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Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Big Dipper (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 13, 08

This track is the first tune played on the first night of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, a Monday night tradition...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...

Johnny Hodges: Don't Sleep in the Subway (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"Everybody knows Johnny Hodges," went Duke Ellington's standard introduction. By the mid-'60s, it was no longer true....

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...

Duke Ellington: Jingle Bells (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Ten lords a leaping plus a Duke, Cat and Rabbit shake up "Jingle Bells" (1857) by James Lord Pierpont, who wasn't rea...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RUDY REINDEER'S FAVORITE JAZZ

First, about the name. The whole "Rudolph" thing started as a joke. To friends and family, I've always been Rudy. The...

Gerry Mulligan: Catch As Catch Can (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music April 09, 08

It takes cheek to show up in New England on the Fourth of July sporting a red blazer. Yet as shown by Jazz on a Summe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY

During the 1950s, the Newport Jazz Festival was an outdoor jamboree held in the exclusive environs of Rhod...

Friedman, Bill posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Friedman, Bill, keyboard, composer, producer, (and formerly trumpet); b. Berkeley, CA, 30 November 1963. He's the son...

Davis, Wild Bill (William Strethen) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Wild Bill Davis gradually made his way from boogie-woogie piano to the jazz organ, and pioneered the use of this inst...

Joe Williams: Night Time is the Right Time (to be with the One You Love) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 31, 09

Evaluating the relative merits of Joe Williams' recorded tracks with Count Basie in the '50's, as compared to those h...

Brisker, Gordon (Ira) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Brisker, Gordon (Ira), tenor saxophonist, composer/arranger; b. Cincinnati, OH, 6 November 1937. His mother, Flora, w...

In Conversation with Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin posted in Features and Interviews December 05, 08

By Ted Panken For Lew Tabackin and Toshiko Akiyoshi, partners in marriage and art for close to forty years, “W...

Berg, Shelly (Shelton Glen) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Berg, Shelly (Shelton Glen), pianist, composer, arranger and educator; b. Cleveland, OH, 18 August 1955. His father i...

Segal-Garcia, Cathy posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Segal-Garcia, Cathy, singer; b. Boston, MA, 28 May 1953. She loved jazz since the age of 5 when she would hang around...

Priestley, Brian posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Priestley, Brian, pianist, arranger, author, educator; b. Manchester, UK, 10 July 1940. His father, Walter Priestley ...

Mitchell, Blue (Richard Allen) posted in Encyclopedia January 27, 08

Trumpeter Blue Mitchell’s contributions to the emergence of the hard bop style remain largely underappreciated. He is...

Irene Kral: Memphis In June (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 09, 09

"Memphis In June" was written by Hoagy Carmichael and Paul Francis Webster, but the lyric veers close to Johnny Merce...

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...

Simon, Richard posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Simon, Richard, acoustic (upright) bass; b. Kansas City, MO, 5 July 1949. His siblings are Ruth Luban, Judy Kamm, Eve...

Taylor, Mark (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Taylor, Mark (Anthony), drums; b. Hampstead, London, England, 7 November 1962. He's the son of of Edward Eugene Taylo...

Foster, Chuck posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Foster, Chuck, trumpet, flugelhorn; b. Milwaukee, WI, 11 December 1939. He grew up in Green Bay, Wi; attended school ...

Freedman, Bob (Robert Morris) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Freedman, Bob (Robert Morris), arranger, conductor, pianist, saxophonist, educator; b. Mount Vernon, NY, 23 January 2...

Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson: Summertime (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 30, 08

Chris Connor and Maynard Ferguson worked together while in Stan Kenton's band, and when they both became jazz stars a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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Ray Charles: The Spirit-Feel (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music April 19, 08

In 1958, R&B demigod Ray Charles appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival among such other big-name non-jazz perform...

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