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No More Brew ~ Brew Moore | By Eddie Carter
This morning’s album offered for your consideration is a live performance by Brew Moore. No More Brew (StoryvilleSLP-4019) was his final album, released eight years after his passing. Brew was born in Indianola, Mississippi and began playing the trombone at age twelve, later graduating to the clarinet and eventually the tenor saxophone. His professional journey took him from a Texas territorial band before attending college, to New Orleans, Memphis, and New York, to further his craft. He’s joined on stage by Lars Sjösten on piano, Sture Nordin on bass, and Fredrik Noren on drums. My copy is the 1981 U.S. Stereo release.
The set begins with Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke’s It Could Happen To You. Lars opens with a swinging introduction, setting up the quartet’s theme. Brew launches into a sizzling solo. Lars comes in energetically next. Sture illustrates he’s an effective soloist in a polished reading. Brew and Frednik exchange a brief dialogue, leading to the theme’s return and closure. Moore addresses the audience, then Sjösten’s introduction leads into the ensemble’s lively melody of Manny’s Tune by John Marabuto. Moore takes off first quickly. Sjösten responds with an impressive reading. Moore and Noren wrap things up with a concise conversation ahead of the closing chorus and abrupt finish.
Brew’s contribution to the set, No More Brew begins Side Two with the foursome’s joyful introduction and melody. Moore opens with energetically captivating phrases, then Lars’s vigorous reading flows through the rhythm section like ephemeral shadows. Brew and Fredrik fuel the finale with a concise comment preceding the theme’s return and a short announcement by Moore that concludes with Blue Monk by Thelonious Monk. The quartet begins with a soulful, blues-inspired melody that sets the stage for Moore to accelerate into an extended, captivating solo. Sjösten mines a rich vein of sentimentality next until the tempo slows again for the melody’s reprise and exit.
Rune Öfwerman produced the album, although it’s unknown who recorded it. However, the album’s sound quality is excellent, with a soundstage placing the listener in the club audience as the musicians are performing. Brew Moore, known for his irresistibly appealing tone that could either stir excitement or touch the heart, recorded twelve albums as a band leader and contributed to seven more as a sideman. Tragically, he passed away on August 19, 1973, at age forty-nine after a fatal fall down a flight of stairs. If you’re a fan of swing and bop and also enjoy the tenor sax, I highly recommend exploring No More Brew by Brew Moore on your next record store visit. This exceptional album showcases a talented young musician whose promising career was sadly cut short!
~ Blue Monk – Source: JazzStandards.com
~ It Could Happen To You – Source: Wikipedia.org
© 2025 by Edward Thomas Carter
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Mike Elliott was born on May 18, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois to a studio musician father and a blues singer mother. Raised in Colorado he learned guitar at a young age and was playing professionally by the time he was sixteen. It was in Colorado where he studied guitar with Johnny Smith.
He formed his first jazz group and in 1964 was on the road. He moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota two years later, and in the Seventies he helped found the jazz fusion group Natural Life, which included saxophonist Bob Rockwell, bassist Billy Peterson, pianist Bobby Peterson, and drummers Bill Berg and Eric Kamau Gravatt.
The 1980s saw him moving to Nashville, Tennessee and becoming manager of Gibson Professional Musical Services and holding clinics with Les Paul, Howard Roberts, and Elliot Easton. Mike did session work, engineering, producing, arranging, and songwriting. In the middle of the decade he teamed up with songwriter musician Jim Pasquale to form Magic Tracks Recording Studio.
Remaining in Nashville until 1998 he worked with Johnny Cash, Mickey Newbury, Chubby Checker, Emmylou Harris, Trisha Yearwood, Joe Diffie, Earl Klugh, Vic Damone, Steve Earle, Crystal Gayle, and Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Gruitarist Mike Elliott died on September 14, 2005. A Mike Elliott Scholarship Award for excellence in guitar was established in his honor.
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Theodore McCord was born May 17, 1907 in Birmingham, Alabama and was the twin brother of Castor McCord, also a reedist. While both brothers played tenor saxophone and clarinet, in addition Ted played alto saxophone.
As a student at Wilberforce University in the 1920s, he played in a student group led by Horace Henderson. He also played in Edgar Hayes’s group, the Blue Grass Buddies, and the McKinney’s Cotton Pickers and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band.
He can be heard playing on their sessions with Louis Armstrong. Other credits include recordings with King Carter and the singer Ollie Shepard.
Roping out of music in the Forties, saxophonist Ted McCord, who was principally active in the 1920s and 1930s, his date and place of his death is unknown.
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Hanna Richardson was born on May 16,1956 in Alexandria, Virginia and as the daughter of a foreign service officer, much of her childhood was spent overseas. At the age of seven, while living in South America, she began piano lessons and also sang at home with the family. 1965 saw her father retiring to Geneva, New York where she met bass player Phil Flanigan while in high school.
College saw her singing professionally, first rock and folk music, then hearing an Ella Fitzgerald record she turned to singing jazz. However, it was the singing style of Maxine Sullivan that was to have the greatest impact upon her. After college, Richardson moved to Rochester, New York and continued to pursue her interest in both folk music and jazz and she also taught herself to play the mandolin.
A move to Syracuse, New York had her working at Syracuse University and becoming Assistant Dean in the School of Management. She sang professionally during this period as a session back-up singer. Connecting again with Flanigan who had toured and recorded with Sullivan, and began singing with him. They married and recorded their debut album, Something To Remember You By, in 2002.
Vocalist Hanna Richardson, who has released a half dozen albums, continues to regionally perform, record and educate.
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Randy Sutin was born on May 14, 1958 in Great Falls, Montana where he studied piano starting at age four and guitar when he turned eight. By the time he was ten he began study of the drums. He began playing mostly rock and some country professionally with local groups at age thirteen. At 20, he began to study mallet percussion, in particular the vibraphone, which became the main staple of his professional life as a musician.
In 1985, Randy relocated to Trenton, New Jersey, then to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area four years later. He was a regular member of the Bill Hollis Quartet and soon began working regularly and recording with the Barry Sames Jazz Ensemble. A regular member of the late pianist Eddie Green’s group, he was featured on Eddie’s last recording, Shades of Green. He has also played and recorded with Walter Bell and the Latin Jazz Unit.
Over the last fifteen years, Sutin has continued playing as a regular member of the Barry Sames Jazz Ensemble, which does jazz arrangements of Christian music. He is featured as a soloist on both of Barry Sames’ recordings, Awaiting the Spirit and Celebration. This association with playing jazz for spiritual purposes and a desire to do a project with his wife, Marianne, who is an experienced yogi, led to his latest musical endeavor.
In 2007 they released Meditations for Percussion and Flute, a suite of compositions based on yoga practice blending a mixture of styles, but always falling back to jazz as its core. Together they created their record label, Balanced American Music. Recent work has focused on The Birdhouse Project, a trio with Jim Miller and Tyrone Brown, performing the compositions of Charlie Parker.
His most current project is with The Tyrone Brown String Ensemble. Randy is featured on both of their 2008 releases, The Magic Within and Moon of the Falling Leaves.
Vibraphonist Randy Sutin, who also plays marimba, continues to perform and record.
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