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Benny Carter: Nightfall (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 11, 09Jazz history books will tell you how Lester Young single-handedly forged a more lithe and fluid approach to the tenor...
Benny Carter: Central City Sketches (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 08, 07Benny Carter was six months shy of his 80th birthday when he debuted this extended composition at a "standing room on...
Benny Carter: Blue Star (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 22, 08Much like J.J. Johnson, Benny Carter virtually disappeared from the active jazz scene for a number of years in order ...
Benny Carter: Blue Lou (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 10, 08Nat Hentoff's liner notes for the original Jazz Giant described it as "the first all-jazz, hot, small combo blowing a...
Benny Carter: Angel Eyes (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 17, 09Back in 1954, Benny Carter was on the same label as another altoist you might have heard of: Charlie Parker. If Car...
Benny Carter: Street Scene (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07Fade in. Street scene. Big city. Rain slicked. Deserted corner. Wee hours. Neon flashing. Deep shadows. Film ...
Benny Carter: I Got it Bad (And That Ain’t Good) (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 13, 08You could admire Benny Carter for many things -- his composing or arranging, or his work on a half dozen or so instru...
Benny Carter: A Foggy Day (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 05, 08Charlie Parker was the king of the saxophone when this track was recorded, and every alto player was under Bird's swa...
Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins & Benny Carter: Smack (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 23, 07This ad-hoc recording ensemble (which revived a name used for various small group record dates from the 1920s and '30...
Benny Carter: I'm In The Mood For Swing (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 10, 09With the exception of the 1976 Pablo release The King, it wasn't until Carter began recording for Music Masters in 19...
Charlie Johnson: You Ain't the One (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music March 31, 08This recording offers one of the very few aural glimpses we have of this fabled and pioneering Harlem big band. The ...
Coleman Hawkins: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 07, 07This arrangement of Thomas “Fats” Waller's classic opus is the unmistakable work of Benny Carter; the opening saxopho...
Charlie Parker: Funky Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 29, 09This performance highlights the difference between Parker's form of expression on the blues in contrast to the approa...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STEVE COLEMAN ON CHARLIE PARKER
The music of Charles Christopher Parker—as well as the music of many other musicians—probably has the greatest infl...
Quincy Jones: King Road Blues (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 31, 07The original Go West, Man! featured Quincy Jones-managed recording sessions by four trumpets and rhythm, four alto sa...
Art Tatum: Idaho (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 19, 07When Lester Young, Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich recorded a similar ad hoc session in 1946, it jelled. Already a sta...
Billie Holiday: What's New (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 07, 07Do you prefer to take your Holiday earlier or later? Hard choice . . . The early Billie Holiday sings with more pop s...
Billie Holiday: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 17, 09I wonder if Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer were thinking of Billie Holiday when they wrote “Come Rain Or Come Shine”....
Charlie Parker: Funky Blues (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 09, 08The live jam sessions that Norman Granz produced were usually hit-or-miss affairs. Raucous audiences could encourage ...
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...
James Carter: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 08, 07On his CD The Real Quietstorm, James Carter plays baritone sax . . . and tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax, bass clari...
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