Search results for "Raymond Scott"

Raymond Scott: The Penguin (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Being as flightless as an ostrich, and by comparison a clumsy walker, doesn't deter the Emperor Penguin from maintain...

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...

Raymond Scott: Twilight in Turkey (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Despite being co-opted for many long-lived Warner Bros. cartoons, Raymond Scott's late-1930s music has largely been f...

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...

Raymond Scott: Powerhouse (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

La beauté folle des machines, Ravel called it—the mad beauty of machines. But beware: artists who investigate such ph...

Scott Joplin: The Corn Huskers (from Treemonisha) (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music January 24, 08

Finally revived in the 1970s, Scott Joplin’s long-lost opera Treemonisha (1911) is set in 1884 on an Arkansas plantat...

Fields, Scott posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Fields, Scott, composer, guitarist; b. Chicago, IL, 30 September 1952. His mother is Barbara Rueckert. His father was...

Don Byron: I've Found A New Baby (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 26, 09

"Ivey-divey" was an expression Lester Young created and used to convey resignation, sadness, or frustration, and Don ...

Phillip Johnston: Hofstra's Dilemma (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 22, 09

Johnston led the delightfully off-kilter swing/progressive Microscopic Septet from 1980 to 1992, during which time he...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Jazz and Cartoons: The Secret History posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 07, 08

Jazz plays a peculiar role in the broader culture. Almost no one buys jazz records these days (roughly 2% of CD sa...

Jazz's First Avant-Gardist posted in The Jazz.com Blog February 08, 09

Half a century ago, Ornette Coleman bit into the Big Apple, turning the jazz world upside down, inside out, and e...

101—Count 'Em!—Classic Tracks posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 20, 09

I give you some credit. Every day you take your vitamins, go to the gym for a workout, take the dog for a walk, ...

Don Redman: Chant of the Weed (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Venture past this track's K-tel campiness—As-Seen-On-TV: All-time Smokin' Reefer Songs! Act Now! Supplies Are Limited...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: Buddy DeFranco posted in Features and Interviews October 16, 09

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...

Byron, Don posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Byron, Don, clarinet, composer, arranger, saxophones; b. Nov. 8, 1958, in the Bronx, New York City . His father was a...

Bardfeld, Samuel J posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bardfeld, Samuel J., violinist, composer, author; b. New York, NY, 14 January 1968. His mother is Andrea, his father ...

Colligan, George (George Harrington Colligan IV) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Colligan, George [George Harrington Colligan IV], pianist; b. Summit, NJ, 29 December 1969. Grew up in Columbia, Mary...

Fourth IAJE Update from Toronto posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 13, 08

The last day of IAJE in Toronto was a time for unexpected pleasures, and for the talents of the event’s Canadian ho...

Ahmad Jamal: Pavanne (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

Notwithstanding the valiant efforts of Pops Orchestras and Summertime Symphonies across the land, Americans have neve...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRACKS BY PIANO TRIOS WITH GUITAR AND BASS

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Williams, Cootie (Charles Melvin) posted in Encyclopedia March 31, 08

No one in the forties could coax a trumpet like Cootie Williams, or produce such wild effects, from rooster squawks t...

Charlie Haden's Quartet West: The Long Goodbye (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 28, 08

Quartet West was one of the more interesting and significant groups of the '90s because of the material they chose to...

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