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Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Tiptoe (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Thad Jones was arguably the most consistently interesting big band arranger of the 1960s and 1970s, and “Tiptoe” is o...

Count Basie: April in Paris (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

It’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, 07

The “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, 07

Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...

Count Basie: Counter Block (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

This performance by the Basie band took place during a late-night gig at a Disc Jockeys of America convention on May ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: PETER ERSKINE

In the music world, but especially in the jazz world, everyone wants to know what everybody else is listening to. So ...

Benny Goodman Quartet: I Got Rhythm (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 12, 09

If you just heard the record, you might think this performance was taped surreptitiously at some back room jam sessio...

Clifford Brown-Lionel Hampton: Gryce Suite, Brown Skin (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Brownie met and jammed with some members of the 1953 Lionel Hampton Orchestra in Atlantic City while he was playing a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Clifford Brown: I Come From Jamaica (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Following a debilitating car accident in the summer of 1950 which left Clifford incapacitated in a body cast for the ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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OctoJAZZarian Profile: Randy Weston posted in Features and Interviews April 15, 08

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. Oct...

Count Basie: The M Squad Theme (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Count Basie, photo by Herb Snitzer Pound for pound, the toughest 1950s TV cop was Lt. Frank Ballinger of Chicago...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CRIME JAZZ

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

The Best Jazz Web Links: December 2008 posted in Miscellaneous Pages January 01, 09

The Village Voice fires Nat Hentoff Hentoff had been with the periodical for fifty years. The...

Dizzy Gillespie (featuring Mary Lou Williams): Selections from Zodiac Suite (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music June 08, 08

Zodiac Suite was the first of many long-form compositions Mary Lou Williams produced during her lengthy and distingui...

Adams, "Pepper" (Park) posted in Encyclopedia October 21, 08

The baritone sax can be a hard sell to jazz fans as a lead instrument: nowhere is this more evident than in the caree...

In Conversation with Jimmy Cobb (Part Three) posted in Features and Interviews April 04, 08

by Ralph A. Miriello Below is the third and final installment of Ralph Miriello’s in-depth interview with J...

75th Birthday Bash for David 'Fathead' Newman posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 27, 08

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West, Adrienne posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

West, Adrienne, vocalist, actress, lyricist, educator; b. Brooklyn, NY, 17 November 1951. Her mother is Henrietta Wes...

Ervin, Booker (Tellefero Ervin II) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 08

Saxophonist Booker Ervin’s hard-edged tone, drawn from his roots in rhythm and blues, were matched with a peerless a...

Pleasant, David (Daniel) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Pleasant, David (Daniel), percussion, rhythm effects vocalist, inventor; b. Savannah, GA, 1 January 1961. His parents...

Baker, Newman (Taylor) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Baker, Newman (Taylor), drummer, singer; b. Petersburg, VA, 4 February 1943. His paternal grandfather, T. Nelson Bake...

Anderson, Ray (Ray Robert Anderson) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Anderson, Ray (Ray Robert Anderson), trombonist, singer; b. Chicago, Illlinois, 16 October 1952. His father is Philip...

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