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• “WE’RE ONLY HERE TO HAVE FUN”

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  I celebrate Flemming Thorbye again for sharing this clip from Danish television (October 2008).  In it, Joe Muranyi talks about Louis Armstrong and plays YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE, warming up with the Scandinavian Rhythm Boys.  Joe’s candid recollections of Louis and WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD are priceless, as is the ...
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• DARK RAPTURE (AT THE EAR INN)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  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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• “TINKLE TIME,” EXPLAINED

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  Readers may recall my post about this Harry Woods song — the sheet music a recent eBay purchase whose cover has Bobby Hackett looking solemn.  The music itself came today (the melody is truly dumb) and I now understand Hackett’s expression, the face of a man wishing to be far from this song.  ...
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• Jazz Blog Special: Hazel Scott, Relaxed Piano Moods

  
  Cahl's Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog — Authority: 433
  Hazel Scotts renditions of "Like Someone in Love," "Peace of Mind" and "Lament" perfectly fit the name of a collection called "Relaxed Piano Moods." Theyre beautiful. But Id hardly call her versions of "The Jeep is Jumpin," "A Foggy Day" and Mountain Greenery" relaxed. Elegant, yes. Bluesy, certainly. Inventive, yep. ...
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• AT PLAY, WORKING HARD

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  Randy Sandke Photographer John Herr captured some fascinating portraits at the October 2009 concert of the Dick Hyman Sextet at Hamilton College, featuring Hyman, Bucky Pizzarelli, Nicki Parrott, Jackie Williams, Randy Sandke, and Evan Christopher — playing the music that they’ve practiced all their lives, ...
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• CHRIS DAWSON, SWING MASTER

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  I don’t use those words lightly.  If you’ve never heard Chris play, go immediately to the clip below: Think of delicacy and intensity in every phrase, his sound, his touch, his chord voicings — the subtlety of a great jazz musician who knows how to get inside Arthur Schwartz’s beautiful melodies while ...
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• THE ELUSIVE MR. WILSON

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  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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• TENOR MADNESS (Hanna, Phil, and Tom)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  If you saw the title and assumed that this was a Sonny Rollins tribute band, get that thought right out of your head.  As much as I admire Rollins, the tenor saxophone is sufficiently well-established in jazz so that it doesn’t need the extra publicity. No, TENOR MADNESS looks like this: I’m only sorry that ...
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• THE SPIRIT OF LOUIS, 2009

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  Deep thanks to my fellow jazz cinematographer, Flemming Thorbye — http://www.thorbye.net  – who took his video camera to the Kulturhus Brønden, Brøndby Strand, Denmark, on October 25, 2009, to capture three songs by the Scandinavian Rhythm Boys with Joe Muranyi as their esteemed guest star.  The SRB ...
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• BOBBY HACKETT, 1939

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  I paid a visit to eBay not long ago to search for my usual favorites, among them Bobby Hackett.  The expected records and compact discs were all there, but this was new: Stops you cold, doesn’t it? Reader, I bid on it.  And now it’s MINE!  (Awaiting delivery, mind you, but I am a patient fellow.)  I ...
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• MR. TOBIAS COMES ON!

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  THE BRONZE MESSENGER, by Ericka Midiri I’m very happy to report that cornetist Danny Tobias has finally come out with his own CD, aptly called CHEERFUL LITTLE EARFUL – a subtle trio session, intimate yet propulsive. I was fortunate enough to write the very brief notes for the CD: Danny Tobias is an ...
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• MONK, KNOWN AT LAST

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  I’m only up to page 138 — which is the year 1948 — in Robin D.G. Kelley’s monumental THELONIOUS MONK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL (Free Press, 2009, 588 pages) but I had to write something about this book now rather than waiting sedately until I finish it.  Kelley doesn’t need my ...
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• PERFECT YOUR SWING!

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  When Dan Barrett was in New York City — playing exquisitely — he offered me a flyer for the July 5-11, 2010, workshop detailed below.  It’s very exciting — the chance for the amateur musicians all around the world to perfect their jazz skills in the old-fashioned way, by learning from the Masters.  My ...
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• CHARLES PETERSON’S GENEROUS ART, 1942

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  The photographs Charles Peterson took offer magic windows into places and emotions we would otherwise never experience.  Here’s what he captured on a truly magical afternoon in 1942, shared with us through the generosity of his son, Don. It’s a jam session – hardly unusual for Peterson — but this is no ...
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• CHARLES PETERSON: HACKETT and RUSSELL

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  To have the man you consider one of the greatest photographic artists capture your heroes at work and play . . . what could be better? I am happy to present three of Charles Peterson’s on-the-spot portrait studies of Bobby Hackett and Pee Wee Russell in their native habitat.  Hackett met Russell when Bobby was ...
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• HOORAY FOR HANNA!

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  The singer Hanna Richardson is one of our hidden treasures — lightly swinging, earnest without being over-serious, matching her mood to the song.  I’ve most often heard her alongside bassist Phil Flanigan (her husband), guitarist Chris Flory, and others of equal stature.  Here she is, cheerfully sweeping away ...
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• Jazz Blog Special: Stan Getz, West Coast Jazz

  
  Cahl's Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog — Authority: 433
  I love virtually all of Stan Getzs recordings from the mid-50s. My favorite, though, is probably "West Coast Jazz." The 1955 release features West coast jazz, East coast style ... cool jazz with some heat. Drummer Shelly Manne, bassist Leroy Vinnegar, pianist Lou Levy, and trumpeter Conte Candoli — all East ...
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• GIFTS FROM AGUSTIN

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  Agustin Perez Gasco is the sole proprietor of the wondrous blog MULE WALK AND JAZZ TALK.  Its website’s name,  http://thereisjazzbeforetrane.blogspot.com ., says a good deal about his ideological bent, one that I certainly share.  I am convinced that Agustin is the sorcerer of jazz paper — newspaper ...
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• PERFECT!

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  The Perfect image (1932) below is a generous gift from Rob Rothberg, who has a collection that Philip Larkin would envy and a sensibility that Larkin would (at least in its more historical moments) share.   This label always cheers me, because of the two figures (Arabic?  Indian?  Pre-Colombian?) at top who ...
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• HOT JAZZ: FOR PHILIP LARKIN

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  The poet and acerbic jazz lover Philip Larkin wrote in ALL WHAT JAZZ (his collected jazz criticism) that he had spent his life waiting for a reissue of the 1932 sides issued under various permutations — mostly THE RHYTHMAKERS — featuring Henry “Red” Allen, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, Fats Waller, Frank ...
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