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Grant Green: Idle Moments (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07Legend has it (well, actually it's in the liner notes) that due to a misunderstanding of how many bars constituted a ...
Stanley Turrentine: Someone to Watch Over Me (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 01, 07Nowhere is nonpareil audio engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s renowned "Blue Note sound" more distinctive than on ballads. Be...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS
Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...
Grant Green: Old Folks (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 05, 07Many of the finest organ trio recordings were actually made under the guitarist’s name as leader. Guitarist Grant Gre...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TO B-3 OR NOT B-3 . . . A GUIDE TO JAZZ ORGAN TRIOS
Despite the undisputed genius of its most famous player, “The Incredible” Jimmy Smith, the organ has always had to fi...
Dexter Gordon: You've Changed (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 14, 09With the exception of a couple of bop/hard-bop sessions (Daddy Plays the Horn and Dexter Blows Hot and Cool), the 195...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DEXTER GORDON
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Howard Alden: Displacement (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 19, 08In Woody Allen's 1999 film Sweet and Lowdown, Sean Penn plays the fictitious Emmet Ray, the second greatest jazz guit...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JAZZ GUITAR
The Guitarist, artwork by Suzanne Cerny They say t...
Grant Green: Jean de Fleur (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 19, 08There was an attractive freshness and simplicity to Grant Green's linear-styled playing, and his bluesy tone was inst...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JAZZ GUITAR
The Guitarist, artwork by Suzanne Cerny They say t...
Benny Golson at the Kennedy Center (Reviewed by Michael J. West) posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 27, 09The Eisenhower Theater is the smallest on the main floor of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in W...
Miner, Neal posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Miner, Neal, bassist, composer, band leader; b. New York City, NY, 3 February 1970. Raised on the Upper East Side of ...
Turrentine, Stanley posted in Encyclopedia October 19, 08Stanley Turrentine, it has been said, could make the telephone book sound soulful. His elegant brawn in the lower reg...
Benny Golson at the Kennedy Center (Reviewed by David Tenenholtz) posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 27, 09Without Benny Golson’s gifts, hard-bop would have emerged far less abundant with charming straight-ahead standards ...
Breakstone, Joshua (Scott) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Breakstone, Joshua (Scott), guitar; b. Elizabeth, NJ, 22 July 1955. He was raised in Linden, NJ by Arthur and Priscil...
Horace Parlan: Wadin' (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music October 22, 07“Wadin’” resembles many of the instrumental blues performances on the Blue Note recordings of its day. Taken at a me...
George Benson: Witchcraft (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 19, 08Benson's commercial success meant overproduced albums and an increased emphasis on his pleasing vocals, which diminis...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JAZZ GUITAR
The Guitarist, artwork by Suzanne Cerny They say t...
Ervin, Booker (Tellefero Ervin II) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 08Saxophonist Booker Ervin’s hard-edged tone, drawn from his roots in rhythm and blues, were matched with a peerless a...
Winding, Kai (Chresten) posted in Encyclopedia May 20, 09Trombonist Kai Winding adapted the bebop language to his instrument, and in doing so expanded its harmonic function...
Harris, Gene (Haire, Eugene) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09Pianist Gene Harris combined the blues with bebop, gospel and soul in a tasteful mix which contained a wealth of melo...
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