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<title>Dave Brubeck</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With his unique piano style and songwriting abilities, Dave Brubeck earned the respect of such lofty peers as Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Cecil Taylor. During much of his career the jazz snobs have been less kind, but they're coming around to the fact that this snubbing was never really about Brubeck's music. As a matter of fact, most of the negative jazz press he received was due to the fact that Brubeck found fame and fortune by taking jazz from the nightclub to the college campus, and because he openly embraced avant-garde classical structure in his pieces. The fact that Brubeck made it onto the cover of <I>Time</I> before Armstrong or Ellington didn't help, but Brubeck's career is clearly long overdue for a re-evaluation. Whether playing lyrical standards, composing complex extended works or jamming with his peers, Brubeck has always taken the artistic high road and done it his way. He shared a special bond with his sublime sax player Paul Desmond, and their tune "Take Five" from his milestone album <I>Time Out</I> became a surprise hit single and remains a standard to this day.
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<title>Chet Baker</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Chet Baker, more than ten years after his mysterious death, is more popular than ever. Baker was an extremely handsome young man and this, coupled with his reckless, drug-addled life, earned him the tag the James Dean of Jazz. But even after he lost his looks, Baker's trumpet and vocals continued to spellbind. Jazz snobs like to forget that Charlie Parker chose Baker to be his West Coast foil or that it was Dizzy Gillespie who talked Baker into returning to the trumpet in the '70s after his teeth were knocked out. Baker hit the big time at a very young age, with Gerry Mulligan's groundbreaking piano-less quartet that made a name for West Coast jazz. Baker's trumpet style owed a lot to Miles Davis (though, Baker never used a mute and was ashamed when he beat out Clifford Brown in jazz polls) and his pleasant, thin vocals were just as introspective and well-phrased.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Julie London</title>
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<category>Pop Standards</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Vince Guaraldi</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:07:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You love Vince Guaraldi's piano jazz whether you know it or not. Guaraldi wrote and performed the delightful scores for the <I>Peanuts</I> cartoons. This San Francisco native added his hard hitting yet sensitive piano skills to Cal Tjader's Latin Jazz band after a stint with the great Woody Herman. Guaraldi's keyboard style mixed the beauty of Bill Evans' melodic explorations with Horace Silver or Ramsey Lewis' crowd pleasing funkiness. He formed his own trio and had a Top-40 hit with "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" in 1963. His sublime work on the <I>Peanuts</I> television specials got no finer than on <I>A Charlie Brown Christmas</I>, which brings a touch of bittersweet tenderness to holiday cheer. Though he died young at the age of forty-seven in 1976, Guaraldi had already made his musical mark.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Mel Torme</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The bobby socks generation knows him as the Velvet Fog for his light, smoky voice. The children of television recognize him from appearances on <I>Night Court</I> and <I>Sienfeld</I>. Jazz fans know Mel Torme as the singer who best exemplified the Cool West Coast sound. A child prodigy, Torme entered show biz at the age of three. A short stint as a big band drummer left him with a firm grasp of complex rhythms and he enjoyed a brief period as a crooning teen idol in the 1940s (film roles included). During the 1950s, Torme began a collaboration with arranger/pianist Marty Paich, and together they brought the Miles Davis/Gerry Mulligan "Birth of the Cool" sound to popular music on a series of classic albums. These remain his finest recordings, but Torme was popular during the '80s, where sold-out concert crowds were dazzled by his high-flying scat abilities and razor wit. Torme also wrote many songs, including the standard "Stranger in Town," penned when he was fifteen years old, as well as "The Christmas Song" ("...chestnuts roasting on an open fire").
