Search results for "Joe Farrell"

Joe Farrell: Molten Glass (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 07, 08

The late reed player Joe Farrell was considered to be a jazz journeyman and a good studio musician, appearing on hund...

Joe Farrell: Follow Your Heart (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music January 26, 08

I am cheating a bit calling this tune a standard. It is not. But damn it, this should be. Here's my case: I once hear...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JOHN MCLAUGHLIN ON STANDARDS

Editor's note: Guitarist extraordinaire John McLaughlin recently participated in a candid dialogue with jazz.com's W...

Joe Farrell: Song of the Wind (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 17, 09

The rest of the ensemble used on Joe Farrell Quartet, which included John McLaughlin, Jack DeJohnette and Dave Hollan...

Joe Farrell: Collage for Polly (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

I never really got into the art of Jackson Pollock. To me his abstract art was a bunch of nonsense. I mean how creati...

Joe Williams: Night Time is the Right Time (to be with the One You Love) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 31, 09

Evaluating the relative merits of Joe Williams' recorded tracks with Count Basie in the '50's, as compared to those h...

Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band: Little Pixie (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

Sure, 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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Andrew Hill: Noon Tide (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 04, 09

Featuring a nonet of odd yet brilliantly selected instrumentation, Passing Ships was one of many challenging Andrew H...

Return to Forever: Spanish Fantasy (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 09, 08

Return to Forever Live featured a new, expanded lineup. Gone were guitarist Al Di Meola and drummer Lenny White, repl...

Elvin Jones: Gingerbread Boy (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 03, 08

In 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...

Chick Corea & Return to Forever: Light as a Feather (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

Light as a Feather was Return to Forever's second album. Because the first record, Return to Forever, wasn't released...

Jaki Byard: Twelve (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

“Twelve” appears on the great live recording, Live at Lennie's on the Turnpike. Joe Farrell is amazing in this group....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JASON MORAN SELECTS 12 CLASSIC JAKI BYARD TRACKS

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Jaki Byard: Twelve (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

Pianist/composer Jaki Byard was so rambunctiously creative, it's no surprise he caught the ear of Charles Mingus, wit...

Chick Corea and Return to Forever: 500 Miles High (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 12, 08

Before Return to Forever became an electric fusion powerhouse, they were a mostly acoustic outfit that presented a he...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TUNES THAT TAKE YOU PLACES

Artwork by Suzanne Cerny Editor's Note: Walter Kolosky recently contributed memorable Dozens columns o...

Dizzy Reece: The Shadow Of Kahn (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music May 04, 09

Jamaican-born trumpeter Dizzy Reece may not have led many sessions during his heyday, but he certainly made the most ...

Andrew Hill: The Brown Queen (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

"The Brown Queen" is a representative example of the unusual combination of angular disjointedness and warm lyricism ...

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Big Dipper (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 13, 08

This 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 ...

Jaki Byard: Dolphy #1 (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

This is taken from the Last at Lennie's live recording. This is also a blues, but I think Jaki's solo is magnificent...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JASON MORAN SELECTS 12 CLASSIC JAKI BYARD TRACKS

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Joe Henderson: Black Narcissus (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 05, 08

This is clearly one of the most beautiful slow jazz waltzes ever written. Henderson first recorded it with a small en...

Alice Coltrane: Ptah, the El Daoud (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 21, 09

Alice McLeod Coltrane was essentially a bebop pianist who had even studied with Bud Powell in Paris in 1959, but she ...

John McLaughlin: Friendship (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 01, 08

In my review of "To Whom All Things Concern," I trace the history of Fuse One: The Complete Recordings. Reading it ma...

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