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Ray Brown Trio: Lady Be Good (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09When I was just getting really serious about the music, and going out and buying records with the allowance my mother...
Ray Brown-Monty Alexander-Sam Most: Too Late Now (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 03, 09There's plenty of Ray Brown and Monty Alexander to be heard on numerous CDs, but most of flutist Sam Most's work is h...
Duke Ellington: Black, Brown and Beige (live 1943) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07Preserving Duke's Carnegie Hall debut (attended by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, no less), this 3-part, 45-minute mas...
Les Brown: April Showers (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 21, 08After establishing himself as a freelance arranger in New York, Les Brown led a pretty good orchestra. Having Doris D...
Les Brown: Bopple Sauce (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 21, 08Despite the unison sax/trumpet melody, this is hardly a bebop composition, although Les Brown's band played bop very ...
Les Brown: Just a Gigolo (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music April 14, 09One of the great things about the study of an art form is that, in many cases, the cream finally rises to the top. Fo...
Les Brown: I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 02, 09Les Brown had been in the band business since he led his Duke Blue Devils in 1936. When the band returned to Duke Uni...
Les Brown: Rock Me To Sleep (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 24, 08This was one of Les Brown's last sides for Columbia Records before he signed a contract with the Decca subsidiary, Co...
Les Brown: Leap Frog (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 16, 09Tenor saxophonist/arranger Joe Garland is best known for "In the Mood," which of course became the anthem of the swin...
Ray Brown-Milt Jackson: Lined With A Groove (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09This recording is with Oliver Nelson’s big band—Grady Tate is playing drums, Clark Terry is playing flugelhorn, Milt ...
Duke Ellington-Ray Brown: Pitter, Panther, Patter (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09I almost purposely decided to leave This One’s For Blanton off the list, because the whole album is so completely per...
Ray Brown: Ain't Misbehavin' (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 09, 09Ray Brown's 1960 album Jazz Cello was one of the first albums in mainstream jazz to be devoted entirely to the cello....
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...
Ray Brown: Bass Solo Medley: Full Moon and Empty Arms/The Very Thought Of You/The Work Song (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09On The Very Tall Band, which is a quartet with Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, and Karriem Riggins, Ray Brown does a me...
Milt Jackson-Ray Brown: Frankie and Johnnie (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09“Frankie and Johnnie” is just a great jam. Milt Jackson and Ray Brown were inseparable cronies. They were very much l...
Ray Brown Trio: F.S.R. (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 09“F.S.R.” was one of the Ray Brown Trio’s most popular songs. The story is: It was a Milt Jackson record for Pablo cal...
Duke Ellington & Ray Brown: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music July 12, 08This recording, made 18 months before Ellington's death, aimed to recapture the magic of the Duke's 1939-1941 collabo...
James Brown: It’s A Man’s, Man's, Man’s World (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09Not many people know that Ray Brown was actually a very good electric bass player. He adapted to the smaller instrume...
Oscar Peterson: Sometimes I'm Happy (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09“Sometimes I’m Happy” is one of the few tracks that I know on many Oscar Peterson records where the trio actually jus...
Superbass: It Ain't Necessarily So (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09Certainly, playing with Ray and John Clayton in Superbass was one of the highlights of my entire career. Getting to a...
Quincy Jones: Killer Joe (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09According to an interview I saw with Quincy maybe 6 or 7 years ago, “Killer Joe” was the last straight-ahead tune tha...
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