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Woody Herman: Wild Root (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

Once upon a time, an alternate take of "Wild Root" was the more commonly heard performance whenever the title would b...

Miles Davis: Billy Boy (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music September 18, 08

This song represents the only piece from Milestones that features just the rhythm section, and rightfully so because ...

Stan Kenton: Fuego Cubano (Cuban Fire) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

This is the title track from the Cuban Fire Suite, an album that is perhaps Kenton’s masterpiece. Stan was determined...

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...

Stan Kenton: La Guera Baila (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

I love the entire Cuban Fire Suite. In fact, I love all of the music that Johnny Richards wrote for the Kenton band. ...

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 ...

Billy Cobham: Spanish Moss - A Sound Portrait: Spanish Moss (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music February 12, 08

"Spanish Moss" appeared as Part 1 of a suite on Crosswinds and is extracted from that arrangement for singular review...

Billy Eckstine: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 05, 09

Following the breakup of his big band, Billy Eckstine became a major soloist with fans on both sides of the color lin...

John Scofield (featuring Medeski, Martin and Wood): Green Tea (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 18, 09

Riding the wave of grooves that come on just about every song off of this album, MMW and Scofield dig deep for their ...

Jackie McLean: A Fickle Sonance (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 03, 08

This is an interesting performance that takes place, both musically and chronologically, in a transitional zone betwe...

Steve Smith: Elm (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 28, 08

Relatively obscure bassist Steve Smith (not to be confused with the drummer of the same name) joins effectively with ...

Jackie McLean: Old Gospel (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 23, 08

In the 1960s, it seemed as if every Blue Note release had to have at least one grooving boogaloo-style tune—the bette...

Ornette Coleman: Ramblin' (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

"He plays all the notes Bird missed," some fool says about a character modeled on Ornette Coleman in Thomas Pync...

Louis Armstrong: Mack the Knife (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

"Mack the Knife" is dramatist Bertolt Brecht's grisly answer to Jack the Ripper, a nasty narrative of murderously mut...

George Mraz: Aspen Leaf (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music February 18, 08

For those who may have forgotten that George Mraz's original first name is Jirì, and that he was born and raised...

Medeski Martin & Wood: Buster Rides Again (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 01, 08

Recorded at the downtown club bearing the same name, Tonic is MMW's return to their acoustic roots and a fine represe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD

Avant Gardism comes in all shapes and sizes today. The new generation of musicians is working within the concepts o...

Ellis Marsalis: The Surrey With the Fringe On Top (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 17, 09

It usually happens the other way around. Think Dave Brubeck and his sons Dan and Chris, or John Coltrane and Ravi. ...

Lee Morgan: Search For The New Land (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 09, 09

Recorded not even two months later yet far from the carefree groove of his hit single “The Sidewinder,” Morgan travel...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Clifford Brown: A Night In Tunisia (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

This has been Brownie’s most controversial date since its release by Columbia in 1973. For close to 30 years this ha...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Cobham, Billy (William) posted in Encyclopedia September 18, 09

Drummer Billy Cobham came of age during the late 1960s and early 1970s as one of the premier drummers in jazz fusion....

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...

Teddy Wilson: More Than You Know (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 09, 08

Teddy Wilson had already recorded this song as a sideman with Benny Goodman, and also under his own leadership with B...

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