sax), Coltrane, Waldron and Taylor. Watkins supported Adams on 'Critics Choice' in August that year, 'The Pepper-Knepper Quintet with Pepper Adams & Jimmy Knepper' on March 28 of '57. The last of several sessions with Adams was in support of Byrd's 'Chant' on April 17, 1961 with Herbie Hancock (piano) and Teddy Robinson (drums). Watkins had released his second and last LP, 'Soulnik', in 1960. Also present were Yusef Lateef (tenor sax, oboe, flute), Hugh Lawson (piano), Herman Wright (bass) and Lex Humphries (drums). Watkins' career came to sad end in 1962, when he was only 28 years old, upon falling asleep at the wheel and hitting an oncoming truck. He had contributed to Bill Hardman's 'Saying Something' and Charles Mingus' 'Vital Savage Horizons' in October of 1961. Mingus' 'Oh Yeah' had followed on November 6. Others whom he'd backed were Phil Woods, Bobby Jaspar, Curtis Fuller, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Red, Lee Morgan, Roots, Georges Arvanitas, Toots Thielemans, Tina Brooks, Stan Getz, Jef Gilson, Lester Young, Walter Davis Jr., Red Garland, Coleman Hawkins, Big Joe Turner, Benny Golson, Ollie Shearer, Dizzy Reece and Billy Taylor. References: 1, 2. Sessions: j-Disc; JDP; Lord (leading 2 of 109). Discos: 1, 2, 3. Discussion. Other profiles *. Doug Watkins 1955 From 'Hank Mobley Quartet' Recorded 27 March 1955 Tenor sax: Mobley Piano: Horace Silver Drums: Art Blakey Composition: Mobley From 'The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia Vol 1 & 2' Recorded 23 Nov 1955 Tenor sax: Hank Mobley Trumpet: Kenny Dorham Piano: Horace Silver Drums: Art Blakey Composition: Mobley Composition: Herbert Magidson/Allie Wrubel Composition: Tadd Dameron Doug Watkins 1956 From 'Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers' Recorded Nov '54/Feb '55 Tenor sax: Hank Mobley Trumpet: Kenny Dorham Piano: Horace Silver Drums: Art Blakey Composition: Silver Composition: Silver From 'Watkins at Large' Recorded 8 Dec 1956 Tenor sax: Hank Mobley Trumpet: Donald Byrd Piano: Duke Jordan Guitar: Kenny Burrell Drums: Art Blakey Composition: Thad Jones Composition: Kenny Burrell Composition: Dimitri Tiomkin Doug Watkins 1957 From 'Saxophone Colossus' Sonny Rollins Quartet Recorded 22 June 1956 Tenor sax: Sonny Rollins Piano: Tommy Flanagan Drums: Max Roach Composition: Rollins Composition: Rollins From 'Silver's Blue' Recorded July 1956 Piano: Horace Silver Composition: Hank Mobley Composition: Buddy Bernier/Jerry Brainin From 'On the Sunny Side' Paul Quinichette LP Recorded 10 May 1957 Tenor sax: Quinichette On the Sunny Side of the Street Composition: Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields Doug Watkins 1960 From 'Soulnik' Recorded 17 May 1960 Composition: Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke Composition: Yusef Lateef Composition: Yusef Lateef Doug Watkins 1961 Gene Ammons Quartet Composition: Gershwin Brothers
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Doug Watkinsfont
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Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1936,
Scott LaFaro began
playing double bass because a stringed instrument was a requirement at
Ithaca College in New York where he had matriculated to study music (playing
clarinet and saxophone). He dropped out in his sophomore year to work with
Buddy Morrow, with whom he is thought to have made his debut recordings
on 20
December of 1955 per 'Tippity Top'/'A Band of Angels' (Wing W-90047) [JDP] which
45Cat has released on 29 December that year (only several days between
recording and release). Discogs also has that issued in Dec w "29 December,
1955" printed on the label.
'The Billboard'
has it advertised in its 28 Jan 1956 issue. 'Georgia Bop Dance' also went
down on 20 Dec for issue the next year on 'Music for Dancing Feet' (Wing MGW
12006)'. From thereon LaFaro's rise was rapid, playing alongside
Chet Baker,
Victor Feldman,
Stan Kenton,
Cal Tjader and
Benny Goodman. LaFaro's only
session as a leader arrived in
September 1958 [Fresh Sound/ JDP/ Ralston; Lord differs per 31 July '60] at
the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, CA. Supported by Richie Kamuca (tenor sax),
Feldman (piano) and
Stan Levey (drums), those titles ('It Could
Happen to You' and 'Bass Blues') were eventually released on 'Joe Gordon &
Scott LaFaro: West Coast Days' (Fresh Sound FSCD-1030 '92/ FSR-CD 370 '04).
Lord appears to have LaFaro confused with
Gordon whose tracks at the
Lighthouse went down on 31 July of '60 [per Lord as well]. In
1959 LaFaro formed a trio with pianist
Bill Evans, and drummer,
Paul Motian, in which he distinguished
himself, continuing to do so upon replacing
Charlie Haden in
Ornette Coleman's ensemble in 1961.
Lord's Disco finds him on additional titles in '61 w both
Evans and
Stan Getz. It was 'Explorations' on 2 Feb
with
Evans, followed by titles w
Getz later that month. Come 'Live at the
Village Vanguard' in June w
Evans, titles including LaFaro's
compositions, 'Gloria's Step' [1,
2,
3] and 'Jade Visions'. Lord also has LaFaro w
Evans and
Paul Motian on drums at the
Birdland on an unidentified date in 1961: 'Autumn Leaves' and 'Time
Remembered' eventually saw issue in 1989 on the album by various, 'The Best
of the Jazz Pianos' (CDC-8519) [Ralston]. See also 'Jazz Giants' and 'I
Giganti Del Jazz 10' (Curcio HJ 9/GJ 10) [Discogs]. Another performance in
the
Stan Getz Quartet at the Newport Jazz
Festival in Rhode Island on the 3rd of July preceded LaFaro's death on July
6 by three days, that by auto accident in Flint, New York. Those three
titles got issued in 1992 on 'Stan Getz Special-Vol. 1' (Raretone 5010-FC). Working professionally only six
years, LaFaro nevertheless made a large impact with his melodic styling. His
legacy went to the care of his sister, Helene La Faro [1,
2], now collected at
ISB.
References: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
Chronology.
Sessions: JDP; Tom Lord (leading 1 of 40);
Charles Ralston.
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
Biblio: 'Jade Visions' by Helene LaFaro-Fernandez, Chuck Ralston & Phil Palombi (U of North Texas Press 2009). Further reading:
Jean-Charles Ladurelle;
Gene Lees;
Andrew Read;
Jeff Tamarkin;
Gordon Vernick.
Scott LaFaro 1956 On label: "29 December, 1955" Trombone: Buddy Morrow Composition: Allen/Thea With Chet Baker Composition: Jimmy Heath On label: "29 December, 1955" Trombone: Buddy Morrow Composition: Frank Slay/Bob Crewe Scott LaFaro 1958 Album recorded Dec '57 Piano: Pat Moran Bass: John Doling Drums: Johnny Whited Note: The above was reissued in 1978 as 'The Legendary Scott LaFaro' w only 8 of 12 original titles included *. Scott LaFaro 1958 Composition: Miles Davis LP: 'The Arrival of Victor Feldman' Vibes: Victor Feldman Drums: Stan Levey Scott LaFaro 1959 Composition: Tony Scott Recorded Oct '59 Issued on 'Sung Heroes': Sunnyside SSC 1015 1986 Clarinet: Tony Scott Piano: Bill Evans Drums: Paul Motian Scott LaFaro 1960 LP: '1960': Recorded 29 Nov 1960 Piano: Steve Kuhn Drums: Pete La Roca Composition: Cy Coleman/Carolyn Leigh Piano: Bill Evans Drums: Paul Motian Evans LP: 'Portrait in Jazz' Recorded 28 Dec 1959 Scott LaFaro 1961 Ornette Coleman LP Recorded 21 Dec 1960 R.P.D.D. (Relation of the Poet to Day Dreaming) Ornette Coleman LP: 'Ornette!' Recorded 31 Jan 1961 From 'The Complete Live at The Village Vanguard 1961' Recorded 25 June 1961 NYC Piano: Bill Evans Drums: Paul Motian Composition: LaFaro Composition: EvansNote: The above album was released in Japan in 2002 on Riverside VICJ-60951-3. Release in the States followed in 2005 on 3RCD-4443-2.
