The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
Not belaboring the point, with all that is going on in the world, I am continuing to remain ever vigilant relative to the pandemic which is ever present in our lives. I can only hope you are doing the same.
My latest offering for those who enjoy good music comes from Moon Beams, a 1962 album by pianist Bill Evans. It is the first trio album recorded by Evans after the death of Scott LaFaro.
Bassist Chuck Israels replaced LaFaro and Evans recorded several songs on May 17, 1962 (#5,9), May 29, 1962 (#1, 8), June 2, 1962 (#2-4, 6-7) and June 5, 1962 (#10-11) at Sound Makers Studio, New York City. The album was released in December 1962 on the Riverside label and is a collection of ballads recorded during this period.
The recording sessions were produced by Orrin Keepnews, the woman on the album cover is Nico, who would later achieve recognition as a musical artist herself, the photographer was Peter Sahula and the cover design was by Ken Deardorff.
Track Listing: 39:00- Re: Person I Knew (Bill Evans) ~ 5:44
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) ~ 5:01
- I Fall in Love Too Easily (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) ~ 2:42
- Stairway to the Stars (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish) ~ 4:53
- If You Could See Me Now (Tadd Dameron) ~ 4:29
- It Might as Well Be Spring (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) ~ 6:05
- In Love in Vain (Leo Robin, Jerome Kern) ~ 5:00
- Very Early (Bill Evans) ~ 5:06
- Bill Evans – piano
- Chuck Israels – bass
- Paul Motian – drums
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Karin Plato was born on March 31, 1960 in Alsask, Saskatchewan, Canada. As a small child she studied piano and later attended the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, where she received a Bachelor Of Music Degree in Piano and Voice.
Moving to Vancouver, Canada in 1985 she studied vocal jazz and arranging at Capilano College, and has made the city her base ever since. In the late 90s, she studied with Sheila Jordan and Jay Clayton at the Banff Centre For The Arts. In 2000, her album There’s Beauty In The Rain was nominated for a Juno Award.
She has performed at numerous festivals and in 2000, she became a member of DIVAS For Life, which came about when the Vancouver-based magazine, Lifestyles, profiled six female vocalists: Plato, Laura Crema, Dee Daniels, Kate Hammett-Vaughan, Stevie Vallance and Tammy Weis. Established to help raise money for people living with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Their debut concert was a huge success and the singers appeared collectively and individually at a series of SOR engagements,
Vocalist Karin Plato continues to use her contralto to deliver elegant performances of standards and original material.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Tina May was born March 30, 1961 in Gloucester, England. She lived in Frampton-on-Severn when she was young and attended Stroud High School.
She has recorded twenty-five albums as a leader and three as a guest artist, of which18 albums are on the 33 Records label. She has worked with Tony Coe, Nikki Iles, Stan Sulzmann, Ray Bryant, Enrico Pieranunzi and Patrick Villanueva.
In 1989 she married jazz drummer and bandleader Clark Tracey and recorded several albums with him in the 1990s. Vocalist Tina May continues to perform, record and explore the azz idiom.
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Three Wishes
Once Nica questioned Milt Sealey about three wishes he replied with:
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“I wish I could be immortal in jazz. You know, go down with a nice name.”
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“I’d wish that my family ~ my wife, my child, and myself ~ would live a happy and healthy life.”
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“I wish that people… that I live to see the day when people will accept one another more humanly. As people, you know? Period. Well, that’s it. You know?”
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Jørgen Emborg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 29, 1953 and was influenced by Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett.
He has played at international festivals since 1975, releasing his first album, Sargasso in 1979 on the Kong Pære label. In the following years he belonged to Six Winds with Marilyn Mazur, Uffe Markussen and Alex Riel and formed with Palle Mikkelborg, Bjarne Roupé, Bo Stief and Ole Theill the ensemble Alpha Centauri.
By1986 he recorded with Bjarne Rostvold and through the Nineties he performed and/or recorded with Thomas Hass and Tomas Franck. Emborg teamed up with Alex Riel again and recorded Over The Rainbow on the Storyville label, with the saxophonist Fredrik Lundin, the bassist Steve Swallow. He played in the Tolvan Big Band and the Per Carsten Quintet.
Jørgen has also composed music for children, rhythmic choir music, big band, a cappella work, ironworks and piano quizzes. He taught piano, theory and composition at the Rytmisk Conservatory of Music from 1988 to 2016.
In 1981, his LP en 20:33 with Alpha Centauri received an award from Statens Kunstfond, the State Art Foundation. He received the Ben Webster Prize with the Frontline Fusion Group as well as others.
Pianist and composer Jørgen Emborg, who ensures there is a Nordic feel to his compositions, continues to perform and compose.
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