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1 min read 2021-11-21 23:08:20

“LIVE AND LIVELY” (Part Two): BOBBY HACKETT, VIC DICKENSON, LOU FORESTIERI, FRANKLIN SKEETE, GEORGE HAMILTON (Detroit, August 23 and 30, 1969)

And how did you spend your Saturday evening? In September 1969, I was entering my senior year in high school, and my parents would not have

1 min read 2021-11-21 06:15:11

Care to dance, or just listen? Bobby and Vic, circa 1969-70: photographer unknown. What follows may seem almost inconceivable to musicians and

1 min read 2021-10-05 21:18:34

The jazz I grew up listening could be pure harmonic improvisation — Coleman Hawkins was a powerful example — but many of the musicians I

4 min read 2021-04-05 22:26:06

There is a good deal of history within and around the live performance you are about to hear. However, the sound is not ideal — which I will

3 min read 2021-03-27 21:21:55

I know Michel Bastide as the slender, bespectacled hot cornetist of the Hot Antic Jazz Band, a very earnest, gracious man and musician. Here he

2 min read 2021-03-24 01:35:33

Here’s a classic jazz festival / jazz party set (or at least the second part of one): it could have been a completely disconnected group of stars

2 min read 2021-03-20 23:09:43

Billie Holiday and Sidney Catlett at the Metropolitan Opera House, January 18, 1944 Here’s an extraordinarily fulfilling eighteen minutes, as if

6 min read 2021-02-22 20:24:19

Concord Academy, Concord, Mass., established 1922 for grades 9-12, enrollment less than 500 students. Surely I don’t understand upper-class

1 min read 2021-02-02 22:40:07

It’s so Nice. Here’s a group of musicians you would only see at a festival, playing “the music of Duke Ellington”: Illinois Jacquet, tenor

2 min read 2021-02-01 21:54:31

I try to avoid hyperbole, but what I present here is twelve minutes of frankly incredible music — intense swing created by six masterful

2 min read 2021-01-23 00:55:09

When the Welsh jazz pianist and composer Dill Jones (born Dillwyn Owen Paton Jones) died far too young in 1984, the New York Times obituary was

20 min read 2021-01-13 01:06:42

Bobby, listening to Vic Dickenson at Childs Paramount, October 1952 Bobby Hackett remains one of my musical heroes, and I cherish his recordings, the

1 min read 2021-01-03 12:57:23

Where it happened! The last of five splendid performances that took place at Jazz at Chautauqua, September 21, 2008, celebrating the hot music of the

2 min read 2021-01-02 13:47:43

The scene of the gorgeous music, and now, the poignant memories: Where it happened! The inspiration: The reality, as created forty-eight years

6 min read 2020-12-29 04:17:59

Yes, Billy Banks! Once I was a hero-worshipping autograph-seeker (“hound” is so dismissive). Beginning in 1967, I asked Louis, Teddy Wilson, Jo