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Lee Morgan: Hocus-Pocus (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

I get to see a lot of CDs reissued from the original vinyl recordings. Very often I find some horrific mistake in the...

Stanley Turrentine: Buster Brown (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 30, 08

“Buster Brown” is one of the more polished and unforced-sounding boogaloos in the rare groove catalog, which is not a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC BLUE NOTE GROOVES

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson’s 1970 Blue Note recording Everything I Play Is Funky opens with a corny but telling d...

Horace Silver: Pretty Eyes (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

By the time that Horace Silver recorded The Cape Verdean Blues (certainly among his half-dozen best albums), the prec...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

Here's a rare item in Horace Silver's discography as a leader: a session with vibraphonist David Friedman and no horn...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Duke Pearson: New Girl (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 06, 09

Duke Pearson's Big Band was a vital part of the New York jazz scene from the late 1960s to the mid '70s. This great b...

Jaki Byard: Out Front (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

Out Front is one of my favorite Jaki Byard albums, though it doesn't really get to his wilder side. I love hearing hi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JASON MORAN SELECTS 12 CLASSIC JAKI BYARD TRACKS

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Sonny Rollins: Dearly Beloved (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

It’s difficult to overstate the effect that Ornette Coleman had on Sonny Rollins. The always-critical Rollins was in...

Lee Morgan: You Go to My Head (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

On the heels of his previous year's hit "The Sidewinder," Lee Morgan applies 3/5ths of the same quintet and an equall...

Joe Henderson: Inner Urge (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

"Inner Urge" is a hard-swinging vehicle for a torrid blowing session. Joe Henderson lined up Coltrane's pianist and d...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JOE HENDERSON

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Dexter Gordon: Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

After some captivating if uncharacteristic experimentation in 1963-64, Gordon returned to his classic sound with Gett...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DEXTER GORDON

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Mike Longo: Tell Me a Bedtime Story (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 10, 09

Pianist Mike Longo must be in a pugilistic frame of mind. He follows up his 2007 CD Float Like a Butterfly with his ...

Horace Silver: Kissin' Cousins (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

Tom Harrell and Bob Berg were Horace Silver's bright lights in the mid-1970s, and here they were part of an unusual p...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: Lover Man (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Sonny Rollins’ avant-garde period – culminating in East Broadway Rundown – was in full bloom when the 33-year-old rec...

Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Having been a member of both Art Blakey’s and Dizzy Gillespie’s bands at age 18, the prodigious trumpeter Lee Morgan,...

Joe Henderson: Inner Urge (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

As soon as Joe Henderson moved to New York in 1962 after a stint in the U.S. Army, he became one of the busiest men i...

Grant Green: Idle Moments (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Legend has it (well, actually it's in the liner notes) that due to a misunderstanding of how many bars constituted a ...

Sonny Rollins: Where Are You? (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

In 1962, returning from one of his periodic sabbaticals, Sonny Rollins met a mixed reception. For some, jazz's increa...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Hank Mobley: Venus De Mildew (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 31, 08

Welcome, children, to today's tour of the Louvre. Here you see a world-famous sculpture, the Venus Di Mildew, depicti...

Lee Morgan: Zambia (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

In a 2006 interview by Ethan Iverson, drummer Billy Hart mentions that he once asked Lee Morgan about "The Sidewinder...

Sonny Rollins: Without a Song (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

Sonny Rollins is remarkable because of the effortless way his ideas flow and develop. The interplay between him and J...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: BEN ALLISON

Ben Allison, recently featured in an interview and concert review on jazz.com, now participates in our "Desert Islan...

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