Search results for "Chuck Rainey"
Steely Dan: Peg (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09"Peg" is a rare instance in Steely Dan's discography where the music takes precedence over the lyrics. While the sto...
Steely Dan: Black Cow (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 11, 091977 was a year in which disco reigned supreme but underneath the glamor and the glitz was Steely Dan's epic masterpi...
Steely Dan: Aja (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 18, 08Wayne Shorter, along with the other founding members of Weather Report, put fusion on the map in the early 1970s. The...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSSENTIAL WAYNE SHORTER TRACKS
Early stints with Horace Silver and Maynard Ferguson introduced Wayne Shorter’s riveting sound to the jazz community ...
Steely Dan: Josie (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09From the wildly successful Aja CD, "Josie" is constructed around light jazz flourishes, a horn section that keeps the...
Herbie Mann: Push Push (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 16, 07The participants here set Mann’s composition in a great groove. The record is more famous to some for the presence of...
Louis Armstrong: This Black Cat Has 9 Lives (Rating: 81/100) posted in Music August 13, 09Talk about sloganeering. On one of the weirdest straightforward jazz recordings of all time, Louis "Pops" Armstrong ...
Steely Dan: Kid Charlemagne (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09Larry Carlton's fierce solo on "Kid Charlemagne" is widely viewed as one of the most important guitar recordings in h...
Steely Dan: Babylon Sisters (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09"Babylon Sisters" is a great reggae influenced tune which utilizes one of Steely Dan's most intricate chord charts. ...
Steely Dan (featuring Wayne Shorter): Aja (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 22, 09Steely Dan's claim to fame is high-minded jazz-rock presented in a radio-ready format. "Aja," the title cut from thei...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS
Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...
In Conversation With Brian Blade posted in Features and Interviews July 14, 09By Ted Panken "The way I was brought up, boundary lines were never laid on the ground between people or the musi...
Donny Hathaway: What's Going On (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 13, 09Donny Hathaway's "What's Going On" injects a completely different sensibility into a tune heavy in sociopolitical sig...
Doc Cheatham: New Orleans (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 19, 09In the span of his long career, Doc Cheatham played with Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Chick Webb, Cab Calloway, Teddy Wi...
Harris, Gene (Haire, Eugene) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09Pianist Gene Harris combined the blues with bebop, gospel and soul in a tasteful mix which contained a wealth of melo...
Johnson, Dean (Douglas) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Johnson, Dean (Douglas), bassist; b. Renton, WA, 12 September 1956. Grew up in Renton and Bellevue, WA, and also 5 ea...
Anderson, Jay posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Anderson, Jay, bassist, composer; b. Ontario, California, 24 October 1955. He grew up in Long Beach, CA. His parents ...
Christian, Charlie (Charles Henry) posted in Encyclopedia April 21, 08“Who the hell wants to hear an electric guitar player?” asked clarinetist Benny Goodman when producer John Hammond su...
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