Search results for "Carmell Jones"

Red Mitchell-Harold Land Quintet: Catacomb (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 20, 09

This track is a fine example of the work of this excellent but short-lived group. Though this was geographically a We...

Gerald Wilson: Blues for Yna Yna (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

Gerald Wilson led bands on and off during the 1950s, but except for a group of recordings for the King label in '54, ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GERALD WILSON

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Gerald Wilson: Nancy Jo (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

Named for one of Gerald Wilson's daughters, this track is a blues with a major difference: every chord change is an a...

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Horace Silver: Song for My Father (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Although Horace Silver was a mainstay of the hard-bop/soul movement in the 1950s as both pianist and composer, he did...

Horace Silver: Song For My Father (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

This is the title track of what is arguably Horace Silver's greatest album, and undoubtedly his biggest hit as well. ...

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...

Jones, Carmell (Carmell William Jones, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia April 16, 09

Trumpeter Carmell Jones stepped out of the riff-based traditions of Kansas City swing into hard bop. Equally at home ...

Mraz, George (Jiri) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Bassist George Mraz has dedicated his career to developing the melodic potential the bass in the modern jazz ensemble...

The Lives of the Jazz Greats posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 28, 09

Hidden behind the scenes of jazz.com, a team of writers has been working on building the world’s biggest on-line ja...

Woods, Jimmy posted in Encyclopedia September 17, 09

Alto saxophonist Jimmy Woods is one of the great, lost artists of 1960s jazz: he made only a handful of recordings be...

Ineke, Eric (Alexander) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Ineke, Eric (Alexander), drummer, educator. b. Haarlem, Netherlands, 1 April 1947. His father was Hermanus Ineke (190...

Pearson, Al posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Pearson, Al, trumpet; b. West Palm Beach, FL, 6 October 1937. Al was transported to Philadelphia, PA at the early age...

Matthews, Will (Willie Lee) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Matthews, Will (Willie Lee), guitarist; b. Kansas City, MO, 29 April 1957. His father is Willie Robert Wrice (b. 1934...

Altschul, Barry posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Altschul, Barry, drummer; b. N.Y., 6 January 1943. He is associated with free jazz but has also worked with the mains...

Webster, Ben (Benjamin Francis) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08

Tenor saxophonist Ben Webster was known as "The Beautiful” and ”The Brute." Both names fit him well. The beauty of hi...

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...

Remembering Bud Shank (1926-2009) posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 04, 09

The last time I talked to Bud Shank was in November 2007 at a conference on West Coast jazz held by the Getty Cente...

Shank, Bud (Clifford Everett) posted in Encyclopedia April 04, 09

Bud Shank is best known as one of the leading figures on the West Coast jazz scene of the 1950s, yet he did much to r...

Martin, Mel (Melvyn Kenneth) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Martin, Mel (Melvyn Kenneth), soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, flute, piccolo and alto flute, clari...

McNulty, Chris (C.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

McNulty, Chris (C.), jazz vocalist; b. Melbourne, Australia, 23 December 1953. She was a first-born twin. Her son is ...

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