Posted in Jazz Notes on Jun 18th, 2008
Mosaic Records has posted information, including discographies, about new sets featuring Dave Liebman’s Pendelum group and some Helen Merrill jazz-vocal sides on their upcoming releases page, along with more details about the forthcoming early-1950s Oscar Peterson collection.
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Posted in Jazz Notes on Dec 27th, 2007
As expected, many more Oscar Peterson articles and tributes have appeared in the past two days. Here are a few of them:
New York Times obituary
Steve Voce in the Independent
Lots of love and spirited dissension in this Organissimo discussion…
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Posted in Shows on Jul 10th, 2004
Jackie Paris, who died last month at the age of 79, was a favorite of Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, and Lenny Bruce, but he remained in semi-obscurity for most of his career. He recorded the first-ever vocal version of Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” in 1949, collaborated several times with Mingus, and made LPs for Brunswick (Skylark) and Impulse (The Song Is Paris) that became…
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