Jazz

Clark Terry at Monterey Jazz Festival, 1981 When Dizzy Gillespie said, “The professional is the guy who can do it twice,” he might have been thinking of Clark Terry, whom he once referred to as “the...

Clark Terry’s been through the ringer with health problems and hospitalizations in recent years, but he’s still with us, and today he’s celebrating his 92nd birthday.  Here’s the beginning of the...

As noted here a few weeks ago, Clark Terry has been hospitalized this fall, and his right leg was amputated on Wednesday. Clark’s wife Gwen reported this morning that he’s “making a good recovery, is cheerful...

Swinging the Blues in Nice Ray Charles and Hank Crawford, 1961 The birthdays of two of the most soulful alto saxophonists of all time bookended the weekend. Friday was Houston native Eddie “Cleanhead”...

Brownie on TV and Radio The only extant footage that’s been discovered of Clifford Brown is from his appearance on “Soupy’s On!” the TV show hosted by Soupy Sales at WXYZ in Detroit in the mid-50’s....

Benny Golson’s Memorial to Brownie Clifford Brown flanked by Charlie Rouse and Gigi Gryce, 1953 [Ed. note: This post was originally published on October 30, 2015] Benny Golson composed “I Remember...

Soupy Sales Presents Clifford Brown!  The only extant footage that’s been discovered of Clifford Brown is from his appearance on “Soupy’s On!” the television show hosted...

Clifford Jordan I’m dusting off Clifford Jordan’s Repetition for my feature in tonight’s Jazz à la Mode. It brought a warmth to my heart when it was released in 1984–...

About the only fault I’ve found with the Coleman Hawkins collection that Mosaic released this year is the absence of any of the material he recorded in Europe in the mid-‘30’s.  Mosaic drew exclusively...

Coleman Hawkins was the subject of a beautifully filmed studio session taped in Brussels in 1962. The film was made following Hawk’s appearance at a festival in Dinant, Belgium, the birthplace of...