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Fats Waller: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07When Roaring '20s Chicago gangsters abducted Fats Waller to sing "Happy Birthday" to Al Capone, they showed more musi...
Chu Berry & Hot Lips Page: Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 24, 07This song had been recorded by McKinney’s Cotton Pickers back in 1929, and then faded from view during the Great Depr...
Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 31, 07Darling, I'd Die Without You, among the hoariest songwriting clichés, was never expressed with greater despondency th...
Fats Waller: The Joint is Jumpin' (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 16, 07The reason Fats Waller was so huge (6' tall, 300 lbs., shoe size 15) was because there were two of him in there. One ...
Fats Waller: Florida Flo (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 19, 07Like other jazz greats (Armstrong, Holiday), Fats Waller has been criticized for doing material that was beneath him....
The Esquire All Stars: I Got Rhythm (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 24, 08The time was January 1944, and the first bebop band (led by Dizzy Gillespie) had just been hired on 52nd Street. Mea...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100
Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Fats Waller: Two Sleepy People (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 08, 09"Two Sleepy People" may the most charming song Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser ever wrote. Even today, its simple ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HOAGY CARMICHAEL
Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899. His given name, Hoagland, derived fr...
A Conversation With Mike LeDonne posted in Features and Interviews February 27, 09By Tomas Peña ...
Richards, Trevor (Hamilton Edward) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Richards, Trevor (Hamilton Edward), drummer, bandleader, writer; b. Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, 29 August 1945. ...
Schoenberg, Loren posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Schoenberg, Loren, saxophone; b. Paterson, NJ, 23 July 1958. Schoenberg was raised in Fair Lawn, NJ. He entere...
Don't Gonna Play That Kling-Kling Jazz: A Prehistory of Jazz-Rock posted in Features and Interviews June 18, 09By Geoff Wills When rock and roll emerged in the mid 1950s, many jazz musicians were witheringly scornful about ...
Teddy Wilson (with Billie Holiday): Say It With A Kiss (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 16, 09If there be any doubt that Prez and Lady Day were musical soulmates, one listen to their work together on “Say It Wit...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100
It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...
Fats Waller: The Sheik Of Araby (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 02, 09Fats Waller led a big band for a short period in the late 30s. Like Ray Charles would do years later, he built the ba...
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