Search results for "Al Cohn"

Al Cohn & Zoot Sims: Blue Hodge (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Tenorists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims played together as members of Woody Herman’s famous Second Herd and later continued t...

Al Cohn & Zoot Sims: Lover Come Back to Me (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 27, 07

                  Zoot Sims at Birdland       ...

Al Cohn & Jimmy Rowles: Them There Eyes (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Six-and-a-half minutes of sheer fun. Al Cohn and Jimmy Rowles have a blast with this corny standard from 1930, and yo...

Carl Fontana: I Thought About You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 24, 09

Carl Fontana's unique post-bop personality is on full display on this track, one of the signature songs of his career...

Artie Shaw: Aesop's Foibles (Minnesota) (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Artie Shaw was forever quitting the music business in disgust, only to return and repeat the cycle. In 1949 he was in...

Buddy DeFranco: A Bird in Igor's Yard (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 19, 09

George Russell was born in 1923, became a drummer, and learned the basics of music theory and arranging while recover...

Tito Rodriguez: Perdido (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 07, 08

The Tito Rodriguez band is not as well known as those of his compatriots Machito and Tito Puente, but cognoscent...

Jimmy Giuffre: Iowa Stubborn (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

In the 1950s, Jimmy Giuffre seesawed between commerce and the avant-garde. After early West Coast adventurism, Giuffr...

Boyd Raeburn: Blue Moon (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music December 30, 07

Raeburn began his career in the Midwest leading a functional Lawrence Welk-type band. By 1943, he switched gears and ...

Carmen McRae: Baltimore Oriole (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 08, 09

I think that Carmen McRae was born to sing "Baltimore Oriole". For one thing, she was one of the few singers that cou...

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...

Count Basie & His Orchestra (featuring Al Grey): Makin' Whoopee (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 31, 09

Frank Sinatra's 1966 live album Sinatra At The Sands with Count Basie is remembered as one of his finest. Highlight...

Stan Getz (with Bob Brookmeyer): Rustic Hop (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 04, 09

In the mid-1980s, Stan Getz helped raise money for his own salary as artist-in-residence at Stanford University by gi...

Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...

Count Basie: Do You Want to Know a Secret? (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Jazz in the 1950s survived Elvis by ignoring him. Miles Davis did not apply his moody Harmon mute to "Heartbreak Hote...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Away with pretenders! The throne belongs to but one Ring-a-Ding King. A quarter century after achieving stardom with ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Cohn, Joe posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Cohn, Joe, guitar (also bass, trumpet, piano); b. Queens, Flushing, NY, 28 December 1956. He's the son of saxophioni...

Irene Kral: Memphis In June (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 09, 09

"Memphis In June" was written by Hoagy Carmichael and Paul Francis Webster, but the lyric veers close to Johnny Merce...

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...

Gerry Mulligan: Lady Chatterley's Mother (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 09, 08

Gerry Mulligan's early '60s Concert Jazz Band was one of the most musically influential big bands of its time. That i...

Terry Gibbs: Nose Cone (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

At first, a rocket ship's nose cone contained only scientific instrumentation. Later, small laboratory mammals, gradu...

Woody Herman: The Goof and I (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 04, 09

Woody Herman’s second of his many herds was the most bop-oriented of all of them, and when we take into consideration...

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