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Gerry Mulligan-Ben Webster: Tell Me When (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 06, 09

The Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster album is best known for its exquisite version of Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Brid...

Ben Webster: Tenderly (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 05, 07

Hey, I'm only writing about jazz till there's an opening in Romance Novels. You may not realize it, but RNs generate ...

Ben Webster: In the Wee Small Hours (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

Nobody's balladry differed more from his up-tempo style than Ben Webster's. On jump tunes, Big Ben growled and snarle...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Sonny Stitt: Blues for Pres, Sweets, Ben and All the Other Funky Ones (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

Sonny Stitt was in prime form during his 1959 recording session with the Oscar Peterson Trio, perhaps partly because ...

Duke Ellington: Jack the Bear (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 24, 08

Ask most people about great bass records from the early 1940s, and they will probably tell you about Joe DiMaggio get...

Duke Ellington: Harlem Air Shaft (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 17, 08

This composition may not be as well known as "Satin Doll" or "Mood Indigo," but make no mistake about it: this is one...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM

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Duke Ellington: Never No Lament (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

I wonder how Duke Ellington reacted when he was asked to turn his instrumental "Never No Lament" into the pop song "D...

Art Tatum & Ben Webster: My Ideal (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 07, 09

Ben Webster, who idolized Art Tatum, thought that the album he made with the virtuoso pianist in 1956 was his best ev...

Ben Webster & Joe Zawinul: Frog Legs (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 05, 09

Though the pairing of Ben Webster and Joe Zawinul may at first seem odd, the two were friends and for awhile roommate...

Ben Webster & Billy Strayhorn: Chelsea Bridge (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 17, 08

In his autobiography, Music is My Mistress (1973), Duke Ellington fondly recalls that in 1933, London became the firs...

Art Tatum & Ben Webster: My Ideal (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 10, 09

Many superlatives have been lavished on the so-called "Tatum Group Masterpieces"—Norman Granz's mid-1950s recordings ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100

Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...

Duke Ellington: Sepia Panorama (live 1940) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 16, 08

For many jazz fans (myself included), Ellington's ensemble with bassist Jimmy Blanton and tenor saxophonist Ben Webst...

Jo Stafford: What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry? (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 05, 09

Jo Stafford never called herself a jazz singer, but her landmark album Jo + Jazz gives us a taste of what might have ...

Carmen McRae: Bye Bye Blackbird (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

While the album's concept is a little hokey, Birds Of A Feather remains one of Carmen McRae's finest albums. Paired w...

Billie Holiday: Love is Here to Stay (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 11, 09

Because of the prominent inclusion of this song in the Oscar-winning biopic on Holiday, it has become closely associa...

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...

Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow (Sound of Jazz, 1957) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

This is generally acknowledged as the greatest jazz moment ever broadcast on national television. And with good reas...

Ella Fitzgerald: Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 04, 08

Jazz players often perform this song in a glib, jaunty manner. But this Ellington standard needs to be handled with ...

Benny Carter: Blue Lou (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 10, 08

Nat Hentoff's liner notes for the original Jazz Giant described it as "the first all-jazz, hot, small combo blowing a...

Billie Holiday: Fine And Mellow (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

“I summed up all existence in an epigram,” Oscar Wilde once bragged; Lester Young doesn’t quite capture all existence...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

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