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Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Ostrich Walk (1917) (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 09, 07After recording "Ostrich Walk" annually from 1917-1919, the ODJB did so again in 1936, 1943, 1945 and 1946. It took a...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS
It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Tiger Rag (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 16, 07The second version of this Dixieland standard as recorded by the first orchestra of recorded jazz has much to listen ...
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Livery Stable Blues (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 16, 0720th-century popular arts were bundled with the technology used to deliver them. Jazz is a case in point. Not until t...
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: The Darktown Strutters' Ball (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 17, 07"Darktown Strutters' Ball" stems from the cakewalk, a popular Southern spectator sport in which pre-bellum slaveholde...
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Tiger Rag (1917 version) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 10, 09This band has received plenty of attention from jazz writers, but only occasionally for its music. White musicians m...
Kid Ory: Ory's Creole Trombone (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 07, 07This pioneering recording of the first African-American New Orleans jazz band on record both stands on its own merit ...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Clarinet Marmalade (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 20, 07Set to wax earlier on the same day as “Singin’ the Blues,” “Clarinet Marmalade” is notable for a few reasons: Bix, fo...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE
Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
The Mills Brothers: Tiger Rag (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07Besides singing conventionally, the teenage Mills brothers imitated musical instruments with kazoos. But, legend has ...
Russell, Pee Wee (Charles Ellsworth) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08Pee Wee Russell took the clarinet from New Orleans out into the world. Still today, he stands as one of its most expr...
Dodds, Johnny posted in Encyclopedia September 21, 08While never as famous as Louis Armstrong or Jelly Roll Morton, clarinetist Johnny Dodds played a key role in bringing...
Fletcher Henderson: Fidgety Feet (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 04, 09Fletcher Henderson's pioneering jazz band relied heavily on the talents of his sidemen, and his arrangement of “Fidge...
Bruning, Dale posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Bruning, Dale, guitar; b. Carbondale, PA, 8 November 1934. He mainly grew up in Mahwah, NJ. His parents are Homer and...
McAll, Barney (Barnaby Johnathon) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07McAll, Barney (Barnaby Johnathon), pianist; b. Melbourne, Australian, 1966. His father, Jack McAll, was born in South...
Does Return to Forever Tour Signal a Return to Fusion? posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 12, 08Walter Kolosky is a regular contributor to jazz.com -- his interview with John McLaughlin is one of the most popu...
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