Search results for "Bob Wills"
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys: Take Me Back to Tulsa (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 17, 09This song had been a part of Bob Wills's repertoire for quite some time before this session—he had performed it as "T...
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys: Twin Guitar Special (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 17, 09This performance, coming at almost the same moment that Charlie Christian was recording "Air Mail Special," shows tha...
Chet Baker: There Will Never Be Another You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 05, 07With jazz performers, we crave the person behind the persona. Usually what you see is what you get. Sometimes, though...
Miles Davis (featuring Bob Dorough): Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 12, 08The cynical, bah-humbug "Blue Xmas" was probably not what Columbia executives had in mind in 1962 when they asked Mil...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BOB DOROUGH
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Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys: New San Antonio Rose (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 08, 08Musical schizophrenia . . . the first four bars sound like a big band record from the Swing Era; then we make a sudd...
Vinnie Cutro: Time Will Tell (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 21, 09"Time Will Tell" features a repetitive intro line carried throughout the song by Jay Anderson's plucky basslines and ...
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys: Basin Street Blues (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music January 17, 09Bob Wills's syndicated radio show distributed by Tiffany Music in 1946-47 found his Texas Playboys tackling a wide ra...
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys: Take the 'A' Train (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music January 16, 09Just take the A Train, if you want to get to a hoedown in a hurry. . . On the Tiffany Transcriptions, which captu...
Bob James: Westchester Lady (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music August 20, 09Since being "discovered" by Quincy Jones some forty years ago and composing music for television and film, Bob James ...
Bob Mintzer: Mine Is Yours (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 16, 08This song shows marvelously Bob Mintzer's talent as a composer, arranger and soloist. Arranger, because this musician...
Bob Mintzer (featuring Kurt Elling): Minuano (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 29, 08Pat Metheny's "Minuano" is becoming something of a contemporary standard. Vocalist Kurt Elling, featured as a guest ...
Lee Morgan: Hocus-Pocus (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 12, 09I get to see a lot of CDs reissued from the original vinyl recordings. Very often I find some horrific mistake in the...
Mel Tormé: The Way You Look Tonight (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 03, 08Tempo? Faaast! Vocal phrasing? Impressive—and each word sounds crystal clear! Arrangement? Both refined and punchy! S...
Bud Shank: Over the Rainbow (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 20, 09The doctors told him no driving, no flying. Even on ground, he required a wheelchair to get around. Yet Bud Shank c...
Chet Baker: Look for the Silver Lining (1954) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 24, 07Chet Baker, artwork by Michael Symonds Chet Baker was to singing what Marilyn Monroe was to acting...
Jimmy Giuffre: The Train and The River (live at Newport, 1958) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 29, 08On its face, the Jimmy Giuffre 3 playing their signature contrapuntal folk-jazz opus "The Train and The River" seems ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY
During the 1950s, the Newport Jazz Festival was an outdoor jamboree held in the exclusive environs of Rhod...
Mel Tormé (with Marty Paich): Lulu's Back in Town (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 21, 08I've never much cared for "back in town" songs. Whether it's Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town" or just Matt D...
Joe Williams: Night Time is the Right Time (to be with the One You Love) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 31, 09Evaluating the relative merits of Joe Williams' recorded tracks with Count Basie in the '50's, as compared to those h...
Yellowjackets: Les is Mo (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 23, 07One of contemporary jazz’s most accomplished and enduring groups goes soul-jazzy on this live track. Penned by keyboa...
Benny Carter: Central City Sketches (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 08, 07Benny Carter was six months shy of his 80th birthday when he debuted this extended composition at a "standing room on...
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