Search results for "Russ Freeman"

Chet Baker & Russ Freeman: Love Nest (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

On radio during the 1940s and TV in the '50s, comedians Burns & Allen closed each show with cigar-toting George telli...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Chet Baker: Summer Sketch (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Not to be mistaken for The Rippingtons’ guitarist of the same name, pianist Russ Freeman was a mainstay of 1950s Wes...

Chet Baker: Winter Wonderland (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

For calling birds, a trumpet is the most reliable instrument. Especially if the trumpeter looks like jazz's James Dea...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RUDY REINDEER'S FAVORITE JAZZ

First, about the name. The whole "Rudolph" thing started as a joke. To friends and family, I've always been Rudy. The...

Richard Twardzik: Just One of Those Things (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 31, 08

Back in 1954, pianist Richard Twardzik was an unusual artist for Pacific, Richard Bock's boutique label focusing on W...

Richard Twardzik: Bess, You Is My Woman (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

"Then there was this white cat," Cecil Taylor later recalled, "Dick Twardzik . . . He had destroyed some Kenton peopl...

Richard Twardzik: I'll Remember April (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 11, 08

Richard Twardzik would have been one of the most important jazz artists of the late 1950s and 1960s, had he lived lon...

Richard Twardzik: A Crutch for the Crab (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

Twardzik, dead at age 24, left behind a small body of work, but enough to justify his inclusion in the short list of ...

Cy Touff: Keester Parade (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

In addition to its witty title and hummable melody, Johnny Mandel’s “Keester Parade” offers a full-sounding small-ban...

Chet Baker: Look for the Silver Lining (1954) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

  Chet Baker, artwork by Michael Symonds Chet Baker was to singing what Marilyn Monroe was to acting...

Shelly Manne: Fallout (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

On his two albums of Peter Gunn music, Shelly Manne's streamlining was to Henry Mancini's hulking originals what Cali...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CRIME JAZZ

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

Shelly Manne: Bernie's Tune (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

1950s West Coast jazz often got a bum rap for being overly arranged and effete. Tracks like this one put the lie to ...

Shelly Manne: Sorta Blue (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Conte Candoli was Superman's sibling. Pete Candoli, lead trumpeter in Woody Herman's mid-1940s First Herd, would char...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Chet Baker: But Not For Me (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 29, 07

The late Richard Bock, who produced this recording (and so many other classic West Coast jazz sessions) once confided...

Chet Baker: There Will Never Be Another You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 05, 07

With jazz performers, we crave the person behind the persona. Usually what you see is what you get. Sometimes, though...

Clifford Brown: Joy Spring (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Less than a month after the historic February 1954 A Night At Birdland session with Art Blakey, Brownie found himself...

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

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The Rippingtons: Moonlighting (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

In 1986, guitarist Russ Freeman enlisted some musician friends to “moonlight” as a band called the Rippingtons and re...

Baker, Chet (Chesney Henry Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia July 18, 08

Trumpeter Chet Baker’s leading-man looks and unquenchable addictions made him a kind of James Dean of jazz, swirled i...

The Tragedy of Richard Twardzik (Part Two) posted in The Jazz.com Blog February 01, 09

Below is the second (and final) installment of my article on Richard Twardzik, and the recent biography of the pianis...

Twardzik, Dick (Richard Henryk) posted in Encyclopedia February 01, 09

Richard Henryk Twardzik was born on April 30, 1931 in Danvers, Massachusetts. His first words were reportedly “n...

Yandall, Patrick (Norman) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Yandall, Patrick (Norman), guitarist, composer, publisher; b. Ft. Bragg, NC 1959. Grew up in Bay City, Michigan. His ...

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