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Nina Simone: I Loves You Porgy (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Nina Simone, photo by Herb Snitzer Nina Simone's first hit coincided with a full-blown 1958 fad for P...

Nina Simone: Mood Indigo (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

A classically trained pianist, Nina Simone kicks off Ellington's "Mood Indigo" with a two-fisted display that sounds ...

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...

Chet Baker (with Phil Urso): To Mickey's Memory (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

Chet Baker's collaborations with Gerry Mulligan made jazz history. Baker's work with pianist Russ Freeman also are w...

Joe Gordon: A Song for Richard (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

In The Jazz Reviewer's Handbook of Essential Clichés, Joe Gordon's placement among the "underrated" is secure, as is ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Woods, Jimmy posted in Encyclopedia September 17, 09

Alto saxophonist Jimmy Woods is one of the great, lost artists of 1960s jazz: he made only a handful of recordings be...

Garrison, Jimmy (James Emory) posted in Encyclopedia September 22, 08

Bassist Jimmy Garrison’s extensive timbre, concrete pulse and imaginative bass lines made important contributions to ...

Smith, Jimmy (James Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia March 31, 08

Jimmy Smith brought the Hammond B3 into jazz almost singlehandedly. His groundbreaking style on the instrument, at a ...

Don't Gonna Play That Kling-Kling Jazz: A Prehistory of Jazz-Rock posted in Features and Interviews June 18, 09

By Geoff Wills When rock and roll emerged in the mid 1950s, many jazz musicians were witheringly scornful about ...

Gordon, Joe (Joseph Henry) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Trumpeter Joe Gordon valued the quality of the melodic line over pompous brassy flashiness, an affinity he shared wit...

Pepper, Art (Arthur Edward Pepper Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Alto saxophonist Art Pepper’s playing was cerebral in its melodic concepts, sophisticated in execution and mordant in...

Gerald Wilson: Blues for Yna Yna (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

Gerald Wilson led bands on and off during the 1950s, but except for a group of recordings for the King label in '54, ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GERALD WILSON

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Paul Horn: Mirage for Miles (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

The exceptional versatility of jazz flutists transcends the fact that most were primarily saxophonists. Even fulltime...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES

"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...

Gerald Wilson: Nancy Jo (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

Named for one of Gerald Wilson's daughters, this track is a blues with a major difference: every chord change is an a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GERALD WILSON

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Simone, Nina (Eunice Kathleen Waymon) posted in Encyclopedia November 20, 08

Pianist and singer Nina Simone defied categorization by blending classical, jazz and popular music into an unconventi...

Bernstein, Steven (Michael) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bernstein, Steven (Michael), trumpet, slide trumpet, mellophone, band leader, arranger, composer, conductor; b. Washi...

Longo, Mike posted in Encyclopedia January 22, 08

Pianist Mike Longo may be best known as one of Dizzy Gillespie’s closest musical collaborators. But since he began hi...

Konitz, Lee posted in Encyclopedia February 17, 09

           Lee Konitz with Miles Davis, Bud Powell and Art Blakey at Bir...

Malone, Russell posted in Encyclopedia July 16, 09

Russell Malone has proven time and again how the guitar can enlarge the harmonic palette of an ensemble. As a leader ...

Smith, Willie 'The Lion' (William Henry Joseph Berthol Bonaparte Bertholoff) posted in Encyclopedia September 18, 09

Willie "The Lion" Smith was a founding father of Harlem Stride piano who combined elements of ragtime, barrelhouse, a...

Myers, Ron (Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Myers, Ron [Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D], piano and trumpet; b. Cook County, Chicago, IL, 29 February 1956. He mar...

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