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Billie Holiday (with Count Basie): They Can't Take That Away From Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

Count Basie featured three singers with his band on this June 30, 1937 live broadcast from Harlem's famous Savoy Bal...

Count Basie (with Lester Young): Song of the Islands (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

I once asked Stan Getz which Lester Young recordings he most admired, and this was the first track he mentioned. I h...

Count Basie: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

With his customary sparse piano, wily Bill B. sets the stage for this easygoing anthem of the Swing Era. Big-toned te...

Count Basie: Cheek to Cheek (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 31, 07

Count Basie did not have a pleasant 1949. He'd already disbanded, put together a new group, and was scraping for gigs...

Sidney Bechet & Earl Hines: Blues In Thirds (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 30, 08

This classic recording fortuitously came about when a memorial session was set up in September 1940 to honor the memo...

Count Basie All-Stars: I Left My Baby (1957) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

James Andrew Rushing, born in Oklahoma City in 1903, first recorded "I Left My Baby" in 1939 under the aegis of Willi...

Eames, Rich (Richad Warren Eames, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Eames, Rich (Richad Warren Eames, Jr.), piano, composer; b. Omaha, NE, 15 March 1950. Grew up on parents' farm in sou...

Sharrock, Sonny (Warren Harding) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

Guitarist Sonny Sharrock forged a path for the electric guitar in experimental jazz by adapting the improvisational s...

Friedman, Bill posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Friedman, Bill, keyboard, composer, producer, (and formerly trumpet); b. Berkeley, CA, 30 November 1963. He's the son...

Count Basie: Queer Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Count Basie, photo by Herb Snitzer Since the successful release of the Monk/Coltrane Carnegie Hall Concert in ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

Count Basie: Blee Blop Blues (issued as "Normania") (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 14, 08

One of the last recordings by the original Count Basie Orchestra, this composition is the work of A.K. Salim, who wou...

Ahmad Jamal: Piano Solo #11 (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 09, 08

I am completely blown away by how huge Ahmad Jamal’s musical world actually is. He is able to totally defy styles, ba...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ERIC REED SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL AHMAD JAMAL TRACKS

                 Ahmad Jamal, by...

Count Basie: Dance of the Gremlins (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

As evidenced throughout "Dance of the Gremlins," Jo Jones was the undisputed king of maintaining a swinging hi-hat pu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Count Basie Orchestra (featuring Jack Washington): Somebody Stole My Gal (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 22, 08

Jack Washington stands with Harry Carney as one of the first featured baritone saxophonists in jazz. Performing in Be...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

                   Gerry Mulligan, ...

Count Basie: Dark Rapture (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

“Dark Rapture” is a taut showpiece for singer Helen Humes that ranks among the glossiest productions of the early Bas...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Count Basie: Taxi War Dance (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

Perhaps his finest moment on record, Young is probably also (mostly) responsible for “Taxi War Dance’s” very simple h...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Hart, Billy (William W.; Jabali) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Hart, Billy (William W.; Jabali), drummer; b. Washington, DC, 29 November 1940. His grandmother was a concert pianis...

In Conversation With Bill Charlap posted in Features and Interviews July 30, 09

By Ted Panken "I’ve really been running the last two days," said Bill Charlap in the lobby of the Algonqui...

Morse, Michael (William) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Morse, Michael (William), bassist, composer, educator, author; b. Northampton, MA, 10 January 1948. He grew up in New...

Bowen, Ralph (Michael) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bowen, Ralph (Michael), saxophones: tenor, alto, soprano, flute; b. Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 23 December 1961. He was...

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