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Count Basie: Queer Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Count Basie, photo by Herb Snitzer Since the successful release of the Monk/Coltrane Carnegie Hall Concert in ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

Thelonious Monk: Ruby, My Dear (with John Coltrane) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Choosing just one version of “Ruby, My Dear” as Monk’s finest is no easy task. This one stands out for Monk’s strong ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Thelonious Monk: Crepuscule With Nellie (Carnegie Hall, 1957) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

The tapes from this 1957 Voice of America recording at Carnegie Hall were discovered only in 2005, and they contain t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

Producer Orrin Keepnews always did a brilliant job of putting his star musicians into interesting settings that tende...

Thelonious Monk: I Should Care (1948) (Rating: 62/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

At a historic session where he first recorded his stunning originals "Evidence," "Misterioso," "Epistrophy" and "I Me...

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...

Erroll Garner: Penthouse Serenade – as heard in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 18, 07

One mark of a great jazz artist is the ability to make a standard his or her own. By that yardstick, and by any other...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN

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Illinois Jacquet: Illinois Blows the Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

"The Italian navigator has landed in the new world," read the coded dispatch to Washington during World War II. "The ...

Billie Holiday: Tain't Nobody's Business (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

On May 27, 1947, Billie Holiday was sentenced to a year and a day for possession of narcotic drugs, remaining in cust...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Lee Konitz: Billie's Bounce (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 16, 08

Lee Konitz had the reputation of being the stylistic alternative to Charlie Parker during the 1940s and '50s. A sligh...

In Conversation with Paul Motian posted in Features and Interviews November 01, 08

By Ted Panken “I think rehearsing takes away from the beauty of the music,” says Paul Motian. “I’ve been playi...

Flanagan, Tommy (Thomas Lee) posted in Encyclopedia July 15, 09

Pianist Tommy Flanagan’s sophisticated use of melody, sincere lyricism and bright articulations made him a superb acc...

Jacquet, Illinois ( Jean-Baptiste) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09

Illinois Jacquet’s full-bodied sound expanded possibilities for the modern saxophonist. The original "Texas Tenor," J...

Higgins, Billy posted in Encyclopedia April 21, 08

Nearly all of the thousands of sessions Billy Higgins recorded contain swinging jazz at its highest level. Equally at...

In Conversation with Jimmy Cobb (Part One) posted in Features and Interviews March 31, 08

by Ralph A. Miriello Jimmy Cobb is the last surviving participant on the most celebrated jazz recording of the ...

Thelonious Monk: Evidence (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 01, 09

The topic of Thelonious Monk's drummers is intriguing. While many major players, from Kenny Clarke to Art Blakey to M...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ROY HAYNES

The century mark is a uniquely exciting time in the development of a major musical style. History is unearthed, co...

Jones, Elvin (Ray) posted in Encyclopedia March 21, 08

Elvin Jones expanded the jazz drummer’s role from timekeeper to volatile improviser. Jones’s approach was more extrem...

Garner, Erroll (Louis) posted in Encyclopedia June 20, 08

Pianist Erroll Garner established himself out of the rag tradition and created a sound all his own. In an era of pia...

In Conversation with Johnny Griffin posted in Features and Interviews July 28, 08

By Ted Panken Can you recall your impressions when you arrived in New York for the first time in 1945 with Lion...

Erroll Garner: Summertime (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 30, 08

Erroll Garner's Columbia version of "Summertime" sounds like a playful romp, but there is a lot of musical substance ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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Lee Konitz: Kary's Trance (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 20, 08

Listening to this makes one a little sad that Lee Konitz hasn't written more tunes. He's based much of his career on ...

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