Search results for "Bob Cooper"

Frank Rosolino: Frank 'n Earnest (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Frank Rosolino emerged during his 1952-'54 stint with Stan Kenton as one of jazz's most exciting trombonists. Here th...

Pete Christlieb & Bob Cooper: Passion Flower (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Duke Ellington’s celebrated alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges set the standard for the performance of Billy Strayhorn’s ...

Bud Shank & Bob Cooper: Sweet Georgia Brown (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

A longtime jazz favorite, "Sweet Georgia Brown" (1925) became beloved by millions after the Harlem Globetrotters made...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES

"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...

Stan Kenton: Machito (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

The Kenton band’s music attracted the finest young instrumentalists, as the band provided an excellent forum for new ...

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: 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: 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 ...

Rosemary Clooney: More Than You Know (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

While the lyrics of this 62-year-old standard show their age, its lovely melody is untarnished, and the vocalist, one...

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 (with Marty Paich): The Carioca (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Whoever doubts Mel Tormé's skill as a jazz singer should listen to the first 25 seconds of this track, where he sings...

Mel Tormé (with Marty Paich): Lulu's Back in Town (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 21, 08

I've never much cared for "back in town" songs. Whether it's Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town" or just Matt D...

Stan Kenton: Lover (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

After lulling us with an intro fit for a biopic of some doomed Romantic Composer, including stating the melody as a C...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Stan Kenton: Elegy for Alto (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

After disbanding his "Artistry in Rhythm" ensemble, Kenton reformed the band and called the resulting music "Progress...

Ella Fitzgerald: Every Time We Say Goodbye (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

Perhaps the most enduring song from the whole Songbook series, “Every Time We Say Goodbye” from The Cole Porter Songb...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL ELLA FITZGERALD PERFORMANCES

Ella Fitzgerald lived to sing. Nothing in her life meant as much to her. Yet she never had a music lesson in her life...

Ella Fitzgerald: How Long Has This Been Going On? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

When Ella addressed the monumental Songbook series – part jazz lieder, part cocktail music – not only did she re-vali...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL ELLA FITZGERALD PERFORMANCES

Ella Fitzgerald lived to sing. Nothing in her life meant as much to her. Yet she never had a music lesson in her life...

Barney Kessel: 64 Bars on Wilshire (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

Kessel's busy ode to a traffic-soaked Los Angeles thoroughfare contains several wild conflagrations by pianist Hampto...

Ray Brown: Ain't Misbehavin' (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 09, 09

Ray Brown's 1960 album Jazz Cello was one of the first albums in mainstream jazz to be devoted entirely to the cello....

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

Can the cello swing? Can the cello be as melodically sophisticated as traditional jazz instruments? Is the cell...

Stan Kenton: Easy Go (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

During his "Innovations" period, Kenton would drop the strings between tours and play dance gigs to recoup the money ...

Benny Carter: Central City Sketches (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

Benny Carter was six months shy of his 80th birthday when he debuted this extended composition at a "standing room on...

Stan Kenton: Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days and One Hour Blues (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

This is one of vocalist June Christy's best records with the Kenton band. Originally from Chicago, she married tenorm...

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