Aug 10, 2020
Woody Herman presents Four Others (1982): Loose Aberrations - Al Cohn, Sal Nistico, Bill Perkins, Flip Philips (ts), John Bunch (p), George Duvivier (b), Don Lamond (dr)
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Woody Herman presents Four Others (1982): Loose Aberrations - Al Cohn, Sal Nistico, Bill Perkins, Flip Philips (ts), John Bunch (p), George Duvivier (b), Don Lamond (dr)
Hod O'Brien Meets Sal Nistico
Jazz is and has always been chock full of overlooked talented musicians with considerable talent and their own voice, but for some reason be it lack of opportunity, drive or personality never found a larger audience. Pianist Hod O’Brien and tenor saxophonist Sal Nistico are two such artists who emerged in the fertile ‘50s. Marc Myers chronicles how and when their musical paths crossed and how it was thankfully preserved.
-Michael Cuscuna
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Woody Herman presents Four Others (1982): Not Really The Blues - Al Cohn, Sal Nistico, Bill Perkins, Flip Philips (ts), John Bunch (p), George Duvivier (b), Don Lamond (dr)
Le George Coleman Octet au Camden Jazz Festival de 1981 (Angleterre). George Coleman (ts, dir), Sal Nistico (ts), Bobby Watson (as), Mario
George Coleman (ts, dir), Sal Nistico (ts), Bobby Watson (as), Mario Rivera (bs), Danny Moore (tp, fgh), Harold Mabern (p), Clint Houston (b), Billy Higgins (dr)
Sammy Nestico Interviewed
I thoroughly enjoyed and learned a lot from this telling interview of the recently departed arranger Sammy Nestico whose name became familiar with me from those Basie LPs of the 1960s and 1970s in addition to all those big band arrangements we played in the high school dance band. Marc Myers conducts the interview for JazzWax.
-Scott Wenzel
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Jazziversaries April 2nd
Larry Coryell (guitar) - 1943 :: Jazziversary greetings to guitarist Larry Coryell. Larry is an American jazz fusion guitarist.
Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands the Jailers, the Rumblers, the Royals, and the Flames. He also played with the Checkers from nearby Yakima, Washington. He then moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. He played in a number of popular Northwest bands, including the Dynamics, while living in Seattle.
In 1965, Coryell moved to New York City where he became part of Chico Hamilton’s quintet, replacing Gabor Szabo. In 1967 and 1968, he recorded with Gary Burton. Also during the mid-1960s he played with The Free Spirits. His music during the late-1960s and early-1970s combined the influences of rock, jazz and eastern music.
He formed his own group, The Eleventh House, in 1973. The album sold well in college towns and the ensemble toured widely to support that. Following the break-up of this band, Coryell played mainly acoustic guitar, but returned to electric guitar later in the 1980s. In 1979, Coryell formed “The Guitar Trio” with jazz fusion guitarist John McLaughlin and flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia. The group toured Europe briefly, eventually releasing a video recorded at Royal Albert Hall in London entitled “Meeting of Spirits”. In early 1980, Coryell’s drug addiction led to him being replaced by Al Di Meola.
Michael Cain (piano) 1966- :: Jazziversary greetings to pianist Michael Cain. Michael received a Bachelor's degree in jazz piano in 1988, and a Master's degree in fine arts in 1990.
Michael moved to New York in 1990 and began performing with many members of M-Base, a Brooklyn-based collective of musicians, initially with Greg Osby and later with Robin Eubanks and Lonnie Plaxico among others. That same year he recorded his first CD as a leader, Strange Omen, for the Candid label, a trio recording that features Glen Velez on hand percussion and Bruce Saunders on guitar. Later that year Michael started playing with Jack DeJohnette and joined his group Special Edition.
In 1991 Michael also began playing with the Anthony Cox quartet which featured Dewey Redman on saxophone and Billy Higgins on drums. That group did several European tours and recorded two CD's for Island Records, Dark Metals, and Factor of Faces, which also featured Ralph Peterson on drums.
