Search results for "George Mitchell"

Johnny Dodds (with the New Orleans Wanderers): Perdido Street Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 11, 09

In the hierarchy of New Orleans jazz, the trumpet / cornet players are at the very top of the heap. They were often ...

Jelly Roll Morton: Steamboat Stomp (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

Morton succeeded with his early Victor recordings in having his compositions played with his original conception by a...

Jelly Roll Morton: Original Jelly Roll Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Comparing Morton’s piano solo recording of the “Jelly Roll Blues” with this version by his Red Hot Peppers affords an...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JELLY ROLL MORTON

   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Jelly Roll Morton: Doctor Jazz (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Morton sometimes worked as an entertainer during his nomadic years, and fancied himself a great comic. But the sketch...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JELLY ROLL MORTON

   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Jelly Roll Morton: Black Bottom Stomp (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

This recording was added to the Library of Congress National Sound Registry in 2006, and it sums up in three minutes ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JELLY ROLL MORTON

   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Jelly Roll Morton: Jungle Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Before becoming jazz's first great composer, Jelly Roll Morton spent years entertaining within the bizarre Black Mins...

Roscoe Mitchell: Music for Trombone & B Flat Soprano (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 06, 09

The initial free jazz successes of the late '50s and early '60s were centered mostly in New York, where musicians l...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SOPRANO SAX

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Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell: Bound (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music March 17, 09

This 11-minute electro-acoustic improvisation is dominated by George Lewis's laptop. Whether it's generating its own ...

Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell: Scrape (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 17, 09

Free jazz inspired by those noted post-boppers Henry Cowell and John Cage. Just kidding (kinda), but it's true that t...

Lou Donaldson (featuring Blue Mitchell): Midnight Creeper (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

The partnership between trumpeter Blue Mitchell and alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson is one of the more undervalued in ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS

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Mitchel Forman: What a Wonderful World (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 21, 08

Mitchel Forman is one of the most inventive and skilled jazz pianists around. He plays with a deep natural instinct t...

George Russell: Manhattan (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 30, 08

George Russell's album-length tribute to New York City remains a major work of the period and one of his most importa...

Grant Green: A Day in the Life (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 06, 08

Other prominent soul-jazz guitarists hitched onto the Beatles train (e.g., Wes Montgomery's 1967 A Day in the Life an...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ PERSPECTIVES ON THE BEATLES

During the 1960s, jazz became more stylistically diverse than ever. Conventional norms were assertively challen...

Jimmy Smith: Walk on the Wild Side (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Unrelated to rocker Lou Reed's raunchy 1972 hit of the same name, Jimmy Smith's cover of Elmer Bernstein's movie them...

Cal Tjader: America (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 08, 09

Immigrants have been coming to America's shores for a millennium, and some witty reflections on that fact can be foun...

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

         Jazz Americana, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Shortly ...

Billie Holiday: Love is Here to Stay (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 11, 09

Because of the prominent inclusion of this song in the Oscar-winning biopic on Holiday, it has become closely associa...

Artie Shaw: Sweet Lorraine (Rating: 79/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

This Lorraine is too sweet for my taste. The string arrangement creates a genteel, afternoon-tea type of mood. List...

Clifford Brown: Stardust (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

The album Clifford Brown With Strings has an interesting ‘behind the scenes’ tale, if we look to his widow LaRue Brow...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Jelly Roll Morton: Dead Man Blues (Take 1) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 11, 09

According to Rex Stewart's fine book, Jazz Masters of the '30s, Omer Simeon was elsewhere for this track, and the you...

Mitchell, Blue (Richard Allen) posted in Encyclopedia January 27, 08

Trumpeter Blue Mitchell’s contributions to the emergence of the hard bop style remain largely underappreciated. He is...

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