Wednesday, October 3, 2012

From Down Beat Magazine


“It seemed so unreal to me when I heard the news. You know how it is when you hear that a guy you know died unexpectedly—you start thinking about what you said to him, and what he said, the things you did … everything like that.”
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Willie Dixon: Chicago Catalyst
Published 8/6/1970
Willie Dixon is a rare example of a creative and multi-talented blues musician who has been able, over the years, to let his talent grow and bloom in many areas of the music. In any definitive review of the postwar Chicago (and urban) blues, Willie D …  
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ARCHIVES  CLASSIC INTERVIEWS
Bringing Up ‘Fatha’
Published 6/6/1963
Back now in the musical groove that he helped form, 57-year-old Earl (Fatha) Hines, one of the first great style-setters on jazz piano, is looking at a future flavored by memories of the past.
Heading a mainstream swing sextet, which is sailing …  
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Chet Baker’s Tale of Woe
Published 7/30/1964
In the middle 1950s, Chet Baker was the young Lochinvar out of the West, the fair-haired boy of critics and laymen alike, riding in on his golden trumpet. Rising to prominence with Gerry Mulligan’s pianoless quartet, as the West Coast jazz movement b …  
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