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Cal Tjader</title>
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<category>Afro-Cuban Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cal Tjader, the mild-mannered Clark Kent of jazz, became Superman onstage. He combined cool West Coast jazz with Latin rhythms in such a way that pleased both general and jazz publics. Tjader began as a drummer and vibes player with Dave Brubeck and while in New York with George Shearing, he began going to Latin clubs. He sat in with Tito Puente in San Francisco and the audience reaction was so positive that they played to SRO crowds for weeks. Tjader's Mambo albums on Fantasy sold much better than his straight jazz records (e.g. his work with Stan Getz, as well as his own quartet dates). But regardless of the setting he was a fine soloist whose vibe work recalled that of Milt Jackson. In the mid-60s, Tjader began to experiment with his sound, delving into small group, Big Band and even Asian/Latin jazz. From this period, "Soul Sauce" remains one of only a handful of jazz hit singles to ever hit the marketplace. When he died during a concert in 1982, Cal Tjader was at the height of his powers
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Gerry Mulligan</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With his white sidewalls crewcut and short-sleeved shirts, Gerry Mulligan was a 50s icon. Mulligan's pianoless quartet with Chet Baker caused an immediate sensation in 1952 and put West Coast Jazz on the map. Mulligan had already been working on his trademark relaxed, Cool Jazz sound with his arrangements for Claude Thornhill and Miles Davis. Besides his writing skills, Mulligan's mastery of the baritone sax had much to do with his success. In most hands, the deep, throaty instrument can sound like a baby tuba, but Mulligan treated the beast like the kind of tenor sax that Ben Webster played. He employed that fluid style with his equally influential quartets, tentets, and big bands. He died in 1996, still at the height of his powers, after complications from minor knee surgery (he was an avid runner). Undeniably, one of the true giants of jazz.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Paul Desmond</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:12:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Paul Desmond was widely quoted as saying that he wanted his saxophone to sound like a dry martini. That quote could apply to the man himself: he was urbane, witty, sophisticated, and the music he made was intoxicating. San Francisco native Desmond hit the big time with pianist Dave Brubeck, forming an unbeatable musical team in which his incredible improvisatory sax flights remained lyrically and emotionally grounded, while Brubeck applied advanced musical theory on the keys. Desmond wrote "Take Five" in order to have a smoke during the drum solo, and it became a surprise hit single that remains a jazz standard to this day. He went on to record a series of stellar albums with guitarist Jim Hall, Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker. Desmond later died of lung cancer, but not before donating all "Take Five" royalties to the International Red Cross.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Art Pepper</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Art Pepper may not be a recognizable figure to the general public, but he is a bright shining star in the jazz world. Pepper, of San Pedro, California was a child prodigy who fell in love with the music of Lester Young. As a teen, he was featured in Lee Young's (Lester's brother) band and with the great Benny Carter. Segregation forbade his touring with them so he joined Stan Kenton's group and quickly became a featured soloist. Pepper shared Stan Getz's good looks and an ability to fit into any musical situation yet retain his own voice, and became an in-demand session player and a solo star. Heroin claimed Pepper for well over a decade and he spent a substantial part of his life in and out of jail and recovery homes. In the '70s he picked his career up and released a string of excellent albums showing a new, tougher style. His biting autobiography, "Straight Life," is closer to literature than the usual celebrity tell-all; it may be the most self-critical, least flattering autobiography ever written.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Stan Kenton</title>
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<category>Big Band</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Stan Kenton led one of the most successful big bands from the end of the Swing era through the counterculture revolution of the 1960s. Kenton's vision was unique and he often favored bombast and experimentation over the pulse of Swing. Oddly, the musicians he hired were the swingin'est around. Art Pepper, Anita O'Day, Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers, Maynard Ferguson, June Christy and countless others all became stars with Kenton and went on to successful solo careers. If pretension often got the best of him, much of Kenton's music was great. Songs like "23 Degrees North - 82 Degrees West," -- which incorporated Latin rhythms without conga drums -- are still amazingly vital, while such albums as <I>City of Glass</I> remain cutting edge Third Stream works. Kenton's reputation suffered at the hands of latter day critics who complained that his music wasn't "black" enough. Today, people are waking up to the fact that his music was special because it sounded like no one else's.