Search results for "Benny Golson"

Benny Golson & Art Farmer: Step Lightly (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

So, if Miles Davis proved the Harmon mute worked on ballads and Chet Baker showed it handled fast tunes, what about m...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Benny Golson: You're Mine, You (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Benny Golson's passionate but never blustery tenor styling was overshadowed in the mid-1950s by his compositional fla...

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...

Art Farmer & Benny Golson: Park Avenue Petite (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Their debut album was called Meet the Jazztet, and you'd best shake hands fast because all but two founding members s...

Benny Golson: Whisper Not (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 03, 09

Benny Golson has said that he wrote "Whisper Not" in only 20 minutes, and that the title meant "nothing" – he just li...

Benny Golson: My Romance (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

The ever-underrated tenor saxophonist Benny Golson has written some of modern jazz's best known standards ("I Remembe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BEST OF THE ART BLAKEY ALUMS

There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Benny Golson: Killer Joe (1960) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

At the beginning of the 1960s, The Jazztet was one of the leading hard bop ensembles, due not only to its outstanding...

Benny Golson: Airegin (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 01, 09

Benny Golson writes the songs, he writes the songs: "Whisper Not," "Killer Joe," "Along Came Betty," and "I Reme...

Benny Golson: Killer Joe (1960) -- alternate review (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

“Killer Joe” closes “Meet the Jazztet,” an album co-led by trumpeter Art Farmer and saxophonist Benny Golson. A pop-s...

Lee Morgan: I Remember Clifford (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

The heartbreaking death of Clifford Brown devastated the jazz community in 1956. Admired not only for his extraordina...

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...

Art Blakey: Blues March (1958) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

    Art Blakey at Birdland, photo by Marcel Fleiss Benny Golson wrote four compositions for the al...

Art Farmer: I Love You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 03, 09

Art Farmer was perhaps the tastiest player in modern jazz. His exquisite note choices were accentuated by his use of ...

Lee Morgan: I Remember Clifford (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 18, 07

Nine months after Clifford Brown's accidental death, composer Benny Golson unveiled this lovely, and loving, requiem ...

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: The Drum Thunder Suite (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

While Art Blakey's earlier sessions with, respectively, Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk were essential in developin...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ART BLAKEY

By the age of 25 (1944), Pittsburgh-native Art Blakey had already completed stints with Mary Lou Williams and Fletche...

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

I’m not sure who wrote this groovy little arrangement of “Come Rain Or Come Shine” (and while musical director Benny ...

Art Blakey: Moanin' (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Although pianist Bobby Timmons composed several well-known and often-played tunes in the funky/soul jazz mode, none b...

Art Blakey: Along Came Betty (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

    Art Blakey at Birdland, photo by Marcel Fleiss Golson’s composition with its simple yet haunting...

Art Farmer: Jubilation (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

By 1958, Farmer and Golson had been musical soul mates for half a decade. Farmer and Evans, who met in George Russell...

Dizzy Gillespie: Billie's Bounce (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 05, 08

One of Gillespie's final albums was this tribute to Charlie Parker, recorded live at the Blue Note in New York, as pa...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A DIZZY DOZEN GILLESPIE CLASSICS

From his seminal work with Charlie Parker to his collaborations with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie continually br...

Ron Carter: Tamalpais (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 12, 08

Ron Carter and this great ensemble assay Oscar Pettiford's composition with the kind of élan and impeccable verve we'...

Art Blakey: Moanin' (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

For decades, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers was a breeding ground for hard-bop talent. Countless numbers of future supe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS

                 Trumpeter by...

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...

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