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Category Archives: Jazz

February 22, 2019

The Most Famous Record You Have Never Heard Of (Or The Most Obscure Record You Have Heard A Hundred Times)

Jazz, Life, music 1947, 1948, 1949, Billboard, Bones, brother, Brown, Cashbox, Davis, Famous, Freeman, Georgia, Globetrotters, Hammond, Harlem, Novachord, record, recording, song, Sweet, Sweet Georgia Brown, Tempo, theme, TR 652A, Whistling Sam 24 Comments J P
February 1, 2019

Battle Of The Bands – Miller vs. Goodman and Two Strings Of Pearls

Jazz, music 1941, 1942, 78, band, Benny, big, Columbia, Glenn, Goodman, Gray, jazz, Jerry, Mel, Miller, music, Of, Orchestra, Pearls, Powell, radio, record, rpm, String, Victor 15 Comments J P
November 23, 2018

Fire Meets Ice: Wherein King Kole And Kenton Kollaborate Under An Orange Colored Sky

Jazz, music 1950, Capitol, Cole, Colored, jazz, Kenton, King, music, Nat, Orange, Pete, Records, Rugolo, Sky, Stan 21 Comments J P
October 12, 2018

Fryin’ Fish – Is It Jazz Or Rock & Roll?

Jazz, music 1949, 5, boogie, Decca, fish, Five, Fry, Is, jazz, Jordan, jump, Louis, night, rock, roll, Saturday, saxophone, Tympany, vocal, You 11 Comments J P
August 3, 2018

Sarah Vaughan’s Black Coffee – Simply Divine

Jazz, music 1949, black, coffee, Columbia, Divine, jazz, Sarah, Sassy, singer, smooth, sultry, Vaughan, Vaughn, vocal 15 Comments J P
June 8, 2018

Jazz Goes Modern: Dizzy Gillespie – Salt Peanuts (1945)

Jazz, music 1945, AL, bebop, bop, Byas, Catlett, Charlie, Clyde, Curley, Dizzy, Don, Gillespie, Guild 1003A, Haag, Hart, January, Manne, Manor 5000A, May, Oscar, Parker, peanuts, Pettiford, Russell, salt, Salted, Shelly, Sydney, Trummy, young 15 Comments J P
April 27, 2018

President Meets King: Wherein Lester Young and Nat Cole Both Rule

Jazz, music 1942, Back, bass, Callender, Can't, Cole, Get, home, Indiana, King, Lester, Los Angeles, Nat, piano, president, Prez, red, sax, saxophone, Started, tenor, trio, young 19 Comments J P
February 16, 2018

Basie Plays Cute

Jazz, music 1958, Basie, brass, Count, flute, Frank, Hefti, jazz, Jerry, Lewis, music, Neil, Payne, Roulette, saxophone, Sinatra, Sonny, Wess 13 Comments J P
December 15, 2017

Carols For Christmas – Two Albums That Have More In Common Than You Might Think

Faith, Jazz, music 1961, 2016, Apostles, Benedictine, carol, carols, Christmas, Claus, Ephesis, holiday, jazz, Kenton, Mary, music, progressive, Queen, Santa, Sisters, Stan, tradition, traditional 17 Comments J P
October 20, 2017

A Sweetie By Jean Goldkette – A Sample From The Jazz Age

Jazz, music 20s, age, banjo, bass, Beiderbecke, Bill, Bix, Brown, clarinet, cornet, Dorsey, Goldkette, Gonna, jazz, Jean, Jimmy, Joe, My, Newell, Now, Rank, roaring, saxophone, See, speakeasy, Steve, Sweetie, Trank, Trumbauer, Venuti, Victor, Wilcox 8 Comments J P

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