Search results for "Joe Benjamin"

Joe Williams: Alright, Okay, You Win (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Blues shouter Joe Williams recorded his classic "Alright, Okay, You Win" with Count Basie in 1955. But Ring-a-Di...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Dave Brubeck: Jump for Joy (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music April 18, 08

As part of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival's salute to Ellington, the Dave Brubeck Quartet presented six tunes associa...

Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond: Battle Hymn of the Republican (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

Who else but frustrated Democrat Paul Desmond could come up with a title as witty as this? Besides being Dave Brubeck...

Mal Waldron: Fire Waltz (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

The fire on this, the original recording of one of the pianist’s most enduring original compositions, emanates primar...

Dave Brubeck: The Golden Horn (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 02, 09

I lived in Turkey in the mid-'50s, and that's where – as a young teen – I first heard the Dave Brubeck Quartet (some ...

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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Duke Ellington: Satin Doll (Live at the Whitney, 1972) (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 23, 08

"Satin Doll' was Ellington's last substantial radio hit, and it remained a staple in his repertoire during the final ...

Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff: The Skaters Waltz (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 17, 08

A year after he recorded Introducing Roland Kirk and just months before he participated in Charles Mingus's Oh Yeah s...

Ike Quebec: Blue and Sentimental (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

One aspect of Ike Quebec's playing that was conveyed so eloquently on his "comeback" Blue Note albums of the early '6...

Sarah Vaughan: Shulie-A-Bop (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 06, 09

Sarah Vaughan had the jazz singer's perfect combination: a flexible voice and an acute harmonic sense. Naturally, she...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SCAT SINGING

Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...

Schachter, Ben (Benjamin A.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Schachter, Ben (Benjamin A.), saxophonist, composer; b. Camden, NJ, 7 October 1962. Grew up in suburban Philadelph...

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...

Webster, Ben (Benjamin Francis) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08

Tenor saxophonist Ben Webster was known as "The Beautiful” and ”The Brute." Both names fit him well. The beauty of hi...

Oliver, Joe 'King' posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 08

Cornetist Joe Oliver blew the blues through brass, and helped bring bottom-up swing to New Orleans at the turn of the...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: Joe Wilder posted in Features and Interviews June 03, 09

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

In Conversation with Joe Lovano posted in Features and Interviews May 25, 09

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Pass, Joe (Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua) posted in Encyclopedia January 20, 09

Joe Pass expanded the guitar's possibilities in jazz with his fast, saxophone-like lines and graceful melodic sensibi...

Waldron, Mal (Malcom Earl) posted in Encyclopedia May 18, 09

Mal Waldron’s piano style – dense, roomy and roguish – made him one of the few who managed to fully absorb Thelonious...

Israels, Chuck posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Israels, Chuck, composer, arranger, bassist; b. New York, 10 October 1936. He was raised in a musical family in Green...

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron), violin, cornet, baritone horn, double bass, composer; b. Glens Falls, NY, 13 January 1...

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