From 1995 to 1997 Michael was an assistant professor in the Jazz and Contemporary Media Department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
In 1997 Michael joined the faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he directed several ensembles, taught classes on rhythm analysis, and taught private piano. During the 1997-98 school year Michael served as the school's Diversity Coordinator, an administrative position that focused on issues of diversity in all its implications at the university level. From 1999 to the present Michael has been the director of the "Digital Playground," a music education and recording program at the Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey. This program teaches music to students from grades 3-12 by helping enable them to create, record, and distribute their own music.
In 2008, Michael joined the Faculty of Music at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, where he leads several ensembles, and teaches jazz curriculum and piano.
Booker Little (trumpet) - 1938-1961 :: Booker Little was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
Despite his premature death from kidney failure at the age of 23, Little made an important contribution to jazz. Stylistically, his sound is rooted in the playing of Clifford Brown, featuring crisp articulation, a burnished tone and balanced phrasing. He is considered to be one of the first trumpet players to develop his own sound after Clifford Brown.
He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He studied at the Chicago Conservatory from 1956 to 1958 and it was during this time that he worked with leading local musicians such as Johnny Griffin. Later, after moving to New York, he became associated with drummer Max Roach and multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Eric Dolphy, recording with them both as a sideman and a leader.
With Dolphy, he co-led a residency at the Five Spot club in New York in June 1961, from which three classic albums were eventually issued by Prestige Records. It was during this stint that he began to show promise of expanding the expressive range of the “vernacular” bebop idiom started by Clifford Brown in the mid-1950s. He also appeared on Dolphy’s album Far Cry (New Jazz 8270), recorded December 21, 1960.
Sal Nistico (saxophone) - 1948-1991 :: Associated for many years with Woody Herman’s Herd, Nistico played in the 1962-65 group, considered one of the Herman’s best lineups, alongside Phil Wilson, Bill Chase, Nat Pierce and Jake Hanna.
He started playing alto sax, switching to tenor in 1956, starting out on a Buescher before switching to a Conn 10M tenor saxophone, and briefly played baritone sax.
In 1965, he joined Count Basie but returned on many occasions to play with Herman. Around that time he was also a member of Dusko Goykovich's sextet, together with other musicians associated with the Herd such as Carl Fontana, Nat Pierce, and Michael Moore. He also played with Nat Adderley, Don Ellis, Stan Tracey, Chuck Mangione and Buddy Rich.
Sal’s solo work contrasts his big band work. The solo work is more bebop oriented, as heard on the Heavyweights recording.
Sal Nistico and Nick Brignola: Live from Troy, 1974
Sal Nistico and Nick Brignola finally recorded together officially on Sal’s New Nistico (Bee Hive Records, 1978), but this 1974 audio tape of them live in Troy, New York from 1974 is amazing. They are two of the swingingest and most underrated saxophonists of the second half of the 20th century. Nick plays as strong alto sax as he does on baritone. In two-and-a-half hours, they cook through everything from be-bop classics to standards to Cantaloupe Island.
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Jazziversaries April 2nd
Booker Little (trumpet) - 1938-1961 :: was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
Despite his premature death from kidney failure at the age of 23, Little made an important contribution to jazz. Stylistically, his sound is rooted in the playing of Clifford Brown, featuring crisp articulation, a burnished tone and balanced phrasing. He is considered to be one of the first trumpet players to develop his own sound after Clifford Brown.
He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He studied at the Chicago Conservatory from 1956 to 1958 and it was during this time that he worked with leading local musicians such as Johnny Griffin. Later, after moving to New York, he became associated with drummer Max Roach and multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Eric Dolphy, recording with them both as a sideman and a leader.
With Dolphy, he co-led a residency at the Five Spot club in New York in June 1961, from which three classic albums were eventually issued by Prestige Records. It was during this stint that he began to show promise of expanding the expressive range of the “vernacular” bebop idiom started by Clifford Brown in the mid-1950s. He also appeared on Dolphy’s album Far Cry (New Jazz 8270), recorded December 21, 1960.
