Back to the 'Better Than 'Time Out'' series of Brubeck albums, which is Raggy Waltz's (admittedly protracted) celebration of Dave Brubeck's December birthday. For this installment, here's an album that was recorded a year before 'Time Out' and like that album is all-original material. Music to the! The Music The Tune: "Nomad"Recorded: 25 July, 1958 [...]
Starting the New Year with a post about an album I've been playing on repeat since I bought it last month. West Coast Jazz lives!
I know this is supposed to be a Brubeck record in accordance with my series of 'Better Than 'Time Out' Brubeck Albums', but a recent trip to the local record store yielded some fantastic finds that I have been spinning on the turntable nonstop ever since. Two albums in particular have been in constant rotation [...]
Here at Raggy Waltz, we're celebrating the birthday of Dave Brubeck all month long by profiling different albums that I think are just as great or better than Brubeck's much-acclaimed 'Time Out' album. We know about that one, so let's hear about the other ones. Last week I talked about another time-themed album of Brubeck's. [...]
Born on this day 98 years ago in 1920, David Warren Brubeck has the rare honor of truly having revolutionized jazz while at the same time writing part of jazz's songbook. Although Brubeck died a day shy of his birthday in 2012, his legacy will live forever. The ways he revolutionized and altered jazz -and [...]
Collecting jazz records, and collecting records in general, is an interesting hobby. I don't know any serious jazz vinyl fiends in real life, but I've read about them and know that the jazz record-collecting community seems to have an unpublished set of rules and codes on what is and isn't kosher. As a younger dude [...]
Here at Raggy Waltz, we're open about our rather biased approach to record collecting and listening. West Coast is the best the coast. Prestige and Blue Note albums are constantly pontificated on amongst most jazz record collectors, so why continue the trend here if you can read it elsewhere? Long live Fantasy, Pacific Jazz, and [...]
Born on this day in 1924, today is Desmond's 94th birthday. For this year's Desmond birthday post, I decided to focus on one of Desmond's hobbies instead of music, which I did last year. The hobby? Photography. In addition to being a first-rate jazz musician, erudite linguist and undercover comedian, Paul was a photographer. In [...]
Look out world. After having written a post about an original Blue Note album, here comes my first post about an original Prestige album. Mama I made it. The Music The Tune: "Airegin" Recorded: 29 June, 1954 in Hackensack, NJ Personnel: Miles Davis- Trumpet Sonny Rollins- Tenor Sax Horace Silver- Piano Percy Heath- Bass Kenny [...]
This edition of 'Desmond's Quotes' is rather unique. How so? This one features Paul Desmond quoting from none other than himself! As always, there's a backstory that's worth exploring so let's get to it! It's 1964, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet is in London, England. They're in the TV studios of the BBC to film [...]