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Zoot Sims</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:40:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Besides having just about the coolest jazz name imaginable, John "Zoot" Sims never blew a false note. Part of the Lester Young-inspired West Coast school, Sims swung with constant abandon while managing to keep the trademark relaxed Cool approach. Sims hit the big time in the late '40s as one of Woody Herman's Four (sax) Brothers, and from there led his own groups and worked with just about every big band, Cool jazz artist and vocalist on the jazz landscape, including Benny Goodman, Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald. Finally in 1953, Gerry Mulligan tapped Sims as lead soloist in his own progressive take on the Big Band sound. After 1956, Sims led his own groups (often with the like-minded sax of Al Cohn) and continued to add his talents to many sessions until his death in 1985.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Barney Kessel</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:00:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Following the death of Charlie Christian and prior to the rise of Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel was <I>the</I> jazz guitarist, and like nearly every other jazz guitarist, he used Christian's advances as a template. Kessel was a strong improvisor blessed with a deep sense of Swing, yet he still consumed the idioms of Bop and Cool whole. He could jam endlessly or build upon slow ballads, letting his notes drift in the air. Kessel dominated the jazz polls throughout the Â50s and early Â60s, and was a major figure in the West Coast jazz scene of the era. A studio mainstay, he played with practically every big name on the map: Oscar Peterson, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, and Frank Sinatra, to name a few. Kessel could work with each of these artists without ever altering or losing his own voice Â- he was the chameleon who didn't need to change colors to fit in.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Shelly Manne</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Shelly Manne was <i>the</i> jazz drummer in Los Angeles during the 1950s and '60s. A constant innovator, he was a major part of the West Coast Cool movement but was just as good at leading Hard Bop ensembles. Unlike many other tub thumpers, Manne always aimed to make great ensemble music rather than show off on the skins. A busy sideman, he was featured on most of Henry Mancini's Big Band recordings, and was shown to good advantage on episodes of <i>Peter Gunn</i>. He recorded in a variety of contexts but hit pay dirt with a trio he led with Andre Previn. Their reworking of <i>My Fair Lady</i> sold very well and kick-started other jazzmen into doing entire scores of hit shows. The city of Los Angeles actually dedicated an inscribed manhole cover to him. Rarely have tax dollars gone to such a worthy undertaking.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Bobby Troup</title>
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<category>Pop Standards</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:22:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Harry "Sweets" Edison</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:40:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sweets Edison earned his moniker from Lester Young when they
played together in Count Basie's band. A mainstay of the Swing
generation, Edison's economical, perfectly phrased trumpet sound fit in with Bop and West Coast Cool (where Edison became a studio powerhouse after being
handpicked by Frank Sinatra as his main soloist in the early 50s).
Sweets recorded a sterling set of albums on his own, but is best
known for his work with Sinatra, Charlie Parker, Nat Cole, Ben Webster, Quincy
Jones, Ella Fitzgerald and just about every other big name in
mainstream jazz. A great raconteur, Sweets has brightened up countless jazz documentaries and oral histories.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Paul Smith (jazz piano)</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:39:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not to be confused with Paul Smith the jazz pianist, this Paul Smith plays old-timey Bluegrass with soul. His instrumental bits display a man who puts feeling into a genre that often comes off as technical and mechanical.