Search results for "Joe Wilder"
J.J. Johnson: Poem for Brass (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 09, 08This composition directly resulted from formation of the Jazz and Classical Music Society, an ensemble led by Gunther...
Jimmy Smith: Walk on the Wild Side (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 08, 07Unrelated to rocker Lou Reed's raunchy 1972 hit of the same name, Jimmy Smith's cover of Elmer Bernstein's movie them...
Oscar Brown, Jr.: But I Was Cool (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07His recitative anticipated rap by a decade, but Oscar Brown Jr. was a far more serious artist than the gold-digging, ...
John Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 23, 07This track both connects and disconnects Birth of the Cool and Third Stream. BOTC holdovers include Miles, J.J., Barb...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES
A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...
Joe Mooney: Tea For Two (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 05, 09In September 1946, composer and critic Alec Wilder proclaimed in Downbeat that the Joe Mooney Quartet was one of the ...
John La Barbera Big Band: Walk on the Wild Side Suite (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 06, 08Maybe it's the genes, or growing up in a musically nurturing upstate New York family, or both; whatever the case, the...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Joe Wilder posted in Features and Interviews June 03, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...
Michel Legrand: A Night in Tunisia (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07In 1958, when Michel Legrand landed stateside to conduct American all-stars playing his arrangements, some participan...
Mooney, Joe posted in Encyclopedia October 22, 09Mooney, Joe, vocals, accordion, piano, organ (b. Paterson, New Jersey, March 14, 1911, d. May 12, 1975, Ft. Lauderdal...
OctoJAZZarians posted in Miscellaneous Pages July 05, 08In OctoJAZZarians, a regular jazz.com feature, arnold jay smtih profiles jazz legends who are creative and active be...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Buddy DeFranco posted in Features and Interviews October 16, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...
Schuller, George (Alexander) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Schuller, George (Alexander), drums, composer, arranger, producer; b. New York City, 29 December 1958. Schuller is...
Third IAJE Update from Toronto posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 12, 08An NEA jazz master is one of a tiny, tiny elite. Only a hundred men and women have ever been chosen by the United Sta...
Neville, Chris posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Neville, Chris, piano, organ, synthesizer; b. Boston, MA, 15 October 1955. He grew up in Boston and in West Bath, Mai...
Reid, Rufus (L.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Reid, Rufus (L.), bass, educator, author; b. Atlanta, GA, 10 February 1944. His mother, Sylvia Reid, and his father, ...
Stamm, Marvin (Louis) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Stamm, Marvin (Louis), trumpet and Flugelhorn; performer, educator, writer; b. May 23, 1939, Memphis, TN. His f...
Mopsick, Don posted in Encyclopedia January 22, 08San Antonio-based acoustic jazz bassist Don Mopsick is well known to fans of Public Radio International's weekly sho...
Dameron, Tadd (Tadley Ewing Peake) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 08Called the "romanticist" of bebop by Dexter Gordon, pianist Tadd Dameron was known for the substance and depth of hi...
Anita O'Day on DVD posted in The Jazz.com Blog November 14, 09Thomas Cunniffe covers the world of DVDs for jazz.com. His most recent review here looked at Charles Mingus's Epitap...
Peters, Flip (Phillip M.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Peters, Flip (Phillip M.), guitar, banjo, vocalist; b. Newark, NJ, 28 August 1949. Grew up in Nutley, NJ. His parents...
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