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Count Basie & His Orchestra (featuring Al Grey): Makin' Whoopee (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 31, 09

Frank Sinatra's 1966 live album Sinatra At The Sands with Count Basie is remembered as one of his finest. Highlight...

Count Basie: Half Moon Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 21, 08

The concept behind this album was to feature original pieces by several current members (as of 1958) and one former m...

Count Basie: Do You Want to Know a Secret? (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Jazz in the 1950s survived Elvis by ignoring him. Miles Davis did not apply his moody Harmon mute to "Heartbreak Hote...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Away with pretenders! The throne belongs to but one Ring-a-Ding King. A quarter century after achieving stardom with ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Count Basie: Li'l Darlin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

The “New Testament” Basie band that began during the 1950s retained all the buoyant swing of the early group from the...

Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...

Count Basie: Counter Block (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

This performance by the Basie band took place during a late-night gig at a Disc Jockeys of America convention on May ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: PETER ERSKINE

In the music world, but especially in the jazz world, everyone wants to know what everybody else is listening to. So ...

Hutcherson, Bobby (Robert) posted in Encyclopedia July 18, 08

Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson has helped bring his instrument's sound to new generations of jazz listeners since the ...

Cohn, Joe posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Cohn, Joe, guitar (also bass, trumpet, piano); b. Queens, Flushing, NY, 28 December 1956. He's the son of saxophioni...

Elf, Mark posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Elf, Mark, guitarist, composer, educator; b. Queens, NY, 13 December 1949. He lived in Queens and Long Island, NY unt...

Mayhew, Virginia posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Mayhew, Virginia, saxophonist, composer, arranger; b. Palo Alto, CA, 14 May 1959. Her parents and grandparents are am...

Vax, Mike (Michael N.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Vax, Mike (Michael N.), trumpet; b. Oakland, CA, 30 October 1942. He attended Oakland High School from 1956-60. Wh...

Wesley, Fred (Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

One of the most in-the-pocket practitioners of jazz trombone, Fred Wesley has enjoyed a broad and successful career i...

Kramer, Mark (Steven) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Kramer, Mark (Steven), pianist, recording engineer; b. Philadelphia, PA, 3 November 1945. Kramer was born into a fami...

Queen, Alvin posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Queen, Alvin, drummer, producer; b. Bronx, NY, 16 August 1950. His family relocated to Mt. Vernon when he was 2 years...

Scheps, Rob (Robert Allen) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Scheps, Rob (Robert Allen), tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, composer, also baritone, alto, sopranino sax; ...

Count Basie: Michelle (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 06, 08

"Michelle" is one of Paul McCartney's many love songs, but the chromatic movement in the melody and descending guitar...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ PERSPECTIVES ON THE BEATLES

During the 1960s, jazz became more stylistically diverse than ever. Conventional norms were assertively challen...

Parker, Kim posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Parker, Kim, singer; b. New York City, NY, 22 August 1946. Parker was steeped in jazz from day one, having spent her ...

Weiss, Peter posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Weiss, Peter, drums; b. Delve, Germany, 13 April 1949. He grew up in D'sseldorf, and later studied at the Robert Schu...

Rudolph, Steve (Steven Ray) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Rudolph, Steve (Steven Ray), pianist, arranger, composer; b. Evansville, IN, 10 April 1949. He grew up around Boonvil...

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