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Chico Hamilton</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Jimmy Rowles</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:20:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jimmy Rowles makes great artists sound even better. His pianos crisp, relaxed combination of Swing and Bop made Rowles a staple of the West Coast Jazz scene in the '40s, '50s and '60s. Rowles played regularly with name bands, musicians, and singers such as Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Peggy Lee and Henry Mancini, and rarely got a chance to shine on his own. All that changed when he moved to New York in 1973. Though he continued to work with peers like Stan Getz and Ella Fitzgerald, he started recording prolifically under his own name. His tune The Peacocks has become a standard and was featured in the film <I>Round Midnight</I>. Rowles, a powerful vocalist and stalwart ivory tinkler, was jazz vocalist Diana Kralls teacher and she spreads his Gospel wherever she goes.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Lennie Niehaus</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:25:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Marty Paich</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:34:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Teddy Edwards</title>
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<category>Hard Bop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:14:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Teddy Edwards and Dexter Gordon recorded a cutting contest called ÂThe DuelÂ in 1948. It ended in a draw. Edwards is one of the finest tenor sax players ever and has played with such diverse artists as Milt Jackson, Tom Waits, Jimmy Smith, and Mel Torme. His real talent, however, has been in leading his own groups and he has been doing so for five decades now. He decided to stick with Los Angeles instead of moving to the Big Apple and it has cost him in name recognition. But it hasn't lessened his talent or drive, which remain intact while most of his contemporaries have now retired -- to rest homes or final resting places.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Hampton Hawes</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[President Kennedy reaffirmed his position as our hippest Commander In Chief by personally pardoning Hampton Hawes from a prison term in the early 60s. A Bop phenom, Hawes was a mainstay of L.A.s Central Avenue jazz scene, playing like Bud Powell while still in high school. He quickly became respected as a unique stylist with his rapid-fire, yet fluid, keyboard assaults; by the mid-60s, his approach to ballads was just as fresh. Hawes led his own groups (Charles Mingus took orders from him!) and played with Shorty Rogers, Dexter Gordon, and Sonny Rollins, among others.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Victor Feldman</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Howard Roberts</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:21:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Roberts' considerable guitar talent can be heard on countless studio sessions, but when given a chance, he easily proves his jazz skill on solo dates. His fiery Bebop lines seamlessly float over slow ballads and hot, up-tempo Swing.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Mary Stallings</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:38:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you are a fan of vocalists run, don't walk, to the music of jazz singer Mary Stallings. Always sophisticated, she marries the cool feel of Carmen McRae with the blues heat of Nancy Wilson. Even with pushes from Cal Tjader and Billy Eckstine, Stallings had a hard time getting recognition beyond her San Francisco home and she was barely recorded during the 1960s and '70s. Luckily, her talents and determination endured and she is now part of the Concord Jazz roster. Her albums on that label are a must, featuring a perfect mix of standards and lesser-known tunes. Finally, after decades, Stallings' talent and hard work are beginning to pay off, and her live dates and album sales are now better than they've ever been. Stallings' daughter is Adriana Evans, a sultry Neo-Soul singer who continues the family tradition by singing better than current chart toppers.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Shorty Rogers</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:55:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Shorty Rogers was an agile trumpet player with a light and always swinging style, but his largest contributions to jazz came from his wondrous arranging and composing abilities. The Giants, his popular West Coast ensemble, kept fluctuating from a small group to a mid-sized outfit to a full big band, and his music was featured in such quintessential 1950s films as <I>The Wild Ones</I> and <I>The Man With the Golden Arm</I>. He had a rare instrumental hit single in 1962 with "Martians, Go Home" but by the middle of that decade, Rogers had abandoned jazz for full-time studio and movie work. In 1983 he returned to his first love, playing and recording regularly until his death in 1994.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Terry Gibbs</title>
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<category>Bebop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:07:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you love the music you've heard on <i>The Regis Philbin Show</i>, you're sure to dig Terry Gibbs' vibe-heavy swing orchestra. Gibbs was formerly the music director for Philbin's program.
