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Arthur Blythe: Crescent (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 02, 09

Arthur Blythe's last few Columbia albums suffer from an excess of eclecticism, as if he were scuffling to find a fo...

Denny Zeitlin: 'Round Midnight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 14, 09

For Cathexis, his first of four albums for Columbia, Denny Zeitlin chose the rhythm team of Cecil McBee (b. 1935) and...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DENNY ZEITLIN

2009 has been a banner year for pianist-composer Denny Zeitlin (b. 1938). With the release by Mosaic Select ...

Denny Zeitlin: Stonehenge (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 14, 09

This modal burner deserves to be more widely performed. One reason it isn’t probably has to do with a complex polyrh...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DENNY ZEITLIN

2009 has been a banner year for pianist-composer Denny Zeitlin (b. 1938). With the release by Mosaic Select ...

Charles Lloyd: Tone Poem (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 18, 07

To celebrate the rebirth of the label, a host of former Blue Note stars assembled for a historic concert at New York’...

Shea Breaux Wells: Oh Yes, I Remember Clifford (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 29, 09

If you happen to frequent the addictive AccuJazz.com website and listen to its Vocal Jazz channel, you may occasional...

Wayne Shorter: Etcetera (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

One of those iconoclastic Shorter compositions that, in many ways, defines an era of jazz. The piece’s opening theme ...

Muhal Richard Abrams: C.C.'s World (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 08, 08

Upon first listening to this, one might think it was a beautiful improvisation. Muhal improvises on the melody for th...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JASON MORAN SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS TRACKS

Asked to select a musician to analyze for the “Musician Dozens” column, pianist Jason Moran did not hesitate to c...

Charlie Rouse & Red Rodney: Social Call (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

How can you go wrong with a hard bop session that stars Thelonious Monk’s longtime tenor saxophonist and a former Cha...

Freddie Hubbard & Woody Shaw: Desert Moonlight (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

The meeting on record of Woody Shaw and all-time trumpet great Freddie Hubbard was a cause for rapt anticipation befo...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BRIAN LYNCH SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL WOODY SHAW TRACKS

Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Charles Lloyd: Dream Weaver (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 18, 07

From the only studio recording by one of the most important yet under-recognized groups of the 1960s, “Dream Weaver” ...

Charles Lloyd: Forest Flower (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 18, 07

In the late 1960s Charles Lloyd was a legitimate jazz star, and for a time, his star shined the brightest. His quarte...

Chico Freeman: It Never Entered My Mind (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 04, 08

Chico Freeman and David Murray both emerged onto the avant-garde jazz scene in the mid-'70s, and both would go on to ...

Muhal Richard Abrams: Time Into Space Into Time (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 08, 08

In the vein of other Muhal compositions like "Charlie in the Parker," this piece has a melody that is injected with j...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JASON MORAN SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS TRACKS

Asked to select a musician to analyze for the “Musician Dozens” column, pianist Jason Moran did not hesitate to c...

Andrew Hill: Compulsion (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

“Compulsion” is one of my all-time favorites. I can say right now that the whole album, and particularly this piece, ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: VIJAY IYER SURVEYS THE MUSIC OF ANDREW HILL

In 1995, Vijay Iyer, then a 24-year-old Berkeley PhD candidate in Physics with an interest in the neurobiology of ...

Denny Zeitlin: Blue Phoenix (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 05, 09

Producer John Hammond did so much for the Columbia (now Sony) label, earning them millions by signing acts such as Br...

Grachan Moncur III: Thandiwa (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

The only chord change-based tune on an album of otherwise free-form pieces, "Thandiwa" is an angular waltz made up of...

Charles Lloyd: Song of Her (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 15, 09

Cecil McBee's luminous ballad "Song of Her" first appeared in 1966 on Charles Lloyd's best-known album, Forest Flower...

Hopps, Jimmy (James Edward Hopps Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Hopps, Jimmy [James Edward Hopps Jr.], drummer; b. Washington, DC, 18 June 1939. His mother, Louella T.W. Hopps, was ...

The Pianism of Denny Zeitlin (Part 2) posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 30, 09

Below is the second installment of my two-part article on pianist Denny Zeitlin. For part one, click here. T.G. ...

Bridgewater, Dee Dee (Denise Eileen Garrett) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bridgewater, Dee Dee [Denise Eileen Garrett], singer; b. Memphis, TN, 27 May 1950. She was raised in Flint, MI. Her m...

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