Search results for "Bill Hughes"

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...

Hugh Masekela: Grazing in the Grass (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

In 1961, Hugh Masekela fled his native South Africa's apartheid to graze in America's greener grass. By the summer of...

Meri Slaven: Sweet Dreams (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 12, 09

In their efforts to expand or at least stop the bleeding in the increasingly elusive, shrinking jazz listening audien...

Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band: Minuano (Six Eight) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 29, 08

Bob Curnow's arrangements of Pat Metheny's music for big band are a delight to hear, and the 1994 recording The Music...

Open Letter to Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen & Bill Cosby posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 13, 08

Jazz fans have long enjoyed a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. We appreciate the jazzy soundtracks and are...

Noertker, Bill posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Noertker, Bill, bassist, composer, educator; b. Pasadena, CA, 16 February 1961. Noertker studied with various peop...

Ted Heath: Father Knickerbopper (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music March 16, 08

The Ted Heath band's exploration of the modern jazz repertoire ended at about this time, when Heath realized that mos...

Count Basie & Joe Williams: Every Day I Have the Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

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Count Basie: Kilimanjaro (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

In the early '70s, big bands were not so fashionable. During the mid-'60s, Count Basie even ventured far from his usu...

Count Basie & Joe Williams: All Right, OK, You Win (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 05, 08

From 1967-1987, Sooner State license plates bore the legend "Oklahoma is OK." This less-than-ringing endorsement was ...

Basie, Count (William James) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 08

Swing was the sound of William “Count” Basie for more than fifty years. At the keyboard, his spare yet exuberant styl...

Joe Williams with Count Basie and His Orchestra: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

The Greatest!! was the second album by Joe Williams with the Count Basie Orchestra. It was designed to show that Will...

Count Basie: Do You Want to Know a Secret? (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Jazz in the 1950s survived Elvis by ignoring him. Miles Davis did not apply his moody Harmon mute to "Heartbreak Hote...

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...

Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Away with pretenders! The throne belongs to but one Ring-a-Ding King. A quarter century after achieving stardom with ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Count Basie: Michelle (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 06, 08

"Michelle" is one of Paul McCartney's many love songs, but the chromatic movement in the melody and descending guitar...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ PERSPECTIVES ON THE BEATLES

During the 1960s, jazz became more stylistically diverse than ever. Conventional norms were assertively challen...

Scott Gwinnell Jazz Orchestra: Brush Fire (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 04, 09

Against impossible odds, the Detroit jazz scene remains hot and continues to forge world-class players and ensembles....

Count Basie & His Orchestra (featuring Al Grey): Makin' Whoopee (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 31, 09

Frank Sinatra's 1966 live album Sinatra At The Sands with Count Basie is remembered as one of his finest. Highlight...

Ron Carter: A Selected Discography posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 03, 07

Ron Carter is the consummate sideman, and one of the most active accompanists in the history of jazz. But Carter has...

Sabatella, Marc (Joseph) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

  Sabatella, Marc (Joseph), pianist, author, educator; b. Manchester, CT, February 24, 1965.  He was the...

Hewins, Mark (Jesson) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Hewins, Mark (Jesson), guitar, composer; b. Hertfordshire, GBR, 24 March 1955. Hewins started playing solo guitar ...

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