Jazz Flashes

A companion site to 'The Vintage Bandstand,' this is a series of brief posts about all kinds of good jazz, written and published by Anton Garcia-Fernandez in Martin, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Julian Priester on Riverside, 1960

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Anyone playing jazz trombone in the 1950s and '60s must have felt that the shadow of J.J. Johnson was looming large, and there were ...

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Art Van Damme and Jo Stafford, 1957

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Though the accordion may not be the first instrument one thinks about when considering jazz, Michigan-born Art Van Damme is definitely th...

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan in Denmark, 1977 & 1980

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Archie Shepp Known as a stalwart of the type of experimentation that led to free jazz in the 1960s, saxophonist Archie Shepp made a ser...

Friday, July 8, 2016

Lyle Ritz and Ukulele Jazz

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Sure, the ukulele was widely used in the 1920s by vocalists like Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards and Johnny Marvin to accompany th...

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Count Basie in Stockholm with Louis Bellson, 1962

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In 1962, drummer Sonny Payne was involved in a car accident and had to bow out of the Count Basie orchestra's impending tour of Swed...

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Svend Asmussen's 100th Birthday

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On June 28 my daughter turned three years old, and on that same day legendary Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen celebrated 100 years o...

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Keepin' Up with the Jones Brothers, 1958

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The Leonard Feather -produced album Keepin' Up with the Joneses , cut in 1958 for MGM, is one of the most obscure dates by a quartet t...

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