Ken McCarthy’s Jazz on the Tube interviews filmmaker Abraham Ravett about his film “Forgotten Tenor: A Tribute to Tenor Saxophonist Wardell Gray.”
Tenor saxophone giant Wardell Gray was born February 13, 1921, in Oklahoma City. OK. He was a graduate of the Cass Technical High School, a Detroit school that also lists … Read more
Louis Armstrong was a genius – no doubt about that.
But there’s no such thing as a genius in a vacuum.
For some strange reason, the culture and community that gave birth to Louis Armstrong is given short shrift is accounts of his life and art.
In his autobiography and in interviews, … Read more
Trumpeter, singer, composer McKinley Howard “Kenny” Durham, born August 30, 1924 in Fairfield, Texas. One of the few films of his work. For a unique “discography” of his work, see Oliphant’s biography-poem KD: A Jazz Biography
Inspired by Chapter One (pgs. 28-34) of Texan Jazz by Dave Oliphant
Composer Euday Bowman (1915)
Born November 9, 1887, Fort Worth, Texas
Louis Armstrong – Recorded 1927
Benny Moten & His Kansas City Orchestra – Recorded 1927
Duke Ellington – 1931
Fats Waller – Recorded 1935
Count Basie with Lester Young – Recorded 1939
Andy Kirk featuring Mary Lou … Read more
Hugh Wyatt was part of the group that put the legendary New York radio station WBLS on the air and saved the Apollo Theater.
For nearly thirty years, he wrote and edited for New York Daily News.
And he’s enjoyed a long friendship with Sonny Rollins,
In this landmark book, Hugh not … Read more
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