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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 01/23

Steve Voce — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:27:40 +0000

The third and final part of a survey of Louis Armstrong's small groups looks at the role of Ed Hall, Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines and others

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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 12/22

Steve Voce — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:04:43 +0000

Part two of a survey of the trumpeter's small groups looks in depth at the New York City Town Hall concert of May 1947

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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 11/22

Steve Voce — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:04:29 +0000

Part one of a survey of the trumpeter's small groups runs from the Hot Fives and Sevens to the New York City Hall concert of May 1947

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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 09/22

Steve Voce — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:43:39 +0000

Eighty years after his death Charlie Christian is still revered for turning the guitar into a frontline improvising tool and pioneering bebop

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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 08/22

Steve Voce — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:56:12 +0000

How in 1951 clarinettist Edmond Hall resisted Columbia Pictures' efforts to keep southern audiences sweet by excluding 'the Negro'

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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 07/22

Steve Voce — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:06:42 +0000

The compact disc was first made available to us in 1982, half a lifetime ago. LPs persisted alongside the new medium until the majority of people had managed to buy CD players. Everything about the CD was brilliant – its size, sound quality and resistance to damage made it seem to be the ultimate sound […]

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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 06/22

Steve Voce — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 09:06:08 +0000

“Why do you marry all these beautiful women?” the lady interviewer said to Artie Shaw, veteran of eight such marriages. “Do you think I should marry ugly ones?” he asked. Shaw believed that these were not marriages, but affairs. “You couldn’t buy a house and live together in it at that time if you were […]

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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 04/22

Steve Voce — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:59:08 +0000

Art Blakey grew up in Pittsburgh, one of the toughest cities, during one of the hardest times endured in America. During his childhood and youth he lived through a nightmare life that none of us today could imagine. “All my family were musicians except my father and my father hated musicians. But I didn’t know […]

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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 03/22

Steve Voce — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:31:48 +0000

Charlie Barnet began learning to play various saxophone when he was 12, becoming mainly noted as a hard-swinging tenor player and, in the late 30s, a Hodges-inspired alto. He also mastered the more demanding soprano saxophone. He never quite reached the top rank on any of his horns. Perhaps he didn’t deserve to, but he […]

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Still Clinging To The Wreckage 01/22

Steve Voce — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 15:29:01 +0000

Dave Gelly irritates me a great deal. It’s because, so often when I read him, he makes me say “I wish I’d written that.” When I decided to write this piece, largely devoted to Wardell Gray, I drew his CDs from my collection. In one of the CD sleeves I had stuffed Dave’s review of […]

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