Search results for "Gene Harris"

Gene Harris: Misty (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music July 15, 08

Gene Harris died in 2000. This recording of a 1996 live performance was released 8 years after his death with the rea...

Gene Harris: Misty (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music July 15, 08

Fans of Gene Harris will welcome this new addition to the discography of the consummate keyboardist, who passed away ...

Gene Harris (featuring Stanley Turrentine): The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

Julia Ward Howe wrote the most spirited and rousing of our "national" anthems. Her Civil War foot-lifter, "The Battle...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MUSICAL AMERICANA

         Jazz Americana, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Shortly ...

Gene Harris: Uptown Sop (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

To soul-food connoisseurs such as your humble reviewer, sop refers not to bribe, fool or Standard Operating Procedure...

Gene Harris and the Three Sounds: I'm Still Sad (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 29, 08

“I’m Still Sad” proves that wires aren’t needed to conduct electricity—the Three Sounds have enough juice flowing fro...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC BLUE NOTE GROOVES

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson’s 1970 Blue Note recording Everything I Play Is Funky opens with a corny but telling d...

Benny Goodman: Peckin' (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 18, 08

Harry James got his first big break when he joined the Benny Goodman organization in January 1937. Benny's brother Ha...

Ray Brown Trio: Lady Be Good (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

When I was just getting really serious about the music, and going out and buying records with the allowance my mother...

Gene Krupa: Lover (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

With the Swing Era fading fast, its star drummer demonstrates how far both this song and big bands had come. In 1933,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Harry "The Hipster" Gibson: Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine? (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music April 04, 08

In 1946 Time magazine identified Harry the Hipster Gibson as "the bigwig of be-bop." Absurdly conflating bop and hips...

Benny Goodman: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 04, 09

While his inter-personal skills left much to be desired, Benny Goodman cared about his band and was always interested...

Sauter-Finegan Orchestra: Nina Never Knew (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 19, 08

Except for an instrumental midsection with solos by Travis (muted) and Harris, this recording features Joe Mooney bac...

Woody Herman: Tenderly (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 04, 09

“Tenderly” is a fascinating song, originally written in three and often played in four. It has remained a standard al...

Duke Ellington: Flamingo (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

In 1940, the star of such Westerns with a black hero as Bronze Buckaroo (1938) and Harlem Rides the Range (1939)...

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...

Benny Goodman: Blue Skies (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 12, 09

The star of this performance is Fletcher Henderson's chart. The intro starts with an Ellingtonian growl that morphs ...

Benny Goodman: King Porter Stomp (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 12, 07

Five years after Jelly Roll Morton recorded his tribute to pianist Porter King, bandleader Fletcher Henderson adopted...

Fats Waller: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

When Roaring '20s Chicago gangsters abducted Fats Waller to sing "Happy Birthday" to Al Capone, they showed more musi...

Stan Kenton: Evening in Pakistan (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

Like the proverbial Ark, Stan Kenton's behemoth Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra included at least two of every ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Harris, Gene (Haire, Eugene) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Pianist Gene Harris combined the blues with bebop, gospel and soul in a tasteful mix which contained a wealth of melo...

Harris, Barry (Doyle) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09

Pianist Barry Harris seamlessly blends bebop’s lyrical phrasing with an exceptional accompanying style, drawn from hi...

Jackson, Gene posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Jackson, Gene, drums; b. West Philadelphia, PA, 16 October 1961. Roy Haynes, Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, Billy Hig...

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