Search results for "Jimmy Strong"

Louis Armstrong: West End Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"I felt," said trumpeter Max Kaminsky after hearing Louis Armstrong's leadoff cadenza, "as if I had stared into the s...

Miles Davis: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

    Miles Davis, photo by Herb Snitzer Concierto de Aranjuez (1939), directed its compose...

Heath Brothers: Nostalgia (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 10, 09

Percy Heath is a musical titan whose work has graced countless albums. Percy replaced Ray Brown in the Modern Jazz Qu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ CELLO

Can the cello swing? Can the cello be as melodically sophisticated as traditional jazz instruments? Is the cell...

Lee Konitz: Tenorlee / Lady Be Good (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 21, 08

It can't have been an accident that altoist Lee Konitz chose the quintessential Lester Young vehicle "Lady be Good" t...

Duke Ellington: Solitude (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

Ellington Indigos is one of my favorite Ellington albums. Recorded right after Such Sweet Thunder, it was designed to...

Andrew Hill: Mist Flower (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 22, 09

Andrew Hill has the extraordinary ability—with both his composing and improvising—to make everything sound like a bal...

Clifford Brown-Sarah Vaughan: September Song (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Sarah 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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Charles Mingus: Flamingo (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

It would be difficult to get to the heart of what makes this track so special to me. The programmatic nature of the c...

John Coltrane: After the Rain (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 19, 08

The opening tenor notes of this short work go a long way to evoking the title. The majesty of this melody is so stron...

Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz Orchestra: Humility (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 22, 08

The track may be called "Humility," but this band has no need for false modesty. Led by a 2nd-generation Latin jazz ...

Von Freeman: Portrait of John Young (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 04, 08

Like father, like son? Not so in this case. Von Freeman's son, Chico, began recording regularly at age 27, but Von's ...

Cedar Walton: Bolivia (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 26, 08

Though it has some South American undertones in its melody and rhythm, "Bolivia" is basically a well-crafted post har...

Louis Armstrong: Some Of These Days (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 02, 09

With his classic big band recording of “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love”, the basic formula for Louis Armstrong’s ...

Steve Haines Quintet with Jimmy Cobb: Re: Frayne (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music March 09, 09

The opening of bassist Steve Haines's rubato ballad "Re: Frayne" strongly resembles Charlie Haden's composition "Sile...

Weinstein, Jimmy (James Benjamin) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Weinstein, Jimmy (James Benjamin), drummer, composer; b. Chicago, IL, 10 January 1960. He grew up in Southern Califor...

Halperin, Jimmy (James David Peter) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Halperin, Jimmy (James David Peter), tenor and soprano saxophone; b. Queens, NY, 22 July 1958. He comes from a musica...

Hopps, Jimmy (James Edward Hopps Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Hopps, Jimmy [James Edward Hopps Jr.], drummer; b. Washington, DC, 18 June 1939. His mother, Louella T.W. Hopps, was ...

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 ...

Williams, Jimmy (James Kendree Williams III) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Williams, Jimmy [James Kendree Williams III], guitarist, educator, author; b. Monterey, CA, 14 December 1962.  W...

Greene, Jimmy (James Sidney Greene, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Greene, Jimmy [James Sidney Greene, Jr.], saxophonist, composer, educator; b. Hartford, CT, 24 February 1975. Greene'...

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