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Frankie Laine / Buck Clayton: Until the Real Thing Comes Along (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music May 26, 08

If you remember Frankie Laine, you're definitely on AARP's mailing list. During the 1950s, Old Leather Lungs, as the ...

Sir Charles Thompson, Charlie Parker, Buck Clayton, Dexter Gordon, etc.: Takin' Off (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

From a Delmark album comprising three recording sessions for the Apollo label from 1945 and 1947, this title track is...

Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton: Nice Work If You Can Get It (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

This is another of those tunes with clever lyrics telling a little story that speaks to facets and feelings in people...

Teddy Wilson Orchestra (with Billie Holiday): I Must Have That Man (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

From the first line of her vocal, Billie Holiday uses her unique intonation, exceptional phrasing and rhythm, and exp...

Teddy Wilson Orchestra (with Billie Holiday): He Ain't Got Rhythm (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

Besides great jazz musicians playing superbly, this track is a sheer delight because of the lyrics, and Billie Holida...

Kansas City Five (featuring Count Basie & Lester Young): Don't Be That Way (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

John Hammond, that extraordinary jazz entrepreneur, record producer, and scion of the Vanderbilt family organized and...

Lester Young: I Want a Little Girl (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Setting aside his tenor sax, Lester Young switches to his beloved but dilapidated metal clarinet. Upon seeing this pi...

Count Basie: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

With his customary sparse piano, wily Bill B. sets the stage for this easygoing anthem of the Swing Era. Big-toned te...

Big Maybelle: I Ain't Mad at You (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music April 10, 08

In a typically misguided attempt at crossover appeal, the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival strayed far afield (and wen...

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...

Count Basie & His Orchestra: Exactly Like You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 04, 09

“Exactly Like You” has been a jam session staple for years, but when Count Basie recorded it on his second Decca sess...

Count Basie: Dickie's Dream (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Four days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland to kick off World War II, Count Basie's Kansas City Seven invaded a New Y...

Kansas City Six: Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

Eddie Durham’s arrangement for this 1922 standard is such a perfect one for the swing era that it should be in every ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Teddy Wilson (featuring Billie Holiday): I'll Get By (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

One of the high spots of recorded jazz is the Holiday-Young collaborations. Today these recordings are remembered for...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Billie Holiday (with Count Basie): They Can't Take That Away From Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

Count Basie featured three singers with his band on this June 30, 1937 live broadcast from Harlem's famous Savoy Bal...

Count Basie (with Lester Young): Song of the Islands (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

I once asked Stan Getz which Lester Young recordings he most admired, and this was the first track he mentioned. I h...

Billie Holiday: Mean to Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

“I guess I’m not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse,” Billie Holiday recalled of a childhoo...

Lester Young: Lester Leaps In (1939) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Lester Young was the major influence on a generation of tenor saxophonists who preferred his relatively light, pure t...

Billie Holiday & Lester Young: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

The collaborations between Billie Holiday and Lester Young still speak to us today -- and not just as historical docu...

Billie Holiday: Me, Myself and I (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

“Me, Myself and I” is one of the great classics of the Billie Holiday-Lester Young collaborations. The song is recor...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Billie Holiday: A Sailboat in the Moonlight (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

The electricity evident in “Me, Myself and I” is hot-wired into “Sailboat” -- both recorded at the same session -- as...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

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