- Charles Hodgkins]]></description>
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<title>Joanie Sommers</title>
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<category>Pop Standards</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Bill Perkins</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:35:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Jimmy Giuffre</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:50:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Buddy Collette</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:50:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Pete Jolly</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:49:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Bud Shank</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:35:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bud Shank's footprints on jazz and popular music are far deeper than his name recognition with the general public. Shank was part of the L.A.'s West Coast scene in the 50s and his sly sax sound was alive with a breezy sense of swing. Shank also brought his flute along to sessions and really put that instrument on the map in jazz and popular music. In 1953, he got together with guitarist Laurindo Almeida and their album of Cool/Brazilian music was a great inspiration to the young Antonio Carlos Jobim and the creation of Bossa Nova. Since his salad days, Shank's sound has gotten increasingly more aggressive and experimental, and he now sounds more like an angry young man than a sentimental senior.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Jack Sheldon</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jack Sheldon is one of the great jazz trumpet players. Besides leading his own groups, he was a busy session player with just about every West Coast musician and vocalist and on a series of Tom Waits records. He mastered the cool approach of Miles Davis and Chet Baker but was always more of a free-wheeling swinger and he excelled at Hard Boppers. He is a very funny performer, often singing and doing ribald monologues, and for a time he even had his own sitcom in the '60s. His latest recordings on the Concord label hold up to his best work of four decades ago.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Curtis Counce</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:50:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Frank Rosolino</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:40:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Trombonist Frank Rosolino was one of the bright lights of L.A.'s Cool jazz scene of the 1950s and '60s. He cut a series of great sides with the Stan Kenton Orchestra during the early '50s, and went on to record frequently through the rest of that decade with the hot, ever-shifting jam session group known as the Lighthouse All-Stars. Rosolino's seamless style meshed perfectly in Swing, Cool, or Hard Bop sessions, and he could say as much in a short solo as in an extended one -- a quality that made him a favorite session player with everyone from June Christy to Dizzy Gillespie to Horace Silver. Famed for being a jokester, he shocked his fellow musicians when he killed his two young sons before committing suicide in 1978. The feeling of confusion and betrayal felt by his friends and peers over this sickening crime has been authoritatively covered by jazz writer and lyricist Gene Lees.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Howard Mcghee</title>
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<category>Bebop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Howard McGhee was a seminal Bop trumpeter whose serious drug addiction continually interfered with his career. McGhee took an important 1950s sojourn on the West Coast, where his alternately hard-swinging and sensitive style led many sessions and demonstrated that there was plenty of heat in the California Cool sound.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Mundell Lowe</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:40:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Bill Holman</title>
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<category>Modern Big Band</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:08:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Mel Lewis</title>
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<category>Modern Big Band</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:39:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A favorite of Gerry Mulligan, Dizzy Gillespie, and Johnny Mandel, Lewis is a crackingly good drummer who was a major player on the modernist West Coast scene prior to taking over the Thad Jones Orchestra. Whether Cool or Bop, he keeps the beat swinging.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Harold Land</title>
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<category>Hard Bop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Harold Land is a brilliant Hard Bop saxophonist whose work with Clifford Brown and Bobby Hutcherson is better known than his own handful of stunning solo albums. Land paid the price in name recognition for staying on the West Coast but his music has never been anything less than wonderful.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Jimmy Raney</title>
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<category>Cool</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:20:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jimmy Raney had some of the most seamless, stunningly developed Bebop lines of any of jazz guitarist. Though electric hollow-body guitars traditionally have a mellow sound, Raney's pointed rhythms and perfect choice of notes gave his archtop an edge. As a sideman, Raney worked with Woody Herman and Artie Shaw, as well as recording some exceptional collaborations with Stan Getz. Seminal guitarist Wes Montgomery cited Raney as one of his primary influences -- both had an incredible fluidity and touch to their playing. Whether softly rendering a solo standard, or burning through a set of changes, Raney was one of the best.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Herbie Harper</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Virgil Gonsalves/Steve White</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Steve White Quartet</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Dave Myers &amp; The Surftones</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As cool and refreshing as Aquavelva after-shave (for which Dave Meyers named a song), the Surftones played light, quickly evaporating, jazz-infused beach songs. They have more of a plucky Cocktail feel than twangy Surf charm, like being plunged beneath the crashing waves and surrounded by the calm of the bottom of the sea.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Herb Geller</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:20:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Jack Montrose</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:35:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Barbara Montgomery</title>
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<category>West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Barbara Montgomery may be based in Philadelphia, but she gets the femme fatale, 1950s Cool jazz, "Moon and Sand" vibe just right. The mood here is vintage Chet Baker, June Christy and Julie London -- doomed romanticism for beautiful losers. Montgomery even has the good taste to share the limelight with her dreamy band. Horn player Bob Mershey has plenty of room to explore and build on his solos, which are both introspective and searing. Good mix of standards, jazz perennials, and original numbers -- all sung with icy, fatalistic precision.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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