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Miles Davis: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

    Miles Davis, photo by Herb Snitzer Concierto de Aranjuez (1939), directed its compose...

Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Bess, Oh, Where Is My Bess? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

How does one pick a favorite piece from Gil's and Miles' Porgy and Bess album? Tough to do. I've chosen this piece ...

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...

Miles Davis: Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

In Act III, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935), Porgy returns to Catfish Row after a week in jail that...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

This is arguably the finest of Gil's and Miles' collaborations. There are countless details one could highlight, but...

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...

Charles Mingus: Half-Mast Inhibition (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Mingus began "Half-Mast Inhibition" at age 18, but left it unfinished for 20 years. As tempting as it might be to cal...

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 ...

Artie Shaw: Aesop's Foibles (Minnesota) (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Artie Shaw was forever quitting the music business in disgust, only to return and repeat the cycle. In 1949 he was in...

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...

Buddy DeFranco: Out of Nowhere (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

At this writing, DeFranco continues to be an excellent musician playing an instrument that fell out of favor early in...

Bill Evans & Claus Ogerman: Symbiosis (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 22, 08

Bill Evans was working in familiar territory on most of his 1970s recordings, playing standards and his own compositi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

Oscar Pettiford: Not So Sleepy (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 07, 08

Seldom in jazz has such an unusual and rich combination of sonorities been assembled into one performance. Bassist Os...

George Handy: The Sleepwalker (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 19, 09

At this point in time it is safe to assume that the name George Handy is unlikely to be familiar to most jazz listene...

Charles Mingus: Los Mariachis (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Inspired by street musicians in Tijuana, “Los Mariachis” employs a suite-like structure that simulates a walking tour...

Miles Davis: There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 08, 08

Although this song is actually sung in the opera's penultimate scene, it makes a fine ending for the album. Clearly i...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Berger, Kenny posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Berger, Kenny, baritone saxophone, clarinet, flute,bass clarinet, bassoon, composer; b. Manhattan (N.Y.), 19 December...

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...

A Fitting Epitaph to Mingus's Big Score posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 18, 09

When jazz fans discuss the really big compositions of the past, a small number of controversial classics dominate the...

Griffith, Frank posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Griffith, Frank, saxophonist, composer/arranger, educator; b. Eugene, OR, 21 January 1959. In 1984, he graduated from...

Rosenberg, Roger posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Rosenberg, Roger, saxophone; b. New York City, 26 May 1951. As a child, his family moved first to New Rochelle, and t...

Daly, Claire (Anne) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Daly, Claire (Anne), saxophone, clarinet; b. Bronxville, NY, 26 February 1958. She grew up in Yonkers, NY with her pa...

Johnny Hodges: Don't Sleep in the Subway (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"Everybody knows Johnny Hodges," went Duke Ellington's standard introduction. By the mid-'60s, it was no longer true....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

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