American Composer Jay Weigel has been hard at work in recent months setting his Mass for Pope John Paul ll The Great to disc for MCG...

To a man as sluggardly as myself, Leonard Feather's industry seems almost criminal. Hot upon the heels of The New Yearbook of Jazz, which...

The three Duke Ellington numbers are, as you might expect, interpreted very much in the style of the original performances. With only a...

They called Louis Armstrong "Satchmo", "The Great Fun-Man of Jazz", and "King Louis". He was an institution in the world of popular...

Dating from 1978, this must be one of the earliest of Marian McPartland's musical conversation programmes from US National Public Radio....

The arts have all become a trifle more mixedup than they used to be, their edges no longer cut quite so clearly. Jazz is certainly no...

South Rampart Street Parade (The Sunadronaires): These Foolish Things (George Shearing): Barefoot Blues (Jazz Club presented by Mark...

During my editorship of Jazz News, a long defunct weekly mainly noteworthy for spectacular misprints, a bearded, desperately earnest...

It seems not to be generally known in Britain that quite a few eminent jazz guitarists originally started out playing Country and Western...

Although falling into the booklet category, Ernest Borneman's "A Critic Looks At Jazz "' goes further towards achieving a fair summing up...

The three remarkable Heath brothers — bassist Percy, saxophonist Jimmy and drummer Albert (known to the jazz world as 'Cootie') — are...

Herbie Mann has had a long and successful career within jazz, and a large part of the reason for that success has been the twin abilities...

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Lennie Tristano Quartet ""Progression (Tristano) (Am. Jazz Record Corner 3) ****Retrospec:ion (Tristano) (Am. Jazz Record Corner 4)...

Floyd Bean (piano), Bud Jacobson (clarinet), Boyce Brown (alto saxophone) . . Names to conjure with ? If you agree, Dad, then you are...

Mulliganesque )Graas( (a( ; My Buddy (Donald son) (c) ; 614 And Even (Grass) (b); Charleston (Johnson) (1); Rogeresque (Grass) (g); Jazz...

This is spasm-skiffie music as it was played in 1925, rather faintly recorded but most appealing in spite of that—perhaps even because...

Although Gershwin always intended Rhapsody in Blue for piano with small jazz-slanted ensemble—the manuscript being headed "for jazz...

(a) (Am. Okeh 81518b), (b) (do. 81519b), (c) (do. 81520a)—Beiderbecke (cornet); Dos Murray (CU); Bill Rank (lab); Frank Signorelli...

Stan Tracey's "Jazz Suite" based on Under Milk Wood and released in 1965 is one of the best ever British jazz records. The quartet that...