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Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Cotton Tail (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Vocalese, invented by singer Eddie Jefferson in the early 1940s, sets words to preexisting instrumental passages, usu...

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross: Blue (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

In their six years together (1957-1962), Lambert, Hendricks and Ross were best known for their vocalese/scat performa...

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Twisted (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

In 1952, Annie Ross's hip vocalese narrative of a crazy chick and her outmatched shrink, set to tenorman Wardell Gray...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Karrin Allyson: Everybody's Boppin' (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 07, 09

To close her vocalese tribute CD, Footprints, Karrin Allyson gathered together her guest artists Nancy King and Jon H...

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...

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Deck Us All With Boston Charlie (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

If you think seven swans a-swimming is a tongue-twister, try singing along with LH&R's spoof of "Deck the Halls" à la...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RUDY REINDEER'S FAVORITE JAZZ

First, about the name. The whole "Rudolph" thing started as a joke. To friends and family, I've always been Rudy. The...

George Russell: Manhattan (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 30, 08

George Russell's album-length tribute to New York City remains a major work of the period and one of his most importa...

Wynton Marsalis: Blood on the Fields (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 22, 07

Wynton Marsalis has built a career on high ambitions—including (for a start) assimilating the music vocabulary from H...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Octajazzarians Profile: Jon Hendricks posted in Features and Interviews August 15, 09

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

Hendricks, Jon (John Carl) posted in Encyclopedia July 15, 09

Singer, songwriter and arranger Jon Hendricks has been the apostle of "vocalese" for more than half a century. While ...

Carmen McRae: Suddenly (aka In Walked Bud) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 07, 09

While she was plagued by poor health in her final years, Carmen McRae produced several fine recordings in the late 19...

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...

Shea Breaux Wells: Oh Yes, I Remember Clifford (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 29, 09

If you happen to frequent the addictive AccuJazz.com website and listen to its Vocal Jazz channel, you may occasional...

Mark Murphy: Doodlin' (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

This track comes perilously close to being not imitation hip, but the real thing. Horace Silver's "Doodlin'" was a fo...

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 ...

Regen, Jon (Jonathan Merrill) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Regen, Jon (Jonathan Merrill), pianist, composer and singer; b. New York, NY, 8 May 1970. He was raised in Maplewood,...

Ross, Annie (Annabelle Short) posted in Encyclopedia January 19, 09

A founding member of the groundbreaking vocalese trio Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, and lyricist for the hit song “Twi...

OctoJAZZarians posted in Miscellaneous Pages July 05, 08

In OctoJAZZarians, a regular jazz.com feature, arnold jay smtih profiles jazz legends who are creative and active be...

Miner, Neal posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Miner, Neal, bassist, composer, band leader; b. New York City, NY, 3 February 1970. Raised on the Upper East Side of ...

ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame Honors New Inductees posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 20, 09

It’s hard keeping up with arnold jay smith. In addition to covering the Jazz Journalist Association awards gathering...

In Conversation with Kurt Elling posted in Features and Interviews July 07, 09

By Ted Panken                 ...

Okegwo, Ugonna (Ferdinand Alistair) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Okegwo, Ugonna (Ferdinand Alistair), bass; b. London, England, 15 March 1962. He  moved to Germany in 1963, wher...

Leonhardt, David (Emil) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Leonhardt, David (Emil), pianist and composer; b. Louisville, KY, 2 September 1956. His parents are Lawrence Edwin Le...

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