Search results for "Jimmy Dorsey"

Mildred Bailey: Shoutin' In That Amen Corner (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 14, 08

After her stint with Paul Whiteman, Mildred Bailey moved on to sing with the other great bands of her day, including ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY

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Red Nichols: Buddy's Habits (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

The sanitized Hollywood biopic aside, Red Nichols was a tremendously gifted trumpeter and bandleader. There were usua...

The Boswell Sisters: Shout, Sister, Shout (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 19, 07

In his book Jazz Singing (1990), Will Friedwald calls The Boswell Sisters "the greatest of all jazz vocal groups." Pr...

Boswell Sisters: Shuffle Off To Buffalo (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

“Shuffle Off To Buffalo” was one of three Busby Berkeley song-and-dance productions in the film 42nd Street, released...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

No other Jazz Age singer rivaled her versatility. Combining the tony diction of London's posh Mayfair salons (althoug...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER

Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...

Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Singin' the Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Bix needed Louis (at least in retrospect) to define his style; he needed Trumbauer just to get through the day. The s...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: I'm Coming Virginia (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

In this, his longest solo, Bix is at the height of his powers. He eschews the gutbucket growls and half-valves that w...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Clarinet Marmalade (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Set to wax earlier on the same day as “Singin’ the Blues,” “Clarinet Marmalade” is notable for a few reasons: Bix, fo...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Mississippi Mud (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

"Just as happy as a cow chewin' on her cud," regales Bing Crosby, "when the darkies beat their feet on the Missi...

Bix Beiderbecke: Singin' the Blues – as heard in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 17, 07

By the time Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool was first marketed as such (1954), cool jazz had been around for 30 years...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN

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Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer: Mississippi Mud (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music March 09, 08

How ironic that someone named Whiteman popularized jazz among the general American populace, largely by sucking much ...

Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: Raggin' the Scale (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

Call me crazy, but to my ears (and to get a bit grandiose), this seems like a short-piece jazz answer to Bach's Brand...

Buddy DeFranco: Out of Nowhere (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

At this writing, DeFranco continues to be an excellent musician playing an instrument that fell out of favor early in...

Billie Holiday: Tain't Nobody's Business (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

On May 27, 1947, Billie Holiday was sentenced to a year and a day for possession of narcotic drugs, remaining in cust...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Dorsey, Tommy (Thomas Francis Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia June 16, 09

Tommy Dorsey was one of the first jazz trombonists to convey meaning and intention with every note he played. Best kn...

Noone, Jimmie posted in Encyclopedia February 19, 09

Jimmie Noone, amongst New Orleans' early clarinet kings, posessed the best technique and a pure, almost classical sou...

Giuffre, Jimmy (James Peter) posted in Encyclopedia September 17, 09

Reedist, composer and musical visionary Jimmy Giuffre's career spanned six decades and many styles. Best known as the...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: Jimmy Heath posted in Features and Interviews July 05, 08

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. Oct...

In Conversation with Jimmy Cobb (Part One) posted in Features and Interviews March 31, 08

by Ralph A. Miriello Jimmy Cobb is the last surviving participant on the most celebrated jazz recording of the ...

Maynard Ferguson: Love Locked Out (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music February 06, 08

Maynard Ferguson led an impressive band in Canada as a teen, and would soon join the bands of Jimmy Dorsey, Boyd Raeb...

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