Search results for "Trummy Young"

Jimmie Lunceford (featuring Trummy Young): Margie (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

Although he is best-known for his work with Louis Armstrong in the 1950s and 1960s, trombonist Trummy Young made his ...

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: Mood Indigo (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 24, 09

It's interesting to compare this recording of "Mood Indigo" with Ellington's December 1930 version, the more instrume...

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: Black and Tan Fantasy (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 10, 09

In the movie Amadeus, Salieri speaks about the perfection of Mozart's music, saying: "And music finished as no music ...

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 24, 09

This recording of the de facto Jazz National Anthem is my favorite of the Ellington versions or anyone else's. After ...

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: The Beautiful American (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 07, 09

What does it mean to be an American? When Louis Armstrong was coming up in New Orleans, it meant being an orphan and ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MUSICAL AMERICANA

         Jazz Americana, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Shortly ...

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: Duke's Place (aka C Jam Blues) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

If you ever get the Blues in Paris, a visit to Duke's Place ("love that piano sound") will drop you off in Harlem, wi...

Louis Armstrong: (What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue (1955) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 23, 09

That remarkable songwriter, musician and world-class character Thomas "Fats" Waller wrote this tune for the 1929 Broa...

Louis Armstrong: Basin Street Blues (live, 1956) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 24, 09

This live recording opens with Louis Armstrong's spoken introduction of the song title. The immediate roar of approva...

Louis Armstrong: When the Saints Go Marching In (live, 1956) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 17, 09

From the first notes of that famous melody flowing from Satchmo and the All Stars, you just can't help but get a smil...

Louis Armstrong: The Memphis Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

This pairing of Armstrong’s artistry with Handy’s music seems so obvious that one might question why it took until 19...

Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray: The Hunt (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

Two of Wardell Gray’s and Dexter Gordon’s tenor duels, “The Chase” and “The Hunt,” rank among the all-time highlights...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DEXTER GORDON

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Louis Armstrong: Mack the Knife (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

"Mack the Knife" is dramatist Bertolt Brecht's grisly answer to Jack the Ripper, a nasty narrative of murderously mut...

Louis Armstrong: On the Sunny Side of the Street (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 05, 07

Recently a friend of ours lost her mother, a much-beloved, dyed-in-the-wool musician. At the funeral, our friend sang...

Louis Armstrong: Hello Dolly (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 24, 09

A bystander at the recording session notes that Louis Armstrong shook his head in dismay when looking over the music ...

Louis Armstrong: Tin Roof Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 17, 09

In his spoken introduction to "Tin Roof Blues", Louis Armstrong tells the crowd at Los Angeles' Crescendo Club that t...

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...

Lives of the Great Trombonists posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 13, 09

A few days ago, one of the music discussion forums mulled over whether the trombone is dead. The topic was hotly d...

Green, Bennie (Bernard) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Trombonist Bennie Green kept pace with the innovations of bebop while maintaining a deep closeness to the blues and p...

Bigard, Barney (Albany Leon) posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09

Barney Bigard was not only Ellington's clarinetist of choice, he was a master of modern art in pure aesthetic terms. ...

Clayton, Buck (Wilbur) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

The 1938 recordings by Count Basie's rhythm section are rightly celebrated in the annals of popular music for their ...

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