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Red Norvo: The Secret Session
by Pierre Giroux
Red Norvo's The Secret Session arrives like a message in a bottle, its cork finally loosened after more than 80 years. Recorded in late 1942, in the dead of night and against the grain of wartime caution and a recording ban called by the American Federation of Musicians union, these sides capture a septet caught between eras. Besides Norvo, the band featured musicians who would go on to become stars in their own right, including trumpeter Shorty Rogers, trombonist Eddie ...
Continue ReadingJazz Drummer Specs Powell Dead of Kidney Disease at 85
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All About Jazz
SAN DIEGO--Jazz drummer Gordon “Specs" Powell, who recorded with Billie Holiday and played for “The Ed Sullivan Show" as part of the CBS network orchestra, has died of complications from kidney disease. He was 85. Powell, who also had heart trouble, died Saturday at a care center near his home in the northern San Diego County suburb of San Marcos, according to his son. Powell began his career doubling as a pianist, but rose to fame as a drummer during ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
Specs Powell
Instrument: Drums
Born: June 5, 1922
