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Miles Davis: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07Miles Davis, photo by Herb Snitzer Concierto de Aranjuez (1939), directed its compose...
Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09This is arguably the finest of Gil's and Miles' collaborations. There are countless details one could highlight, but...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS
In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...
Wes Montgomery: California Dreaming (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 19, 07In 1963, the year California overtook New York as the most populous state, folk-rockers John and Michelle Phillips we...
Bill Evans & Claus Ogerman: Symbiosis (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 22, 08Bill Evans was working in familiar territory on most of his 1970s recordings, playing standards and his own compositi...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS
Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...
John Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 23, 07This track both connects and disconnects Birth of the Cool and Third Stream. BOTC holdovers include Miles, J.J., Barb...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES
A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...
J.J. Johnson: Poem for Brass (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 09, 08This composition directly resulted from formation of the Jazz and Classical Music Society, an ensemble led by Gunther...
J.J. Johnson: Winter's Waif (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 05, 08One of two Gary McFarland contributions to this album, "Winter's Waif" shows a tougher side of bossa nova. And a dark...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GARY MCFARLAND
Gary McFarland's life could be the subject of a movie screenplay. Until he was in his mid-20s, McFarland (1933-1971) ...
J.J. Johnson: El Camino Real (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 13, 08J.J. Johnson will forever be remembered as the most influential trombonist in jazz from the late 1940s onward. His pi...
George Russell: All About Rosie (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 12, 08George Russell's contribution to the 1957 Brandeis University Jazz Festival of the Arts is his masterpiece. Initially...
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