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Harry 'Sweets' Edison: How Deep Is the Ocean? (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 05, 07

Browsing rival websites recently for good stuff to steal—or, make that transmute into high art—we found Sweets Edison...

Harry 'Sweets' Edison: Sophisticated Lady (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 28, 07

You may associate Edison with the invention of the light bulb, but fans of the American popular song prefer to rememb...

Cy Touff: Keester Parade (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

In addition to its witty title and hummable melody, Johnny Mandel’s “Keester Parade” offers a full-sounding small-ban...

Frank Sinatra: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

Frank Sinatra always seemed to have one foot planted in jazz and the other in pop, and there are few better examples ...

Count Basie (with Lester Young): Song of the Islands (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

I once asked Stan Getz which Lester Young recordings he most admired, and this was the first track he mentioned. I h...

Joe Williams: Alright, Okay, You Win (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Blues shouter Joe Williams recorded his classic "Alright, Okay, You Win" with Count Basie in 1955. But Ring-a-Di...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Billie Holiday: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

I wonder if Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer were thinking of Billie Holiday when they wrote “Come Rain Or Come Shine”....

Count Basie: Cheek to Cheek (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 31, 07

Count Basie did not have a pleasant 1949. He'd already disbanded, put together a new group, and was scraping for gigs...

Count Basie (featuring J.J. Johnson): Rambo (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

J.J. Johnson was a promising young trombonist/arranger when he left the Benny Carter band and joined up with the Coun...

Count Basie: Stay On It (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

It says quite a bit when ensembles led by Basie and Dizzy Gillespie give equally convincing performances of a particu...

Billie Holiday: All or Nothing at All (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Norman Granz told me that although he once had to wind up a recording session with Billie because she was too drunk t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Dexter Gordon: I've Found A New Baby (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

“I’ve Found a New Baby” is the first track listed on the first Dexter Gordon-led recording session in late 1943. Sit...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DEXTER GORDON

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Frank Sinatra: How About You? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

"I like New York in June," sings Frank Sinatra. "How about you?" Obviously a trick question. Who, after all, is ...

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...

Count Basie: Queer Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Count Basie, photo by Herb Snitzer Since the successful release of the Monk/Coltrane Carnegie Hall Concert in ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

Billie Holiday: Comes Love (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

By the mid-1950s, Billie Holiday had been rescued by a record label (Verve) with the wisdom to scrap her former ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: FIFTIES FEMMES FATALES

In 1958, as evidence that love's fever is a long-running malady, singer/lyricist Peggy Lee alluded to Romeo & Julie...

Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Away with pretenders! The throne belongs to but one Ring-a-Ding King. A quarter century after achieving stardom with ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Billie Holiday: What's New (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Do you prefer to take your Holiday earlier or later? Hard choice . . . The early Billie Holiday sings with more pop s...

Count Basie: Counter Block (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

This performance by the Basie band took place during a late-night gig at a Disc Jockeys of America convention on May ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: PETER ERSKINE

In the music world, but especially in the jazz world, everyone wants to know what everybody else is listening to. So ...

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...

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