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Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Big Dipper (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 13, 08This track is the first tune played on the first night of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, a Monday night tradition...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD
Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...
Joe Williams: Night Time is the Right Time (to be with the One You Love) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 31, 09Evaluating the relative merits of Joe Williams' recorded tracks with Count Basie in the '50's, as compared to those h...
Clifford Brown-Sarah Vaughan: September Song (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 03, 09Sarah Vaughan met and heard Brownie while he was a member of Chris Powell and His Five Blue Flames, and claimed to ha...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS
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Sarah Vaughan: Come Rain or Come Shine (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 06, 07By 1950, the finest singer of the bebop era had done her best to put bop behind her. Since bop was primarily instrume...
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...
Sarah Vaughan: Lullaby of Birdland (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 21, 07Vaughan always makes the hard stuff look easy. When bebop was shaking up the older musicians and rewriting the rules...
Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Tiptoe (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 09, 07Thad Jones was arguably the most consistently interesting big band arranger of the 1960s and 1970s, and “Tiptoe” is o...
Elvin Jones: Gingerbread Boy (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 03, 08In just about as contrasting a gig as one can get, Elvin Jones spent two weeks touring Europe with Duke Ellington aft...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ELVIN JONES
Elvin Jones, artwork by Michael Symonds While Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Roy Haynes...
John Coltrane (featuring Elvin Jones): Pursuance (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 02, 08An extended unaccompanied solo by Elvin Jones opens "Pursuance," the 10-minute, up-tempo third movement of A Love Sup...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ELVIN JONES
Elvin Jones, artwork by Michael Symonds While Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Roy Haynes...
John Coltrane (featuring Elvin Jones): Sun Ship (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 02, 08The legendary A Love Supreme, aside from its reputation as one of the most important moments in the history of modern...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ELVIN JONES
Elvin Jones, artwork by Michael Symonds While Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Roy Haynes...
John Coltrane (featuring Elvin Jones): One Up, One Down (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 01, 07A vital part of any extended Coltrane improvisation (this one is 20+ minutes) is the intense interplay between Trane ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING
Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...
Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band: Little Pixie (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08Sure, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band occasionally entered the electric/fusion world with funk-groove experiments: ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MODERN BIG BANDS
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Boogaloo Joe Jones: Right On (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 18, 08As the 1960s turned into the '70s, soul jazz co-opted bigger chunks of contemporary R&B, resulting in funkier, deepe...
Quincy Jones (featuring Lars Gullin): Sometimes I'm Happy (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music December 23, 08Jazz Abroad presents the first recording sessions led by, respectively, Roy Haynes and Quincy Jones. Don't be confuse...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES
Gerry Mulligan, ...
Quincy Jones: Killer Joe (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09According to an interview I saw with Quincy maybe 6 or 7 years ago, “Killer Joe” was the last straight-ahead tune tha...
Johnny Hodges: Don't Sleep in the Subway (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music November 05, 07"Everybody knows Johnny Hodges," went Duke Ellington's standard introduction. By the mid-'60s, it was no longer true....
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING
Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...
Quincy Jones: Dead End (Rating: 78/100) posted in Music October 07, 08"Dead End" is taken from a Grammy-winning album, and, as expected, the personnel is illustrious. The track features s...
Miles Davis (featuring Philly Joe Jones): Gone (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 08, 08"The thing about Philly Joe's playing," said Paul Motian in a 1996 Percussive Notes interview, "was that somehow his ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS
Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...
Count Basie All-Stars: I Left My Baby (1957) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 27, 08James Andrew Rushing, born in Oklahoma City in 1903, first recorded "I Left My Baby" in 1939 under the aegis of Willi...
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...
Ornette Coleman: The Garden of Souls (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 24, 08It seems almost an article of faith among critics that New York Is Now! and Love Call are among Ornette Coleman's les...
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