Search results for "Lou Donaldson"

Lou Donaldson (featuring Blue Mitchell): Midnight Creeper (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

The partnership between trumpeter Blue Mitchell and alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson is one of the more undervalued in ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS

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Lou Donaldson: Donkey Walk (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 29, 08

Many jazz purists were enraged when Lou Donaldson ditched bebop for the boogaloo. One of the finest Bird-cloned altoi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC BLUE NOTE GROOVES

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson’s 1970 Blue Note recording Everything I Play Is Funky opens with a corny but telling d...

Lou Donaldson: Blues Walk (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Recorded when Lou Donaldson was still under the sway of Charlie Parker and before he embraced soul-jazz, the stark mi...

Clifford Brown: Brownie Speaks (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Although initially indebted to Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown quickly forged a personal style that has influenced count...

Clifford Brown-Art Blakey: Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Upon his release from the Hampton Band in December 1953, Brownie found employment wherever he could—most notably with...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Art Blakey: Wee-Dot (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

Art Blakey had led his own sessions from as early as 1947, when his collaboration with Kenny Dorham and Walter Bishop...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ART BLAKEY

By the age of 25 (1944), Pittsburgh-native Art Blakey had already completed stints with Mary Lou Williams and Fletche...

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...

Hardman, Bill (William Franklin) posted in Encyclopedia May 17, 09

Bill Hardman was one of hard bop's go-to trumpeters, best known for his three separate stints in Art Blakey’s Jazz Me...

Dixon, Ben (Harold) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Dixon, Ben (Harold), drummer, composer, arranger, teacher, clinician; b. Gaffney, SC, 25 December 1934.  As an i...

Sparks, Melvin posted in Encyclopedia April 20, 08

Guitarist and vocalist Melvin Sparks is a pioneer of the soul-jazz sound who recorded widely in the sixties and seven...

Harris, Gene (Haire, Eugene) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Pianist Gene Harris combined the blues with bebop, gospel and soul in a tasteful mix which contained a wealth of melo...

Lyons, Jimmy posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons took Charlie Parker's innovations and ran with them into free jazz, where he developed h...

In Conversation with Paul Motian posted in Features and Interviews November 01, 08

By Ted Panken “I think rehearsing takes away from the beauty of the music,” says Paul Motian. “I’ve been playi...

Blakey, Art (Arthur) posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09

Art Blakey's unbridled drumming brought freshness and vitality to the influential recordings he made with Thelonious...

Elf, Mark posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Elf, Mark, guitarist, composer, educator; b. Queens, NY, 13 December 1949. He lived in Queens and Long Island, NY unt...

Fuller, Jeff posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Fuller, Jeff, bassist, educator; b. b. Southbridge, MA, 30 November 1945. He has toured worldwide and recorded wit...

Mindi Abair: As Good As It Gets (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Gray-bearded geezers prattling about the old days are insufferable bores, especially to young people. But we can't re...

Silver, Horace (Ward Martin Tavares Silva) posted in Encyclopedia May 22, 08

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Benson, George posted in Encyclopedia July 16, 08

Guitarist George Benson's polished style emerged out of the innovations of Wes Montgomery, and took him from the orga...

Walton, Cedar (Anthony, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

Pianist Cedar Walton has displayed throughout his fifty-year career a deep melodic sensibility within the hard bop la...

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