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Cozy Cole: Take It On Back (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

The universality and collective adaptability of this rhythm section allowed its various members to entertain with Cab...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Billie Holiday: Good Morning Heartache (1946) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Like “That Ole Devil Called Love,” composed by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher, staff writers for a Decca publishing a...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Art Tatum: I Got Rhythm (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 10, 08

Jazzmen have recorded "I Got Rhythm" >600 times, and based so many of their own tunes on its chord progressions that ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRACKS BY PIANO TRIOS WITH GUITAR AND BASS

                  Nat King...

Queen, Alvin posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Queen, Alvin, drummer, producer; b. Bronx, NY, 16 August 1950. His family relocated to Mt. Vernon when he was 2 years...

Stewart, Slam (Leroy Elliot) posted in Encyclopedia September 17, 09

The most recorded jazz bassist of the 1940s, Slam Stewart had perfect pitch and intonation, impeccable time, and a sw...

Dixon, Ben (Harold) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Dixon, Ben (Harold), drummer, composer, arranger, teacher, clinician; b. Gaffney, SC, 25 December 1934.  As an i...

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...

Person, Houston posted in Encyclopedia July 18, 08

Saxophonist Houston Person is often portrayed as a “working man’s” tenor, most at home in soul-jazz or the blues. In...

A Conversation With Mike LeDonne posted in Features and Interviews February 27, 09

By Tomas Peña                   ...

Eva Cassidy: Fields of Gold (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 09, 09

When Eva Cassidy died from melanoma in 1996 at age 33, she was all but unknown as a performer. She labored in the fr...

Young, Trummy (James Oliver) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Trombonist Trummy Young developed a bright, energetic sound with unprecedented facility in the upper register which...

Ike Quebec: Blue and Sentimental (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

One aspect of Ike Quebec's playing that was conveyed so eloquently on his "comeback" Blue Note albums of the early '6...

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