The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
Remaining vigilant as the city and country are open to unmasking and an honor system that I don’t trust, this week I’m pulling out the seventh album by pianist Mulgrew Miller titled From Day To Day.
The trio album was recorded on March 14~15, 1990 at BMG Studios in New York City. It was released the same year on Landmark Records. It was produced by Orrin Keepnews and engineered by Paul Goodman.
Track List | 55:00- La Chambre ~ 7:35
- What A Diff’rence A Day Made ~ 8:08
- Four ~ 7:53
- From Day To Day ~ 7:26
- Playthang ~ 7:01
- Farewell To Dogma ~ 5:06
- One Notch Up ~ 4:50
- More Than You Know ~ 6:15
- Mulgrew Miller ~ piano
- Robert Hurst ~ double bass
- Kenny Washington ~ drums
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Sing Miller was born James Edward Miller on June 17, 1914 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He started his career as a singer with the Harmonizing Browns Quartet. His main instrument was banjo until late in the 1920s, when he moved to piano. He worked as a freelance musician with the Percy Humphrey band during the 1930s.
After serving in the military during World War II, he was in a band led by drummer Earl Foster from 1945 to 1961. He became a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans in the 1960s. He played in that band with Polo Barnes, Kid Sheik, Jim Robinson, and Kid Thomas Valentine.
His rare performances as a solo act included 1979 and 1981 when he went on tour in Europe. He recorded one album for Dixie Records in 1972 and one for Smoky Mary in 1978.
Pianist Sing Miller, who was a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, passed away on May 18, 1990.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Marilyn Montez Moore was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 16, 1930. Her vocal style was similar to that of Billie Holiday’s, at twenty-six she recorded her only solo album as a leader in 1957 on the Bethlehem label titled Moody Marilyn Moore. With Jackie Paris she recorde another album titled Oh, Captain.
She was the first wife of saxophonist Al Cohn, who played on Moody Marilyn Moore, and the mother of guitarist Joe Coh. After she and Cohn separated and later divorced, Moore was left to raise her family and never recorded again.
Singer Marilyn Moore, whose short career was limited to activity during the 1950s, passed away on March 19, 1992 at the age of 61 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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Three Wishes
The answer that Billy Strayhorn gave Pannonica when she asked him what his three wishes would be, if given, was:
1. “I would wish that music would become ever more beautiful than it is, and that I would be able to listen to it forever, and write it forever.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Born Jeannette Schwager on June 15th in the Netherlands, Jeannette Lambert grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her Dutch and Indonesian parents loved jazz, and she started singing at the age of nine. From the age of 12, she performed with her brother, guitarist Reg Schwager, at coffee houses and music festivals. She did not have to venture far to perform regular jam sessions, which were held at her house when she was a teenager.
Particularly inspired by the older jazz musicians who participated, especially Herbie Spanier, he encouraged her to improvise as freely as possible. While she studied film production at Toronto’s York University during 1984-1986, Lambert also attended the Banff Summer Jazz Workshop in 1985, singing with the Cecil Taylor Workshop Big Band and taking lessons from Jay Clayton, Dave Liebman, and Julian Priester.
After periods living in Paris, New York, and Amsterdam, she settled in Montreal, married drummer Michel Lambert, and co-founded the record label Jazz from Rant with her brother and her husband in 1991. Jeannette’s music is inspired and influenced not only by other jazz singers but by flamenco, fado, and jaipongan. In addition to her singing and recording, she writes music to her own poetry and is an internet filmmaker.
Her several recordings, primarily on the Jazz from Rant label, include free improvisations, collaborations with pianist Paul Bley, and two volumes of Bebop for Babies, jazz versions of children’s melodies. Vocalist, poet, record label owner Jennette Lambert continues to compose, perform and record,