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Jelly Roll Morton: High Society (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

Although Jelly Roll Morton is the leader of this recording, it is a rare instance where the pianist/composer is not t...

Papa Mutt Carey: Ostrich Walk (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

With two Papas (Papa Mutt Carey and Pops Foster) and a Baby (Dodds) on hand—each of them a New Orleans pioneer of the...

Louis Armstrong: St. Louis Blues (1929) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

On Friday the 13th, six weeks after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Louis Armstrong was singing the blues—to be precis...

King Oliver's Jazz Band: Snag It (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Once New Orleans musicians started moving to Chicago in the 19-teens, South Side club owners began losing interest in...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

Henry 'Red' Allen: It Should Be You (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

After a brief cadenza, Allen launches into the first chorus of this 32-bar original (no bridge) accompanied by a righ...

King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators: Wa Wa Wa (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Most observers agree that Joe Oliver was among the first brass men (if not the first) to change his sound by sticking...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

Hubner, Abbi (Albert Charles Otto) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Hubner, Abbi (Albert Charles Otto), trumpet, vocalist, author; b. Hamburg, Germany, 2 February 1933. His father was W...

Giger, Peter posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Giger, Peter, drummer; b. Zurich, Switzerland, 12 April 1939. He grew up in or near Berne. In 1958, he toured Europe ...

Richards, Trevor (Hamilton Edward) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Richards, Trevor (Hamilton Edward), drummer, bandleader, writer; b. Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, 29 August 1945. ...

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. ...

In Conversation with Jean-Luc Ponty posted in Features and Interviews September 06, 08

by Thierry Quénum The liner notes of Le Voyage, the Jean-Luc Ponty Anthology on Atlantic Records say that w...

Sudhalter, Richard M. (Merrill) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Sudhalter, Richard M. (Merrill), trumpeter, historian, broadcaster. b. Boston, MA, 28 December 1938. d. New York, NY,...

Manzecchi, Franco (Gian) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Manzecchi, Franco (Gian), drummer; b. Ravenna, Italy, Sept.10,1931; d. Konstanz, Germany, March 25, 1979. The name of...

Meyer, Peter "Banjo," posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Meyer, Peter "Banjo," banjo, guitar, vocal; b. Hambug, Germany, 28 March 1944. Raised in a musical family, he star...

Morton, Jelly Roll (Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe) posted in Encyclopedia October 09, 08

Pianist Jelly Roll Morton invented himself, even if he did not invent jazz, as he once claimed. Born Ferdinand Joseph...

Oliver, Joe 'King' posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 08

Cornetist Joe Oliver blew the blues through brass, and helped bring bottom-up swing to New Orleans at the turn of the...

Bolling, Claude posted in Encyclopedia January 20, 09

Pianist and arranger Claude Bolling's work explores the commonalities of jazz and classical music. Initially praised ...

Bechet, Sidney posted in Encyclopedia February 17, 09

“Of all the musicians, Bechet to me was the very epitome of jazz," composer Duke Ellington once said of soprano saxo...

Noone, Jimmie posted in Encyclopedia February 19, 09

Jimmie Noone, amongst New Orleans' early clarinet kings, posessed the best technique and a pure, almost classical sou...

The Rise and Fall of the Clarinet (Part 2) posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 14, 09

What happened to the clarinet? It once was the defining instrument of jazz, and in the hands of Benny Goodman, Artie...

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