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Gabor Szabo
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Gabor SzaboIstván was born in Budapest in 1936, escaping Hungary in 1956. His first recordings had been in Hungary for the Qualiton label with Myrna Bell (aka Hosó Irma): 'Sentimental Journey' and 'Mambo Italiano'. Upon attending the Berklee School of Music in Boston Szabo recorded titles in '58 toward 'Jazz in the Classroom Vol 2'. Szabo performed at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 with the International Youth Band directed by Marshall Brown, recording such as 'Don't Wait for Henry' and 'Imagination'. Szabo's next engagement was with Louis Armstrong at the Newport Jazz Festival for the film documentary, 'Jazz on a Summer's Day', on July 6 of '58. He was with Sidney Bechet and the International Youth Band at the World's Fair in Brussels, Belgium, that summer for 'Blues Ad Lib'. He joined another session at the Berklee School of Music in 1959 for 'Jazz in the Classroom Vol 4'. It was getting hired by Chico Hamilton in 1961 that laid rail to Szabo's career, Szabo with Hamilton on February 19 of '62 for 'Drumfusion'. Szabo stuck with Hamilton into 1966. In the meantime Szabo supported vibraphonist, Gary McFarland's, 'The 'In' Sound' in August of '65 [review]. Szabo's first sessions as a leader arrived with McFarland, in November of '65 to result in 'Gypsy '66' [review]. McFarland and Szabo had met at the Berklee School of Music in 1959. Szabo participated in MacFarland's 'Profiles' in Feb of 1966 before recording his second LP, 'Spellbinder', on 6 May of '66 [review]. Later that month he and McFarland laid tracks toward their joint issue of 'Simpatico' [review]. Szabo's third album, 'Jazz Raga', went down in August of '66 in a trio with Jack Gregg (bass) and Bernard Pretty Purdie (drums) [reviews: 1, 2]. Come 'Dreams' in 1968 [reviews: 1, 2] prior to 'Lena & Gabor' in 1970 [review]. 1972 saw Szabo contributing to Charles Lloyd's 'Waves' before the December recording of his album, 'Mizrab', with a band of 17 members in addition to himself [review]. In 1978 Szabo joined the Church of Scientology. He sued the organization for $21 million two years later, claiming such as embezzlement, kidnapping and brainwashing. The church countersued for fraud and the whole thing was dropped, too time consuming for Szabo to pursue. Szabo died of kidney and liver disease on 26 Feb 1982 while visiting Budapest [obits]. He had recorded his album, 'Femme Fatale' in 1978 with Chick Corea, that issued in 1981 [review]. Nearly half of Szabo's sessions were his own projects, he releasing well beyond twenty albums before his early death at age 46. References: 1, 2, 3, 4. Gig itinerary. Sessions: JDP, Lord. Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Reviews. Interviews. Discussion. Gear: 1, 2. Further reading: Paste. Other profiles: 1, 2. Gabor Szabo 1956 Vocal: Myrna Bell (Hosó Irma) Composition Ben Homer Gabor Szabo 1962 Drums: Chico Hamilton Hamilton album 'Drumfusion' Tenor sax/flute: Charles Lloyd Trombone: Garnett Brown Bass: Albert Stinson All compositions: Charles Lloyd Gabor Szabo 1963 Drums: Chico Hamilton Composition: Charles Lloyd Hamilton album 'Passin' Thru' Tenor sax/flute: Charles Lloyd Trombone: George Bohanon Bass: Albert Stinson Gabor Szabo 1966 Recorded Nov 1965 Composition: Szabo Album 'Gypsy '66' Composition: John Phillips Hamilton album: 'The Further Adventures of El Chico' Recorded May 1966 Recorded 6 May 1966 Composition: Szabo Album 'Spellbinder' Composition: Lennon/McCartney Vibes: Gary McFarland Joint LP w McFarland: 'Simpático' Gabor Szabo 1968 Album Gabor Szabo 1971 Composition: Szabó/Wolfgang Melz Album: 'High Contrast' Recorded Dec 1970/Feb 1971 Gabor Szabo 1973 Composition: Szabó Album: 'Mizrab' Recorded Dec 1970
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Dorothy Ashby was born in Detroit in 1930. She made a transition from piano to harp upon graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1952. She initially found resistance to the notion that harp could be a jazz instrument, especially bebop, but Ashby was too talented to long despise. Ashby is thought to have held her first sessions in NYC on August 27 and 29 of 1957 to result in her first album, 'The Jazz Harpist', released that year [Lord]. Having worked in nightclubs in Philadelphia and Detroit for the last five years, she was able to staff her ensemble w Frank Wess (flute), Wendell Marshall (bass) and Ed Thigpen (drums). Ashby issued her second LP, 'Hip Harp', in 1958, that also w Frank Wess on flute accompanied by Herman Wright (bass) and Art Taylor (drums). Her third album, 'In a Minor Groove', went down on 19 Nov of 1958, again w Wess and Wright but Roy Haynes on drums. Come 'Dorothy Ashby' on 8 August of '61 w Wright and John Tooley on drums. Album five, 'Soft Winds', arrived in August of '61 w Wright, Terry Pollard (piano/ vibes) and Jimmy Cobb (drums). Ashby's isn't a well-known name in jazz though she moved in prestigious circles, performing with such as Louis Armstrong and Woody Herman in the vicinity of 1959/60. During the early sixties she formed the Ashby Players, a Detroit theatrical production group. She moved to California in the latter sixties where she became a studio harpist. She later recorded with such as Stevie Wonder ('If It's Magic' 1976) and Gene Harris ('Tone Tantrum' 1977). Lord has her final of eleven albums, 'Django/Misty', going down on an unidentified date in 1984, that a suite of solos like the one before it, 'Concierto de Aranjuez', having arrived on 7 & 8 of March 1983. Ashby died of cancer on April 13 of 1986 in Santa Monica, CA. Lord's disco has her contributing 'Heaven Sent' to Osamu Kitajima's 'The Source' that year. References: 1, 2, 3. Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Lord (leading 15 of 30 sessions). IMDb. IA. Reviews. Further reading: David Johnson; Nick Millevoi; Tom Moon; Marc Myers; Eva Tebbe; Brandee Younger (contemporary harpist: 1, 2, 3). Other profiles: 1, 2. Dorothy Ashby 1957 Album Personnel above Dorothy Ashby 1958 Album Personnel above Album Personnel above Dorothy Ashby 1962 Composition: Ollie McLaughlin From 'Dorothy Ashby' Personnel above Dorothy Ashby 1965 The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby Album Recorded 19 September 1958 Dorothy Ashby 1968 Album Recorded Feb '68 Orchestration: Richard Evans Dorothy Ashby 1969 Album Recorded March '69 Dorothy Ashby 1970 Album Recorded Nov '69/Jan '70 All comps by Ashby Dorothy Ashby 1984 Composition: Joaquín Rodrigo From 'Concierto de Aranjuez' Recorded March 1983 Album Recorded 1984
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Charlie Byrd Source: Suono la Chitarra
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Born in 1925 in Suffolk, Virginia, guitarist Charlie Byrd is perhaps most famous for his collaboration with Stan Getz on the 1962 bossa nova [1, 2] album, 'Jazz Samba' [1, 2]. The earliest session known to Lord in which Byrd participated was a private recording with the Charlie Parker Tentet at the Howard Theater in Washington D.C. on October 18 of 1952 for such as 'Scrap from the Apple' (VGM 0009), 'Out of Nowhere', 'Now's the Time', '52nd Street Theme (VGM 0009)' and 'Cool Blues'. There appears no documentation showing any of those issued at the time. Byrd's first album release in 1957 was 'Jazz Recital'. Tracks from that and 'Blues for Night People' ('58) would get compiled on 'First Flight' in 1980. 'Blues for Night People' and 'Midnight Guitar' ('78) were basically the same album but for one edited track. Byrd is listed in a few sources incorrectly with alto saxophonist, Paul Winter, for 'A Winter's Tale: Songs to Make You Thimk' in 1957. That's actually the author by the same name delivering recitals. Tracks from that album exist at YouTube ('Fallout', Sing a Song of Shopenhauer'') but nothing with Byrd. It was after Byrd's 1961 tour of Brazil that he met Stan Getz. Getz hadn't been to Brazil but he liked the bossa nova recordings of Joao Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim that Byrd brought back with him. The result was the 1962 LP, 'Jazz Samba', among the most popular jazz albums ever sold. Byrd's relationship with Stan Getz wasn't all harmony though: in 1967 he sued Getz for unfair payment concerning the LP, 'Jazz Samba'. He won, henceforth to split royalties with Getz half and half. In 1973 Byrd contributed to Cal Tjader's 'Tambu', the same year he moved to Annapolis, Maryland, where he began playing at the King of France Tavern to remain that nightclub's resident guitarist until his death. July 7 of 1974 saw titles with Clark Terry at Radio City Music Hall in NYC such as 'Walkin'' and 'Just Friends'. July 2 of 1975 saw a reunion with Getz at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC for such as 'Undecided' and 'Don't Lend Your Guitar to Anyone'. During the eighties Byrd toured with the Annapolis Brass Quintet, recording 'Byrd & Brass' in Baltimore on April 11 of 1986. Byrd had also worked in a number of guitar duos and trios with Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Laurindo Almeida and Mundell Lowe. His first collaborations with Ellis had been in 1964 in NYC for 'Guitar/Guitar'. Collaborations with both Ellis and Kessel occurred per 'Great Guitars' ('74), 'Great Guitars II' ('76), 'Straight Tracks' ('78), 'At the Winery' ('80) and 'At Charlie's Georgetown' ('82). It was Ellis and Lowe for 'The Return of the Great Guitars' in 1996. Collaborations with Almeida were 'Brazilian Soul' ('81), 'Latin Odyssey' ('83), 'Tango' ('85) and 'Music of the Brazilian Masters' ('89). Byrd, Ellis and Almeida all attended the tribute to Carl Jefferson at the Concord Pavilion in California on July 8 of 1995. Jefferson had been a used car dealer until establishing the Concord Jazz Festival in 1969. In 1972 Jefferson founded Concord Records to produce more than 500 plates until his death in 1995. That concert in July in honor of Jefferson drew more than eighty musicians, eventually issued per a box set of four CDs in 2002 as 'A Tribute to Carl Jefferson'. Those are thought to have been Almeida's last recordings and next to last performance, he to die in 1995 as well. Byrd himself died on December 2 of 1999 [obits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. He had last recorded 'For Louis' that year in NYC on September 10 and 11. References: 1, 2, 3. Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Lord (leading 87 of 128 sessions). IMDb. IA. Other profiles: 1, 2. Charlie Byrd 1957 From 'Blues for the Night People' Recorded 4 Aug '57 NYC Bass: Keeter Betts Drums: Gus Johnson Composition: Byrd Blues My Naughty Sweetie Taught Me Composition: Arthur Swanstone/Carey Morgan Composition: Count Basie/Harry Edison Charlie Byrd 1961 Album Piano: Barry Harris Bass: Keter Betts Drums: Buddy Deppenschmidt Charlie Byrd 1962 Album w Stan Getz Tenor sax: Stan Getz Charlie Byrd 1965 Composition: Tom Jobim/Ray Gilbert LP: 'Brazilian Byrd' Charlie Byrd 1972 Composition: Hugo Blanco/José Manzo LP: 'Onda Nueva | The New Wave' Orchestration: Aldemaro Romero Charlie Byrd 1974 Composition: Michael Wolff LP: 'Tambu' Piano: Michael Wolff Vibes: Cal Tjader Charlie Byrd 1979 Filmed live Trio with Herb Ellis & Barney Kessel Drums: Wayne Philips Charlie Byrd 1980 Composition: Tom Jobim Vinícius de Moraes/Ray Gilbert LP: 'Sugarloaf Suite' Bass: Joe Byrd Drums: Wayne Phillips Charlie Byrd 1983 Composition: Manuel Ponce Duet with Laurindo Almeida Recorded Dec '82 San Francisco Duet with Laurindo Almeida Charlie Byrd 2000 From 'For Louis' Recorded 10/11 Sep 1999 NYC Composition: Vernon Duke Composition: Robert Thiele/George Weiss
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Born in 1935 in Philadelphia, PA,
Henry Grimes
began experimenting with a variety of instruments about age twelve until he
settled on the double bass in high school. He studied at Juilliard between
1952 and '54. His first sessions are thought to have been in September of
1957 with Shafi Hadi. It isn't known, however, if any of those tracks saw
release before 1993 on an album titled 'Debut Rarities Vol 3'. The next
October Grimes entered the studio with
Lee Konitz to record what would
appear on
Konitz' album, 'Tranquility'. In November he found himself
recording with clarinetist, Tony Scott, and pianist,
Bill Evans, on tracks
that would appear on the albums, 'Free Blown Jazz' in '59 and 'My Kind of
Jazz' in 1960. The first of three important sessions were held with
Gerry Mulligan on the 3rd of December, resulting in the
Mulligan album, 'Reunion
with Chet Baker', in 1958. On the 4th and 5th that month he recorded tracks
that would appear on 'The Gerry Mulligan Songbook Vol 1' the next year as
well. Continuing to work as a sideman into the sixties, Grimes first
appearance on an album with Cecil
Taylor was
Gil Evans' 'Into the Hot', in 1962. In
1965 Grimes issued his first album as a leader, 'The Call', with the ESP
record label. He also appeared
on Taylor's 'Unit Structures' in
'66 and 'Conquistador!' in '67. Grimes emerged on four albums with
Albert Ayler, his first on
Ayler's debut album, 'Spirits',
in 1966. He also appeared on his first of three albums with Don Cherry
in 1966: 'Complete Communion'. A move to Los Angeles in the latter sixties
('69) met with one misfortune upon the next, such as his bass being ruined
on the trip with no
funds to repair it (sun damage from being strapped to the roof of his car). Thus about the time
Ayler died (1970) Grimes also
disappeared. He'd been thought to be dead for three decades when a Georgia
social worker, Marshall Marrotte, discovered him in 2002 and began tinkering
with gears. Grimes' "résumé" at the time read janitorial skills with nothing
about his musical career, not even a mention of Juilliard. Grimes had traded
the double bass for poetry during that time, and had no instrument upon
meeting Marrotte. As word of his rediscovery [1,
2] disseminated Grimes was sent
a double bass by
bassist, William Parker, and a remarkable thing occurred: the old dog
learned new tricks. Grimes intently practiced for weeks, not months, to
regain his skills, recorded several tracks of what were titled
'Improvisation' in 2003, was recorded performing 'Improvisation' at the
World Stage in Los Angeles, then moved back to New York City in 2003 for the
Vision Festival (recorded) and broadcast recordings with WKCR-FM Studios. In
2005 Grimes released 'Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival'. He hadn't played
violin since he was a child, but made his violin debut at Lincoln Center in
2005, age seventy. In 2008 Grimes published a book of poetry called 'Signs
Along the Road' [*]. His latest of several album releases was in 2014: 'The
Tone of Wonder'. His career in the new millennium has Grimes on nearly 100
recordings as a sideman. He has also toured internationally. Altogether,
Grimes is likely to have had a remarkable career had he not decided to explore
California all those years ago and stayed in New York. But reassuming his career after thirty
years invisible upon some bad fortune was phenomenal. Music, especially
jazz, is a demanding profession when one is young. The will to re-embark on
that boat at Grimes' age was truly unique. Grime's rediscovery also brought
marriage to Margaret Davis [see sessions: Grimes]. Grimes performed in
New York City until his death on 17 March 2020. As of this writing he was recently at the 2018 Umbria Jazz Festival in Orvieto, Italy, w the Marc Ribot Trio including Chad Taylor
[*].
References: 1,
2.
Sessions: Fitzgerald: main,
multiple versions,
personnel;
Grimes;
J-Disc (w comps by Grimes);
JDP; Lord.
Discos: 1,
2.
Video: live performances.
Interviews: Monk Rowe w
Rashied Alii Jan 2009;
Alyn Shipton for BBC Jazz Library May
2009. Documentaries: 'The Life and Death and Life of Henry Grimes' (2013) directed
and produced by Hank Cherry.
Further reading: Margaret Grimes,
Neil Strauss. Biblio: 'Music to Silence to Music' by Barbara Frenz (Northway Publications 2015):
1,
2,
3. Other profiles:
1,
2,
3.
Henry Grimes 1957 From Lee Konitz' 'Tranquility' Recorded 22 Oct 1957 Alto sax: Lee Konitz Guitar: Billy Bauer Drums: Dave Bailey Composition: Lennie Tristano Composition: 1938: Hoagy Carmichael/Ned Washington Composition: 1928: Mark Fisher/Joe Goodwin/Larry Shay Henry Grimes 1958 Composition: Gerry Mulligan Mulligan LP: 'Reunion with Chet Baker' Baritone sax: Mulligan Trumpet: Chet Baker Drums: Dave Bailey Henry Grimes 1959 Filmed live with Joe Harris & Sonny Rollins Music: Duke Ellington 1931 Lyrics: Irving Mills Henry Grimes 1962 From Gil Evans' 'Into the Hot' Recorded Oct & Sep 1961 Gil Evans Orchestra All arrangements: Gil Evans Piano: Cecil Taylor Composition: Cecil Taylor Henry Grimes 1966 From 'The Call' Recorded 28 Dec 1965 Clarinet: Perry Robinson Drums: Tom Price Composition: Perry Robinson Composition: Grimes End 'The Call' Composition: Albert Ayler Ayler album 'Spirits' Recorded 24 Feb 1964 Henry Grimes 1967 Composition: Pharoah Sanders Sanders album 'Tauhid' Recorded 15 Nov 1966 Henry Grimes 2003 Filmed live at the Vision Festival' Alto sax: Rob Brown Bass: Grimes Bass: William Parker Henry Grimes 2004 Filmed live Tenor sax: David Murray Drums: Hamid Drake Henry Grimes 2011 Filmed live Henry Grimes 2012 With Marshall Allen & Milford Graves Henry Grimes 2015 Marshall Allen Magic Science Quartet
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Henry Grimes Photo: Mosaic Images Source: Blue Note |
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Gary Peacock Source: Blue Note |
Born in 1935 in Burley, Idaho,
Gary Peacock studied piano as a child.
He was playing drums when he graduated from high school. Peacock briefly
attended the Westlake School of Music in Los Angeles before being drafted
into the Army. He picked up the double bass while stationed in Germany
to play in a trio. Released from duty in 1956, Peacock's initial recordings
were with the
Hans Koller Quintet on March 6 of 1957
at the Jazz Salon in Dormund, Germany: 'Topsy', 'Jeepers Creepers' and
'There Will Never Be Another You'. Guitarist,
Attila Zoller, was in on that, with
whom he next recorded in a trio with Max Bruel on tenor sax on March 17 for
'Stella by Starlight', Indian Summer' and 'Yesterdays'. Further sessions
were held in Germany that year with
Koller,
Albert Mangelsdorff and
Gary Crosby before Peacock headed to
Los Angeles where he fell in with
Bud Shank. Peacock backed
Shank for 'Holiday In
Brazil' in March of 1958. Peacock would continue working with
Shank, including film scores, to
'Barefoot Adventure' in November of 1961. During that
period he married composer and vocalist, Annette Peacock, in 1960
[1,
2,
3]. Traveling to New York City to engage in session work, Peacock's first
recordings with
Paul Bley were in April of
'63, tracks that would appear on the 1970 release of 'Paul Bley With Gary
Peacock'.
