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Gerald Wilson: Watermelon Man (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Gerald 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, 08It says quite a bit when an arrangement written in 1945 sounds just as contemporary today. Gerald Wilson wrote his ve...
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Gerald Wilson: Paper Man (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Charles Tolliver had played with Jackie McLean, Art Blakey and Sonny Rollins before moving to the West Coast and join...
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Chico Pinheiro & Anthony Wilson: Alla Chitarra (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 17, 08Nova is a mixture of Brazilian music and jazz. The full ensemble playing is quite good. But as is often the case, mus...
Anthony Wilson: Mezcal (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music July 22, 09Picture yourself in a dusty Mexican bar, where the tequila flows freely and the crowd is in the mood to boogie. In th...
Chico Pinheiro & Anthony Wilson: Planicie (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 17, 08Here is a case where less is most certainly more, in that the interlocked guitar arpeggios, while inspiring in a...
Josh Nelson (featuring Sara Gazarek): Leaving Here (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 24, 08Josh Nelson is one of the most talented of the new generation of Los Angeles pianists. But on this track he steps in...
Diana Krall: Too Marvelous for Words (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 28, 09I learned one thing on the playground basketball courts as a kid . . . if you keep on using the same moves over and o...
Al Jarreau: Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07Al Jarreau makes this Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer standard his own with his ebullient delivery and quirky phrasing. Th...
Diana Krall: I've Got You Under My Skin (live in Paris) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 08, 07What extraordinary patience and care Krall puts into her vocals. She never strains for effect, never gets caught up ...
Diana Krall: I Was Doing Alright (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music February 13, 08I am not a big fan of retro jazz - playacting which finds jazz singers adopting the mannerisms (and often the attire ...
Diana Krall: It Could Happen to You (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music June 28, 08This is retro-Krall, with an Eisenhower-era flavor. Don't get me wrong, the 1950s were a great time for pop-vocal-pl...
Diana Krall: How Insensitive (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 28, 08It's not easy to sing bossa nova. Diana Krall just makes it seem easy. Krall has tackled bossa before, demonstrati...
Gerald Wilson: Viva Tirado (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 03, 08It was inevitable that someone would ask Gerald Wilson to record many of his classic arrangements with an all-star Ne...
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Gerald Wilson: Detroit (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 11, 09A nostalgic, backward-looking quality permeates this late vintage work by veteran bandleader Gerald Wilson. And cert...
Gerald Wilson: Lomelin (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Gerald 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, 08Only distortion on the original recording detracts from this up-tempo showcase for the Wilson orchestra's tenor saxop...
Wilson, Cassandra (Marie Fowlkes) posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09Singer Cassandra Wilson has combined her experiences in jazz, folk and rhythm 'n' blues into an appealing and succe...
Payton, Nicholas (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia May 21, 09Trumpeter Nicholas Payton's style combines the rich vibrato of Louis Armstrong with the flexible articulations of C...
Pavone, Mario (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Pavone, Mario (Anthony), bassist, composer; b. Waterbury, CT, 11 November 1940. His father, Mario Pavone Sr. was born...
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