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Boswell Sisters: Shuffle Off To Buffalo (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

“Shuffle Off To Buffalo” was one of three Busby Berkeley song-and-dance productions in the film 42nd Street, released...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Benny Goodman (featuring Billie Holiday): Riffin' the Scotch (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

This is Holiday’s recording debut at the age of 18. Record producer John Hammond had taken Benny Goodman, Red Norvo a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Teddy Wilson (featuring Billie Holiday): I'll Get By (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

One of the high spots of recorded jazz is the Holiday-Young collaborations. Today these recordings are remembered for...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Benny Goodman (featuring Charlie Christian): Benny's Bugle (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 07, 08

It’s significant that much of Benny Goodman’s small group output for Columbia Records was reissued in 2002 as a Charl...

Benny Goodman: Memories of You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Much is made of Goodman the martinet, the stern taskmaster leveling The Ray to tyrannize his minions. Then there's ...

Red Norvo: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

In his day, Red Norvo recorded and gigged with everyone -- Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Charles Min...

Red Norvo: Dance of the Octopus (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

This strange piece of music sounds like . . . hmm, how about a dancing octopus? In a clever piece of program music, ...

Red Norvo: In a Mist (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

Few jazz musicians have mastered a wider range of the music's history than the now unfairly forgotten Red Norvo. His ...

Red Norvo: Dance of the Octopus (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 08, 07

Music, declared Surrealist Manifesto author André Breton, is "the most deeply confusing of all art forms." He might'v...

Benny Goodman Sextet (with Charlie Christian): The Sheik Of Araby (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 02, 09

This performance by the Benny Goodman Sextet was originally issued as “The Sheik”, as the original melody of “The She...

Norvo, Red (Kenneth Norville) posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 08

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Billie Holiday: Mean to Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

“I guess I’m not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse,” Billie Holiday recalled of a childhoo...

Benny Goodman (featuring Charlie Christian): Solo Flight (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

During the Swing Era, as bands swelled in size, acoustic guitarists turned to amplification to avoid being buried ali...

Jack Teagarden: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 12, 07

Swing Era and Big Band Era are not necessarily synonymous. Medium-sized groups produced much of the Swing Era's fines...

Lena Horne: Stormy Weather (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Eight days after Pearl Harbor, the breathtaking Lena Horne correctly forecasts long-term war clouds. The following ye...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER

Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...

Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

No other Jazz Age singer rivaled her versatility. Combining the tony diction of London's posh Mayfair salons (althoug...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER

Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...

Benny Goodman (featuring Charlie Christian): Seven Come Eleven (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Benny Goodman shot to Swing Era superstardom leading a big band, but his small groups were just as important. First c...

Mildred Bailey: Shoutin' In That Amen Corner (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 14, 08

After her stint with Paul Whiteman, Mildred Bailey moved on to sing with the other great bands of her day, including ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY

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Mildred Bailey: Junk Man (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 14, 08

Mildred Bailey doesn't make her entrance until halfway through this track, but it's worth the wait, with Benny Goodma...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY

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Brown, Cleo posted in Encyclopedia December 17, 08

Cleo Brown was the first of the black female performers who cast themselves in the mold of Fats Waller in the 1930s. ...

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