Oct 5, 2021 3:27 PM
Benny Golson: Fortunate Whispers
If you make it to 80 and still are at the top of your game, you’re one lucky guy.
All you have to do is look…
In addition to making significant contributions to the jazz canon’s batch of standards, saxophonist Benny Golson appeared in a pair of films and was photographed in “A Great Day In Harlem.”
Oct 5, 2021 3:27 PM
If you make it to 80 and still are at the top of your game, you’re one lucky guy.
All you have to do is look…
Tomasz Stańko
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In 1993, four years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, Poland’s most prominent jazz…
Count Basie (1904–1984)
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The following discussion took place on a Sunday afternoon in Count Basie’s dressing room during the recent Jazz…
Benny Goodman
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Lena Horne
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Somewhere in the background, by the piano in the living room, Lennie Hayton sat with coffee in hand, filling the air…
Tony Williams
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Tony Williams erupted onto the jazz scene in 1963 as a 17-year-old prodigy with a full-blown, volcanic style of…
Dexter Gordon (1923–1990)
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When Dexter Gordon won the Tenor Saxophone category in the 1971 DownBeat Critics Poll, the honor could hardly be…
Claudio Roditi (1946–2020)
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During a performance you usually see Claudio Roditi adjusting a mic to position one of his brass instruments—the…
Gil Evans (1912–1988)
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Among jazzmen, particularly player-writers, Gil Evans is uniquely admired.
“For my taste,” Miles Davis says,…
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)
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NEW YORK—I have interviewed Thelonious Sphere Monk.
It’s not like having seen Pinetop spit blood or delivering…
