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Boswell Sisters: Shuffle Off To Buffalo (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 15, 09“Shuffle Off To Buffalo” was one of three Busby Berkeley song-and-dance productions in the film 42nd Street, released...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS
For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...
Benny Goodman (featuring Billie Holiday): Riffin' the Scotch (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music January 20, 08This is Holiday’s recording debut at the age of 18. Record producer John Hammond had taken Benny Goodman, Red Norvo a...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES
Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...
Jack Teagarden: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 12, 07Swing Era and Big Band Era are not necessarily synonymous. Medium-sized groups produced much of the Swing Era's fines...
Billie Holiday: Did I Remember – as heard in Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 20, 07At 23, Billie Holiday was an untrained vocalist with no technique but oodles of charisma. She was fun to hear because...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN
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Red Norvo: Dance of the Octopus (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 08, 07This strange piece of music sounds like . . . hmm, how about a dancing octopus? In a clever piece of program music, ...
Red Norvo: In a Mist (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 08, 07Few jazz musicians have mastered a wider range of the music's history than the now unfairly forgotten Red Norvo. His ...
Red Norvo: Dance of the Octopus (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 08, 07Music, declared Surrealist Manifesto author André Breton, is "the most deeply confusing of all art forms." He might'v...
Pizzarelli, Bucky (John Paul) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli's superior range of harmonic qualities has made him equally effective as a soloist as with...
Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 24, 07No other Jazz Age singer rivaled her versatility. Combining the tony diction of London's posh Mayfair salons (althoug...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER
Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...
Billie Holiday: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 29, 08Billie Holiday was not the first jazz artist to record "Summertime" (Bob Crosby recorded a transcription version five...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME
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Mildred Bailey: Shoutin' In That Amen Corner (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 14, 08After her stint with Paul Whiteman, Mildred Bailey moved on to sing with the other great bands of her day, including ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY
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Mildred Bailey: Junk Man (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 14, 08Mildred Bailey doesn't make her entrance until halfway through this track, but it's worth the wait, with Benny Goodma...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY
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Charlie Byrd/Herb Ellis/Tal Farlow: Jumpin' at the Woodside (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music June 18, 09Featured on a DVD entitled Great Guitars of Jazz, this version of "Jumpin' at the Woodside" pays its respects to the ...
Mooney, Joe posted in Encyclopedia October 22, 09Mooney, Joe, vocals, accordion, piano, organ (b. Paterson, New Jersey, March 14, 1911, d. May 12, 1975, Ft. Lauderdal...
Neville, Chris posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Neville, Chris, piano, organ, synthesizer; b. Boston, MA, 15 October 1955. He grew up in Boston and in West Bath, Mai...
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