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Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Tiger Rag (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 16, 07The second version of this Dixieland standard as recorded by the first orchestra of recorded jazz has much to listen ...
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Ostrich Walk (1917) (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 09, 07After recording "Ostrich Walk" annually from 1917-1919, the ODJB did so again in 1936, 1943, 1945 and 1946. It took a...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS
It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Livery Stable Blues (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 16, 0720th-century popular arts were bundled with the technology used to deliver them. Jazz is a case in point. Not until t...
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: The Darktown Strutters' Ball (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 17, 07"Darktown Strutters' Ball" stems from the cakewalk, a popular Southern spectator sport in which pre-bellum slaveholde...
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Tiger Rag (1917 version) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 10, 09This band has received plenty of attention from jazz writers, but only occasionally for its music. White musicians m...
Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: Raggin' the Scale (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 04, 09Call me crazy, but to my ears (and to get a bit grandiose), this seems like a short-piece jazz answer to Bach's Brand...
Berg, Eddie (Edward) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Berg, Eddie (Edward); guitarist, educator, author. His Step Father was Arthur Braedt (born in Belguim 1890, died in N...
Trager, Eddie (Edward Mark Strauss) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Trager, Eddie [Edward Mark Strauss], singer; b. Brooklyn, NY, 10 March 1949. It was in Brooklyn, where he grew up, th...
Henderson, Eddie (Edward Jackson, Mganga) posted in Encyclopedia April 16, 09Trumpeter and flugelhornist Dr. Eddie Henderson forged a distinctive brand of space-funk as a member of Herbie Hancoc...
Nelson, Oliver (Edward) posted in Encyclopedia August 21, 08Many know saxophonist Oliver Nelson for what may be the best-titled jazz album of all time, 1961's Blues and the Abst...
Hopps, Jimmy (James Edward Hopps Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Hopps, Jimmy [James Edward Hopps Jr.], drummer; b. Washington, DC, 18 June 1939. His mother, Louella T.W. Hopps, was ...
Weston, Randy (Randolph Edward) posted in Encyclopedia December 18, 08Pianist Randy Weston has followed his ears from Brooklyn and bebop to Africa, and he has increasingly drawn inspirati...
Neiderhiser, Ed (Edward A.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Neiderhiser, Ed (Edward A.), trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, composer, arranger b. Greensburg, PA.27 May 1947.&...
Brecker, Randy (Randal Edward) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09Randy Brecker (by Jos L. Knaepen) ...
The Lives of the Jazz Greats posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 28, 09Hidden behind the scenes of jazz.com, a team of writers has been working on building the world’s biggest on-line ja...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Clarinet Marmalade (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 20, 07Set to wax earlier on the same day as “Singin’ the Blues,” “Clarinet Marmalade” is notable for a few reasons: Bix, fo...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE
Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
The Mills Brothers: Tiger Rag (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07Besides singing conventionally, the teenage Mills brothers imitated musical instruments with kazoos. But, legend has ...
In Conversation with Joe Lovano posted in Features and Interviews May 25, 09By Stuart Nicholson ...
Taylor, Mark (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Taylor, Mark (Anthony), drums; b. Hampstead, London, England, 7 November 1962. He's the son of of Edward Eugene Taylo...
Television's Peter Gunn Turns 50 posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 10, 08Fifty years ago this month, TV viewers were introduced to Peter Gunn in "The Kill," the first of 114 half-hour episod...
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