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• JAZZ TREASURES IN CYBERSPACE

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  I spend more than enough time in front of the computer (my neck can testify to this) but I’ve recently encountered two websites that might prove promising for jazz fanciers.  One, Wolfgang’s Vault, initially awakened all my snobbery: lips that touch Black Sabbath will never touch mine.  And I’m not terribly ...
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• 1959 Newport Jazz Festival

  
  Potrzebie — Authority: 482
  Streaming of the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival begins today with Joe Williams, Count Basie, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross! For previous LH&R posts here, click on "vocalese" in the labels below. Just as the Basie set had built to an ecstatic peak, Williams introduces special guests Lambert, Hendricks and ...
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• DARK RAPTURE (AT THE EAR INN)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  My title comes from a 1939 Count Basie Decca record featuring sweet Helen Humes, wondrous Lester Young, odd lyrics, and a difficult arrangement that Jo Jones said that gave the band trouble.  But this post is about the DARK RAPTURE found Sunday nights at the Ear Inn (326 Spring Street, 8-11 PM) when Jon-Erik ...
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• Todd Schefflin Performs With Frank Wess: 11/08/09

  
  Knickerbocker Village — Authority: 140
  Todd, pictured on the left above, performed with the great Frank Wess at William Patterson College. Saxophonist/flutist Frank Wess, a longtime featured soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra for more than a decade, brings his powerful solo voice and his well-known arrangements to the stage as he joins forces with ...
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• THE ELUSIVE MR. WILSON

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  Although I have tried to hear all the recordings Teddy Wilson ever made over more than half a century, the man himself was harder to find.  True, I did hear him in person several times at Newport Jazz Festival concerts in New York City, once at the Highlights in Jazz concert series, at The New School (alongside ...
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• Jump Jump Jump

  
  SqueezeMyLemon — Authority: 432
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• JOE WILLIAMS WITH THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA (FLAC+CUE+LOG+Scans@300DPI)

  
  Scoredaddy's — Authority: 424
  Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (1955-56) Joe Williams debut as the featured vocalist in Count Basies band was one of those landmark moments that even savvy observers dont fully appreciate when it occurs, then realize years later how momentous an event they witnessed. Williams brought a different presence ...
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• WRITE NOW!

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  The American novelist William Maxwell (1908-2000), who wrote searchingly and lovingly about his Illinois childhood, told an interviewer late in life that if people didn’t write down what they remembered, so many beautiful things would vanish forever.  Maxwell was right, and I am reminded of this now more than ...
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• On This Date (October 17, 2007) Teresa Brewer

  
  The Music's Over — Authority: 484
  Teresa Brewer (Born Theresa Breuer)May 7, 1931 – October 17, 2007With some 600 recorded songs to her name, Teresa Brewer was one of America’s most prolific singers of the 1950s.  Brewer began singing and dancing as early as two years old on various radio amateur shows.  She was well at it when at just 12 [...]
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