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Gerald Wilson: Watermelon Man (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Gerald Wilson always included new compositions of artists he respected. His was the first big band besides Duke Ellin...
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Gerald Wilson: Blues for Yna Yna (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Gerald Wilson led bands on and off during the 1950s, but except for a group of recordings for the King label in '54, ...
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Gerald Wilson: Nancy Jo (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Named for one of Gerald Wilson's daughters, this track is a blues with a major difference: every chord change is an a...
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Gerald Wilson: Out of This World (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 03, 08It says quite a bit when an arrangement written in 1945 sounds just as contemporary today. Gerald Wilson wrote his ve...
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Gerald Wilson: Groovin' High (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Gerald Wilson's arrangement (the tune is based on the chord changes of the standard "Whispering") was the first-known...
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Gerald Wilson: Et-ta (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 03, 08This track is a showcase for tenor saxophonist Eddie (not "Lockjaw") Davis, although the composition itself also has ...
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Gerald Wilson: Dissonance in Blues (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Gerald Wilson's band was beginning to reach the highest rungs of popularity and stardom when the leader decided to di...
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Gerald Wilson: Cruisin' with Cab (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 08This exciting up-tempo tribute to Cab Calloway is the sort of thing Calloway's band would play in its prime, although...
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Gerald Wilson: Warm Mood (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Melba Liston was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and moved with her family to Los Angeles at the age of 11. A professi...
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Gerald Wilson: Paper Man (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Charles Tolliver had played with Jackie McLean, Art Blakey and Sonny Rollins before moving to the West Coast and join...
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Gerald Wilson: Viva Tirado (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 03, 08It was inevitable that someone would ask Gerald Wilson to record many of his classic arrangements with an all-star Ne...
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Gerald Wilson: Lomelin (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Gerald Wilson's band had not made an album for 12 years when Albert Marx asked him back to record for his new label, ...
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Gerald Wilson: Detroit (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 11, 09A nostalgic, backward-looking quality permeates this late vintage work by veteran bandleader Gerald Wilson. And cert...
Gerald Wilson: Triple Chase (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 04, 08Only distortion on the original recording detracts from this up-tempo showcase for the Wilson orchestra's tenor saxop...
Lester Young: All of Me (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 12, 08Propelled by Jo Jones's dynamic sticks, this tune (originally from the album Pres and Teddy) finds Pres in great shap...
Count Basie: Cheek to Cheek (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 31, 07Count Basie did not have a pleasant 1949. He'd already disbanded, put together a new group, and was scraping for gigs...
Dizzy Gillespie: Guarachi Guaro (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 10, 08Out 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, 08Under the name "Katy" (probably in honor of Mrs. William Basie), this composition was initially recorded in April&nbs...
Herbie Hancock & Gerald Clayton in Italy posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 20, 08Ted Panken continues to report on exciting happenings at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. Below is his fourth upd...
Jones, Carmell (Carmell William Jones, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia April 16, 09Trumpeter Carmell Jones stepped out of the riff-based traditions of Kansas City swing into hard bop. Equally at home ...
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