By ted on October 31, 2009
Five days per week, jazz.com highlights an oustanding recent track as part of its Song of the Day feature. The aim is to guide listeners through the confusing array of new CDs on the market, and direct them to superior music they …
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By Jazz on October 30, 2009
Host Marian McPartland calls Dearie an “incandescent singer and pianist” whose “delicate, swinging style makes every song a musical gem.” The vocalist and pianist died this past year of natural causes. Piano Jazz remembers her life and music in an archival interview and performance.
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By tedpanken on October 29, 2009
“F.S.R.” was one of the Ray Brown Trio’s most popular songs. The story is: It was a Milt Jackson record for Pablo called A London Bridge with Monty Alexander, Ray, and Mickey Roker, and they were recording “Doxy.” Ray, of cour…
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By ted on October 29, 2009
I can appreciate the nuances of chamber jazz or Third Stream experimentation even when the music is recorded in the sterile solitude of the studio. But the organ trio always sounds best in a live setting. Maybe a scientist will someda…
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By ted on October 28, 2009
This week marks the publication of my new book, The Birth (and Death) of the Cool. With the permission of the publisher, I am sharing an extract below. Also, note that I will be making an appearance in the Los Angeles area this Frid…
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By ted on October 28, 2009
For a music so closely associated with vice, from Storyville to the speakeasies and beyond, jazz has developed a surprisingly robust tradition of sacred music. Artists as diverse as Duke Ellington and Vince Guaraldi have recorded sacre…
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By timwilkins on October 27, 2009
Tim Wilkins, a regular contributor here, recently attended the Brooklyn Big Band Bonanza, a blowout event with so many large jazz ensembles on hand that the musicians almost outnumbered the audience. His report is below. T.G.
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By ted on October 26, 2009
I am just pleased that the label didn’t go for a cornier joke in the title. Have You Met Mr. Jones? Me and Mr. Jones? Keeping Up with the Joneses? After all, these are serious artists and among the eldest of the elder statesmen, the…
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By ted on October 24, 2009
Bill Barnes concludes his three-part article on the role of guitar in jazz below. Click here for parts one and two. T.G.
The “audience factor” can no longer be ignored. We are fast approaching a period in which jazz musi…
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By tomcunniffe on October 22, 2009
Wardell, Anita, vocals (b. Guildford, Surrey, England, August 23, 1961). One of the world’s finest scat singers, Anita Wardell is virtually unknown outside of Europe and Australia. Although born in England, her family moved to Australia…
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