Search results for "Jimmy Giuffre"

Lee Konitz & Jimmy Giuffre: Palo Alto (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

A flowing though rather abstract melody penned by Lee Konitz, wrapped in the smooth yet swinging arrangement of his p...

Jimmy Giuffre: Jesus Maria (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 03, 07

After his evocative folk-jazz signature piece "The Train and the River" graced both The Sound of Jazz telecast (1957)...

Jimmy Giuffre: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

A quick look at the instrumentation will explain why this is one of the more unusual versions of "My Funny Valentine....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE

            My Funny Valentine, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Jimmy Giuffre: Iowa Stubborn (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

In the 1950s, Jimmy Giuffre seesawed between commerce and the avant-garde. After early West Coast adventurism, Giuffr...

Jimmy Giuffre: The Easy Way (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 07, 08

The Easy Way was a transitional album for Jimmy Giuffre. By 1959, the ever-restless reedman had mostly drained his po...

Jimmy Giuffre: The Train and The River (live at Newport, 1958) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 29, 08

On its face, the Jimmy Giuffre 3 playing their signature contrapuntal folk-jazz opus "The Train and The River" seems ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY

During the 1950s, the Newport Jazz Festival was an outdoor jamboree held in the exclusive environs of Rhod...

The Jimmy Giuffre 4: Cool (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

On an album packed with elaborately composed and arranged fusion tunes, "Cool" is a relative throwback to what Jimmy ...

The Jimmy Giuffre 4: Dragonfly (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

Jimmy Giuffre isn't the first name that comes to mind when one thinks about '80s fusion. Yet he was such an adventu...

Jimmy Giuffre: The Train and the River (Sound of Jazz, 1957) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

In the mid-'50s, Jimmy Giuffre was a fixture of West Coast jazz, playing reeds in the prevailing cool style and writi...

Jimmy Giuffre 3: Brief Hesitation (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

Here's a beautiful song from clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre's quietly revolutionary 1961 record Fusion (reissued on ECM a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AARON PARKS SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL PAUL BLEY TRACKS

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Jimmy Giuffre: Blue Monk (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Waiting in the wings of CBS-TV's special The Sound of Jazz (1957), Jimmy Giuffre watched his co-star Thelonious Monk ...

Jimmy Giuffre: Propulsion (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

During the Space Age, nobody journeyed farther than Jimmy Giuffre. Never a virtuoso, the clarinetist in 1956 found hi...

Jimmy Giuffre: Emphasis (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

With the opening phrases so full of angular passages from Giuffre, and with all of those clattering chords from Bley,...

Shelly Manne: Pas de Trois (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Concurrent sentences under warden Stan Kenton left Shelly Manne and Shorty Rogers, like career criminals acquiring ne...

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 ...

Shorty Rogers: Popo (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

As a trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, arranger and bandleader, Shorty Rogers was one of the most important figures...

Shorty Rogers: Didi (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 17, 08

Before West Coast cool jazz turned ponderous and overambitious, in the same spirit that tainted Stan Kenton’s work, t...

Lennie Niehaus: Bunko (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 04, 09

The first track Lennie Niehaus recorded as a leader was a sprightly "I'll Take Romance." Well, I'll take Niehaus, and...

Teddy Charles Tentet: The Quiet Time (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 13, 09

One of the most forward-looking musicians of his generation, Teddy Charles fell off the face of the earth after the e...

Jimmy Giuffre (1921-2008) posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 27, 08

Twenty years ago, Sheldon Meyer of Oxford University Press asked me what subject I wanted to tackle for my second jaz...

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...

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