Search results for "Bud Shank"

Bud Shank: Here's That Rainy Day (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

In 1957, West Coast alto star Art Pepper recorded Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section, one of his most successful alb...

Bud Shank: Over the Rainbow (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 20, 09

The doctors told him no driving, no flying. Even on ground, he required a wheelchair to get around. Yet Bud Shank c...

Bud Shank: Casa de Luz (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

His Latin interest piqued by a 1953 collaboration with guitarist Laurindo Almeida, Bud Shank alighted in "Casa de Luz...

Bud Shank & Laurindo Almeida: Little Girl Blue (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 13, 09

Almost a decade before "Girl from Ipanema" hit the charts, Bud Shank and Laurindo Almeida were exploring ways of comb...

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...

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...

Gerry Mulligan: Theme from I Want to Live! (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

I Want to Live! (1958) is the true story of three lowlifes who, after murdering a disabled widow during a botched rob...

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

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

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...

The Hi-Lo's: The Lady in Red (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 03, 07

The Hi-Lo's were a peppy 1950s male vocal quartet whose name was self-descriptive: one guy sang high, another sang lo...

Gerry Mulligan: A Ballad (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

As chief arranger and co-principal soloist, Gerry Mulligan helped deliver Miles Davis's obstetric triumph Birth of th...

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 ...

Lorez Alexandria: Show Me (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Who knew? Turns out the Cockney Cinderella who morphs into a duchess for a musical set in Mayfair actually hailed fro...

Anita O'Day: Yesterdays (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Decades before recycling became fashionable, Russ Garcia was doing his part, reworking an arrangement of "Con Alma," ...

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...

Remembering Bud Shank (1926-2009) posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 04, 09

The last time I talked to Bud Shank was in November 2007 at a conference on West Coast jazz held by the Getty Cente...

Shank, Bud (Clifford Everett) posted in Encyclopedia April 04, 09

Bud Shank is best known as one of the leading figures on the West Coast jazz scene of the 1950s, yet he did much to r...

Shank, Kendra posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Shank, Kendra (Ann), vocalist, guitarist, percussionist; b. Woodland, CA, 23 April 1958. Lived in Davis, CA until ...

Peck, Dave (David Allan) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Peck, Dave (David Allan), composer and pianist; b. Tacoma, WA, 29 August 1954. His parents are Dr. Robert Peck and Ly...

A History of Cool Jazz in 100 Tracks (Part 2) posted in Features and Interviews May 16, 09

Edited by Ted Gioia We continue with our history of cool jazz in 100 tracks. Below we present the final fifty r...

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