Search results for "Billy Bauer"

Lee Konitz: Billie's Bounce (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 16, 08

Lee Konitz had the reputation of being the stylistic alternative to Charlie Parker during the 1940s and '50s. A sligh...

Billy Bauer: Lincoln Tunnel (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

Nowadays, few listeners are aware of the art of guitarist Billy Bauer, and that's a shame. Of course, this consummate...

Lee Konitz: Subconscious-Lee (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 21, 09

This tune, which Lee Konitz would re-record several times during the following decades, is particularly interesting i...

Lennie Tristano: Don't Blame Me (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 17, 08

Charlie Parker was in the studio the day this was recorded (as part of an all-star band assembled by Barry Ulanov), a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh: Topsy (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

           Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and      Bud Powell a...

Woody Herman: Apple Honey (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

In the mid-1940s, Woody Herman's fire-breathing Thundering Herd was the most exciting big band in jazz. Sparked by th...

Lennie Tristano: Wow (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 18, 07

Lennie Tristano offered jazz's answer to abstract expressionism. A graduate of Chicago's American Conservatory of Mus...

Woody Herman: Goosey Gander (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

This track takes its name from a nursery rhyme, but don't let Woody Herman's First Herd anywhere near the nursery. Tr...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS

It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...

Woody Herman (featuring Sonny Berman): Sidewalks of Cuba (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 28, 07

Sonny Berman was on the road as a jazz trumpeter at age sixteen and dead from a heroin overdose at 22. He worked wit...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Lennie Tristano: I Can't Get Started (1946) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 19, 08

I rarely find this recording discussed in jazz circles or cited in the history books, but Gunther Schuller called spe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Lennie Tristano: Intuition (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 26, 08

Here is another first for Lennie Tristano. "Intuition" represents the first collective improvisation in the history ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Yamashita, Ace (Tetsuji) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Yamashita, Ace (Tetsuji), guitar and piano; b. Tokyo, Japan, 17 April 1969. Ace is his musician name. He's been using...

Jazz Classics That Aren't Kind of Blue posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 23, 09

Did you hear that there was an anniversary for Miles Davis's Kind of Blue? Of course you did. The jazz world ...

Tristano, Lennie (Leonard Joseph) posted in Encyclopedia March 21, 08

The name of Lennie Tristano is known by few outside the world of jazz musicians. An early contributor to the bebop st...

THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07

In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...

Tabnik, Richard (Charles) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Tabnik, Richard (Charles), alto saxophone, composer, teacher; b. Manhattan, NY, 6, April 1952. His family moved to Gr...

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron), violin, cornet, baritone horn, double bass, composer; b. Glens Falls, NY, 13 January 1...

Eisenbeil, Bruce (Jeffrey) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Eisenbeil, Bruce (Jeffrey), guitarist, composer, educator; b. Chicago, IL, 21 August 1968. A year after he was born, ...

Ciampa, Jeff posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Ciampa, Jeff, guitarist, composer, arranger, engineer and educator; b. Huntingdon, PA, 19 May 1951 to Joseph and Flo...

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