Like any 20-something kid in a new job at a big company you have to do jobs you'd rather not.
In this case for Verve, it was one Creed Taylor recorded on the way out of the door. Who is the singer?
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it uses none of the sidemen Creed had used in the past, or would use in the future. Grady Tate lead the beat on drums, and Artie Butler, yes that Artie, did percussion. Otherwise the rest were classical musicians.
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It's 1959, you need a female stand-up singer.... Once Around The Clock - Patricia Scot #ctproduced #jazz #creed taylor
Two readers letters and the editors reply in the August 2025 issue of the Downbeat jazz magazine Spineless DownBeat I have collected this fine magazine for the past 20-plus years. The vast majority of my collec- tion sits in cases where I can quickly glance at the back (“spine”) of the magazine and see not only the date but several topics of said issue as well. During COVID, as I recall there were many issues that were, dare I say, spineless? These issues are held together by staples and there is no indication available “edgewise” of what is inside. Most important to this reader is the date! Worse still, on the current July 2025 issue my mailing label hides the date on this “spineless” issue. (I think this is the first stapled publication in the last year or so.) Labels were once easily removed but now that is not the case. If I may be so bold as to express a pref- erence: having the info available on the spine is important to me if I have a choice or word in the matter. This method of printing has always represented DownBeat to me. Thank you for your kind attention. STEVE MOON LUBBOCK, TEXAS Of Staples & Shredders The new magazine construction (cost saving?) has compromised the quality of your publica- tion. The chances of future issues being able to navigate through the U.S. Postal system intact are virtually zero. Add to that, this new format featured two guitar “shredders” on the partial- ly disintegrated cover. The horror, the horror. L.R. COLE PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLORIDA Editor’s Note: Yes, for the July issue, having no spine was a cost-saving matter. We, like so many businesses, got caught in the tariff wars. When China was temporarily hit with the 145% tariff, our musical instrument advertisers that import goods from China shut down their ad- vertising. It was like COVID all over again. With a temporary halt on tariffs, the spine is back. Hopefully, the U.S. and China (and other countries) can strike a reasonable deal.
I subscribe to Downbeat magazine, I was surprised, nay shocked at a couple of the letters. Tariffs will have millions of unseen impacts, did you expect your magazines losing their spine would be one of them?
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He was still working in a department store when his first #Kudu album came out, he got to put it in the racks.
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downbeat magazine clipping reads "Respect Creed, Too! 50 years on and people still think it makes them “hip” to take shots at the first great commercial jazz music producer. (As Laurence Svirchev did in Chords & Discords June 2024.) Creed Taylor implicitly understood that great jazz musicians deserved to be heard and deserved to make money. When Creed started producing, selling 5,000 jazz records was un- heard of, much less tens of thousands. Randy Weston’s CTI album Blue Moses was Weston’s most successful in sales. It is con- sidered by many to be one of the best albums on CTI, which is saying something alongside Hubbard’s Red Clay, Stanley Turrentine’s Sug- ar and others. Weston himself acknowledged in his auto- biography (African Rhythms: The Autobiogra- phy of Randy Weston, Duke University Press) that Blue Moses was a miracle, saying, “If it wasn’t for Blue Moses, I never would have been able to pay all those musicians. It was truly a miracle.” "
Look mum, I made downbeat January 2025 issue!
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Look what arrived yesterday... The new #roncarterbass book. Resplendent with a huge number of colour pictures and qrcodes to link to YouTube videos which is daring...
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part of a newspaper column, the text reads "hard-working local musicians-working local musicians appear as window dressing in noisy, musically insensitive clubs and restaurants. When I want to remember the sound of such clubs. I’ll simply get out my sound effects record and listen to the din of dinner crowds, the whir of blenders that acts as city-wide counterpoint to the music. Jazz vibraphonist Joe Roland is leaving Monte Trainer's Bayshore Restaurant after 12 years this summer. Will the yammering diners even notice that his delicate chamber jazz has disappeared? Will anyone care? Probably not, because (now here comes a sweeping generalization) South Florida treats its artists like utility players, expecting them to furnish background music for days spent at the park and nights languishing. /ice-like, at posh spots that play loud, repetitive urban-Latin disco."
June 1988, the Miami Herald Music reporter Tom Moon used his final column to critique South Florida's music scene. He also announced that a totally underrated vibes music Joe Roland was leaving after 12-years. Creed Taylor produced a great album by Joe in 1955.
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