Rhythm in Gloucestershire: The 2024 Cheltenham Jazz Festival Dave Doyle June 30, 2024 I’m not much of a festival-goer, to be honest. I find myself getting a bit bored after two days of non-stop music and two nights Wham Re-Bop-Boom-Bam: The Swing Jazz of Eddie Durham Steve Pr...
” sort of a “Blue Moon Glow,” in the set “Two Songbirds and Three Cats.” With each vocalist singing parts of either song, the arrangement was exquisite. Harry Allen, Rossano Sportiello and Chuck Redd filled the rhythm section. Since Nicki will be moving back...
“Big Beaver” could have been played by a very fine orthodox swing band from Texas. No fiddles, no steel guitar. There is, however, a driving rhythm with Eldon Shamblin’s guitar prominent in the mix. Wayne Johnson plays a
Staying in the major key, there is another wonderful brass ‘soli’ (where they all play the same rhythm pretty much). In the clarinet solo, the drummer mixes it up quite a bit, playing the rims of his drums. Great color to break up the overall sound.” Spud Murphy was an arranger,...
High Hat Trumpet and Rhythm, 1937 My Heart Belongs to Daddy, 1939 Moving to Europe in the mid-1930s she made Paris her base of operations and was quickly embraced. The publication Jazz Hot declared in 1936, “We had the pleasure of finding in Valaida the temperament of the great black ...
Butch said about that trip, “that was all she wrote.” He was hooked. “What really got to me about this from the very beginning is the rhythm, it’s so compelling, there’s really nothing like it.” That southerly 1200-mile adventure became a habit for many of the guys in the ba...