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Benny Golson: You're Mine, You (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 02, 07Benny 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...
James Moody & Nnenna Freelon: Just Squeeze Me (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 03, 08All-star jazz concerts often collapse into rough-and-ready jam-session theatrics. But fans love them anyway because ...
Diana Krall: If I Had You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 24, 08Diana Krall lets Benny Green take over the keyboard for this performance, and they send the rest of the rhythm sectio...
Etta Jones: If You Could See Me Now (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 23, 08The two Ettas, Jones and James, endured decades of confusion due to the similarity of their names, as opposed to thei...
Ray Brown Trio: F.S.R. (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 09“F.S.R.” was one of the Ray Brown Trio’s most popular songs. The story is: It was a Milt Jackson record for Pablo cal...
Ann Hampton Callaway: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 17, 09Unlike many vocal albums, Ann Hampton Callaway's Easy Living was recorded live in the studio, with Callaway and the i...
Lew Tabackin: I Surrender, Dear (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 01, 08Lew Tabackin has always been a fascinating jazz musician, one who for many years was the featured soloist in the Jazz...
Sarah Vaughan: Come Rain or Come Shine (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 06, 07By 1950, the finest singer of the bebop era had done her best to put bop behind her. Since bop was primarily instrume...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: FIFTIES FEMMES FATALES
In 1958, as evidence that love's fever is a long-running malady, singer/lyricist Peggy Lee alluded to Romeo & Julie...
Andrew Green: Narrow Margin/Taxi Driver (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music June 29, 09Now this is just a terrific juxtaposition. Andrew Green weaves his tense and suspense-laden workout around the broodi...
Teddy Wilson Orchestra (with Billie Holiday): He Ain't Got Rhythm (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 14, 09Besides great jazz musicians playing superbly, this track is a sheer delight because of the lyrics, and Billie Holida...
Teddy Wilson Orchestra (with Billie Holiday): I Must Have That Man (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 14, 09From the first line of her vocal, Billie Holiday uses her unique intonation, exceptional phrasing and rhythm, and exp...
Count Basie: Speaking of Sounds (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 27, 09One of four fine Thad Jones originals from an album in which all the material was written by current or former Basie ...
Lester Young: I Want a Little Girl (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07Setting aside his tenor sax, Lester Young switches to his beloved but dilapidated metal clarinet. Upon seeing this pi...
Count Basie (featuring J.J. Johnson): Rambo (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 18, 08J.J. Johnson was a promising young trombonist/arranger when he left the Benny Carter band and joined up with the Coun...
Antonio Carlos Jobim: God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music July 16, 09Atypical experimentalism rules Antonio Carlos Jobim's "God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun." The hippie-minded ...
Count Basie & His Orchestra: Exactly Like You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 04, 09“Exactly Like You” has been a jam session staple for years, but when Count Basie recorded it on his second Decca sess...
Count Basie (with Lester Young): Song of the Islands (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 09I once asked Stan Getz which Lester Young recordings he most admired, and this was the first track he mentioned. I h...
Count Basie: April in Paris (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07It’s almost May in Paris by the time the song concludes. Basie leads his band through two fake endings until finally...
Count Basie: Li'l Darlin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07The “New Testament” Basie band that began during the 1950s retained all the buoyant swing of the early group from the...
Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...
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