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April Hall: You Must Believe In Spring (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 08April Hall is a Boston-based singer with a voice so flexible and wide-ranging that she can sound like several complet...
Herbie Hancock & John McLaughlin: Turn Out The Stars (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music July 03, 08In 1994 the Verve jazz label celebrated its 50th anniversary with a shindig at Carnegie Hall. The historic venue was ...
Herbie Hancock & John McLaughlin: It's About That Time (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 03, 08The 50th Anniversary concert of Verve Records was celebrated at Carnegie Hall in 1994. It contained many high moments...
Benny Goodman & Jimmy Rowles: Mean to Me (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 05, 08Every serious jazz fan has heard of the Benny Goodman Quartet and the Benny Goodman Trio. But what about the Benny G...
Jim Hall: Concierto de Aranjuez (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 16, 07Jim Hall’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” unites three of the purest melodists in jazz in Baker, Desmond, and the guitarist ...
Jim Hall: Two's Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 21, 08Jim Hall's "Two's Blues" is an excellent display of the guitarist's improvisational abilities and his rhythm section'...
Jim Hall: Good Friday Blues (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 28, 07In 1960, when producer Richard Bock conceived a blues anthology for his Pacific Jazz label, he called Jim Hall, ...
GRAMMY® Hall of Fame Jazz Singles posted in Features and Interviews January 20, 08"The Hall of Fame Award," explains The Recording Academy's website, "was established in 1973 to honor recordings of l...
The Best Jazz Web Links: April 2008 posted in Miscellaneous Pages April 22, 08A tribute to Louis ArmstrongThe concert featured Nicholas Payton, Delfeayo Marsalis and Bill Charlap, amo...
Song of the Day posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 17, 07The Song of the Day is a regular feature at jazz.com. Five days per week, jazz.com highlights an exceptional track d...
Scott Albin Selects the Best Jazz CDs and Tracks of 2008 posted in The Jazz.com Blog December 08, 08Several regular contributors to jazz.com will be offering a look back at the best of 2008 in this column. Here Scott...
Best Jazz Tracks for November posted in The Jazz.com Blog November 30, 08“This track sounds like the 1972 disco hit 'Soul Makossa' as if sung by Kate Bush in duet with Captain Beefheart,” ...
Bobby Broom: Body and Soul (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 04, 08Bobby Broom started his career at the top. At age 16, he gigged with Sonny Rollins on the stage of Carnegie Hall, a...
Art Tatum: Willow Weep for Me (live 1949) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 02, 08Erroll Garner and Art Tatum at Birdland, 1952 ...
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...
Duke Ellington: Cocktails for Two (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music November 20, 07Among Duke Ellington's 7 singles and 2 albums enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame, the 2007 choice is least explicab...
Ryan Blotnick: Thinning Air (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music February 12, 08Guitarist Ryan Blotnick counts among his influences Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, and Gene Bertoncini. While...
Duke Ellington: Reflections in D (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 15, 08A week before he recorded this introspective solo piano piece, Ellington brought his band into the studio to make "Sa...
Anthony Davis: Wayang No. 5 (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 22, 08The history of jazz piano and composition has always been maximalist, almost as a core principle. Jelly Roll Morton ...
Gene Bertoncini & Roni Ben-Hur: Smile (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 10, 08It's tough to decide which is more beautiful, the perfect contrast between Gene Bertoncini's nylon-string guitar and ...
Dave Frishberg: Van Lingle Mungo (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 04, 09“Van Lingle Mungo” is one of Dave Frishberg’s most famous songs, primarily because of its lyric, which consists entir...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DAVE FRISHBERG
Dave Frishberg once offered his original song “The Underdog” to Frank Sinatra. The song told the story of a gambler...
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