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Art Pepper: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Due to what the 1950s jazz press euphemistically called "personal problems," the once-prolific Art Pepper made just o...

Art Pepper: Star Eyes (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 11, 08

Art Pepper doesn't meet "a" rhythm section on this 1957 date – he meets the rhythm section. Best known for their tenu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Art Pepper: You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Art Pepper earned a reputation as one of the top alto saxophonists on the West Coast in the 1950s. So it was a highl...

Art Pepper: September Song (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 03, 08

Art Pepper had performed and recorded this song many times with the Stan Kenton band in the early 1950s, but this 197...

Art Pepper: You Go To My Head (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 18, 09

Art Pepper's 1977 run at the Village Vanguard in New York was a career high point for the brilliant yet troubled (and...

Art Pepper: Cherokee (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 18, 09

One of the great challenges for the early bebop players was to maintain the same level of creativity at every conceiv...

Chet Baker & Art Pepper: Picture of Heath (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Chet Baker came to prominence as the trumpeter in the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, but later became a much-recorded leader...

Art Pepper: Anthropology (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music January 13, 08

Art Pepper’s post-rehabilitation career reached its pinnacle with a successful run at the Vanguard in late July 1977....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...

Art Pepper: Winter Moon (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 27, 08

Art Pepper's 1980 session with strings may not be as well known as those of Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Stan ...

Art Pepper: Over the Rainbow (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music February 04, 08

During his announcement to the audience, Art Pepper says that his producer Lester Koenig asked him to do this solo nu...

Marty Paich: Violets for Your Furs (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Art Pepper was a leading West Coast alto saxophonist during the 1950s before personal problems removed him from the s...

Shorty Rogers: Popo (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

As a trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, arranger and bandleader, Shorty Rogers was one of the most important figures...

Shorty Rogers: Didi (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 17, 08

Before West Coast cool jazz turned ponderous and overambitious, in the same spirit that tainted Stan Kenton’s work, t...

Stan Kenton: Sambo (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

During his decades helming jazz's most overpopulated band, through whose ranks trooped hundreds of musicians, Stan Ke...

Stan Kenton: Unison Riff (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Even though Kenton led a composer/arranger’s band in many ways, a number of his musicians later became major jazz per...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Mel Tormé: All I Need is the Girl (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Ring-a-Ding singing doesn't get any better than Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette. Blending the lightness of G...

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 ...

Quincy Jones: King Road Blues (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

The original Go West, Man! featured Quincy Jones-managed recording sessions by four trumpets and rhythm, four alto sa...

Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

To Stan Kenton, bigger was better. More instruments, expanded ranges, wider voicings, grand gestures, GREATER VOLUME....

Stan Kenton: Evening in Pakistan (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

Like the proverbial Ark, Stan Kenton's behemoth Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra included at least two of every ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Stan Kenton: Trajectories (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

As usual, Stan Kenton was ahead of the curve. His Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra was an icebreaker, intrepidly...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

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