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Gerald Wilson: Watermelon Man (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

Gerald Wilson always included new compositions of artists he respected. His was the first big band besides Duke Ellin...

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Gerald Wilson: Out of This World (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

It says quite a bit when an arrangement written in 1945 sounds just as contemporary today. Gerald Wilson wrote his ve...

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Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron), violin, cornet, baritone horn, double bass, composer; b. Glens Falls, NY, 13 January 1...

Gerald Wilson: Paper Man (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

Charles Tolliver had played with Jackie McLean, Art Blakey and Sonny Rollins before moving to the West Coast and join...

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Gerald Wilson: Lomelin (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

Gerald Wilson's band had not made an album for 12 years when Albert Marx asked him back to record for his new label, ...

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Gerald Wilson: Triple Chase (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 04, 08

Only distortion on the original recording detracts from this up-tempo showcase for the Wilson orchestra's tenor saxop...

Gigi Gryce: La Rose Noire (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 20, 09

A twenty-year old Quincy Jones was already showing his influential ability as an astute arranger on this session with...

Clifford Brown-Lionel Hampton: Gryce Suite, Brown Skin (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Brownie met and jammed with some members of the 1953 Lionel Hampton Orchestra in Atlantic City while he was playing a...

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Farmer, Art (Arthur Stewart) posted in Encyclopedia July 15, 09

Art Farmer’s gentle intonation and articulation on the trumpet and flugelhorn brought a welcome contrast to the somet...

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