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The Tom Talbert Orchestra: To a Lady
by Jack Bowers
Bob Brookmeyer, speaking recently about the passing of so many of Jazz’s creative voices, said, “Thank goodness we still have Lee Konitz.” And Tom Talbert, Bob. Talbert, who has been composing and arranging for groups of every size and shape for nearly sixty years, shows again on To a Lady, his first album since ’98, that he hasn’t lost the touch that endeared him to such bandleaders as Claude Thornhill, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Charlie Barnet, Tony Pastor, Boyd Raeburn ...
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by Dave Nathan
Long time arranger, band leader and composer Tom Talbert has released his third in a line of jazz albums called the Discover Jazz Series. The first two releases are reissues of earlier albums recorded in 1956 and 1991 for other labels. But this new addition appears to be made exclusively for this series. Of the twelve items on the play list, eight come from Talbert's pen. These tunes were written to show off ensemble discipline and solo skills of the ...
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I tend to avoid tribute albums. Barring a handful of gems, among them Louis Armstrong's salutes to Fats Waller and W.C. Handy, most miss the mark because they try too hard to one-up or mimic the subject of their adulation. One of the rare exceptions is Tom Talbert's Bix, Duke, Fats. Recorded in 1956 for Atlantic Records, the album features dynamic arrangements by Talbert for three different studio groups that included trumpeters Joe Wilder and Nick Travis, alto saxophonist Herb ...
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Retake: Tom Talbert
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Lately, I've been missing Tom Talbert. I went into the archive to see what Rifftides had to say about him following his death a little more than three years ago. Here is one paragraph of the remembrance:
Tom died on Saturday, a month short of his eighty-first birthday. An elegant, soft-spoken man, he was an early and drastically overlooked composer, arranger and band leader on the west coast before West Coast Jazz was a category. His mid-to-late-1940s Los ...
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Pianist/arranger Tom Talbert dead at 80
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All About Jazz
LOS ANGELES - Tom Talbert, a self-taught pianist who arranged music for jazz greats such as Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton and Claude Thornhill, has died. He was 80.
Talbert died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a severe stroke, his family said.
Talbert became interested in arranging at age 15 after hearing big bands on the radio. During World War II, he joined the Army and became an arranger for a military band at Ft. Ord that ...
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