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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Lennie Tristano Personal Recordings 1946-1970: The contrafacts

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(Mosaic/Dot Time MD6-272) When it comes to repertoire, in jazz there's a common device known as "contrafacts", a name coined b...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

On Oscar Pettiford's centennial

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  Oscar Pettiford in Newport, 1958 (screenshot from  Jazz on a Summer's Day ) While on April 22 we celebrated the 100th birthday of the ...
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Friday, February 4, 2022

Miles Davis: February 4th, 1958—in pictures

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On Tuesday, February 4th, 1958, at Columbia Records' studio on Manhattan's 30th St., a session was booked for the afternoon. It last...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Betty Glamann's Christmas album (and why discography matters)

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In the 1950s, when record equipment improved noticeably at the same time as engineers were becoming very experienced and cash-flow in Americ...
Saturday, July 24, 2021

Dr. Billy Taylor and "The Subject is Jazz"

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Dr. Billy Taylor ( source ) Dr. Billy Taylor (1921-2010), whose centennial we celebrate today, debuted on record in March 1945, right when t...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Bud Powell with the 'Birth of the Cool' nonet

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Bud Powell at Birdland One the many discoveries made by Peter Pullman in his definitive biography of Bud Powell is that the pianist sat in ...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

80 years ago today: the Benny Goodman-Count Basie Octet

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By the autumn of 1940, Benny Goodman had undergone his first back surgery and was already on the mend. He had put his orchestra on hold for ...
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