Bley would be a major figure in Peacock's
career, they appearing on several albums together through the years. One of
those was 'Annette' recorded in April of '92 consisting of compositions by
Annette Peacock with 'Annette' authored by
Bley, Gary and Franz Koglmann (trumpet,
flugelhorn). Peacock
appeared on several albums by
Albert Ayler in the sixties, beginning with 'Ghosts', issued in
1965. He recorded tracks for the first of more than ten albums as a leader
in 1970, that released as 'Eastward' in 1974. Peacock first recorded with
Keith Jarrett in February 1977, Jarrett appearing on Peacock's 'Tales of
Another' that year. Along with
Bley,
Jarrett was the most significant of
Peacock's musical associates, not counting drummer,
Jack DeJohnette, his partner
in the
Keith Jarrett Trio. Peacock would surface on more than twenty
albums by
Jarrett, starting with his
two volumes of 'Standards' in 1983. In 1990 Peacock made his first
recordings with his trio, Tethered Moon, consisting of drummer,
Paul Motian and pianist, Masabumi Kikuchi. Those
wouldn't surface until 1997 on 'Frist Meeting'. The LP, 'Tethered Moon',
however, appeared in 1995. Several more albums by that trio would be
released. The first of three albums with pianist, Marilyn Crispell, was
issued in 1997: 'Nothing Ever Was, Anyway'. 1998 saw Peacock participating in
'Endless Miles: A Tribute to Miles Davis'. Into the new millennium
Peacock emerged on a few LPs by pianist, Marc Copland. 'Now This' was
recorded in July of 2014 with a trio consisting of Marc Copland (piano) and
Joey Baron (drums). Beyond music, Peacock
has been a practicing Zen Buddhist since the sixties. He died on 4 September
2020 in Olivebridge, New York. References: 1,
2,
3,
4.
Sessions: 1970-2016 JDP; Lord.
Discos: 1,
2,
3.
Reviews.
Peacock in visual media.
Other profiles: 1,
2.
References for Annette Peacock: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6. Per
below, the
Keith Jarrett Trio means
Jarrett at piano with
Jack DeJohnette on
drums. Gary Peacock 1959 Composition: Bud Shank Bud Shank soundtrack: 'Slippery When Wet' Gary Peacock 1970 Recorded 1963 Composition: Gary Peacock Album: 'Paul Bley with Gary Peacock' Gary Peacock 1971 Album with Mal Waldron Gary Peacock 1980 Composition: Gary Peacock Album: 'Shift in the Wind' Gary Peacock 1985 Filmed concert with Keith Jarrett Trio Filmed concert with Keith Jarrett Trio Gary Peacock 1986 Filmed concert with Keith Jarrett Trio Gary Peacock 1991 Bass solo Composition: Gary Peacock Album with Paul Bley: 'Partners' Gary Peacock 1996 Filmed live with Keith Jarrett Trio Music: Joseph Kosma 1945 Lyrics French: Jacques Prévert Lyrics English: Johnny Mercer Gary Peacock 1998 Guitar: Ralph Towner Composition: Peacock/Towner Album: 'A Closer View' Gary Peacock 1999 Satiricon Theater Essen, Germany Drums: Paul Motian Piano: Paul Bley Gary Peacock 2009 Piano: Marc Copland Composition: Gary Peacock Copland album 'Insight' Gary Peacock 2013 Piano: Marilyn Crispell Composition: Crispell/Peacock Crispell album: 'Azure' Keith Jarrett Trio Drums: Jack DeJohnette Recorded Seoul 2013 Issue unidentified Composition: Ornette Coleman Recorded 2009 Keith Jarrett Trio Drums: Jack DeJohnette Album: 'Somewhere' Gary Peacock 2015 Composition: Gary Peacock Album: 'Now This'
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Born in 1932 in Evanston, Illinois, double bassist, then
electric bassist,
Bob Cranshaw, formed MJT + 3 in 1957
with
Richard Abrams (piano), Nicky
Hill (tenor saxophone),
Walter Perkins (drums) and Paul Serrano (trumpet).
That year they recorded 'Daddy-O Presents MJT+3' for release in July of
1958. That group released a few more albums into the early sixties with
shifting personnel.
Perkins and Cranshaw would
also back other ensembles into the sixties, such as the
Jaki Byard Trio for 'Out Front!'
in 1964. In January of 1965 the two contributed to the soundtrack of the
1966 film, 'A Man Called Adam'. Meanwhile, in back
in June of 1958 Cranshaw had recorded 'On the
Chicago Scene' with
Max Roach + 4. In 1959 he recorded the first of five
albums with pianist, Shirley
Scott: 'Great Scott!!'. 1962 was a big year for Cranshaw, beginning with the
recording of 'Hush!' with pianist,
Duke Pearson, on January 12th.
Cranshaw recorded eight more LPs with
Pearson throughout the sixties. Twelve
days later Cranshaw stepped into the studio with trumpeter,
Lee Morgan, to record 'Take
Twelve', the initial of four albums with
Morgan, though they had recorded
together as early as 1960 in the Young Lions to issue the album with the
same title. January 30th of 1962 saw Cranshaw's first session with
Sonny Rollins for 'The Bridge'. Cranshaw
backed a host of prominent names during his career, but he stuck with
Rollins throughout the decades,
releasing well above twenty LPs with the same into the new millennium. His
last titles with Rollins aren't thought to have been until July 25 of 2012
at the Palais Longchamp in Marseille, France, for 'Patanjali', 'Don't Stop
the Carnival' and 'Professor Paul'. Returning to 1962, also significant were
Cranshaw's first tracks with drummer, Mickey Roker, those in support of
vocalist, Billie Poole's, 'Confessin' the Blues' by the
Junior Mance Trio with guitarist,
Kenny Burrell. Cranshaw would
continually be found with Roker into the new millennium, they attending
innumerable sessions together in support of various operations. With each
their careers being largely a mirror of the others for decades, their last
session together per Lord's disco was in July of 2009 in support of Chuck
Redd's 'The Common Thread'. Cranshaw's career were Johnny Lytle and Milt Jackson,
recording the first of a few albums with each of them in 1963. The next year
he laid tracks with
Stanley Turrentine on 'Hustlin'',
the first of six with
Turrentine during the
sixties. On November 26, 1966, Chambers appeared with
Jazz at the Philharmonic in
London and Paris. Highlighting but a few of the albums to which Cranshaw
contributed are
Billy Taylor's 'Impromptu' in 1962, JJ Johnson's
'The Dynamic Sound Of J.J. with Big Band' in 1964, Horace Silver's
'he Cape Verdean Blues' in 1965,
Hank Mobley's 'A Caddy for Daddy' in
1966,
Sonny Stitt's 'Up, Up and Away' in
1967,
Sonny Rollins's 'Sonny, Please!' in
2006 and Mike LeDonne's 'AwwlRIGHT!' in 2015. Cranshaw seems never to have released an album as a leader, too busy backing
above 450 sessions, also working in film and television,
appearing, combined, on hundreds of scores and shows. In 1997 Cranshaw
appeared in the documentary, 'The Blue Note Story'. Lord's disco has his
recordings with tenor saxophonist, Eric Alexander, in Paramus, NJ, on March
14, 2016, for 'Second Impression'. Cranshaw died of cancer in Manhattan on
November 2, 2016 [obits: 1,
2,
3]. Among notable others with whom he had recorded were
Coleman Hawkins,
Carmen McRae ('61),
Joe Williams,
Jimmy Heath,
Eddie Harris ('64),
Wes Montgomery, Burt Collins ('67)
and Yoshiaki Masuo. References: 1,
2.
Sessions: J-Disc; Lord (leading 0 of 462).
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4.
IA. Undated
interview w Ethan Iverson.
