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Miles Davis-Gil Evans: My Ship (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

This cut is beauty personified. There's nothing seemingly complex or unusual, but even the simple half-note pads tha...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Miles Davis: My Ship (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

"My Ship,” helmed by arranger Gil Evans to a port of pure bliss, is the most sublime 4½ minutes in all of music. In p...

Art Pepper: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Due to what the 1950s jazz press euphemistically called "personal problems," the once-prolific Art Pepper made just o...

Art Pepper: Star Eyes (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 11, 08

Art Pepper doesn't meet "a" rhythm section on this 1957 date – he meets the rhythm section. Best known for their tenu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Art Farmer: I Love You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 03, 09

Art Farmer was perhaps the tastiest player in modern jazz. His exquisite note choices were accentuated by his use of ...

Art Pepper: You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Art Pepper earned a reputation as one of the top alto saxophonists on the West Coast in the 1950s. So it was a highl...

McCoy Tyner: Inception (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

McCoy Tyner would eventually become one of the most powerful voices in piano jazz, but in 1962 there was no such pres...

Max Roach-Hassan Ibn Ali: Din-Ka Street (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

Jason Moran brought The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hassan to my attention, and it really speaks to me---o...

John Coltrane: Ascension - Edition II (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

It’s difficult (and maybe pointless) to choose between the two 40-minute versions of “Ascension” that are included on...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JOHN COLTRANE PERFORMANCES

John Coltrane (1926-1967) started out as a promising straight-ahead bop player who served under Thelonious Monk, Mile...

Mark Murphy: Doodlin' (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

This track comes perilously close to being not imitation hip, but the real thing. Horace Silver's "Doodlin'" was a fo...

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 ...

John Coltrane: Olé (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

At 18:13, “Olé” is the longest track that Coltrane recorded during his two years and a couple of months with Atlantic...

Freddie Hubbard: Byrdlike (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 11, 08

Called ‘Birdlike’ on the record, this tune was actually written by Freddie for Donald Byrd, although everyone assumed...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RANDY BRECKER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL FREDDIE HUBBARD TRACKS

Note: During the course of a career that spanned more than a half century, Freddie Hubbard made his mark as one of th...

Max Roach: Garvey's Ghost (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

This is one of my favorite cuts of music of all time. It’s another example of how the title really speaks to what’s h...

Miles Davis: Conception (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Smack in the middle of his self-described "four-year horror show" of heroin addiction, and a year after disguising Ge...

Art Farmer: Soul Eyes (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

In the early 1960s, trumpeter Art Farmer took up the flugelhorn, attracted by its richer, woodier sound. With the flu...

Clifford Brown-Art Blakey: Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Upon his release from the Hampton Band in December 1953, Brownie found employment wherever he could—most notably with...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Miles Davis: Deception (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

           Miles Davis, Lee Konitz, Art Blakey and      Bud Powell a...

Benny Golson & Art Farmer: Step Lightly (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

So, if Miles Davis proved the Harmon mute worked on ballads and Chet Baker showed it handled fast tunes, what about m...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Walter Davis, Jr.:Criss Cross (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 17, 09

Walter Davis, Jr. had an imposing, physically intense presence about him, not to mention a schooled, totally absorbin...

Miles Davis: Circle (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

It's a long way from Miles's Harmon-ized landmark "There Is No Greater Love" (1955) to the untethered flotation of mi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

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