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Benny Goodman: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 04, 09While his inter-personal skills left much to be desired, Benny Goodman cared about his band and was always interested...
Tommy Dorsey: Lonesome Road (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 25, 09Early in his career, while writing arrangements for local bands near his home in Rumson, New Jersey, Bill Finega...
Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 31, 07Darling, I'd Die Without You, among the hoariest songwriting clichés, was never expressed with greater despondency th...
Mel Tormé: The Hut-Sut Song (Rating: 66/100) posted in Music November 05, 07Although Mel Tormé's musicianship made him one of jazz's finest singers, on this track the Velvet Frog (well, Tormé i...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING
Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...
The California Ramblers: After You've Gone (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music December 03, 07Nothing much happened in 1927. Oh, Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in an orange crate, The Jazz Singer launched talkies, ...
Ella Fitzgerald: Blue Skies (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 05, 09“Blue Skies” was originally recorded for (and eventually omitted from) The Irving Berlin Song Book, and it was first ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SCAT SINGING
Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...
Benny Goodman: Blue Skies (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 12, 09The star of this performance is Fletcher Henderson's chart. The intro starts with an Ellingtonian growl that morphs ...
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