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Marc, your work with interviews and Jazz skulduggery has always ben great. But with Anthony and Mona you are bumping up against the truly fantastic. You're The Top.
Interview: Anthony Ortega (Part 3)
Lionel Hampton loved Anthony Ortega's playing in 1953, likening his sound on the alto sax to Charlie Parker's. There are indeed similarities, notably the yearning, bluesy tone and pushing off on the high notes. Anthony wound up in Hampton's band at just the right moment in time, when an amazin...
Marc, This is great. A fantastic discovery for the Dave Lambert catalog. And Hello Mary, beautiful voice. I graduated HS right behind you in '65. You were indeed lucky to bea a part of Lambert's work. Congrats Marc - what a find!
Interview: Mary Vonnie
Back in May, I posted about a 15-minute documentary made by filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker in 1964 called Audition at RCA. It features producer George Avakian accompanying Dave Lambert and his new group of vocalese singers while they auditioned new material for RCA that Lambert had written and hope...
Some great info on Alvino. I worked a short tour with him to Jamaica with a Ray McKinley segment and a handful of King Sisters (and daughters). I'm not sure who recommended me for it - either Mac or Dean Kincade with whom I worked with at Walt Disney World. This was in the 80's. Alvino was a great talent and very unassuming and considerate of the band members. At that time he was "Alvino Rey And His Talking Guitar." he had made some sort of Vocorder like device (probably with vacuum tubes) and had it set up off stage so no one could see his 'secret.' A kind, gentle, talented man.
Alvino Rey: Studio Band, 1946
It's tough to get a fix on Alvino Rey. Many people who are remotely familiar with the big bands of the 1940s think of the steel-guitar playing Rey as a novelty act. He wasn't. Given the enormous size of his orchestras, many assume Rey led a Mickey Mouse band. He didn't. His name wasn't even Al...
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