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Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (1956 version) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

“Brilliant Corners” is the most complex work in the 70-song Monk canon. It speeds up, it slows down, it shifts course...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Gerald Wilson: Triple Chase (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 04, 08

Only distortion on the original recording detracts from this up-tempo showcase for the Wilson orchestra's tenor saxop...

Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...

Sonny Rollins: Grand Street (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 06, 08

Sonny Rollins had been recording steadily for 9½ years, but this was his first big band date. Of course, Sonny always...

Lyons, Jimmy posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons took Charlie Parker's innovations and ran with them into free jazz, where he developed h...

Bennington, James, (Arnold) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bennington, James, (Arnold), drumset, bandleader, composer, arranger, educator; Columbus, OH, 22 May 1970. His parent...

McKusick, Hal (Harold Wilfred McKusick, Jr) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

McKusick, Hal [Harold Wilfred McKusick, Jr], saxes, clarinets, flutes, composer (also Keyboard knowledge and orchestr...

Dizzy Gillespie: Lover Come Back to Me (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 05, 08

This 1948 session for Victor showcases the Gillespie Orchestra as one of the most innovative ensembles of its era. Th...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A DIZZY DOZEN GILLESPIE CLASSICS

From his seminal work with Charlie Parker to his collaborations with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie continually br...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: Randy Weston posted in Features and Interviews April 15, 08

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. Oct...

Dizzy Gillespie (featuring Mary Lou Williams): Selections from Zodiac Suite (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music June 08, 08

Zodiac Suite was the first of many long-form compositions Mary Lou Williams produced during her lengthy and distingui...

Dizzy Gillespie: Guarachi Guaro (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 10, 08

Out of the studios for over a year due to a recording ban, Gillespie's band came back with a roar, starting with this...

Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzier and Dizzier (Katy) (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music July 12, 08

Under the name "Katy" (probably in honor of Mrs. William Basie), this composition was initially recorded in April&nbs...

In Conversation with Johnny Griffin posted in Features and Interviews July 28, 08

By Ted Panken Can you recall your impressions when you arrived in New York for the first time in 1945 with Lion...

Count Basie: Half Moon Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 21, 08

The concept behind this album was to feature original pieces by several current members (as of 1958) and one former m...

Dorham, Kenny (McKinley Howard) posted in Encyclopedia February 18, 09

Kenny Dorham has been scandalously undervalued in the jazz trumpet lineage. His breathy tone was not the immediate wa...

Ray Brown-Milt Jackson: Lined With A Groove (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

This recording is with Oliver Nelson’s big band—Grady Tate is playing drums, Clark Terry is playing flugelhorn, Milt ...

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron), violin, cornet, baritone horn, double bass, composer; b. Glens Falls, NY, 13 January 1...

Jazz's Most Iconic Photo Is Half a Century Old posted in Features and Interviews August 11, 08

by Alan Kurtz "When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire," Dizzy Gilles...

Bechet, Sidney posted in Encyclopedia February 17, 09

“Of all the musicians, Bechet to me was the very epitome of jazz," composer Duke Ellington once said of soprano saxo...

Rich, Buddy (Bernard) posted in Encyclopedia July 16, 09

Drummer Buddy Rich's combined his dexterous use of difficult rhythmic devices with an ability to accompany any melody...

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