Larry Coryell (guitar) - 1943 :: Birthday greetings to guitarist Larry Coryell. Larry is an American jazz fusion guitarist.
Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands the Jailers, the Rumblers, the Royals, and the Flames. He also played with the Checkers from nearby Yakima, Washington. He then moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. He played in a number of popular Northwest bands, including the Dynamics, while living in Seattle.
In 1965, Coryell moved to New York City where he became part of Chico Hamilton’s quintet, replacing Gabor Szabo. In 1967 and 1968, he recorded with Gary Burton. Also during the mid-1960s he played with The Free Spirits. His music during the late-1960s and early-1970s combined the influences of rock, jazz and eastern music.
He formed his own group, The Eleventh House, in 1973. The album “Introducing Eleventh House” sold well in college towns and the ensemble toured widely to support that. Following the break-up of this band, Coryell played mainly acoustic guitar, but returned to electric guitar later in the 1980s. In 1979, Coryell formed “The Guitar Trio” with jazz fusion guitarist John McLaughlin and flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia. The group toured Europe briefly, eventually releasing a video recorded at Royal Albert Hall in London entitled “Meeting of Spirits”. In early 1980, Coryell’s drug addiction led to him being replaced by Al Di Meola.
In 2007, Coryell published an autobiography titled Improvising: My Life in Music.
Sal Nistico (saxophone) - 1948-1991 :: Salvatore Nistico was a tenor saxophonist. Associated for many years with Woody Herman’s Herd, Nistico played in the 1962-65 group, considered one of the Herman’s best lineups, alongside Phil Wilson, Bill Chase, Nat Pierce and Jake Hanna.
He started playing alto sax, switching to tenor in 1956, starting out on a Buescher before switching to a Conn 10M tenor saxophone, and briefly played baritone sax.
In 1965, he joined Count Basie but returned on many occasions to play with Herman. Around that time he was also a member of Dusko Goykovich's sextet, together with other musicians associated with the Herd such as Carl Fontana, Nat Pierce, and Michael Moore. He also played with Nat Adderley, Don Ellis, Stan Tracey, Chuck Mangione and Buddy Rich.
Sal’s solo work contrasts his big band work. The solo work is more bebop oriented, as heard on the Heavyweights recording.
Michael Cain (piano) 1966- :: Bornday shouts out to pianist Michael Cain. Michael received a Bachelor's degree in jazz piano in 1988, and a Master's degree in fine arts in 1990.
Michael moved to New York in 1990 and began performing with many members of M-Base, a Brooklyn-based collective of musicians, initially with Greg Osby and later with Robin Eubanks and Lonnie Plaxico among others. That same year he recorded his first CD as a leader, Strange Omen, for the Candid label, a trio recording that features Glen Velez on hand percussion and Bruce Saunders on guitar. Later that year Michael started playing with Jack DeJohnette and joined his group Special Edition.
In 1991 Michael also began playing with the Anthony Cox quartet which featured Dewey Redman on saxophone and Billy Higgins on drums. That group did several European tours and recorded two CD's for Island Records, Dark Metals, and Factor of Faces, which also featured Ralph Peterson on drums. From 1995 to 1997 Michael was an assistant professor in the Jazz and Contemporary Media Department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
In 1997 Michael joined the faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he directed several ensembles, taught classes on rhythm analysis, and taught private piano. During the 1997-98 school year Michael served as the school's Diversity Coordinator, an administrative position that focused on issues of diversity in all its implications at the university level.
From 1999 to the present Michael has been the director of the "Digital Playground," a music education and recording program at the Hoboken Charter School in Hoboken, New Jersey. This program teaches music to students from grades 3-12 by helping enable them to create, record, and distribute their own music.
In 2008, Michael joined the Faculty of Music at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, where he leads several ensembles, and teaches jazz curriculum and piano.