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Dizzy Gillespie: The Eternal Triangle (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

The 2006 recording by James Moody and Hank Jones of Sonny Stitt's "[The] Eternal Triangle" brings to mind this 1957 v...

Dizzy Reece: The Shadow Of Kahn (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music May 04, 09

Jamaican-born trumpeter Dizzy Reece may not have led many sessions during his heyday, but he certainly made the most ...

Benny Golson & Art Farmer: Step Lightly (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

So, if Miles Davis proved the Harmon mute worked on ballads and Chet Baker showed it handled fast tunes, what about m...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Benny Golson: You're Mine, You (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Benny Golson's passionate but never blustery tenor styling was overshadowed in the mid-1950s by his compositional fla...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Roland Kirk: You Did It, You Did It (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Among the portable pawnshop of strange instruments slung around Roland Kirk's neck was an ordinary transverse flute. ...

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...

Joe Williams: Alright, Okay, You Win (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Blues shouter Joe Williams recorded his classic "Alright, Okay, You Win" with Count Basie in 1955. But Ring-a-Di...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Mal Waldron: Fire Waltz (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

The fire on this, the original recording of one of the pianist’s most enduring original compositions, emanates primar...

Gil Evans: La Nevada (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

Gil Evans was always adept at the “less is more” theory. One year before this recording, he issued Great Jazz Standar...

Gil Evans: La Nevada (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 24, 08

“La Nevada” is Spanish for “Snowfall,” bandleader Claude Thornhill’s theme. Yet in contrast to the airtight orchestra...

Jerome Richardson: Warm Valley (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 02, 08

Jerome Richardson was one of the best and most successful musicians on the New York scene during the last golden age...

Lee Morgan: Whisper Not (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 31, 09

Volume 2: Sextet features the first studio recording of Benny Golson's "Whisper Not," which is considered by many to ...

Gil Evans: Stratusphunk (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

I remember when I first heard this album during college. It had a huge effect on me. I loved the angularity, the hu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Gil Evans: Stratusphunk (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

Gil Evans and George Russell first paced together in Birth of the Cool's modernity ward—the late-1940s salon in Gil's...

Bill Barron: One Hand, One Heart (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music February 13, 09

Crazes, like politics, can make for strange bedfellows. Put the early '60s craving for jazz versions of musicals toge...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEST SIDE STORY

Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...

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...

Walrath, Jack (Jack Arthur Walrath Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Walrath, Jack [Jack Arthur Walrath Jr.], trumpet, composer, conductor, arranger, educator, author; b. Stuart, FL, 5 M...

Ho, Fred (Fred Wei-han Houn) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Ho, Fred [Fred Wei-han Houn], baritone saxophonist, composer, author; b. Palo Alto, CA, 10 August 1957. His name was ...

In Conversation with Johnny Griffin posted in Features and Interviews July 28, 08

By Ted Panken Can you recall your impressions when you arrived in New York for the first time in 1945 with Lion...

Stitt, Sonny (Edward) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

Saxophonist Sonny Stitt combined bebop, blues, and swing into a sound that took chances. A versatile player of alto, ...

Bernstein, Steven (Michael) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bernstein, Steven (Michael), trumpet, slide trumpet, mellophone, band leader, arranger, composer, conductor; b. Washi...

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