Discussion. Bob Cranshaw 1957 Composition: Muhal Richard Abrams Album: 'Daddy-O Presents MJT + 3' Bob Cranshaw 1962 Composition: Paul Mitchell Duke Pearson album: 'Hush!' Recorded 12 January 1962 Drums: Walter Perkins Piano: Duke Pearson Trumpet: Johnny Coles From 'Junior's Blues' Junior Mance LP Recorded 14 Feb 1962 Piano: Junior Mance Drums: Mickey Roker Composition: Steve Allen/Ray Brown Composition: Steve Allen/Ray Brown From 'The Bridge' Sonny Rollins LP Recorded Jan/Feb 1962 Tenor sax: Rolins Drums: Mickey Roker Composition: Vincent Youmans/Billy Rose/Edward Eliscu Bob Cranshaw 1963 Composition: McCoy Tyner Tyner LP: 'Live at Newport' Alto sax: Charlie Mariano Trumpet: Clark Terry Piano: McCoy Tyner Drums: Mickey Roker Bob Cranshaw 1965 Composition: Jack Wolff Dexter Gordon LP: 'Clubhouse' Recorded 27 May 1965 Issued 1979 on Blue Note LT-989 (US) Bob Cranshaw 1967 Composition: Bobby Hutcherson Hutcherson LP: 'Happenings' Recorded 8 Feb 1966 Piano: Herbie Hancock Vibes: Bobby Hutcherson Drums: Joe Chambers From 'Delightfulee' Lee Morgan LP Recorded April/May 1966 Tenor sax: Joe Henderson Trumpet: Lee Morgan Piano: McCoy Tyner Drums: Billy Higgins Composition: Morgan Composition: Jerry Bock/Sheldon HarnickBob Cranshaw 1968 Composition: Duke Pearson Pearson LP: 'The Phantom' Piano: Pearson Drums: Mickey Roker Composition: Hank Mobley Mobley LP: 'Reach Out!' Tenor sax: Mobley Drums: Billy Higgins Bob Cranshaw 1972 Composition: Sonny Rollins Rollins LP: 'Next Album' Saxophone: Rollins Bob Cranshaw 1973 Filmed live with Dexter Gordon Composition: Jimmy Heath Bob Cranshaw 1977 Composition: Clifford Jordan Album: 'Prime Time' Piano: Hugh Lawson Drums: Ben Riley Bob Cranshaw 1994 Filmed live with Sonny Rollins Composition: Jerome Kern/Ira Gershwin
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Jimmy Garrison Source: Blebop |
Born in 1934 in Miami, double bassist,
Jimmy Garrison, was later raised in
Philadelphia, PA. He there began playing nightclubs, McCoy Tyner becoming an
important early musical associate. Garrison left Philadelphia for NYC in
1958. His earliest determinable release on vinyl was in 1958 with drummer,
Philly Joe Jones, on
Jones's
album,
'Blues For Dracula'. Garrison participated in several important sessions
during 1959. In February he recorded with
Lee Konitz at the Half Note in NYC, 'Lee
Konitz - Live at the Half Note' issued that year. In March he laid tracks
for the 1959 release of
Jackie McLean's 'Swing, Swang,
Swingin''. In May of 1959 Garrison laid tracks on
Philly Joe Jones' 'Drums
Around the World', issued that year. He also recorded 'Blues-ette' with
Curtis Fuller that May for its
release in February 1960. In August he performed with
Tony Scott at the Showplace in NYC
for the release of Scott's 'Golden
Moments' that year. In November Garrison recorded four tracks on
Philly Joe Jones'
'Showcase' LP, issued that year. Garrison was also in session in December of
'59 for the issue of
Curtis Fuller's 'Imagination'
in 1960. That was a momentous occasion in that it is thought to have been
his first with pianist, McCoy Tyner,
who was one of the three more important figures in Garrison's career along
with saxophonist,
John Coltrane, and drummer,
Elvin Jones. Garrison and
Tyner
backed
Fuller on 'Images of Curtis Fuller' on June 6 of 1960 before their
first mutual session with
Coltrane at the Village Vanguard on November 1 of
1961 with
Jones. That would get issued in 1977 as 'The Other Village
Vanguard Tapes'. The next day they recorded titles toward 'Trane's Modes' at
the Village Vanguard, issued in 1979. A third session at the Vanguard on the
the 3rd wrought
Coltrane's 'Impressions', issued in 1963. A session on the
5th at the Vanguard wrought the titles, 'India' and 'Spiritual'. During
those sessions bass was performed by Reggie Workman on numerous titles, and
drums by Roy Haynes ('Chasin' Another Trane'), but Garrison,
Tyner and
Jones
would become
Coltrane's major crew for several
years. Titles from
those sessions combined would become available in 1997 on 'The Complete 1961
Village Vanguard Recordings'. A session on 6 March of 1963 resulted in 'Both
Directions at Once: The Lost Album'
[1,
2,
3,
4]
issued in 2018.
Garrison appeared on above 20 LPs with
John Coltrane, 'Ballads' appearing in
1963, also with Tyner and
Jones. His
last with
Coltrane was 'Stellar Regions' in
1967 with
Alice Coltrane on piano and
Rashied Ali on drums. In 1961 Garrison had appeared on the first two of four albums he
released with
Ornette Coleman: 'Ornette on Tenor'
(all tracks) and 'The Art of the Improvisers' (one track: 'Harlem's
Manhattan'). Garrison issued only one album as a leader, 'Illumination!', with
Jones and
Tyner in 1963. Upon the
death of
Coltrane in July 1967 Garrison had little trouble finding musicians to back
as those consisted of free-form tenor saxophonist,
Archie Shepp, who had worked
with
Coltrane since 1964, and pianist,
Alice Coltrane (Coltrane's wife),
who had appeared on
Coltrane's 'Cosmic Music' in 1966.
Another tenor with whom Garrison often worked in association with
Coltrane was
Pharoah Sanders who had
appeared on
Coltrane's 'Ascension' in 1965.
Lord's discography lists Garrison's last session on April 12 of 1975 for
Shepp's 'There's a Trumpet in
My Soul'. His own untimely death of lung cancer followed on April 7 of 1976.
Jimmy had been married to dancer, Roberta Escamilla Garrison, with whom he
produced two children, the dancer, Maia Claire Garrison, and electric bass player,
Matt Garrison [1,
2].
References for Jimmy: 1,
2,
3.
Sessions: J-Disc, Lord (152).
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4.
IMDb. Facebook
tribute. Per 1960 below,
Garrison performs on the
Curtis Fuller album, 'Blues-ette'. Jimmy Garrison 1958 From 'Blues for Dracula' Philly Joe Jones LP Drums: Philly Joe Jones Composition: Johnny Griffin Composition: Miles Davis Jimmy Garrison 1959 Composition: Philly Joe Jones Philly Joe Jones LP 'Showcase' Album w Bill Evans & Lee Konitz Jimmy Garrison 1960 From 'Blues-ette' Curtis Fuller LP Recorded 21 May 1959 Trombone: Curtis Fuller Composition: Bennie Golson Composition: Edmund Goulding/Elsie Janis Composition: Bennie Golson Composition: Curtis Fuller Composition: Sydney Robin/Charlie Shavers From 'Swing, Swang, Swingin' Jackie McLean LP Recorded 20 Oct 1959 Alto sax: Jackie McLean Composition: Jackie McLean Composition: Cole Porter Composition: Victor Schertzinger/Johnny Mercer Let's Face the Music and Dance Composition: Irving Berlin Jimmy Garrison 1962 Composition: John Coltrane Recorded in 1961 with John Coltrane Album: 'Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard' Composition: Frank Loesser John Coltrane LP 'The Paris Concert' Ornette Coleman LP Tenor sax: Coleman Pocket trumpet: Don Cherry Drums: Ed Blackwell All comps by Coleman Jimmy Garrison 1963 'Jazz Casual' television broadcast With Ted Joans Newport Jazz Festival w John Coltrane Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II Jimmy Garrison 1964 From 'Illumination!' Elvin Jones-Jimmy Garrison Sextet Featuring McCoy Tyner Recorded 8 Aug 1963 Composition: Charles Davis Composition: Prince Lasha Jimmy Garrison 1967 With John Coltrane Recorded 15 Feb '67 Issued on 'Stellar Regions' 1995 Jimmy Garrison 1971 From 'Sun Ship' John Coltrane LP Recorded 26 Aug 1965 Tenor sax: Coltrane Piano: McCoy Tyner Drums: Elvin Jones All comps by Coltrane
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Composer
and bassist,
Charlie Haden,
had been born in Shenandoah, Iowa, in 1937. Lord's disco has him singing
with his family at KMA Radio in Shenandoah at age two in 1939, his parents
folk musicians [1 (1938 radio guide),
2,
3] and associates of such as the
Carter Family and
Chet Atkins.
Haden sang w his family until stricken w polio as a teenager, having by then
developed an interest in both the double bass and jazz. Honing his skills
for the next few years, he acquired his first professional employment in
1955 as a
house musician for 'Ozark Jubilee'
[1,
2] in Springfield,
Missouri. In 1957 he headed for Los Angeles to attend the Westlake College
of Music. He first recorded with pianist
Paul Bley in
1957 ('Solemn Meditation' '58), Haden stuck with
Bley to 1958, though they would reunite
in 1989 with
Paul Motian on drums at the
Montreal International Jazz Festival for what would get issued as 'The
Montreal Tapes' in 2009. That trio reunited once again in 2000 in Milan,
Italy, for 'Memoirs'. It was with
Bley that Haden began recording with
Ornette Coleman in October
of 1958 toward
Bley's 'The Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet'.
The next year
Bley and drummer,
Billy Higgins, supported
Colemans 'Coleman Classics 1'.
Coleman would be one of Haden's
more important associates into the seventies, appearing on several
Coleman albums. 1977 saw
Coleman's 'Soap Suds/Soap Suds'.
1987 saw 'In All Languages' with Don Cherry
on trumpet and
Higgins at drums. 1987
witnessed
Coleman's 'The 1987 Hamburg
Concert' recorded in Germany on October 29. It was
Cherry on cornet and
Higgins on drums for 'Reunion'
in 1990 at the Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia, Italy, on April 24.
Another important figure came along in October of 1964 per the
Denny Zeitlin Trio with Jerry
Granelli on drums for 'Carnival'. That trio recorded 'Shining Hour' in March
of 1965 at the Trident in Sausalito, CA. It was 'Zeitgeist' in 1966, 'Time
Remembers One Time Once' in 1981, the latter a duo with Granelli out.
Another important figure was pianist,
Keith Jarrett, with whose
trio with
Paul Motian on drums 'Life
Between the Exit Signs' went down in NYC on May 4 of 1967. That trio
recorded 'Somewhere Before' at
Shelly's Manne-Hole in Los
Angeles on October 30, 1968. Haden backed
Jarrett's 'Expectations' in
April of 1972, and 'Fort Jawuh' in 1973 at the Village Vanguard in NYC.
Among projects in 1974 were 'Treasure Island' (October in Ludwigsburg,
Germany), 'Death and the Flower' and 'Backhand' (both in December in NYC).
Among projects in 1975 were 'Arbour Zena', 'Mysteries' and 'Shades'. 1976
saw such as 'The Survivors Suite', 'Eyes of the Heart' and 'Byablue'.
