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Pianist Bud Powell was drunk. Parker was playing a plastic saxophone borrowed from a local music store. At one point, bassist Charles Mingus got so angry at trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's antics that he stomped offstage. Yet on this night of May 15, 1953, at Toronto's Massey Hall, the musicians, along with drummer Max Roach, somehow pulled together to give an incandescent, unforgettable performance. Captured in a low-fi taping by Mingus and Roach, the concert showed what bebop--and live jazz--was all about...
...was�already a superb band, featuring such Ellington stalwarts as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Juan Tizol. But after bassist Jimmie Blanton and tenor-sax man Ben Webster signed on in 1939 and '40, it became the leader's best ever. The compelling evidence is on these three discs, on tracks like Cotton Tail, Ko-Ko, Jack the Bear and Harlem Air-Shaft. Individual glories abound, but the band's chief glory remains the nonpareil jazz composer whose instrument it was: the Duke himself...
...much fun as when they made the “Give it Away” video—unfortunately, this song is a sleeping pill by comparison. Some of the video’s clips are throwaways, but there are more than a few highlights. Like when we find bassist Flea looking completely out of his element in a ’50s dark suit, playing an enormous double bass. The look on his face suggests that the two-piece is a bit more confining than his more typical strategically-placed tube sock, but the master of the funky electric...
...Cardullo family’s Wursthaus restaurant, which served up German fare. “I want to bring back late night eating to the Square and have it be fun,” Zebny said. The restaurant’s owners have teamed up with Boston-based bassist Danny Klein, the 59-year-old veteran of the J. Geils Band, to oversee live entertainment at Z Square Cambridge. “Expect to see weekly jazz and blues nights,” Zebny said. Z Square Cambridge is the Z Restaurant Group’s second restaurant. Their first...
...Starhick. They performed a set of excellent alt-country. ‘Twas laid back, mellow, yet rocking, and it went well with my Bass ale and mildly shouted conversations. The stage was a tad too small for a four-piece band—Starhick’s rotund bassist had to stand on the floor a couple feet below his bandmates. We left before they finished their set, but I’m fairly confident that it continued to be sweet. Also, we ran into the “boatmaster” of Harvard—whose job involves...