1. The Community Pages are important to JazzLegends.com. We need your donations to continue it and to continue to welcome members like Evan Shulman, son of Eddie Shu. I am spending at least one hour per day, seven days per week, deleting the spammers that seem to find the site attractive, in order to make [...]
Perhaps I should take it as a compliment that so many spammers want to sell their hair products, among other things, via the pages of JazzLegends.com. When I do my site devoted to men’s hair replacements, I’ll welcome them, but right now, if they–and they know who they are–continue, I can guarantee they will be [...]
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You’ve all heard about the gift that “keeps on giving,” but perhaps you’ve never applied it to jazz. The fact is, America’s only original art form has been giving to the world for close to 100 years, and in our own small way, JazzLegends.com continues to make its contribution by discovering rare and vital audio [...]
We all presumably agree that “Papa” Jo Jones was one of the most influential jazz drummers who ever lived. That’s likely only one reason why DVDs and CDs with Jo on them continue to be among our most popular titles. For those interested in Jo–as you should be–and don’t have the time to go through [...]
Celebrity biographer Darwin Porter has written several celebrity biographies—including those on Humprhey Bogart, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and now, Frank Sinatra, for a publishing house called Blood Moon Productions, Ltd. In all of his “works,” if you want to call them that, Porter sets out to prove that all of these dead stars [...]
Check out our DVD section for two new “discoveries”: A Count Basie concert from 1965 with Rufus Jones on drums; and a compilation DVD featuring a vocalist that many maintain was the finest in history, Jo Stafford. These were television shots from around 1961 and feature Stafford with guests Rosemary Clooney, Mel Torme’ and Ella [...]
Television reality shows, specifically amateur talent competitions, focus on everything from singing and dancing to cooking and home remodeling. Think there will ever be a reality/competition program devoted to jazz? You never know, but the fact is, there actually was one, and it had all the qualities of today’s programming, excepting the fact that this [...]
Woody Herman led a band for six decades, and in those six decades, granted complete musical freedom to only two sidemen: Drummers Dave Tough and Jake Hanna. Because of their taste, time, ability to swing, support and play for the band, the Old Woodchopper let them play any way they wanted. In the process, Tough [...]
Evidently, the JazzLegends.com audience is valuable enough for a number of spammers to post their junk on the Community Pages. Rest assured that we’re doing everything possible to get rid of these rude clowns and to ensure that our pages will never be graced by them again. And believe me, my friends, if it takes [...]
BRUCE KLAUBER
is an editor, writer and multi-instrumentalist who has contributed to and edited dozens of area and national periodicals. His works have appeared in Jazziz, Jazz Times, Down Beat and others. As a professional jazz drummer the author has performed with Charlie Ventura, Milt Buckner, Bernard, Peiffer, Joanie Sommers, and led his own "Jazz for the People" Trios and Quartets in Philadelphia, Atlantic City and Las Vegas.
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