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Capitol Improvements: The Career
Rebirth of Frank Sinatra
A mere two weeks after finishing the Dorsey tribute album, Sinatra was back in the studio, again for his own Reprise label, to record an album whose title would evoke a bit of controversy. Sinatra paired with Billy May and recorded a strong, swinging album that he wanted to call Swing Along With Me. Capitol Records made this into a legal issue, fearing that the title sounded too similar to Come Swing With Me and people might find this confusing when they went to purchase a Sinatra album. This thought, viewed today, seems a bit ridiculous, especially considering that at least five Sinatra albums over the past decade had used “swing” or some variation of the word (i.e. “swingin’”) as part of the title. Regardless, the album title was changed to Sinatra Swings and years later was released with the original title on the album. Click here to read more
The Conan Horns
with Mark Pender
It’s been fourteen and a half years since I started playing in the horn section at Late Night, our first show was Sept. 13th, 1993. To say I love this gig is an understatement. Recently I sat down with my horn brothers and we continued what we’ve always done: joking, laughing, being the loudest people at Studio 6A, and later in the day, taping show 2,521. Our horn section consists of Jerry Vivino on sax, Labamba, (Richie Rosenberg) on trombone and me, Mark Pender, The Love Man, on trumpet.
MP: It’s no secret that we’ve all worked together for a long time, even before the show started. I thought we could recount the story.
JV: I think collectively, we all three worked together in different situations, whether it was the three of us or with ten other horn players or two of us together. We developed our relationship years before this existed.
MP: Well it was probably in the early 80’s that I met both of you.
JV: And we always got along. I think the right place at the right time had a lot to do with it, because all three of us had relationships with Max Weinberg, and the band was put together by Max—hand picked—and somehow here we are. As far as the horn section is concerned he could have picked any three guys. He knew me from doing the Killer Joe record.
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Arturo Sandoval
Interview
JI: What kinds of discussions did you have with Clark Terry?
AS: We have been friends for many, many years. Even before I came here, we played together in Europe a couple of times in the 1980s. He’s a wonderful person, and a unique musician. He has a unique identity as a musician. When he plays a couple of notes, right away you know it’s him. By the way, my favorite record that I made is Trumpet Evolution.
JI: Talk about your association with Dizzy Gillespie.
AS: He is my hero – number one on my list. He is my biggest musical influence. I am very fortunate and blessed by God that we were very close friends. He was my mentor. He helped me a lot. He even helped me defect from Cuba to come to America – and was instrumental in the whole process. There was mutual admiration. And, I miss him every single day of my life. Click here to read more
Karrin Allyson
Interview
JI: Tell us about your new album release on Concord.
KA: Imagina: Songs of Brazil. I have wanted to do a complete Brazilian project for awhile. It’s on my list of projects that I wanted to do and it seemed like the time to do it. I wanted to not do such totally well known tunes as usual, but rather delve into lesser known things in…… There are several Jobim songs on there too that I didn’t know so… I had a whole list of maybe 50 possible Brazilian songs I wanted to do so of course they had to be narrowed down... Click here to read more
Photo Credits: Photos of Ernie Watts and Sonny Rollins and cover, by Eric Nemeyer.
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