Search results for "Sonny Berman"
Woody Herman (featuring Sonny Berman): Your Father's Moustache (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 23, 08"Your Father's Moustache" captures Herman's First Herd in full charge, and noticeably emerging out of the band's glor...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE SONNYS OF JAZZ
Jazz Quiz: What do these names have in common? Saul Berman Herman Blount Conrad Yeatis Clark William Criss C...
Woody Herman (featuring Sonny Berman): Sidewalks of Cuba (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 28, 07Sonny Berman was on the road as a jazz trumpeter at age sixteen and dead from a heroin overdose at 22. He worked wit...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS
We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...
Woody Herman: Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 11, 09It consistently amazes me how arrangers could take a brand new song and create an interesting, original framework for...
Woody Herman: Ebony Concerto (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 05, 07Emigrating to the U.S. during World War II, the world's foremost composer found himself financially strapped. Gratefu...
Woody Herman: Apple Honey (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 16, 07In the mid-1940s, Woody Herman's fire-breathing Thundering Herd was the most exciting big band in jazz. Sparked by th...
Woody Herman: Goosey Gander (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 23, 07This track takes its name from a nursery rhyme, but don't let Woody Herman's First Herd anywhere near the nursery. Tr...
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...
Herman, Woody (Woodrow Charles Thomas) posted in Encyclopedia November 19, 08For fifty years, clarinetist and alto saxophonist Woody Herman led the most remarkable orchestras in jazz. His music...
Woody Herman: The Good Earth (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 11, 09This was in the Herman book for almost a year before it was recorded for Columbia Records, and was originally called ...
Woody Herman: Laura (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 12, 09This track was the first recording made for the first session in Herman's contract for Columbia Records. Herman had l...
Woody Herman: Wild Root (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 12, 09Once upon a time, an alternate take of "Wild Root" was the more commonly heard performance whenever the title would b...
Woody Herman: Lady McGowan's Dream (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music January 12, 09This has to be the only composition named after a nymphomaniacal woman who held orgies in her hotel room for members ...
Sharp, Elliott posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09Guitarist, composer and reedman Elliott Sharp has played an important role in experimental music by combining blues, ...
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