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Dinah Washington: You Don't Know What Love Is (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 22, 07

Though she tends to take a backseat to Lady Day and Sassy in most jazz criticism, it’s difficult to find anything to ...

Jimmy Hamilton: Blues in My Music Room (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music June 27, 08

The leader is primarily known for his long association with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He took over the clarinet/t...

George Russell: All About Rosie (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 12, 08

George Russell's contribution to the 1957 Brandeis University Jazz Festival of the Arts is his masterpiece. Initially...

George Russell: Concerto for Billy the Kid (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Every important theorist needs a worthy practitioner. The collaboration between composer George Russell and pianist B...

Billie Holiday: For All We Know (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Billie told arranger/conductor Ray Ellis she wanted to “sound like Sinatra” after hearing Gordon Jenkins’s scoring fo...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Johnny Hartman: These Foolish Things (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 06, 08

Here's my wish list. I want to have Bill Gates's bank account, Tom Cruise's smile, Tiger Woods's putting game and . ...

Sauter-Finegan Orchestra: These Foolish Things (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music June 17, 08

This is more a tone poem than a big band chart. You will find no battling horn sections here, no kicks in the pants ...

Hal McKusick: Jambangle (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 21, 08

Hal McKusick was a veteran of the Boyd Raeburn and Claude Thornhill orchestras, and was an active freelance musician ...

Carmen McRae: Baltimore Oriole (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 08, 09

I think that Carmen McRae was born to sing "Baltimore Oriole". For one thing, she was one of the few singers that cou...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HOAGY CARMICHAEL

Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899. His given name, Hoagland, derived fr...

Paul, Howard (Raymond) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Paul, Howard (Raymond), guitarist (7-string); b. Petersburg, Virginia, 15 November 1960. His family moved to the Atla...

Israels, Chuck posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Israels, Chuck, composer, arranger, bassist; b. New York, 10 October 1936. He was raised in a musical family in Green...

Elf, Mark posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Elf, Mark, guitarist, composer, educator; b. Queens, NY, 13 December 1949. He lived in Queens and Long Island, NY unt...

Stamm, Marvin (Louis) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Stamm, Marvin (Louis), trumpet and Flugelhorn; performer, educator, writer; b. May 23, 1939, Memphis, TN.  His f...

McKusick, Hal (Harold Wilfred McKusick, Jr) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

McKusick, Hal [Harold Wilfred McKusick, Jr], saxes, clarinets, flutes, composer (also Keyboard knowledge and orchestr...

Meyers, Paul (Clarke) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Meyers, Paul (Clarke), guitarist (electric and acoustic), composer, educator; b. New York City, 28 June 1956. His fat...

Harris, Jerome (Estese) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Harris, Jerome (Estese), bass, guitar; b. Memorial Hospital of Queens, Flushing, NY, 5 April 1953. His family moved f...

Jimmy Smith: Walk on the Wild Side (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Unrelated to rocker Lou Reed's raunchy 1972 hit of the same name, Jimmy Smith's cover of Elmer Bernstein's movie them...

Claude Thornhill: Yardbird Suite (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Once the Swing Era expired like a lapsed subscription to The Saturday Evening Post, many big-name bandleaders became ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS

It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...

Clifford Brown: Yesterdays (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 28, 08

Those who don't like brass with strings (and that includes many jazz buffs) should be assuaged: Clifford Brown with S...

Clifford Brown: Willow Weep for Me (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 29, 08

Clifford Brown doesn't even have to take a chorus to be one of the greatest jazz trumpet players of all times. Here, ...

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