Search results for "Steve Gadd"

Steely Dan (featuring Wayne Shorter): Aja (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 22, 09

Steely Dan's claim to fame is high-minded jazz-rock presented in a radio-ready format. "Aja," the title cut from thei...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS

Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...

Randy Crawford & Joe Sample: Feeling Good (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Randy Crawford and Joe Sample first showed how well they worked together when Crawford sang with Sample’s then-band t...

Steely Dan: Aja (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

Wayne Shorter, along with the other founding members of Weather Report, put fusion on the map in the early 1970s. The...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSSENTIAL WAYNE SHORTER TRACKS

Early stints with Horace Silver and Maynard Ferguson introduced Wayne Shorter’s riveting sound to the jazz community ...

Jim Hall: Two's Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 21, 08

Jim Hall's "Two's Blues" is an excellent display of the guitarist's improvisational abilities and his rhythm section'...

Tom Scott: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music February 21, 08

Tom Scott gathered together a very hot band for his Cannonball Adderley tribute CD Cannon Re-Loaded. With Terence Bl...

Al Di Meola: Egyptian Danza (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music March 15, 08

Di Meola was coming off multi-years of winning the Guitar Player magazine poll as best overall guitarist when he reco...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RETURN TO FOREVER

As we write, Return to Forever, the pioneering fusion group from the seventies, has reunited for an extensive world...

David Sanborn (with Eric Clapton): I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 18, 08

You don't often find Eric Clapton guesting on a jazz CD, but the heavy blues emphasis on this new David Sanborn relea...

Chick Corea: Part II (Dedicated to John Coltrane) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

While primarily known as a rock/pop drummer with Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, and James Taylor, Gadd is a successful and...

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...

Jim Hall: Concierto de Aranjuez (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Jim Hall’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” unites three of the purest melodists in jazz in Baker, Desmond, and the guitarist ...

Stanley Clarke: Concerto for Jazz/Rock Orchestra, Parts 1-4 (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 03, 08

Even more so than his phenomenal contemporary Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke was the fusion genre's first electric ba...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RETURN TO FOREVER

As we write, Return to Forever, the pioneering fusion group from the seventies, has reunited for an extensive world...

Steely Dan: Hey Nineteen (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

While the narrator in Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen" may not be a true "Gaucho" in the South American sense, he gets his...

Grover Washington, Jr.: Let it Flow (For "Dr. J") (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

The late Grover Washington, Jr. loved basketball, particularly the Philadelphia 76ers, and his album Winelight featur...

Grover Washington, Jr.: Just the Two of Us (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

You’ve undoubtedly heard this intimate boudoir ballad a trillion times on your local soft-rock station, but the singl...

Joe Sample: The Sidewinder (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

The 1994 Northridge earthquake so unsettled Joe Sample that he temporarily shelved his smooth jazz ministrations in f...

George Benson: Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 20, 08

Many might find this pick way too schmaltzy, but I can’t help including this movie theme ballad, super-sweetly orches...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BOBBY BROOM SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GEORGE BENSON TRACKS

Editor's Note: Around 1975, Bobby Broom, a 14-year-old guitar aspirant from Harlem who was playing R&B, funk, and so...

George Benson: Sky Dive (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 20, 08

Every set needs a burnout tune. At this 1975 Carnegie Hall concert, this was it. Benson takes Freddie Hubbard’s "Sky ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BOBBY BROOM SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GEORGE BENSON TRACKS

Editor's Note: Around 1975, Bobby Broom, a 14-year-old guitar aspirant from Harlem who was playing R&B, funk, and so...

George Benson: Soulful Strut (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 20, 08

Back in 1968, this tune was an instrumental pop/soul radio hit. George and company must have felt, ‘if it ain’t broke...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BOBBY BROOM SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GEORGE BENSON TRACKS

Editor's Note: Around 1975, Bobby Broom, a 14-year-old guitar aspirant from Harlem who was playing R&B, funk, and so...

Jonatha Brooke: My Flowers Grow Green (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 10, 08

While this track isn't jazz in the strict sense (so you sticklers will just have to relax), the underlying spirit cer...

George Benson: Take Five (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

Some tuning discrepancies exist here between guitar and bass, but it doesn't matter much, because the track is energe...

Michal Urbaniak: Chinatown (Part 1) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 25, 09

In the 1970s, Polish violinist Michal Urbaniak made his bid to join Jerry Goodman and Jean-Luc Ponty in the forefront...

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