A classic revisited
A Classic Revisited is a regular feature at jazz.com. Five days per week, jazz.com celebrates a great track from past jazz masters. In order to qualify for inclusion, a performance must stand out as a work of exceptional merit and be at least twenty-five years old. Below is a list of all the tracks featured as A Classic Revisited since the launch of jazz.com, each with a link to a review. Whenever possible, the review includes a link for fast, easy and legal downloading.
Previous Classics Revisited:
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Thousand Island Park
August 2008
Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Duke Ellington: Cottontail
Return to Forever: Five Hundred Miles High
Paul Bley: King Korn
Erroll Garner: I'll Remember April
July 2008
Tal Farlow: Fascinating Rhythm
Anthony Braxton: For John Cage
Johnny Griffin: A Monk's Dream
Gil Evans: Stratusphunk
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Meditation
John Coltrane: Naima
Benny Carter: Blue Star
June Christy: Something Cool
Dave Holland: Conference of the Birds
Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Big Dipper
The Tony Williams Lifetime: Spectrum
Gene Ammons: Hittin' the Jug
Les Paul: Lover
Weather Report: A Remark You Made
Keith Jarrett: Bremen, Part I
Louis Armstrong & Jimmie Rodgers: Blue Yodel #9
Jimmie Noone & Earl Hines: Four or Five Times
King Pleasure: Moody's Mood for Love
Frank Sinatra (with Count Basie): I Believe in You
Woody Herman: Four Brothers
Charlie Parker: A Night in Tunisia
June 2008
Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang: A Handful of Riffs
Pee Wee Russell: That Old Feeling
Jelly Roll Morton: Black Bottom Stomp
Kenny Burrell: Chitlins Con Carne
Stéphane Grappelli: Body and Soul
Claude Thornhill: Yardbird Suite
Dizzy Gillespie: Groovin' High
Carmen McRae: Love is Here to Stay
Jackie McLean: Melody for Melonae
Hampton Hawes: Broadway
Bobby Hutcherson: For You, Mom and Dad
Frank Trumbauer: San
Sonny Clark: Cool Struttin'
Glenn Miller: Moonlight Serenade
Dinah Washington: There is No Greater Love
Grant Green: Ain't It Funky Now
Hot Lips Page: Lafayette
Shelly Manne: Summertime
Clifford Brown & Max Roach: Sandu
Lionel Hampton: Flying Home
May 2008
Jimmy McGriff: Back on the Track
Al Cohn & Jimmy Rowles: Them There Eyes
Peggy Lee: Cannonball Express
Gerald Wilson: Out of This World
Miles Davis: On Green Dolphin Street
Billie Holiday: What's New
Fats Waller: Ain't Misbehavin'
Art Farmer: Jubilation
Thelonious Monk: 'Round Midnight
Bob Florence: Bebop Charlie
Tina Brooks: Star Eyes
João Gilberto: Estate
Modern Jazz Quartet: Django
Hank Mobley: I Should Care
Bill Holman: You Go to My Head
Betty Carter: Mean to Me
Art Tatum: Sophisticated Lady
Charlie Parker: Parker's Mood
Freddie Hubbard: Here's That Rainy Day
Horace Silver: Song for My Father
Frank Sinatra: The Way You Look Tonight
April 2008
Larry Young: The Moontrane
Miles Davis: So What
Jimmy Giuffre: Propulsion
Ella Fitzgerald: Mack the Knife
Tony Bennett: Sometimes I'm Happy
Chico O'Farrill: Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite
Charles Mingus: Better Git It in Your Soul
Andrew Hill: Refuge
Jim Hall: Concierto de Aranjuez
Nat King Cole: Route 66
George Russell: Concerto for Billy the Kid
V.S.O.P.: One of a Kind
Cecil Taylor: Tales (8 Whisps)
Sonny Rollins: Come, Gone
Chet Baker & Phil Urso: To Mickey's Memory
Stan Getz & Jimmy Rowles: The Peacocks
Charlie Christian: Up On Teddy's Hill
Roy Eldridge & Chu Berry: Body and Soul
King Oliver: Dippermouth Blues
George Shearing: Conception
Keith Jarrett: In Front
March 2008
Ben Webster: Tenderly
Fletcher Henderson (with Louis Armstrong): Sugarfoot Stomp
Coleman Hawkins: The Man I Love
Dave Brubeck: Over the Rainbow
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Twisted
Bill Evans: My Foolish Heart
Duke Ellington: Jack the Bear
Don Ellis: Indian Lady
Mongo Santamaria: Watermelon Man
Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm
Charles Lloyd: Forest Flower
Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines: Weather Bird
Sarah Vaughan: Lullaby of Birdland
Jimmy Smith: Walkin'
Art Pepper: Round Midnight
Bud Powell (with Fats Navarro): Wail
Wayne Shorter: Witch Hunt
Joe Williams (with Count Basie): Every Day I Have the Blues
Art Blakey: Moanin'
Django Reinhardt: Minor Swing
Lester Young: Lester Leaps In
Benny Goodman: King Porter Stomp
February 2008
Mary Lou Williams: Clean Pickin'
Joe Henderson: Mode for Joe
Bix Beiderbecke: Sorry
Herbie Hancock: Dolphin Dance
Cannonball Adderley: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Lennie Tristano: Line Up
Chick Corea: Steps / What Was
Luiz Bonfá: Manhã De Carnaval
Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong: St. Louis Blues
Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh: Topsy
Dexter Gordon: 'Round Midnight
Max Roach: Valse Hot
Pine Top Smith: Pine Top's Boogie Woogie
Wes Montgomery: Besame Mucho
McCoy Tyner: Impressions
Eric Dolphy: Gazzelloni
Earl 'Fatha' Hines: Cavernism
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Folkus
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
Vince Guaraldi: Cast Your Fate to the Wind
January 2008
Gerry Mulligan (with Zoot Sims): Come Rain or Come Shine
John Coltrane: Giant Steps
Herbie Nichols: Applejackin'
Woody Shaw: Theme for Maxine
Ramsey Lewis: The 'In' Crowd
Joe Pass: Have You Met Miss Jones?
Duke Ellington: The Harlem Suite
Dizzy Gillespie: Tin Tin Deo
Artie Shaw: Begin the Beguine
Woody Herman: Apple Honey
John Lewis: Sketch
Ornette Coleman: Embraceable You
J.J. Johnson: What's New
Jim Pepper: Witchi-Tai-To
Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder
Charles Mingus: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
John Coltrane: Moment's Notice
Miles Davis: All Blues
Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane: Monk's Mood
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Bright Moments
Billie Holiday & Lester Young: All of Me
Ahmad Jamal: Poinciana
Charlie Parker: Billie's Bounce
2007
Jackie Cain & Roy Kral: Auld Lang Syne
Stan Getz: I'm Late, I'm Late
Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul
Oscar Peterson: Blues for Big Scotia
Oscar Peterson: Night Train
Chet Baker: My Funny Valentine
Cab Calloway: Minnie the Moocher
Ella Fitzgerald: But Not For Me
Sonny Rollins: It Could Happen to You
Sidney Bechet: Summertime
Count Basie: One O'Clock Jump
Duke Ellington: The Tattooed Bride
James P. Johnson: Carolina Shout
Erroll Garner: Misty
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald: A Foggy Day
