Search results for "Buster Bailey"

Mildred Bailey: I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 14, 08

Eddie Sauter's arrangement of this lightweight tune from an earlier era is full of surprises. The bubbles float and p...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY

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Mildred Bailey: St. Louis Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 14, 08

Mildred Bailey and Red Norvo are the key players in this light take on the old standard with an element of seduction....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY

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Henry "Red" Allen: Ain't She Sweet (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

Henry "Red" Allen spent his life in Louis Armstrong's shadow, usually figuratively but sometimes literally. Like his ...

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...

Fletcher Henderson (with Louis Armstrong): Sugarfoot Stomp (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

Fletcher Henderson’s “Sugarfoot Stomp” is very much an early recorded jazz repertory performance. It is a retitled v...

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...

Fletcher Henderson: Whiteman Stomp (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Like an ace reporter, Fletcher Henderson always got there first. Three months before self-crowned "King of Jazz" Paul...

Henry 'Red' Allen & Coleman Hawkins: I Cover the Waterfront (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 26, 07

"In 1957, [Henry 'Red' Allen] made a startling recording for Victor," Whitney Balliett wrote of this session. "It&nb...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Henry 'Red' Allen & Coleman Hawkins: S'Wonderful (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 26, 07

Henry 'Red' Allen lets loose with a boisterous version of "S'Wonderful" that lives up to the exuberant proclamation o...

Fletcher Henderson: Fidgety Feet (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 04, 09

Fletcher Henderson's pioneering jazz band relied heavily on the talents of his sidemen, and his arrangement of “Fidge...

Fletcher Henderson: Variety Stomp (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music October 19, 07

Woefully under-sung today, visionary Fletcher Henderson set the pace for big-band arranging and sound from the 1920s ...

Noone, Jimmie posted in Encyclopedia February 19, 09

Jimmie Noone, amongst New Orleans' early clarinet kings, posessed the best technique and a pure, almost classical sou...

Lyons, Jimmy posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons took Charlie Parker's innovations and ran with them into free jazz, where he developed h...

The Rise and Fall of the Clarinet (Part 1) posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 06, 09

The clarinet was once the dominant instrument in jazz, literally defining the sound of the Swing Era, as demonstrated...

Jazz's Most Iconic Photo Is Half a Century Old posted in Features and Interviews August 11, 08

by Alan Kurtz "When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire," Dizzy Gilles...

Armstrong, Lil Hardin posted in Encyclopedia December 17, 08

“if it wasn’t for Lil, Louis Armstrong would not be where he is today,” Chicago trombonist Preston Jackson said in th...

Jones, Hank (Henry) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

Pianist Hank Jones’s use of space and sophisticated lyricism has been documented on the hundreds of albums he has rec...

Harrison, Jimmy (James Henry) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Trombonist Jimmy Harrison was the rare instrumentalist who developed a personal vocabulary for jazz which was distinc...

Carney, Harry (Howell) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

When the teenaged Harry Carney came onto the jazz scene in the 1920s, the unwieldy baritone saxophone was little more...

Smith, Stuff (Hezekiah Leroy Gordon) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Some say Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff” Smith was the first to make the violin swing. Others say it was Joe Venuti, an...

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