Search results for "Flip Phillips"

Woody Herman (featuring Sonny Berman): Your Father's Moustache (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

"Your Father's Moustache" captures Herman's First Herd in full charge, and noticeably emerging out of the band's glor...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE SONNYS OF JAZZ

Jazz Quiz: What do these names have in common? Saul Berman Herman Blount Conrad Yeatis Clark William Criss C...

Machito: Tanga (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Written by Mario Bauza, the musician who brought Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo together, “Tanga” is a forgotten clas...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE LATIN JAZZ CLASSICS

         Percussionist,  artwork by Suzanne Cerny Editor's n...

Woody Herman: Apple Honey (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

In the mid-1940s, Woody Herman's fire-breathing Thundering Herd was the most exciting big band in jazz. Sparked by th...

Woody Herman: Goosey Gander (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

This track takes its name from a nursery rhyme, but don't let Woody Herman's First Herd anywhere near the nursery. Tr...

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...

Billie Holiday: Blue Moon (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 04, 07

Lady Day evidently brought a head cold to this session, which for other singers might be a handicap. Holiday, however...

Red Norvo: Congo Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 15, 08

In the 1950s, best-selling author Jack Kerouac godfathered the Beat Generation, an unwashed gaggle of ofay deadb...

Woody Herman: Wild Root (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

Once upon a time, an alternate take of "Wild Root" was the more commonly heard performance whenever the title would b...

Woody Herman: Lady McGowan's Dream (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

This has to be the only composition named after a nymphomaniacal woman who held orgies in her hotel room for members ...

Woody Herman: Woodchopper's Ball (1946) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Woody Herman's "Woodchopper's Ball" (1939) was a natural hit for the native of Wisconsin, which even today is nearly...

Woody Herman: The Good Earth (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 11, 09

This was in the Herman book for almost a year before it was recorded for Columbia Records, and was originally called ...

Chico O’Farrill: Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Chico O’Farrill, an important Latin jazz pioneer, achieved success as a bandleader, composer and arranger. O’Farrill...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE LATIN JAZZ CLASSICS

         Percussionist,  artwork by Suzanne Cerny Editor's n...

Woody Herman: Ebony Concerto (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Emigrating to the U.S. during World War II, the world's foremost composer found himself financially strapped. Gratefu...

Jazz at the Philharmonic: Leap Here (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Beginning with a concert at Los Angeles’ Philharmonic Hall in 1944, Norman Granz produced a long-running series of to...

Woody Herman (featuring Sonny Berman): Sidewalks of Cuba (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 28, 07

Sonny Berman was on the road as a jazz trumpeter at age sixteen and dead from a heroin overdose at 22. He worked wit...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Charlie Parker: Lester Leaps In (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 15, 09

Charlie Parker's live version of "Lester Leaps In" is marred only by noises that sound like the track was lifted eith...

Peters, Flip (Phillip M.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Peters, Flip (Phillip M.), guitar, banjo, vocalist; b. Newark, NJ, 28 August 1949. Grew up in Nutley, NJ. His parents...

Johnston, Phillip (John) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Johnston, Phillip (John), soprano, alto, tenor saxophones, piano, ukulele, composer; b. Chicago, IL, 22 January 1955....

Charlie Parker: Funky Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 29, 09

This performance highlights the difference between Parker's form of expression on the blues in contrast to the approa...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STEVE COLEMAN ON CHARLIE PARKER

The music of Charles Christopher Parker—as well as the music of many other musicians—probably has the greatest infl...

Mason, John posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Mason, John, bass; b. Chicago, IL, 28 September 1937. Mason played briefly with Dexter Gordon, Howard McGhee and S...

Lovano, Joe posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Lovano, Joe, tenor saxophone; b. Cleveland, Ohio, 29 December 29, 1952. His father Tony "Big T" Lovano (b. September ...

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