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J.J. Johnson/ Kai Winding Trombone Octet: A Night In Tunisia (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 04, 09

In April 1956, eight of New York's top trombonists joined an all-star rhythm section to record Jay & Kai + 6, an albu...

Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves: Salt and Pepper (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 05, 09

This 1963 Stitt-Gonsalves encounter should be better known than it is. Stitt, of course, was one of the most prolifi...

Jimmy Raney: Move It (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 16, 09

After the first of two stints with Stan Getz in 1951-52, clean, crisp swing/bop guitarist Jimmy Raney recorded his fi...

Maxine Sullivan: Massachusetts (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 04, 08

In contrast to Anita O'Day's 1942 Paul Revere-style charge through "Massachusetts" rousing Gene Krupa's Swing Era min...

John Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

This track both connects and disconnects Birth of the Cool and Third Stream. BOTC holdovers include Miles, J.J., Barb...

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 ...

Clifford Brown: I Come From Jamaica (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Following a debilitating car accident in the summer of 1950 which left Clifford incapacitated in a body cast for the ...

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

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Mose Allison: Your Mind Is on Vacation (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

In the culture-clash of jazz and psychiatry, shrinks have gotten short shrift. Mose Allison, however, plays Devil's a...

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...

Billie Holiday: For All We Know (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Billie told arranger/conductor Ray Ellis she wanted to “sound like Sinatra” after hearing Gordon Jenkins’s scoring fo...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

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Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow (Sound of Jazz, 1957) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

This is generally acknowledged as the greatest jazz moment ever broadcast on national television. And with good reas...

Oscar Pettiford: Not So Sleepy (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 07, 08

Seldom in jazz has such an unusual and rich combination of sonorities been assembled into one performance. Bassist Os...

Johnny Hartman: These Foolish Things (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 06, 08

Here's my wish list. I want to have Bill Gates's bank account, Tom Cruise's smile, Tiger Woods's putting game and . ...

Bud Powell: I Should Care (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music May 08, 08

Bud Powell was still a young man when he recorded this track -- he would turn 32 two weeks later -- but he had alread...

Ahmad Jamal: Buenos Aires (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 09, 08

This was recorded after Israel Crosby and Vernel Fournier went over to George Shearing, and it’s clear that Ahmad Jam...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ERIC REED SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL AHMAD JAMAL TRACKS

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Jimmy Hamilton: Blues in My Music Room (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music June 27, 08

The leader is primarily known for his long association with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He took over the clarinet/t...

Hal McKusick: Jambangle (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 21, 08

Hal McKusick was a veteran of the Boyd Raeburn and Claude Thornhill orchestras, and was an active freelance musician ...

Billy Bauer: Lincoln Tunnel (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

Nowadays, few listeners are aware of the art of guitarist Billy Bauer, and that's a shame. Of course, this consummate...

George Handy: The Sleepwalker (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 19, 09

At this point in time it is safe to assume that the name George Handy is unlikely to be familiar to most jazz listene...

Billie Holiday: Fine And Mellow (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

“I summed up all existence in an epigram,” Oscar Wilde once bragged; Lester Young doesn’t quite capture all existence...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

J.J. Johnson: Poem for Brass (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 09, 08

This composition directly resulted from formation of the Jazz and Classical Music Society, an ensemble led by Gunther...

Hinton, Milt (Milton John) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

Bassist Milt Jackson advanced the role of the bassist in a jazz ensemble by performing with a keen rhythmic intellect...

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