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James Carter: Bro. Dolphy (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 28, 08

Some artists try to maintain a single mood or attitude for an entire CD . . . or perhaps even an entire career. Not ...

James Carter (with Heaven on Earth): Diminishing (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 02, 09

What does it mean when a group of crack jazz musicians gets together to make a thinly-disguised rock record? Is it a...

James Carter: Pour Que Ma Vie Demeure (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 17, 08

For Present Tense, producer Michael Cuscuna was able to rein in James Carter's sometimes over-the-top, unfocused tend...

James Carter: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

On his CD The Real Quietstorm, James Carter plays baritone sax . . . and tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax, bass clari...

James Carter: Odyssey (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 14, 09

James Carter doesn't create unconventional mash-ups of different styles just to be hip; he's adept at making these mé...

Benny Golson: Whisper Not (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 03, 09

Benny Golson has said that he wrote "Whisper Not" in only 20 minutes, and that the title meant "nothing" – he just li...

Wynton Marsalis: Blood on the Fields (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 22, 07

Wynton Marsalis has built a career on high ambitions—including (for a start) assimilating the music vocabulary from H...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

John Carter: Dauwhe (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

John Carter’s masterwork, the five-volume Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music, tra...

James Brown: It’s A Man’s, Man's, Man’s World (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

Not many people know that Ray Brown was actually a very good electric bass player. He adapted to the smaller instrume...

Wayne Shorter: Kryptonite (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

I'm generally amazed at the amount of work Wayne Shorter has released in his fifty year career. His album output duri...

Bobby Hutcherson: Little B's Poem (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

On an album that exhibits both vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s avant-garde leanings and his hard-bop grounding, Hutch...

Woody Shaw: Isabel the Liberator (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Woody Shaw had arguably the finest touring jazz (straight ahead) small group on the...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BRIAN LYNCH SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL WOODY SHAW TRACKS

Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Andrew Hill: Illusion (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

This is Andrew with a funky rhythm section and string quartet, and Bennie Maupin enters pretty far into the song. At ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: VIJAY IYER SURVEYS THE MUSIC OF ANDREW HILL

In 1995, Vijay Iyer, then a 24-year-old Berkeley PhD candidate in Physics with an interest in the neurobiology of ...

Wayne Shorter: Tom Thumb (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

Blue Note albums from the '60s abound in long-form variations on the blues, and Wayne Shorter’s loping, riff-based “T...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSSENTIAL WAYNE SHORTER TRACKS

Early stints with Horace Silver and Maynard Ferguson introduced Wayne Shorter’s riveting sound to the jazz community ...

Miles Davis: Summer Night (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 29, 07

This is a hidden gem in the Miles Davis discography, a dark and moody ballad performance that got lost in the shuffle...

James Carter in Boston posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 13, 09

Neither snow nor rain nor a two drink minimum can prevent Roanna Forman from covering the Boston jazz scene for jazz....

Hubert Laws: Amazing Grace (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 15, 09

Laws has proven to be adept at playing jazz, soul, R&B, and last, but certainly not least, classical music. As he be...

Woody Shaw: Woody I: On The New Ark (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

I feel that in many ways Woody III is the masterpiece of Woody Shaw’s recorded output in the studio The three pieces ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BRIAN LYNCH SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL WOODY SHAW TRACKS

Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Wayne Shorter: The Big Push (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

"The Big Push" was recorded after Wayne Shorter’s classic album Speak No Evil and then shoved into obscurity until th...

Wayne Shorter: Angola (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

Coming from one of Shorter's numerous releases for Blue Note Records during the 1960s, the song "Angola" is one of th...

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