Search results for "Billy Drummond"
David Hazeltine & Joe Locke: Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music July 21, 09As the Mutual Admiration Society 2 CD climbs the jazz radio charts, new listeners will hopefully also seek out the fi...
Javon Jackson: One by One (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 10, 08Wayne Shorter composed "One by One" back during his days with Art Blakey. Here Javon Jackson and company capture som...
Carla Bley: Ad Infinitum (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 27, 07Here we have a Carla Bley composition being given its third context. “Ad Infinitum” first appeared on her essential, ...
Andrew Hill: Dusk (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 20, 08This project was initially spurred by Hill's re-creation of the instrumentation from his classic 1964 Point of Depart...
Bobby Hutcherson: I Am In Love (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 02, 08The 1968 Monterey Jazz Festival presented a concert entitled "A Generation of Vibers" (a nod to Philip Wylie), featur...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: GREAT VIBES
Vibraphonist Jay Hoggard, in the notes to his 1989 Overview release, made the following observations about his in...
Matt Criscuolo: Tell Me a Bedtime Story (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 15, 09Here is a self-produced CD that stands out from the pack. There is a lot to admire here, but I am especially impress...
Matt Criscuolo: When In Rome (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music April 13, 09Anything subtitled “with strings” is going to take me back to that iconic Charlie Parker record. And though that is a...
David Murray: I Want to Talk About You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 03, 09Tenor saxophonist David Murray puts his lush, Ben Webster-ish ballad tone to good use on "I Want to Talk About You," ...
Giacomo Gates: Summertime (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music January 01, 08Giacomo Gates has a big baritone voice in the tradition of Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman, and with his rich, choc...
Tom Harrell: The Mountain (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 11, 07Although he has continually battled against paranoid schizophrenia since his twenties, the troubled and inward-lookin...
Drummond, Billy posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Drummond, Billy, drums; b. Newport News, VA, 19 June 1959. He began to play the drums at the age of four, influenced ...
Drummond, Ray posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Drummond, Ray, bass; b. Brookline, MA. 23 November 1946. He later relocated to California. He played various horns in...
Carla Bley & Her Remarkable Big Band: Appearing Nightly At The Black Orchid (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 13, 08I used to have this theory about Carla Bley's hair. It was formulated right around the time that her first Very Big B...
Marty Ehrlich: Waltz (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music March 31, 08The problem with 3/4 modal tunes is not only that there are a lot of them, but that you must improvise in a very orig...
Hart, Billy (William W.; Jabali) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Hart, Billy (William W.; Jabali), drummer; b. Washington, DC, 29 November 1940. His grandmother was a concert pianis...
In Conversation with Steve Kuhn posted in Features and Interviews September 11, 09By Ted Panken ...
Rosnes, Renee posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Rosnes, Renee, piano; b. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 24 March 1962. She was the youngest of three adopted girls and...
Steve Kuhn in Boston posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 08, 09Roanna Forman, who covers the Boston jazz scene for jazz.com, reports below on a performance by an artist with str...
Ernie Andrews: Don't You Know I Care (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 10, 08Ernie Andrews was part of the vibrant Central Avenue jazz scene in Los Angeles during the 1940s, which he and other t...
Faddis, Jon (Jonathan) posted in Encyclopedia September 16, 09Trumpeter Jon Faddis burst onto the New York jazz scene at age seventeen with a firm foundation learned from his ment...
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