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Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Bess, Oh, Where Is My Bess? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

How does one pick a favorite piece from Gil's and Miles' Porgy and Bess album? Tough to do. I've chosen this piece ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Miles Davis: Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

In Act III, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935), Porgy returns to Catfish Row after a week in jail that...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Stamm, Marvin (Louis) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Stamm, Marvin (Louis), trumpet and Flugelhorn; performer, educator, writer; b. May 23, 1939, Memphis, TN.  His f...

Wes Montgomery: Watch What Happens (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

By 1967, Pop Jazz was staler than last night's butts, as shown by an ashtray's contents on this track's close-up albu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

Miles Davis (featuring Philly Joe Jones): Gone (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

"The thing about Philly Joe's playing," said Paul Motian in a 1996 Percussive Notes interview, "was that somehow his ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Fishermen, Strawberry and Devil Crab (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 09, 08

As Act II, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935) opens, dawn breaks over Catfish Row. As always, day...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

Of the numerous jazz adaptations of Porgy and Bess in the mid-to-late 1950s – many motivated by the production of a H...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: It Ain't Necessarily So (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

The wistful, longing intro by Davis, cleverly utilizing the opening melodic line from "I Got Plenty of Nothin'," coul...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: My Man's Gone Now (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

British critic Max Harrison felt that the full potential of Gil Evans's charts for Miles Davis's Porgy and Bess was n...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Gone, Gone, Gone (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music June 14, 08

Act I, Scene 2 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935) finds a roomful of destitute Negroes attending the sheet-cov...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Stan Getz: Entre Amigos (Sympathy Between Friends) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

A follow-up to Stan Getz's remarkably successful Jazz Samba album, Big Band Bossa Nova is a frequently inspired partn...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GARY MCFARLAND

Gary McFarland's life could be the subject of a movie screenplay. Until he was in his mid-20s, McFarland (1933-1971) ...

Miles Davis: Buzzard Song (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

Miles's and Gil's Porgy and Bess opens with a loud chord, proceeding to Miles's take on a song cut from the opera's o...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Summertime (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

This is a straightforward rendition of the Gershwin classic, with Miles playing the melody, then improvising against ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

This section of Porgy and Bess was never well known by the general public. In the opera, Bess goes with other residen...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Gary McFarland: On This Site Shall Be Erected . . . (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

Following The Gary McFarland Orchestra – Special Guest Soloist: Bill Evans and The October Suite, the third of Gary M...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GARY MCFARLAND

Gary McFarland's life could be the subject of a movie screenplay. Until he was in his mid-20s, McFarland (1933-1971) ...

Miles Davis: I Loves You, Porgy (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 08, 08

One of the most beautiful songs in Porgy and Bess, the music during the entire first part of this track seems to floa...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 08, 08

Although this song is actually sung in the opera's penultimate scene, it makes a fine ending for the album. Clearly i...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 29, 08

One of the many wonders in the Miles Davis/Gil Evans album of Porgy and Bess is how Evans was able to remain faithful...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Red Blouse (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

Jobim's first A&M recording wraps his minimalist compositional style around Claus Ogerman's lush strings and horns an...

Herbie Hancock: Firewater (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

Utilizing an array of different brass and reed players, this song has Herbie Hancock written all over it even though ...

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