Search results for "Billy Joel"
Billy Joel (featuring Freddie Hubbard): Zanzibar (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music January 21, 09The storyline is that Billy Joel went for a jazzier approach on 52nd Street, the chart-topping sequel to his breakout...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS
Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...
Billy Joel (featuring Phil Woods): Just The Way You Are (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 20, 09Billy Joel might have created the consummate piano lounge song here if he hadn't already done so four years earlier w...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS
Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...
Billie Holiday: I'm a Fool to Want You (Rating: 81/100) posted in Music January 14, 09On Billie Holiday's rendition of "I'm a Fool to Want You," a huge discrepancy exists between the quality of the vocal...
Sara Gazarek: And So It Goes (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 05, 07Gazarek has a beautiful voice and she digs deeply into this ballad. – an unusual transformation of a Billy Joel song ...
Breaking Jazz News & Interesting Links: February 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages March 07, 09Drummer Jo Jones . . . all in the wrists? Fernando Ortiz de Urbina writes in his bilingual jazz blog...
Clark, John (Trevor) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Clark, John (Trevor), French horn, composer; b. Brooklyn, NY, 21 September 1944. He grew up mainly in Rochester, NY....
Freedman, Bob (Robert Morris) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Freedman, Bob (Robert Morris), arranger, conductor, pianist, saxophonist, educator; b. Mount Vernon, NY, 23 January 2...
Jerry Costanzo with Andy Farber & His Swing Mavens: My Kind of Girl (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 27, 08Walking a (very swinging) line between John Pizzarelli and An Innocent Man-era Billy Joel, singer Jerry Costanzo deli...
Pizzarelli, John (John Paul Pizzarelli, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Pizzarelli, John [John Paul Pizzarelli, Jr.], vocalist, guitarist, songwriter; b. Paterson, NJ, 6 April 1960. He was ...
Pugh, Jim (James Edward) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Pugh, Jim (James Edward), trombonist; b. Trenton, NJ, 12 November 1950. He was raised in: Butler, PA, Phillipsburg, P...
Mainieri, Mike (Michael, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Mainieri, Mike (Michael, Jr.), vibraphonist, keyboard player, arranger, composer; b. N.Y., 4 July 1938. (July 24 was ...
Matthews, David posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Matthews, David, composer; b. Sonora, KY, 4 March 1942. Matthews is the son of a Methodist minister. He was educat...
The State of Jazz Vocals Today (Part 2) posted in Features and Interviews February 18, 08The type of emotional immediacy we encounter with Karrin Allyson or Diana Krall or Norah Jones is much harder to fi...
Riley, John posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Riley, John, drummer, educator; b. Aberdeen, Maryland, 11 June 1954. Riley spent his formative years in Scotch Pla...
Cinderella, Joe (Joseph) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Cinderella, Joe (Joseph), guitar; 14 June, 1929, Newark, NJ. His musician father was in the music publishing busines...
Satoh, Hitoshi posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Satoh, Hitoshi, pianist, arranger, composer; b. Sobue City, Nakashima, Aichi, Japan, 2 April 1955. Satoh had piano...
Snidero, Jim (James J.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Snidero, Jim (James J.), alto and soprano saxophones, author; b. Redwood City, CA, 29 May 1958. A resident of New ...
Del Gatto, Lew (Lewis John) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Del Gatto, Lew (Lewis John), saxophonist, composer, arranger, clarinet, flute; b. Brooklyn, NY, 27 March 1941. Grew u...
Day One at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 28, 08The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is in the midst of its biggest post-Katrina production, with music on elev...
A New Label in the Jazz World posted in The Jazz.com Blog October 14, 08Many jazz lovers dream of starting their own record label, but few have the passion and drive—not to mention the will...
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