Tag: Kenny Clarke

From the Record Shelves #312 – Woody’n You – In this tune from December 1947, we hear an inspired Dizzy Gillespie put life with his trumpet into an already very lively arrangement. He originally wrote it for Woody Herman’s Orchestra, and it was released under the title Algo Buono (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #124 – Indian summer. Sidney Bechet was a genius. Had he stayed with the clarinet and no other instrument he simply would have been the best, agile, expressive and energetic. But he wanted more. Maybe his early experience of (…) read more and listenread more and listen