The Truth About Brass Sliding Things…
During his career as a jazz musician, the late J.J. Johnson recorded many times as a leader. His well known musical vision and skills as a writer and arranger — not to mention his virtuosic translation of modern jazz to the trombone — meant the leader role fit him well. That same reputation, too, meant […]
Gearing up for more incredible content here. In the meantime, an interesting post is (posted) at Keep Swinging, a Dutch blog in (Dutch) but also in English. A lot of other good stuff is there as well.
Note: Some of the links below will take you to the iTunes music store. Recently, while searching the jungle of the iTunes music store, I came across an interesting iTunes U/Podcast by Dr. Gordon Vernick titled Jazz Insights. Vernick, who heads up the jazz studies program at Georgia State University, started Jazz Insights as a […]
Last time, I wrote about the varying quality of digital transfers at the iTunes music store, specifically on some Kai Winding and J.J. Johnson recordings. The odd situation I mentioned was that newer cover art sometimes accompanies some digital transfers of the albums — even from a scratchy LP as the source ― while the […]
Update: Some iTunes store links fixed below. I’ll admit to being a little confused by the iTunes music store sometimes. Here’s an example: fairly recently a British label called Hallmark seems to have licensed some of Sony/Columbia’s jazz titles from the 50’s. The particular recordings I’m writing about are under the leadership of J.J. Johnson, […]