Chip Deffaa’s Broadway And Vaudeville Legends
Author, playwright and record collector Chip Deffaa recently compiled a CD filled with some of his favorite recordings of early giants from Broadway and vaudeville.
Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra • The Gennett Suite
To celebrate the legacy of Gennett Records in the 1920s, the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, co-led by trumpeter Mark Buselli and arranger Brent Wallarab, have recorded
Kid Ory • Creole Trombone
The Retrospectives series put out by the Nimbus label is a series of two-CD sets that include many of the highpoints of a jazz great’s
Rex Stewart • Trumpet in Spades
The Retrospectives series put out by the Nimbus label is a series of two-CD sets that include many of the highpoints of a jazz great’s
George Lewis With Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen Vol. 2.
A few months ago, I wrote about George Lewis With Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen, a CD that contained the second set of an April 27, 1957,
Red Norvo • Dance Of The Octopus
Jazz Classic of the Month Before he switched to vibraphone in 1943, Red Norvo was jazz’s top and (nearly only) xylophonist. Norvo (1908-99) was a
Since 1975 Scott Yanow has been a regular reviewer of albums in many jazz styles. He has written for many jazz and arts magazines, including JazzTimes, Jazziz, Down Beat, Cadence, CODA, and the Los Angeles Jazz Scene, and was the jazz editor for Record Review. He has written an in-depth biography on Dizzy Gillespie for AllMusic.com. He has authored 11 books on jazz, over 900 liner notes for CDs and over 20,000 reviews of jazz recordings.
Yanow was a contributor to and co-editor of the third edition of the All Music Guide to Jazz. He continues to write for Downbeat, Jazziz, the Los Angeles Jazz Scene, the Jazz Rag, the New York City Jazz Record and other publications.
