The music career of Albert Marx spanned six decades from the early 1930s well into the 1980s. Leonard Feather wrote a profile of Albert Marx that was published in the October 1982 issue of JazzTimes, “The Marxmanship of Albert.” Feather compared Marx with John Hammond and Norman Granz observing that he differs from the […]
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Stan Kenton – My World Is Music
Stan Kenton hosted a pilot musical variety show entitled My World Is Music. His guests included the McCann Trio, Mavis Rivers, Leonard Feather, and John Tynan. The February 1961 pilot failed to land a sponsor.
Continue ReadingRickey Jordan
Rickey Jordan streaked across the 1940’s screens and air-waves before his untimely death at age 22.
Continue ReadingLeo Watson – Hip-Hop Forerunner
Leo Watson rose to fame in the Swing Era as a member of the Spirits of Rhythm.
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Lew Finston owned Studio & Artists Recording Company that was originally located in the CBS Columbia Square complex. He established Sarco Records in 1946 and produced recordings by Vivien Garry and Bando Carioca.
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Zardi’s 1955 Sam Donato and Ben Arkin had been tinkering with the décor of Zardi’s ever since they acquired the club in 1953. The woven raffia ceiling that was framed in bamboo remained but the backdrop below the ceiling behind the musician bandstand changed several times. The strip below the bamboo termination of ceiling […]
Continue ReadingVIVIEN GARRY ON RECORD
Vivien Garry The initial musical career of Vivien Garry was intertwined with the emerging guitar career of Arv Garrison. They met in Monroe, Michigan at The Silver Moon, a nightclub where Garrison was performing with a Toledo band led by Bud Ziegler. Monroe was a lakeside town located twenty miles north of Toledo. Vivien […]
Continue ReadingTHE BIRTH OF THE COOL ON CAPITOL RECORDS PART FOUR
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (12” LPs) DT-1974 [1965] Leonard Feather wrote an extended article on Miles Davis for Down Beat that was published in the July 2, 1964 edition of the magazine. The piece was titled “MILES AND THE FIFTIES” and included an in depth examination of the Birth of the Cool sessions via an […]
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