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Cookin' at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988
By Emily Remler
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Disc 1: Moanin'; How Insensitive; Autumn Leaves; Polka Dots and Moonbeams;
Samba de Orfeu; Hot House/ What Is This Thing Called Love?; You Don't Know
What Love Is; West Coast Blues; Tenor Madness.
Disc 2: Out of Nowhere; Manhã de Carnaval; Cisco; Yesterdays; All Blues;
Someday My Prince Will Come; So What/ Impressions; D-Natural Blues.
Emily Remler: Cookin' at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988
by Jack Kenny
"And death shall have no dominion," wrote Dylan Thomas. To prove the truth of the poet's assertion, Zev Feldman has found and promoted this beautiful album, bringing the talent and creativity of Emily Remler back to life. It is easy to see why Feldman says that for him this is an important project. All of Feldman's ...
Emily Remler: Cookin' at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988
by Pierre Giroux
Emily Remler's Cookin' at the Queens Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988 is a dynamic 2 CD showcase of her guitar prowess, co-produced for Resonance Records by Zev Feldman and Bill Milkowski, and is firmly rooted in her admiration for jazz legends like Wes Montgomery, Pat Martino and George Benson. Across these live sessions, Remler ...
2024 Record Store Day Black Friday Jazz Releases
by Kyle Simpler
Record Store Day Black Friday is back for 2024. There are releases that appeal to practically every genre of music, and jazz is no exception. This year's lineup features releases for jazz enthusiasts and vinyl collectors alike. From previously unreleased live performances to excellent vinyl debuts, this year's offerings showcase a variety of jazz styles. Below ...
Chet Baker: An Alternative Top Ten Albums To Get Lost In
by Chris May
Chet Baker was born to a farmer's daughter and a hard-drinking, weed-smoking singer and guitarist in a Western Swing band in Yale, Oklahoma in 1929. Like many Okies, the family fared badly during the Great Depression but did a little better after moving to Glendale, California in 1939. Largely self-taught as a trumpeter, Baker honed his ...
Drummers as Bandleaders: An Alternative Top Ten Albums
by Chris May
Drummers have been key members of every band which has changed the course of jazz history, from Max Roach with Charlie Parker to Elvin Jones with John Coltrane and onwards. Yet drummers have been the leaders of a surprisingly small proportion of landmark bands themselves. Chick Webb in the 1920s was the first of the few. ...
Stan Kenton and His Orchestra: A Kenton Trilogy, Part 1: Dance Time
by Jack Bowers
Better late than never. Having already appraised Part 2 of Sounds of Yesteryear's three-part salute to the Stan Kenton Orchestra, it seemed only proper that the same should be done (albeit out of order) for Part 1 (and Part 3 as well, whenever it is released). Unlike Part 2, which is devoted to the artistry of ...
Chico Hamilton: At Strollers
In August 1955, promoter Maynard Sloate booked a quirky quintet into Strollers, a jazz club at 27 Locust Avenue in Long Beach, Calif. The quintet led by drummer Chico Hamilton featured Buddy Collette (as,ts,cl,fl), Fred Katz (cello), Jim Hall (g), Carson Smith (b) and Hamilton (d). There was no cover or minimum. Branded a chamber jazz ...
Sex and The Single Trumpet Player
by S.G Provizer
Jack Sheldon (November 30, 1931) and Chet Baker (December 23, 1929-May 13, 1988)—two trumpeter/vocalists with a great deal in common. They spent their years of jazz apprenticeship, the early 1950's, on the West Coast, largely in jny: Los Angeles. They played in similar styles and their musical career paths early on were pretty similar, although Baker ...
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