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Steve Swallow: Bite Your Grandmother (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 31, 07Steve Swallow, wise guy. Just check out the spiky arpeggios he used to construct “Bite Your Grandmother.” While Jack...
Stéphane Grappelli & Gary Burton: Falling Grace (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music March 25, 08This was a match made in heaven. The young Gary Burton was touring Europe and the then 64-year-old Stéphane Grappelli...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL STÉPHANE GRAPPELLI
Stéphane Grappelli, by Jos L. Knaepen Below are twelve essential tracks drawn from the long and i...
Jimmy Raney: Move It (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 16, 09After the first of two stints with Stan Getz in 1951-52, clean, crisp swing/bop guitarist Jimmy Raney recorded his fi...
Jimmy Giuffre: Emphasis (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 08, 07With the opening phrases so full of angular passages from Giuffre, and with all of those clattering chords from Bley,...
Lee Konitz: Thingin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 12, 09"Thingin'" is Lee Konitz's personal vision of the "All the Things You Are" chord sequence, and he has recorded it in ...
Carla Bley: Ad Infinitum (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 27, 07Here we have a Carla Bley composition being given its third context. “Ad Infinitum” first appeared on her essential, ...
Jimmy Giuffre 3: Brief Hesitation (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 12, 09Here's a beautiful song from clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre's quietly revolutionary 1961 record Fusion (reissued on ECM a ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AARON PARKS SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL PAUL BLEY TRACKS
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Gary Burton: Falling Grace (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 27, 09The recent reconvening of Burton’s groundbreaking Quartet for an extended tour and a resulting live album was a welco...
Gary Burton & Stéphane Grappelli: Blue in Green (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 17, 08One of the greatest joys of jazz is unexpected collaboration. In no other genre do artists of varied ages, cultures a...
Gary Burton Quartet: Blue Comedy (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 26, 08Because of all the diverse music Gary Burton has recorded for almost 50 years, and since the vibraphone is not exactl...
Paul Bley: Syndrome (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 04, 07The words "lyrical" and "Free Jazz" rarely appear in the same context. Indeed, perhaps only in a Paul Bley review. An...
John Scofield: The Low Road (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 21, 08This is great Scofield! A bit more polished than some time ago, perhaps, but still it's good to hear Sco in this vein...
Stan Getz: When The World Was Young (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 21, 09As Stan Getz must have known – since his only live recording of this tune was made in Paris – the original song, titl...
Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett: Como en Vietnam (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 16, 08The date tells it: this mythic record was taped in a single studio session! Those were the days, for sure, where musi...
Gary Burton & Pat Metheny: Sea Journey (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 31, 09"Sea Journey" has long been one of my favorite Chick Corea composition—built on a stormy minor key vamp set off again...
Jimmy Giuffre: Jesus Maria (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 03, 07After his evocative folk-jazz signature piece "The Train and the River" graced both The Sound of Jazz telecast (1957)...
George Russell: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 08, 07During Thelonious Monk's lifetime, jazzmen widely admired but seldom braved his tunes. "'Round Midnight" was the exce...
John Scofield: Shoe Dog (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 31, 07Jazzmen, from Charlie Christian to Wes Montgomery, defined the sound of the electric guitar: clear, swinging and sop...
Carla Bley: Utviklingssang (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 21, 08"Evolution Song," in the language of her Swedish ancestors, was penned by Carla Bley for the great band she had at th...
Keith Jarrett (with Jim Pepper): Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music May 05, 08The pairing of pianist Jarrett with the tragically under-recorded tenor saxophonist Jim Pepper seems like a dream mat...
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