Search results for "Laurindo Almeida"

Stan Getz: Menina Moca (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

“Menina Moca” (Young Lady) is a warm, semi-sweet samba confection recorded during the crest of the Brazilian jazz wav...

Bud Shank & Laurindo Almeida: Little Girl Blue (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 13, 09

Almost a decade before "Girl from Ipanema" hit the charts, Bud Shank and Laurindo Almeida were exploring ways of comb...

Modern Jazz Quartet with Laurindo Almeida: Silver (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

Four intense mood swings in the first minute and an untraditional song structure make this track inaccessible to most...

Stan Kenton: Evening in Pakistan (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

Like the proverbial Ark, Stan Kenton's behemoth Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra included at least two of every ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Stan Kenton: Trajectories (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

As usual, Stan Kenton was ahead of the curve. His Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra was an icebreaker, intrepidly...

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 ...

Stan Kenton: Unison Riff (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Even though Kenton led a composer/arranger’s band in many ways, a number of his musicians later became major jazz per...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: Elegy for Alto (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

After disbanding his "Artistry in Rhythm" ensemble, Kenton reformed the band and called the resulting music "Progress...

A History of Cool Jazz in 100 Tracks (Part 2) posted in Features and Interviews May 16, 09

Edited by Ted Gioia We continue with our history of cool jazz in 100 tracks. Below we present the final fifty r...

Stan Kenton: Monotony (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

In 1948, at the pinnacle of success, bandleader Stan Kenton—who at his wife's urging had entered psychoanalysis—annou...

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...

Remembering Bud Shank (1926-2009) posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 04, 09

The last time I talked to Bud Shank was in November 2007 at a conference on West Coast jazz held by the Getty Cente...

Shank, Bud (Clifford Everett) posted in Encyclopedia April 04, 09

Bud Shank is best known as one of the leading figures on the West Coast jazz scene of the 1950s, yet he did much to r...

Pizzarelli, Bucky (John Paul) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli's superior range of harmonic qualities has made him equally effective as a soloist as with...

Bud Shank: Casa de Luz (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

His Latin interest piqued by a 1953 collaboration with guitarist Laurindo Almeida, Bud Shank alighted in "Casa de Luz...

Stan Kenton: Sambo (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

During his decades helming jazz's most overpopulated band, through whose ranks trooped hundreds of musicians, Stan Ke...

Stan Kenton: Easy Go (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

During his "Innovations" period, Kenton would drop the strings between tours and play dance gigs to recoup the money ...

Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia: Guardian Angel (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 14, 08

The 1981 release of Friday Night in San Francisco marked a turning point, becoming arguably the most influential acou...

Brown, Ray (Raymond Matthews) posted in Encyclopedia November 20, 08

Bassist Ray Brown's ability to tailor his imaginative technique to any ensemble made him a key player in the bebop mo...

Garoto: Nosso Choro (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 08, 08

Garoto's death in 1955, a few days before his 40th birthday, robbed the music world of one of the most provocative gu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: FRINGE GUITAR

           Guitar Magic, artwork by Don Pulver Not ev...

Harry Babasin: These Foolish Things (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 09, 09

Throughout the 1940s, Harry Babasin performed with several luminaries of the jazz community including Charlie Barnet,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ CELLO

Can the cello swing? Can the cello be as melodically sophisticated as traditional jazz instruments? Is the cell...

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