Search results for "Joe Pass"

Joe Pass: Darn That Dream (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 12, 08

This track, from Pass's memorable 1975 concert with Oscar Peterson at Salle Pleyel, features the guitarist in a solo ...

Joe Pass: They Can't Take That Away From Me (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Even the finest jazz guitarists rarely record live and unaccompanied. First, standing alone on a nightclub stage—espe...

Oscar Peterson & Joe Pass: Just You, Just Me (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 01, 08

The School of Velocity is in session, and our teachers are Professor Peterson and Professor Pass. You want to know h...

Joe Pass: Have You Met Miss Jones? (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Joe Pass's Virtuoso LP on Norman Granz's Pablo label shook up a lot of guitarists when it was first released, and cat...

Joe Pass: Stompin' at the Savoy (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 17, 08

Joe Pass's hollow-body guitar is drenched in reverb and enhanced by low shelving; its trebleness is especially appare...

Joe Pass: Meditation (Meditacao) (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music February 16, 09

Joe Pass's mellow rendition of "Meditation (Meditacao)" is a light bossa nova performed in what has become a timeless...

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...

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 ...

Gerald Wilson: Nancy Jo (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

Named for one of Gerald Wilson's daughters, this track is a blues with a major difference: every chord change is an a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GERALD WILSON

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Sarah Vaughan: Midnight Sun (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music March 04, 09

Sarah Vaughan's detractors felt that she too often allowed her multi-octave, almost limitlessly flexible voice to dis...

Zoot Sims and Oscar Peterson: How Long Has This Been Going On (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

The melody of “How Long Has This Been Going On” is one of those tunes that’s so fine and memorable it keeps replaying...

Sarah Vaughan: Autumn Leaves (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 08, 08

The way Sarah Vaughan tackles this tune is so lively that one is surprised not to hear the audience cheer and applaud...

Zoot Sims and Oscar Peterson: The Man I Love (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

Here we have another Gershwin tune that has been recorded hundreds of times. But when a tune is that good and you hav...

Dizzy Gillespie: Jitterbug Waltz (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 05, 08

When Norman Granz founded Pablo Records to help support "older" jazz musicians, Gillespie was a natural choice for a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A DIZZY DOZEN GILLESPIE CLASSICS

From his seminal work with Charlie Parker to his collaborations with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie continually br...

Benny Carter: Blue Star (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 22, 08

Much like J.J. Johnson, Benny Carter virtually disappeared from the active jazz scene for a number of years in order ...

Milt Jackson: In a Sentimental Mood (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

"All music is folk music," observed Louis Armstrong. "I ain't never heard a horse sing a song." Without contradicting...

Joe Lovano: I'm All For You (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Ever since Coleman Hawkins’ famous Swing Era recording of “Body and Soul,” subsequent tenor saxophonists have conside...

Joe Locke, Kenny Barron: But Beautiful (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 22, 09

One of Joe Locke's lesser-known CDs is But Beautiful, a duet outing with Kenny Barron that came early in the vibrapho...

Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Bess, Oh, Where Is My Bess? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

How does one pick a favorite piece from Gil's and Miles' Porgy and Bess album? Tough to do. I've chosen this piece ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Dippermouth Blues (alternate review) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 24, 09

Joe 'King' Oliver is often remembered in jazz histories as a mere footnote to the more illustrious story of Louis Arm...

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