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Tony Monaco: Over and Over

Tony Monaco: Over and Over

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

One of the most exciting Hammond B3 players today is Tony Monaco. He knows how to shake up the funk and turn it loose. He also brings enormous energy to his playing style, pouring it gleefully into the keyboard and pedals. And it's no wonder, since he came up mentored by the incomparable Jimmy Smith. Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, he also was all over local players such as Don Patterson and Hank Marr. Tony began on the accordion at ...

Recording

Johnny Lytle: People & Love

Johnny Lytle: People & Love

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Johnny Lytle was a big deal during the 1960s and early 1970s. In some respects, the vibraphonist and composer perfected an album model that inspired Creed Taylor's CTI label, combining jazz originals and jazzy interpretations of soul hits. In many respects, there isn't a bad Lytle album. One of my favorites was his interpretation of songs from the soundtrack to A Man and a Woman in 1967. Also terrific are Blue Vibes (1960), The Loop (1966), New and Groovy (1967) ...

Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 25, 2024

JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 25, 2024

Source: JazzWeek

All About Jazz publishes the weekly JazzWeek Radio Chart. Discover new releases, track chart movement, and learn what is being played on jazz radio stations in the United States. Enjoy!

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y A New Beat (Cellar Music Group) 253 248 +5 0 43 1 9 2 2 2 Dave Stryker Trio with Bob Mintzer Groove Street (Strikezone) 206 239 -33 0 40 1 10 ...

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Backgrounder: Herbie Mann - Yardbird Suite

Backgrounder: Herbie Mann - Yardbird Suite

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

By 1957, the West Coast jazz scene was firmly established and its musicians were working regularly in Los Angeles' many recording studios. The best ones worked relentlessly cranking out 12-inch LPs. The same was true of New York's jazz scene, where improvisers found themselves in strong demand by leading labels such as Blue Note, Prestige, Savoy and Riverside. That year, six of the finest New York players appeared on Yardbird Suite, an extraordinary album led by flutist Herbie Mann. Recorded ...

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Joe Henderson: Power to the People

Joe Henderson: Power to the People

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

A new jazz style emerged in the late 1960s that wasn't an extension of hard bop or free jazz. For a brief period—following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968 and the onset of fusion in the mid-1970s—a new Black power expression wrapped in pan-Africanism appeared in the works of Black journalists, books on the Black condition by Black intellectuals, folk paintings by Black artists and music by Black jazz artists. During these years you could hear ...

TV / Film

Documentary: Billie

Documentary: Billie

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

In the late 1960s, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl planned to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Beginning in 1970, she spent eight years tracking down and recording interviews with key artists and personalities who knew the singer, who died in 1959. These interviews included conversations with Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms, and Count Basie as well as Holiday's cousin, school friends, lovers, lawyers, pimps and even the FBI agents who arrested her. Kuehl's Holiday archives included interviews on ...

Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 18, 2024

JazzWeek Radio Chart: March 18, 2024

Source: JazzWeek

All About Jazz publishes the weekly JazzWeek Radio Chart. Discover new releases, track chart movement, and learn what is being played on jazz radio stations in the United States. Enjoy!

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y A New Beat (Cellar Music Group) 248 271 -23 1 44 1 8 2 2 2 Dave Stryker Trio with Bob Mintzer Groove Street (Strikezone) 239 244 -5 0 47 1 ...

Recording

Backgrounder: Sonny Stitt - Tune-Up!

Backgrounder: Sonny Stitt - Tune-Up!

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Perhaps the high points of Joe Fields's Cobblestone label were a pair of albums by Sonny Stitt released in 1972—Tune-Up! and Constellation. Both were produced by Don Schlitten. On Tunre-Up!, Stitt played alto and tenor saxophone and was accompanied by Barry Harris on piano, Sam Jones on bass and Alan Dawson on drums. What made this album (and Constellation) special was Stitt's commanding speed, clean lines and bebop fluidity. I remember buying both at Sam Goody in Manhattan that year ...


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