Jarrett and Haden reunited as
late as 2007 for the duo album, 'Jasmine'. Of major importance to Haden's
career was pianist,
Carla Bley, their first mutual
project thought to have been 'The Jazz Composers' Orchestra' in 1968.
Bley would compose, arrange,
conduct and play piano on frequent occasions for Haden's
Liberation Music Orchestra
(LMO) [1,
2,
3,
4]. Haden also appeared on
Bley's 'Escalator Over the Hill'
in '71 and 'Musique Mecanique' in 1978. Haden formed his LMO in time for its
debut recordings in April of 1969 with
Bley at piano, and Don Cherry
at cornet and flute. That witnessed issue as 'Liberation Music Orchestra' in
1970. The LMO would be Haden's main vehicle throughout his career. It was
largely a political vessel,
addressing such as the Spanish Civil War, civil rights, poverty and
apartheid. (Haden got himself arrested in Portugal while on tour with
Ornette Coleman in 1971 after dedicating a performance of 'Song for Che' to
revolutionaries in Portuguese colonies in Africa. He was released upon
Coleman's complaint to the American
Embassy.) Pianist,
Alice Coltrane, was an
important associate from 1970 to 1976. On July 4 of 1970 Haden participated
in
Coltrane's 'Isis and Osiris'
on her album, 'Journey in Satchidananda'. July of 1972 found him recording
Coltrane's 'Lord of Lords'.
August of '75 found him contributing to 'Eternity'. In 1976
Coltrane performed harp on
Haden's 'For Turiya' per his album, 'Closeness'. They reunited as late as
2004 for
Coltrane's final studio
album, 'Translinear Light', produced by her son (via
John Coltrane), saxophonist, Ravi
Coltrane. Guitarist, Pat Metheny (recording a touch too late for these
histories which cease at 1970), also figured importantly in Haden's career,
backing the former's double album, '80/81', in 1980, 'Rejoicing' in '83,
'Song X' in '85 and 'Secret Story' in '92. 1993 saw them in a quartet with
tenor saxophonist, Joshua Redman, and drummer,
Billy Higgins, for Redman's
'Wish'. They reunited in 1996 for the duo album, 'Beyond
The Missouri Sky (Short Stories)'. Metheny supported Haden's
'Nocturne' in 2000 and 'Family & Friends: Rambling Boy'
[1,
2,
3] in 2008,
the latter a return to Haden's younger years performing folk music. The
documentary directed by Rato Caruff, 'Rambling Boy', appeared the next year.
2008 had also been the year of the Universal Studios fire in Hollywood
during which master tapes by Haden and not a few other musicians were
destroyed.
Haden was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2012. Haden attended well above a
couple hundred sessions during his career. Some of the albums on which he
appeared were
Joe Pass' 'Great Motion Picture
Themes' in 1964, Nana Simopoulos' 'Wings and Air' in 1986, Rickie Lee Jones'
'Pop Pop' in 1991,
David Sanborn's 'Another Hand'
in 1991,
Toots Thielemans' 'West
Coast' in 1994 and 'Jazz 1997 CalArts' for the California Institute of the
Arts. Among other highlights were 'Jazz at the Opera House' in 1982 (on
which he also performed the solo, 'Dedication to Conrad Silvert') and the
soundtrack to 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' in 1997. Among
others to employ Haden's talents were
Yoko Ono ('68), Chet Baker
('74, '82), Tom Harrell ('89),
Abbey Lincoln ('90) and
Ginger Baker ('94). Haden died in Los Angeles
on July 11 of 2014 [obits: 1,
2]. He had put down 'Come Sunday', in 2012, a duo album of
Christian titles with pianist,
Hank Jones. References: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9.
Sessions: JDP; Lord (leading 62 of 315).
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7.
IMDb.
Interviews: NPR 2002;
Amy Goodman 2006;
Ethan Iverson 2008.
Tributes: Facebook;
NEA.
Biblio: 'Conversations with Charlie Haden' by
Josef Woodard (Silman-James Press 2016).
Further reading: Steven Cerra;
Jeffrey St. Clair.
Other profiles *.
Per 1968 below, Haden shares
bass with
Eddie Gómez on
Michael Mantler's 'The Jazz Composer's
Orchestra', two of ten bassists employed on that LP. Charlie Haden 1955 With the 'Ozark Jubilee' house band Aired 17 Sep '55 Charlie Haden 1958 Alto sax: Ornette Coleman Cornet: Don Cherry Piano: Paul Bley Drums: Billy Higgins Recorded October '58 Issues: 'The Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet' America 30 AM 6120 '71 France 'Paul Bley at the Hillcrest Club' Inner City IC 1007 '76 US Charlie Haden 1959 From 'To Whom Who Keeps a Record' Recorded 8 October '59 Alto sax; Ornette Coleman Pocket trumpet: Don Cherry Drums: Ed Blackwell (Track 1 'Music Always': Billy Higgins) All comps by Coleman Issues: Atlantic P-10085A '75 Japan Charlie Haden 1968 This track recorded Feb 1968 Vocal: Yoko Ono Issues: 'Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band' Apple SW 3373 '70 US All comps by Ono Also on bass: Eddie Gomez LP: 'The Jazz Composer's Orchestra' Production: Michael Mantler All comps by Mantler Charlie Haden 1970 From 'Liberation Music Orchestra' Recorded 27-29 April '69 NYC Composition: Carla Bley Composition: Haden Composition: Bertolt Brecht/Hanns Eisler Charlie Haden 1972 Composition: Ornette Coleman From Coleman's 'Crisis' Recorded 22 March '69 Alto sax/trumpet/violin: Coleman Tenor sax/clarinet: Dewey Redman Cornet/flute: Don Cherry Drums: Denardo Coleman Charlie Haden 1976 Alto sax: Ornette Coleman From Haden's 'Closeness' All comps by Haden Charlie Haden 1977 Composition: Don Cherry From 'Old and New Dreams' Tenor sax/suona: Dewey Redman Pocket trumpet: Don Cherry Drums/gong: Eddie Blackwell Charlie Haden 1982 Liberation Music Orchestra With the Berlin Philharmonic Charlie Haden 1989 Composition: Haden From 'The Montreal Tapes' Recorded 7 July '89 Piano: Paul Bley Drums: Paul Motian Issues: Verve 314 523 259-2 '94 US Charlie Haden 1990 Composition: Haden Liberation Music Orchestra From 'Dream Keeper' Charlie Haden 1992 Live Liberation Music Orchestra Composition: See * Charlie Haden 2002 Composition: Haden Guitar: Jim Hall Charlie Haden 2003 Guitar: Pat Metheny Filmed live Charlie Haden 2005 Composition: Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays/David Bowie Liberation Music Orchestra From 'Not in Our Name' Charlie Haden 2007 Composition: Haden Live Liberation Music Orchestra
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Charlie Haden Photo: Jos L. Knaepen Source: La Republique du Jazz |
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Ernest Ranglin Source: Music for Maniacs |
Born in 1932 in Manchester, Jamaica, guitarist
Ernest Ranglin, would become the big
daddy of a different kind of jazz fusion, not of jazz and rock, but jazz and
reggae. An autodidact, he first worked professionally in Kingston in 1948 at
hotels with the Val Bennett Orchestra. We've been unable to uncover any
earlier recording sessions by Ranglin than that mentioned in Wikipedia en
passant in 1956, 'Easy Snapping' with Theophilus Beckford. That wasn't
released until 1959. His first appearance on vinyl would otherwise appear to
be in 1958 on 'The Wrigglers Sing Calypso at the Arawak'. Tracks from that
were reissued in 2010 on a collection called 'Jamaica - Mento 1951-1958'.
Ranglin began working with the Jamaican Broadcasting System in 1958. He
played a structural part in the wee hours of reggae upon meeting young
producer, Chris Blackwell, at a club. Blackwell founded Island Records in
Jamaica in 1958 with $10,000. A stipend of nearly $3000 a year from his
mother in the UK kept him working without interruption and was apparently
used well, as Blackwell would expand his company back in the UK where he
promoted all manner of musicians through the years from Jamaican singer,
Millie Small, to the
Spencer Davis Group,
Traffic,
King Crimson,
Jethro Tull,
Grace Jones, Robert Palmer, Melissa Etheridge, ad infinitum. Ranglin's
significance per Blackwell was his appearance on four tracks of the B side of the album, 'Lance Haywood at The Half Moon Hotel', in 1958,
Island Records' debut issue. The next year Ranglin stepped aboard Clue J (Cluett
Johnson - bass) and his Blues Blasters, with which outfit he recorded
multiple titles. He directed the music for the red velvet-sleeved,
'The Jamaica Story Independence Souvenier', in 1963, a history of Jamaica
narrated by Adrian Robinson. In 1964 he issued both
'Wranglin'' and 'Reflections'. Come 'Guitar in Ernest' [1,
2] in '65. Ranglin appeared on the first of several
albums with the Jamaican ska band, the Skatalites, in 1966: 'Ska Boo-Da-Ba'.
(Ska preceded reggae in Jamaica, a mix of Afro-Jamaican, calypso and R&B.) More
significant to his career, Ranglin began working with pianist,
Monty Alexander, in the
seventies, appearing on the latter's 'Rass!' in 74.
