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Basie All Stars: Live At Fabrik Vol. 1
by Chris May
Such are the glories of his band's recorded legacy from the 1930s through the 1950s, that the mere mention of Count Basie's name will trigger a Pavlovian response from his fan base. Like no other, the Count Basie Orchestra epitomised big-band swing at its most sublime; reefer fuelled, riff based, loose and louche Kansas City jazz that is irresistible even in 2023, a life-affirming antidote to the barbarity of DL-only albums, generative music and social media. Seasoned ...
read moreJoe Newman & Henry "Red" Allen: Hot Trumpets of...
by Derek Taylor
Though waxed less than a month apart the sessions coupled on this disc spotlight the talents of two stylistically divergent trumpeters. Newman was a Basie Band alum and firmly grounded in the pleasures and politics of swing. Allen’s sound was derived from older New Orleans traditions and his youthful tenure with Louis Armstrong’s big band. The fact that these two players and their Swingville albums presented here work so well together points to the primacy of jazz and it’s ability ...
read moreAl Cohn and Joe Newman: Swinging Sessions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Great jazz in the 1950s has always been a product of happy partnerships. Among these unions was the year-long recording collaboration between tenor saxophonist Al Cohn and trumpeter Joe Newman. Between December 1954 and December 1955, Cohn and Newman recorded on six albums together. These recordings were Cohn's Mr. Music and The Natural Seven; Newman's All I Wanna Do Is Swing and I'm Still Swinging; The Jazz Workshop's Four Brass, One Tenor; and Freddie Green's Mr. Rhythm. In total, there wasn't a ...
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Joe Newman: Happy Cats
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Joe Newman doesn't get nearly enough credit for being a juicy jazz trumpeter. Usually, he's merely thought of as a member of Count Basie's post-1952 orchestra or as a sideman. But from 1954 to 1984, Newman recorded nearly 30 albums as a leader, with several others arriving after his passing in 1992. Many of these albums are superb, particularly the ones recorded in the 1950s with Basie-ite Frank Wess on tenor saxophone and flute. One of these gems is The ...
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