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Miles Davis (featuring Bob Dorough): Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

The cynical, bah-humbug "Blue Xmas" was probably not what Columbia executives had in mind in 1962 when they asked Mil...

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Bob Dorough: The End of a Love Affair (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

It should come as no surprise that when Art Farmer joined forces with Bob Dorough's trio for some 1987 gigs in Barcel...

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Bob Dorough: I Get the Neck of the Chicken (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

Bob Dorough probably first heard "I Get the Neck of the Chicken" while in the Army during World War II. Introduced in...

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Bob Dorough: Nothing Like You (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

Bob Dorough's first three albums as a leader came at 10-year intervals, and Beginning to See the Light was the third,...

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Jazz Passengers (featuring Bob Dorough): Ring the Bell (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

Two of the most unique tracks that Bob Dorough ever recorded came on projects produced by the creative Hal Willner. O...

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Bob Dorough: Devil May Care (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

Bethlehem Records folded shortly releasing Bob Dorough's first album, Devil May Care, in 1956, but his debut's many d...

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Bob Dorough: Baltimore Oriole (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

No one has ever sung "Baltimore Oriole" better than Bob Dorough. He recorded it on his debut session as leader i...

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Bob Dorough: Three Is A Magic Number (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

"Three is a Magic Number" was the first piece Bob Dorough wrote after being hired to create an educational recording ...

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Bob Dorough & Dave Frishberg: I'm Hip (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

Dave Frishberg became a big Bob Dorough admirer when he heard Bob's first album, Devil May Care, around 1956. When th...

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Bob Dorough: I've Got Just About Everything (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

Bob Dorough had been singing "I've Got Just About Everything," the title tune of his 1966 LP, for over 30 years when ...

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Bob Dorough: Yardbird Suite / Charles Yardbird Parker was his Name (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

After spending six formative months performing in Paris, Bob Dorough returned to New York in 1955 just weeks before t...

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Bob Dorough: Comin' Home Baby (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

"Comin' Home Baby" was first popularized by Herbie Mann's instrumental recording for Atlantic Records, with its compo...

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Bob Dorough & Dave Frishberg: Where You At? (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 16, 08

The sheer joyous pace of their two pianos frolicking on the intro is a treat for the ears, and when they start singin...

Dorough, Bob (Robert Lrod) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Bob Dorough's light and amiable vocals, with a slight Arkansas twang, come across as those of a hip and uninhibited ...

Dave Frishberg: I'm Hip (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 07, 09

The first unwritten rule of hipdom must be that hipness is a state of being. One is hip by demonstration, not by proc...

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Dave Frishberg once offered his original song “The Underdog” to Frank Sinatra. The song told the story of a gambler...

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...

Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 20, 08

Jazz.com has published 157 reviews during the last three weeks – offering our site visitors the widest coverage of ja...

Lawson, Janet (Janet Ann Polun) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Lawson, Janet (Janet Ann Polun), singer educator; b. Baltimore, MD, 13 November 1940. Her father Oscar Jack Polun (19...

Cartwright, Katharine (Katchie) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Cartwright, Katharine (Katchie), singer, teacher; b. New York, NY, 17 July 1952.  She was raised in a family of...

Shank, Kendra posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Shank, Kendra (Ann), vocalist, guitarist, percussionist; b. Woodland, CA, 23 April 1958. Lived in Davis, CA until ...

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