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Ted Kooshian: Top Cat (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music May 07, 08

Despite his name, Top Cat didn't enjoy much time at the top. His Hanna-Barbera cartoon show was canceled after only ...

Ted Heath: Henry IX (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 18, 08

Ted Heath's Sunday Night London Palladium concerts gave him a chance to introduce new members of the band (vocalists ...

Ted Kooshian: Bullitt (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music March 24, 08

Watch almost any action movie from the late 1960s and you're sure to hear the signature sound of misbehaving guitars,...

Ted Heath: Ladybird (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 18, 08

By this time in its history, the Heath band's schedule was made up of tours, BBC broadcasts, recordings for U.K. Decc...

Ted Heath: Father Knickerbopper (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music March 16, 08

The Ted Heath band's exploration of the modern jazz repertoire ended at about this time, when Heath realized that mos...

Laura Klein & Ted Wolff: In A Grain Of Sand (Rating: 77/100) posted in Music March 28, 09

Cerulean Blue is a pigment which, according to Wikipedia “is particularly valuable for artistic painting of skies bec...

Cuong Vu: Accelerated Thoughts (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music February 28, 08

Cuong Vu delights in contrasts, and builds his compositions by juxtaposing rather than blending. "Accelerated Though...

Charles Mingus: All the Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

"All of us who stay sane," reflected Charles Mingus after seeking treatment at Bellevue and being locked up for his n...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Gil Evans: Summertime (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

This is essentially a rearrangement of the score that Gil Evans wrote for Miles Davis's Porgy and Bess (1958). But Ev...

Benny Carter: Nightfall (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 11, 09

Jazz history books will tell you how Lester Young single-handedly forged a more lithe and fluid approach to the tenor...

Roy Eldridge: Melange (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music July 21, 09

Shades of Jazz at the Philharmonic, Roy Eldridge's old stomping grounds. At 64 years-of-age at the time of this reco...

Loren Stillman: Man of Mystery (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 22, 09

In the hands of Loren Stillman, jazz is an austere art. His music is purged of licks and thrives in a funk-free zone...

Ike Sturm: Kyrie (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 28, 09

For a music so closely associated with vice, from Storyville to the speakeasies and beyond, jazz has developed a surp...

Charles Mingus: Stormy Weather (1960) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 08, 08

If any jazzman's psyche epitomized "Stormy Weather," it was Charles Mingus's. Which makes this track's tranquility al...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER

Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...

Charles Mingus: Half-Mast Inhibition (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Mingus began "Half-Mast Inhibition" at age 18, but left it unfinished for 20 years. As tempting as it might be to cal...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Anita O'Day: Lover (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

For the first 45 seconds of this 2-minute track, Anita O'Day treats her "Lover" as tenderly as, well, "Tenderly." The...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Ella Fitzgerald: Every Time We Say Goodbye (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

Perhaps the most enduring song from the whole Songbook series, “Every Time We Say Goodbye” from The Cole Porter Songb...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL ELLA FITZGERALD PERFORMANCES

Ella Fitzgerald lived to sing. Nothing in her life meant as much to her. Yet she never had a music lesson in her life...

Charles Mingus: Original Faubus Fables (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

Everyone on my "Desert Island Dozens" list (Ellington, Coleman, Jarrett, Haden, Davis, Monk, Hill, Holland, Rollins) ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: BEN ALLISON

Ben Allison, recently featured in an interview and concert review on jazz.com, now participates in our "Desert Islan...

Charles Mingus: Original Faubus Fables (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

In 1957, as a defiant white mob at Little Rock's Central High School chanted "Two, four, six, eight; we don't want to...

Frank Wess: Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music March 13, 09

During his tenure with Count Basie in the 1950s and '60s, tenor saxophonist/flutist Frank Wess probably had occasion ...

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