Alexander and Ranglin would see several LPs issued together into
the new millennium. In the meantime Ranglin's 'Be What You Want To Be'
[*]
arrived in the US in 1983 on Konduko KON-1984, in the UK on 'From Kingston
J.A. to Miami U.S.A.' Vista Sounds VSLP 4008 ("J.A." faithful to label and
sleeve). The nineties brought 'Below the Bassline' [1,
2] in '96
w
Alexander. Living in Florida, Ranglin received an honorary
doctorate from the University of the West Indies in 2002. 'Rock Steady' [*]
arrived in 2004 w
Alexander at piano and
melodica. Ranglin had released 12 albums by the time the tide brought 'Surfin''
[1,
2,
3] in 2005, Ranglin leading a band of 25 members.
2006 saw the release of the documentary video, 'Roots of Reggae: The Ernest
Ranglin Story'. Ranglin became an honoree in the Jamaican Music Hall of Fame
in 2008.
Come 'Ranglin and Friends' [*] in 2009 on the Dubtonic Kru
label. Ranglin's latest of at least thirty albums were the studio endeavor, 'Bless
Up' [1,
2,
3], in 2014 and 'Ernest Ranglin at Side Door Records' in 2015.
References: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5.
Discos: 1,
2,
3,
4, Lord (leading 12 of 29 sessions).
IA.
Interviews: John Williams 1998;
Angus Taylor 2012;
Ted Drozdowski 2014;
Jimmy Leslie 2014.
Further reading: Tim Perlich.
Other profiles: 1,
2,
3,
4.
Per below, tracks to 1960 are examples of ska, from out of
which reggae developed. Ernest Ranglin 1958 Lance Haywood at the Half Moon Hotel Ranglin on tracks B1-B4 First Island Records LP Ernest Ranglin 1959 Vocals: Theophilus Beckford Composition: Beckford Recorded 1956? With Clue J & the Blues Blasters Composition: Clement “Coxsone” Dodd Ernest Ranglin 1960 With Clue J & the Blues Blasters Composition: Cluett Johnson Ernest Ranglin 1964 From 'Wranglin' Bass: Malcolm Cecil Drums: Alan Ganley Composition: Ranglin Composition: Ranglin Ernest Ranglin 1965 Album Piano: Leslie Butler Bass: Stephen Lauz Drums: Carl McLeod Ernest Ranglin 1969 From 'Boss Reggae' Composition: Harry Johnson From 'Ernie Ranglin with Soul' Composition: 1934: George Gershwin/Dubose Heywood Ernest Ranglin 1971 Composition: Ranglin/Clement “Coxsone” Dodd Ernest Ranglin 1976 From 'Ranglin Roots' Produced by Ranglin All comps and arrangements Ranglin From 'Ranglypso' Composition: Eugene McDaniels Ernest Ranglin 1996 Album Ernest Ranglin 1997 From 'Memories of Barber Mack' Composition: Ranglin Composition: Ranglin Ernest Ranglin 1998 Album Ernest Ranglin 2002 Filmed concert Ernest Ranglin 2010 Filmed in Belgium Composition: Ranglin Ernest Ranglin 2011 Filmed at People's Place Amsterdam Composition: Bob Marley Ernest Ranglin 2012 Filmed concert Filmed at the Blue Note Tokyo Piano: Monty Alexander Composition: Ranglin Ernest Ranglin 2015 From 'Ernest Ranglin at Side Door Records'
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Born in 1944 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, double bassist,
Eddie Gómez,
was raised in New York City. He began training with his instrument at age
eleven. While in high school he studied with Fred Zimmerman and played
professionally with local dance bands. He joined Marshall Brown's Newport
Youth Band (NYB) in 1959 (age fifteen) for its first performance at Carnegie
Hall, after which 'At the Newport Jazz Festival' went down on July 4 for
issue that year. (Brown had formed his first youth band in 1957 as a high
school teacher, that performing at the Newport that year. His International
Youth Band visited Newport in 1958. The band that Gomez joined consisted of
musicians in the New York region.) Gomez was also present with the NYB
in January of 1960 for 'Dance Tonight'. Day and evening performances at
another Newport concert on July 2 were recorded, archived as Wolfgang's
Vault #209, issue unknown. By the time Gomez graduated from the High School
of Music and Art to attend Juilliard he had played with
Buck Clayton, Lionel
Hampton,
Marian McPartland and
Paul Bley. In the summer of his third
year at Juilliard Gomez began jamming with Gary McFarland, followed by time
with
Gerry Mulligan. Graduating from
Juilliard in 1963, Gomez' first session to follow was on May 15, 1964, for
Montego Joe's 'Arriba!' [Lord's disco]. Keyboardist,
Chick Corea, was in on that, to later assume a strong presence in Gomez' career in
the seventies and eighties. Gomez participated in
Corea's 'The Leprechaun' ('76), 'The
Mad Hatter' ('78), 'Friends' ('78) and 'Three Quarters' ('81). In 1982
Gomez and
Corea joined Dannie Richmond for
tenor saxophonist, Bennie Wallace''s, 'Mystic Bridge'. It was a trio in
Tokyo in early 1984 with Steve Gadd at drums for Gomez' second LP, 'Gomez'.
Come Gomez' 'Next Future' in 1993. They both participated in separate
titles on Harvey Mason's 'With All My Heart' in 2004. Come
Corea's 'Further Explorations' in
2010 with
Paul Motian at drums. Returning
to the sixties, after 'Arriba' per above in '64,
Gomez joined Giuseppe Logan on October 5, 1964, toward
'The Giuseppi Logan Quartet' (ESP 1007) in 1965, bearing the titles, 'Tabla Suite',
'Dance Of Satan', 'Dialogue', 'Taneous' and 'Bleecker Partita'. 'Curve
Eleven' and 'Wretched
Saturday' were released on Logan's next album, 'More' (ESP 1013), in 1966,
recorded May of 1965. Fifteen
days after Gomez' first session with Logan he entered the studio with
Paul Bley on October 20 to record
'Barrage', released the next year (ESP 1008). Come 'Roast' (Carla Bley)
and 'Communications No 3' (Mike Mantier) for the Jazz Composer's Orchestra
at Judson Hall in NYC on December 29, 1964. 'Roast' found its way onto
'Communication' in 1966. January 17 of 1965 saw titles toward 'Call It Art'
by the New York Art Quartet released in 2013 amidst a set of five LPs with a
156-page book addressing the history of the NYAQ and its musicians. That was
followed in May per above for Logan's 'More'. Gomez was playing at the Village Vanguard
in NYC with
Gerry Mulligan's quintet where
pianist,
Bill Evans, was also gigging with his
trio.
Evans hired him,
replacing Teddy Kotick, for a tour to the West Coast to record what would
see release in 2014 as 'Live at the Penthouse Seattle'. That was with Joe
Hunt at drums. Back at the Village Vanguard it was drummer, Arnie Wise, on
July 3 for titles that would see issue in 1996 in a box set of eight CDs
called 'The Secret Sessions: Recorded at The Village Vanguard 1966-1975'.
July 19 witnessed
Mulligan's 'Something Borrowed,
Something Blue' for Limelight (Mercury subsidiary). It was a gig with
Mulligan on CBS television's
'Tonight Show' on August 6. Come
Evans's 'A Simple Matter of Conviction'
for Verve in October, his first vinyl issue with
Evans.
Evans was the major figure in
Gomez' career for the next eleven years, Gomez supporting twenty-five albums
to 'You Must Believe in Spring' in August 1977. Marty Morell was
Evans' main man on drums from 'Live at
Art D'Lugoff's Top of The Gate' ('12) in October 1968 to 'Switzerland 1975'
('90) on February 6 of '75, he to be replaced by Eliot Zigmund. Morell and
Gomez would reunite in June 1997 for Don Sebesky's tribute to
Evans, 'I Remember Bill'. Zigmund was to
play a major role in Gomez' career as well, having first joined
Evans on January 26 of '75 at the
Village Vanguard for titles that would see issue on 'The Secret Sessions'
per above in '96. Replacing Morell in Europe, Zigmund and Gomez stayed
together in
Evans' trio to 'You Must Believe In
Spring' in 1977. In the meantime Zigmund had supported Gomez' first LP as a
leader in Tokyo in a trio with Takehiro Honda (keyboards): 'Down Stretch'.
Gomez and Zigmund would reunite in trios in Denver, CO, in 1995 and 1996 for
'Live at Vartan Jazz: Stefan Karlsson Trio Vol 1' and 'Live at Vartan Jazz:
Andrei Kitaev Trio'. Well to mention here another of the more important
drummers along Gomez' path, that Steve Gadd with whom Gomez had held his
first session in 1975 for
Chick Corea's 'The Leprechaun' above.
Working together with
Corea, they also supported numerous
other operations such as vibraphonist, Mike Mainieri's, Steps Ahead in
December 1980 and pianist, Masahiko Satoh, in 1985. Along the way Gadd had
joined Gomez and
Corea for 'Gomez' in Tokyo in early
1984. Come Gomez' 'Discovery' in Tokyo the next year, 'Power Play' in
November of 1987 and 'Street Smart' in 1989. Gomez had supported 'The Gadd
Gang' in summer of 1986 and the Gadd Gang's 'Here & Now' in March of 1988.
