Search results for "Billy Mitchell"

Billie Holiday: All or Nothing at All (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Norman Granz told me that although he once had to wind up a recording session with Billie because she was too drunk t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

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 ...

Laika Fatien: You Turned the Tables On Me (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 25, 09

Fatien's versions of "Strange Fruit" (see jazz.com review), "Don't Explain," "MIsery," "Left Alone," and especially "...

Billie Holiday: Comes Love (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

By the mid-1950s, Billie Holiday had been rescued by a record label (Verve) with the wisdom to scrap her former ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: FIFTIES FEMMES FATALES

In 1958, as evidence that love's fever is a long-running malady, singer/lyricist Peggy Lee alluded to Romeo & Julie...

Mitchel Forman: Hand Made (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 25, 08

The man just never fails to offer consistently affecting music no matter his role. Whether as a standout sideman for ...

Billie Holiday: Love is Here to Stay (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 11, 09

Because of the prominent inclusion of this song in the Oscar-winning biopic on Holiday, it has become closely associa...

Mahavishnu: Clarendon Hills (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 26, 08

In 1984, John McLaughlin put together a new band and called it Mahavishnu. He said he named it that because it had th...

Hampton Hawes: Broadway (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 30, 08

The interaction between Hampton Hawes and Jim Hall on all three volumes of the All Night Session dates is a real...

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...

Artie Shaw: Stardust (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

In Ken Burns's documentary Jazz (2001), Artie Shaw puts down erstwhile rival bandleader Glenn Miller as a mere "...

Woody Herman (featuring Sonny Berman): Sidewalks of Cuba (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 28, 07

Sonny Berman was on the road as a jazz trumpeter at age sixteen and dead from a heroin overdose at 22. He worked wit...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Mitchell, Billy posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Mitchell, Billy, pianist, producer; b. Tarrytown, NY; He was raised in Buffalo, New York. Billy Mitchell tinkered ...

Mitchell, Leon posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Mitchell, Leon, composer; b. North Philadelphia, PA, 16 August 1934. He attended public schools and was an honor g...

Higgins, Billy posted in Encyclopedia April 21, 08

Nearly all of the thousands of sessions Billy Higgins recorded contain swinging jazz at its highest level. Equally at...

Ellis, Herb (Mitchel Herbert) posted in Encyclopedia March 19, 09

Herb Ellis's quick-picking right hand, fleet fingers and metronomic hard swing established him as a master of the mod...

Dizzy Gillespie (featuring Mary Lou Williams): Selections from Zodiac Suite (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music June 08, 08

Zodiac Suite was the first of many long-form compositions Mary Lou Williams produced during her lengthy and distingui...

Smith, Richard (Matthews) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Smith, Richard (Matthews), guitar, composer, arranger, educator, producer; b. Detroit, Michigan, 15 August 1959. He w...

Jones, Hank (Henry) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

Pianist Hank Jones’s use of space and sophisticated lyricism has been documented on the hundreds of albums he has rec...

Smith, Louis (Edward) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Trumpeter Louis Smith recorded a few high-profile hard bop sessions in the late 1950s, including two Blue Note LPs un...

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