The Rightful King of Swing
The King of Swing in the 1930s wasn’t Benny Goodman or Count Basie. It was Chick Webb. The drummer fielded, managed and drove one of the best dance bands in the country and held court at New York’s Savoy Ballroom, at 596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets in Harlem. Webb’s band was built […]
Jua Howard’s Best Jazz Albums Of 2024 article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Year in Review » Jua Howard’s Best Jazz Albums Of 2024 I’m elated to share my first “Best Jazz Albums” list since joining the All About Jazz family. There has truly been some extraordinary music released this year that’s repeatedly reminded me why I love this incomparable art form. Here […]
At The Renaissance album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Ben Webster: At The Renaissance ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Scott Hamilton first came up in the 1980s, his style was so, well, unusual, that a live audience would sometimes tentatively ask “Ben Webster?” Whether Hamilton regarded that as a complimentit wasor the musicological equivalent of “Play Melancholy Baby for […]
The Musical Evolution of Billie Davies article @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Catching Up With » The Musical Evolution of Billie Davies Miles Davis has been my greatest inspiration in my life as a professional musician and musical artist. Drummer ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Billie Davies‘ journey began in the north of Europe in coastal Belgium where she was born and […]
Aurora’s Dream Waltz by Simon Deeley
Home » Music » Song of the Day From the album Buy Album Album Title: String Rise Azure TracesLabel: Self ProducedReleased: 2023 Duration: 00:56:19 Listen Sign in to view listen count About the Album This track is from the 2023 album ‘String Rise Azure Traces’ by Simon Deeley. It is an atmospheric, evocative track which, […]
Don Pullen Musician – All About Jazz
Don Pullen developed an extended technique for the piano and a strikingly individual style, post-bop and modern, but retaining a strong feeling for the blues. He produced acknowledged masterworks of jazz in a range of formats and styles, crossing and mixing genres long before this became almost commonplace. By chance, unfortunately for his future commercial […]
Jazz news: Glenn Miller: Holiday Season Radio Broadcasts
There’s something about Glenn Miller’s holiday broadcasts that seem timeless. Miller, of course, fronted two bands: His stateside orchestra from 1938 to early fall 1942 and then his Army Air Force Band from the late fall of 1942 to December 1944, when he perished over the English Channel flying from London to Paris. The latter […]
Freddy Gardner – b. 1910
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Dorothy Fields, The Only Major Female Songwriter Of The Golden Age article @ All About Jazz
Whenever there’s a discussion of the great songwriters of the Golden Age of popular music (1920s to 1960s), we hear the names Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, Frank Loesser, George Gershwin, and a few others. You don’t very often hear names Yip Harburg, PF Webster, Johnny Burke, Sammy Cahn, […]
Julia Danielle album review @ All About Jazz
Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Julia Danielle: Julia Danielle ” data-original-title=”” title=””>Julia Danielle is a young Chicago-based singer whose debut album shows considerable promise. Aside from a limpid contralto voice, good time, and a dead-on resemblance in profile to Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (it cannot hurt), she is the epitome of effortlessness […]