Their last title together in the nineties was in the Manhattan Jazz Quintet
in May of 1994 for 'Concierto de Aranjuez'. A reunion in February 2002
witnessed Bob Mintzer's 'Bob Boy'. It was the Manhattan Jazz Quintet again
in 2008 for 'V.S.O.P.'. Another of the important pianists in Gomez' career
was Joane Brackeen. Along with titles in other ensembles Gomez backed
Brackeen on seven of her albums from 'Prism' in August of 1978 to 'Take a
Chance' in June 1993. Gomez has released no less than fourteen albums as a
leader or co-leader. Trios among those include 'Trio' in 1986 with Aydin
Esen (piano) and Marcello Pellitteri (drums), 'Palermo' in Italy in 1996
with Stefan Karlsson (piano) and Nasheet Waits (drums), and 'Live in Italy'
with Dado Moroni (piano) and Marco Valeri (drums) in 2010. It was the Eddie
Gomez Quintet in Italy in December 2009 that resulted in 'Per Sempre' in
2014. Duo albums by Gomez were 'Ace of the
Heart' in 2004 w pianist, Mark Kramer, 'Forever' in 2010 w pianist, Cesarius
Alvim, and 'Live at Montmartre' in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2011 w pianist, Carsten Dahl.
Lord's disco leaves Gomez with that session,
preceded by a string of duets in 2011 for pianist and vocalist, Tania
Maria's 'Tempo'. Gomez has taught
or lived as an artist in residence at several conservatories and
universities in Europe and the States. In May of 2013 he was awarded an
Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music in Valencia,
Spain. He currently serves as Artistic Director at the Conservatory of Music
of Puerto Rico and is a resident artist at Berklee [*].
Approaching 500 sessions [Lord]
during his career, among the myriad of names with whom Gomez has recorded
are Joachim Kuhn,
Hank Jones, Kimiko Itoh,
Terumasa Hino, Ernie Watts,
Paul Mousavi,
Herbie Mann,
Jeremy Steig, John Ellis and
Jimmy Cobb. References: Wikipedia,
All Music.
Gomez website.
Discos: Discogs, Lord,
RYM.
2014 interview w Chris Jisi.
Analysis/criticism:
Clay Corso.
Further reading: David Adler.
Gomez at Facebook and
Twitter.
See also 'Algorithmic Society' by the Gershevich Trio (Tapestry 2016): 1,
2.
Eddie Gómez 1965 Composition: Carla Bley Paul Bley album: 'Barrage' From 'The Giuseppi Logan Quartet' Recorded 5 Oct 1964 NYC ESP Disc 1007 Sax/oboe: Logan Piano: Don Pullen Drums: Milford Graves All comps by Logan Eddie Gómez 1966 Filmed live Drums: Alex Riel Piano: Bill Evans Music: Joseph Kosma 1945 Lyrics French: Jacques Prévert Lyrics English: Johnny Mercer 'Mantu' Bass: Reggie Johnson Gomez out 'Shebar' Bass: Reggie Johnson Gomez out 'Curve Eleven' Bass: Gomez Johnson out 'Wretched Saturday' Bass: Gomez Johnson out Alto sax all: Giuseppi Logan Piano all: Don Pullen Drums all: Milford Graves Comps all: Logan Recorded 1 May 1965 Town Hall in NYC ESP Disc 1013 Eddie Gómez 1967 Music: Sonny Rollins 1954 Lyrics: Jon Hendricks 1958 Recorded at Village Vanguard Not released until 1996: 'The Secret Sessions' Eddie Gómez 1968 LP: 'The Jazz Composer's Orchestra' Also on bass: Charlie Haden All compositions: Michael Mantler Music: Johnny Mandel 1965 Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster Recorded at Village Vanguard Not released until 1996: 'The Secret Sessions' Eddie Gómez 1976 Composition: Jan Hammer Album: 'Down Stretch' Recorded 22 & 23 Jan 1976 Tokyo Piano: Takehiro Honda Percussion: Elliot Zigmund Engineer: Elliot Zigmund Production: Kazuo Harada/Kuniya Inaoka Eddie Gómez 1990 Television broadcast Eddie Gómez 2007 Music: Bill Evans 1956 Lyrics: Gene Lees Album: 'The Boston Three Party' Piano: Chick Corea Drums: Airto Moreira Eddie Gómez 2008 Filmed live Piano: Stefan Karlsson Drums: Duduka Da Fonseca Eddie Gómez 2010 Music: Miles Davis 1959 Lyrics: Oscar Brown Jr. Filmed live in Mexico City Piano: Stefan Karlsson Drums: Rodrigo Villanueva Eddie Gómez 2013 Honorary Doctorate Ceremony Filmed at Berklee Valencia Campus Composition: Teo Ciavarella Composition: Victory Young/Ned Washington
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Eddie Gomez Photo: JZ Club Source: Global Times |
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Guitarist, Grant Green, was born in 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri, beginning his career in bars. He apparently made a trip to Chicago at age 21 to record unissued titles with organist, Tommy Dean, and vocalist, Jim Buckner, on October 23 of 1956 for Vee-Jay: 'Boogie Googie' (1 & 2), 'Ain't No Justice', 'Let Me Alone' and 'Come On'. Grant's next session may have been on an unknown date in late 1959 in Chicago toward Sam Lazar's 'Space Flight' (Parts I and II) on Cawthron 507. The year that was issued is moot, discographies differing between '59 and '60. A tentative first issue date is used in this history due to 45Cat, JDP (Jazz Discography Project), et al, and discussion at 1, 2. Albeit 'The Billboard' magazine has Cawthron 507 advertised as a new release in its 9 May 1960 issue, Armin Büttner believes that refers to a third release down the road a bit from the actual first [1, 2]. Howsoever, Tom Lord (no mention of Cawthron) otherwise gives a first certain session date of December 10 of 1959 for titles toward Jimmy Forrest's 'Black Forrest' issued in 1972 with Elvin Jones on drums. Also recorded on December 10 were titles toward Forrest's 'All the Gin Is Gone' issued in '97. Green was back in St. Louis for sessions on December 25 and February 20 at the Holy Barbarian Coffee House resulting in 'The Holy Barbarian' issued in 2012. Joining him on that were Bob Graf (tenor sax), Sam Lazar (organ) and Chauncey Williams (drums). Another trip to Chicago found Green with Lazar, on June 1 of 1960 recording 'Space Flight' again toward issue that year. Joining them on that were Willie Dixon (bass) and Chauncey Williams (drums). About that time he began touring with Lou Donaldson, getting Green deposited in New York City. He there (Englewood Cliffs, NJ) held his initial session as a leader on November 26, 1960, for Blue Note with Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Philly Joe Jones (drums). Those wouldn't see issue until 2001 on 'First Session' [*]. Come Lou Donaldson's 'Here 'Tis' on January 23 of 1961. Five days later he put down 'Grant's First Stand' [*]for issue that year with Baby Face Willette (organ) and Ben Dixon (drums). He and bassist, Wilbur Ware, joined one another on 29 August of 1961 w drummer, Al Harewood. toward 'Remembering' [*], not released until 1980. The next year he joined Herbie Hancock at piano on 21 Dec of '62 toward 'Feeling the Spirit' [1, 2]. A couple of Green's more favored releases were w Joe Henderson at tenor sax on 'Idle Moments' and 'Solid', recorded respectively in Nov of '63 and 12 June of '64. Jumping ahead into the seventies, Green recorded Wade Marcus's soundtrack, 'The Final Comedown' [*] in December 1971. 'Live at the Lighthouse' followed on 21 April 1972 in Hermosa Beach, California. Come 'The Main Attraction' in 1976 prior to Green's final of above thirty albums as a leader in 1978: 'Easy'. He collapsed of heart attack on January 31 of 1979 during a performance with George Benson at the Breezin' Lounge in NYC. Amidst the numerous Green supported along the way were Sonny Red, Don Wilkerson, Jimmy Smith, George Braith, Johnny Hodges, Don Patterson and Houston Person. Among the drummers with whom he had worked most frequently were Ben Dixon and Elvin Jones, both appearing on several of Green's LPs. Among Green's own titles on which he performed in trios were 'Green Street' in '61, 'Blues for Lou' in '63 (issued '99), 'Talkin' About' in '64 and 'Iron City' in '67 (issued '72). Grant had used Gibson guitars during his career, as well as an Epiphone Emperor and a custom D'Aquisto. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Sessions: Atushi atchan Ueda; JDP; Lord (leading 50 of 129). Discos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Compilations: 'The Best of Grant Green Vol I' 1961-64 by Blue Note 1993; 'The Best of Grant Green Vol II' 1971-72 by Blue Note 1996. YouTube. Reviews: 1, 2, 3. Instruction. Further reading: David Adler, James Martin. Biblio: 'Essential Jazz Lines in the Style of Grant Green for Guitar' by Corey Christiansen (Mel Bay 2003); 'Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar' by Sharony Andrews Green (Freeman 1999). Grant Green 1959 Saxophone: Jimmy Forrest Music: Juan Tizol/Duke Ellington 1936 Lyrics: Irving Mills Recorded Dec 1959 Issued 2007 on 'First Recordings' From 'First Recordings' From 'The Holy Barbarian: St. Louis 1959' Recorded 1959/60 Issued 2012 on UptUptown UPCD 27.68 Tenor sax: Bob Graf Organ: Sam Lazar Drums: Chauncey Williams Composition: Sam Lazar or Grant Green Composition: Johnny Green/Edward Heyman There Will Never Be Another You Composition: Harry Warren/Mack Gordon 'Space Flight' Recorded late 1959 Issued 1959 per 45Cat and JDP Organ: Sam Lazar> Composition: Sam Lazar Grant Green 1964 Composition: Duke Pearson Music: Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II Grant Green 1972 Music: Richard Rodgers LP: 'Live at The Lighthouse' Grant Green 1978
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Grant Green Source: Record Collector News |
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We suspend this Birth of Modern Jazz Strings at the cusp of the sixties with guitarist, Grant Green. |
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