Search results for "Bing Crosby"

Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers: Dinah (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 06, 09

Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers enjoyed long careers in pop music, but they were all influenced by jazz in their e...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SCAT SINGING

Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...

Bing Crosby: The Last Roundup (Rating: 79/100) posted in Music July 08, 08

Despite his enormous fame, Bing Crosby has still never received the recognition he deserves as a jazz singer. He ha...

Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Mississippi Mud (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

"Just as happy as a cow chewin' on her cud," regales Bing Crosby, "when the darkies beat their feet on the Missi...

Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer: Mississippi Mud (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music March 09, 08

How ironic that someone named Whiteman popularized jazz among the general American populace, largely by sucking much ...

Bix Beiderbecke: From Monday On (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Paul Whiteman was like a giant, mostly benign mothership that swallowed up available musicians like Bix and his buddi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Lennie Tristano: Ghost of a Chance (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 30, 08

The day before this Halloween concert in Copenhagen, Tristano shared the stage in Berlin with Bill Evans, John Lewis,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Jazz Dialogue: Gary Giddins in Conversation with Loren Schoenberg (Part One) posted in Features and Interviews May 20, 08

Noted jazz critic Gary Giddins recently engaged in a free-wheeling public discussion of jazz matters, current and h...

Lang, Eddie (Salvatore Massaro) posted in Encyclopedia January 17, 09

Eddie Lang popularized the guitar as a lead and rhythm instrument in jazz. A versatile and lyrical player, his recor...

Bailey, Mildred (Mildred Rinker) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08

Mildred Bailey was known as “Mrs. Swing” to her fans in the thirties and forties, and rightly so. She and fellow Wash...

Bregman, Buddy (Louis I Bregman II) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bregman, Buddy [Louis I Bregman II], film composer, arranger, conductor, TV/Film producer, director, writer; b. Chica...

Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson: Can Country Music and Jazz Peacefully Co-Exist? posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 08, 08

Today Blue Note releases an unusual collaboration between Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson. The CD, entitled Two...

Melvoin, Michael posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Melvoin, Michael, keyboards, composer; b. Oshkosh, WI, 10 May 1937. Melvoin is one of the most versatile and accom...

Krall, Diana posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09

Pianist and singer Diana Krall has demonstrated throughout her career that one can pay respect to past masters and st...

Guitarist and Inventor Les Paul Passes Away at 94 posted in Features and Interviews August 13, 09

New York, NY…August 13, 2009…Les Paul, acclaimed guitar player, entertainer and inventor, passed away today from ...

Brown, Cleo posted in Encyclopedia December 17, 08

Cleo Brown was the first of the black female performers who cast themselves in the mold of Fats Waller in the 1930s. ...

Rust Never Sleeps posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 10, 09

Will Friedwald recently offered some reflections in this column on the arcane world of jazz discographers—those int...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: Dick Hyman posted in Features and Interviews July 20, 09

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...

Niles, Richard (Romano) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Niles, Richard (Romano), composer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, broadcaster, journalist, author; b. Hollyw...

Minucci, Chieli posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Minucci, Chieli, composer, guitarist, arranger; b. New York, NY, 17 April 1958. His parents are Catherine Minucci (b....

Cab Calloway (featuring Chu Berry): Ghost of a Chance (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 04, 07

If he hadn't died from a car crash at 31, Chu Berry might've joined the great first-generation triumvirate of tenorme...

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