No word on the personnel, or anything else. It looks pretty seventies. Posted by Ray Aichinger Jazz
Tag: Stan Getz
Stan Getz, Gary Burton, Steve Swallow, Roy Haynes—“Scrapple from the Apple”
Stan on tenor, of course, channeling Charlie Parker, with Gary on vibes, Swallow on bass, and Haynes on drums. Getz was “really” a swing player, but he came up in the bop years, and he definitely had the chops to handle anything the boppers could come up with. In 1966, even though he was making…
At Last! My take on that New Yorker cover
Well, it is the law, you know. I dodged them as long as I could, but when the Thought Police caught up with me and gave me the choice of sixty days in the hole or posting a comment, I buckled, so here it is: The New Yorker’s Obama cover was smart-alecky, pretentious, and condescending,…