Search results for "Barry Harris"

Barry Harris: All God's Chillun Got Rhythm (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

A vital keeper of the bebop flame both as pianist and esteemed educator, Barry Harris has always engendered great res...

Lee Morgan: Hocus-Pocus (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

I get to see a lot of CDs reissued from the original vinyl recordings. Very often I find some horrific mistake in the...

Sonny Stitt: I Got Rhythm (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

The two albums that Sonny Stitt recorded in 1972 for respected producer Don Schlitten's Cobblestone label were among ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE SONNYS OF JAZZ

Jazz Quiz: What do these names have in common? Saul Berman Herman Blount Conrad Yeatis Clark William Criss C...

Dexter Gordon: Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

After some captivating if uncharacteristic experimentation in 1963-64, Gordon returned to his classic sound with Gett...

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

                    &...

Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Having been a member of both Art Blakey’s and Dizzy Gillespie’s bands at age 18, the prodigious trumpeter Lee Morgan,...

Yusef Lateef: The Plum Blossom (Rating: 81/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Master reedman Yusef Lateef was playing “world music” before the genre had a title. As early as the mid-1950s African...

Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 09, 09

Morgan spent the majority of 1962 and 1963 in Philadelphia in the clutches of a heroin habit he picked up while in th...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC LEE MORGAN TRACKS

Nobody’s perfect, right? We’ve all heard that one. Even some of the most revered greats are missing pieces of the e...

Harry Skoler: Piazzolla (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

Part of a sensitive, often poignant collection of ensemble and duo work featuring the all-too-often-ignored clarinet,...

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 ...

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 . ...

Harris, Barry (Doyle) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09

Pianist Barry Harris seamlessly blends bebop’s lyrical phrasing with an exceptional accompanying style, drawn from hi...

Clifford Jordan: Arapaho (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 22, 08

In the 1980s, one of the best bands to catch live in New York City was the group periodically led by Clifford Jordan ...

The Stein Brothers: And So I Love You (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music June 08, 09

The Stein Brothers’ highly mature bop mannerisms were developed in some part due to their tutelage under bop piano gr...

Bergstrom, Barry Bruce posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bergstrom, Barry Bruce: saxophone, clarinet and flute. b 21 January 1953 Kennewick WA. Parents: Clifford Erwin Bergst...

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...

Eisenstadt, Harris (Brett) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Eisenstadt, Harris (Brett), drummer/composer; b. Toronto, Canada, 4 September 1975. His parents are David Michael Eis...

Twenty Jazz Lives posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 03, 09

Unless you dig into the deep recesses of this web site, you might miss the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians. This pr...

Jarvis, Clifford (Osborne) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08

Drummer Clifford Jarvis is best known for his two decades with one group: the Sun Ra Arkestra. Many may be surprised ...

Griffith, Miles (Lloyd) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Griffith, Miles (Lloyd), singer, educator; b. Brooklyn, NY, 13 May 1969. His father Mervyn Griffith Sr. (born c. 1934...

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...

Previous Page | Next Page