Search results for "Kenny Burrell"

Kenny Burrell with Coleman Hawkins: Montono Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 21, 08

This early-'60s Kenny Burrell original is a relaxed setting paced by Ray Barretto's swaying Latin rhythms. The first ...

Kenny Burrell: Chitlins Con Carne (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Strictly speaking (and we here at Jazz.com are semantic sticklers), "Chitlins Con Carne" is double-talk. Since chitli...

Kenny Burrell: Mule (Rating: 71/100) posted in Music December 17, 08

"Mule" moves as slowly as its namesake. At the slowest pace possible, the group allows so much space to permeate the ...

Jimmy Smith: Back at the Chicken Shack (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Jimmy Smith was not the first to exploit the potential of the Hammond organ’s down-home, earthy sound. But Smith beca...

Tony Bennett: Sometimes I'm Happy (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

FLASH: Tony Bennett scats! True, it's scarcely four bars, but that's the least of what makes this track remarkable. H...

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 ...

Frank Wess: Low Life (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

Six months to the day after these same musicians (except Burrell and Thigpen) recorded "Low Life" with Count Basie's ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES

"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...

Jimmy Smith: Blues For J (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 08, 08

Organ Grinder Swing, a trio session, was a rarity during Jimmy Smith's heavily orchestrated Verve years. The appealin...

Donald Byrd: Cristo Redentor (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

A New Perspective was unique at the time in that it featured a jazz combo in conjunction with a small gospel choir. O...

Jimmy Smith: The Sermon (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

“The Sermon” is a straight-ahead, 12-bar blues in which everyone solos. It also was the tune that proved, once and fo...

Johnny Hartman: Sleepin' Bee (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Sometimes the finger-snapping is figurative; here it's literal, but quiet enough to not awaken a sleepin' bee. At lit...

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 ...

Gil Evans (featuring Wayne Shorter): Time of the Barracudas (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

On a series of stellar albums under his own name in the 1960s, Gil Evans went one step forward in cementing his reput...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSSENTIAL WAYNE SHORTER TRACKS

Early stints with Horace Silver and Maynard Ferguson introduced Wayne Shorter’s riveting sound to the jazz community ...

Jimmy Smith: Midnight Special (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

“Midnight Special” may be the tastiest recording Jimmy Smith ever made. Recorded at a session that produced both the ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Quincy Jones: Rack 'Em Up (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music May 08, 09

The speedy "Rack 'em Up" energizes its way through a maze of electric jazz guitar, predominant piano overdubs (panned...

Louis Armstrong: This Black Cat Has 9 Lives (Rating: 81/100) posted in Music August 13, 09

Talk about sloganeering. On one of the weirdest straightforward jazz recordings of all time, Louis "Pops" Armstrong ...

Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music August 13, 09

Major label executives, producers and (quite possibly) Washington insiders envisioned a new direction for Louis Armst...

Will Matthews: Count On Swingin' (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music July 30, 09

In 1996 Will Matthews joined the Count Basie Orchestra, taking over the chair of the late Freddie Green, who had been...

Burrell, Kenny (Kenneth Earl) posted in Encyclopedia February 19, 09

Guitarist Kenny Burrell's blues-based tone is often cool and characteristically swinging. With saxophonist Stanley T...

Dorham, Kenny (McKinley Howard) posted in Encyclopedia February 18, 09

Kenny Dorham has been scandalously undervalued in the jazz trumpet lineage. His breathy tone was not the immediate wa...

Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters: Isabella (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 10, 09

Ronnie Earl made his name as a member (from 1979 to 1987) of the popular Roomful of Blues, whose emphasis on swinging...

Bill Barron: One Hand, One Heart (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music February 13, 09

Crazes, like politics, can make for strange bedfellows. Put the early '60s craving for jazz versions of musicals toge...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEST SIDE STORY

Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...

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