Search results for "Art Taylor"

Gigi Gryce: Minority (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 16, 09

A considerable talent as a composer and altoist, Gigi Gryce produced a largely unnoticed discography that, although a...

Jackie McLean: Appointment in Ghana (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Although later influenced by free jazz, Jackie McLean was once the quintessential hard-bop altoist. His Appointment i...

Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff: The Skaters Waltz (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 17, 08

A year after he recorded Introducing Roland Kirk and just months before he participated in Charles Mingus's Oh Yeah s...

Dexter Gordon: Kong Neptune (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

Recorded in Paris in 1964 and featuring two of Gordon’s most familiar European sidemen (pianist Kenny Drew and bassis...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DEXTER GORDON

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Benny Golson: My Romance (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

The ever-underrated tenor saxophonist Benny Golson has written some of modern jazz's best known standards ("I Remembe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BEST OF THE ART BLAKEY ALUMS

There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Steve Grossman: Over The Rainbow (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 24, 08

This is exactly the kind of song that suits Steve Grossman's deep, lyrical tenor sound. He tackles it in a basically ...

Lennie Tristano (with Lee Konitz): If I Had You (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 07, 08

Mr. Tristano's musical persona had so many different sides. Here he comps with thick, bouncy voicings behind Konitz'...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Bud Powell: Collard Greens And Black Eyed Peas (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Bud Powell has been acclaimed as the father of modern jazz piano for adapting Charlie Parker’s bebop innovations to h...

Toots Thielemans: East of the Sun (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Toots Thielemans single-handedly made it feasible to use "hip" and "harmonica" in the same sentence. Toots spent the ...

Donald Byrd: Here Am I (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

When the New York Herald Tribune coined the term “hard bop,” it was like saying “wet water.” Bop had always been har...

John Coltrane: Giant Steps (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Jazzmen call improvisation based on underlying harmonic progressions "running the changes." Coltrane doesn't just run...

Red Garland: He's a Real Gone Guy (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"He's a Real Gone Guy" was a jumpin' 1947 R&B hit by singer-pianist Nellie Lutcher. In those days, "gone" meant supe...

John Coltrane: Countdown (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

After being traumatically beaten into space by the Soviet Union—momentarily making Communism seem scientifically and ...

Toots Thielemans: Don't Blame Me (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Sometimes Toots Thielemans plays so soulfully that you forget his "instrument" came from Woolworth's toy department. ...

Lennie Tristano (with Lee Konitz): All the Things You Are (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

In the annals of jazz history, the Sing Song Room of the Confucius Restaurant will never be confused with Birdland or...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Gene Ammons: Hittin' the Jug (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 29, 08

There's nothing better than hearing Gene Ammons play a slow ballad, except perhaps for a slow blues like "Hittin' the...

Tina Brooks: Good Ole Soul (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 13, 08

A week after Tina Brooks played on Freddie Hubbard's debut recording as a leader, Open Sesame, Hubbard returned the f...

Tina Brooks: For Heaven's Sake (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 13, 08

Fans of Tina Brooks will surely find this beautiful ballad painful to listen to – knowing that, after just a decade o...

John Coltrane: Good Bait (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 25, 08

This is from Soultrane, one of the first significant Coltrane records that I lived with as a real young player and ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JOE LOVANO SELECTS ESSENTIAL JOHN COLTRANE

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Thelonious Monk: Jackie-ing (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 14, 08

The 1950s and '60s were a time when many jazz giants walked the earth, but there was also an abundance of distinctive...

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