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Count Basie: April in Paris (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07It’s almost May in Paris by the time the song concludes. Basie leads his band through two fake endings until finally...
Count Basie: Li'l Darlin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07The “New Testament” Basie band that began during the 1950s retained all the buoyant swing of the early group from the...
Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 03, 07Away with pretenders! The throne belongs to but one Ring-a-Ding King. A quarter century after achieving stardom with ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS
Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...
Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...
Count Basie: Counter Block (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08This performance by the Basie band took place during a late-night gig at a Disc Jockeys of America convention on May ...
This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: PETER ERSKINE
In the music world, but especially in the jazz world, everyone wants to know what everybody else is listening to. So ...
Liberation Music Orchestra: America the Beautiful (Medley: America the Beautiful/Lift Every Voice and Sing/Skies of A... (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 22, 09"Oh beautiful for spacious skies," but post-9/11 the skies of America seemed less safe; and the honorably intended "N...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MUSICAL AMERICANA
Jazz Americana, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Shortly ...
Election Night with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra posted in The Jazz.com Blog November 05, 08The jazz community was active throughout the campaign in supporting the candidacy of Barack Obama, and while many m...
Wilson, Cassandra (Marie Fowlkes) posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09Singer Cassandra Wilson has combined her experiences in jazz, folk and rhythm 'n' blues into an appealing and succe...
Count Basie & Joe Williams: Every Day I Have the Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07...
Count Basie & Joe Williams: All Right, OK, You Win (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 05, 08From 1967-1987, Sooner State license plates bore the legend "Oklahoma is OK." This less-than-ringing endorsement was ...
Count Basie: Michelle (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 06, 08"Michelle" is one of Paul McCartney's many love songs, but the chromatic movement in the melody and descending guitar...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ PERSPECTIVES ON THE BEATLES
During the 1960s, jazz became more stylistically diverse than ever. Conventional norms were assertively challen...
Tony Bennett & Count Basie: Ol' Man River (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 16, 09Antonio Benedetto of Astoria, NY, might have sung bel canto, but Tony Bennett (as he became) actually loved to "rock ...
Joe Williams with Count Basie and His Orchestra: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music May 17, 09The Greatest!! was the second album by Joe Williams with the Count Basie Orchestra. It was designed to show that Will...
Count Basie & His Orchestra (featuring Al Grey): Makin' Whoopee (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 31, 09Frank Sinatra's 1966 live album Sinatra At The Sands with Count Basie is remembered as one of his finest. Highlight...
Previte, Bobby (Robert) posted in Encyclopedia July 16, 09Drummer and composer Bobby Previte has championed an extended palette of sounds which combines influences from blues,...
Ribot, Marc posted in Encyclopedia October 19, 08Guitarist Marc Ribot's talent and curiosities take him far afield from "downtown" New York music scene where he cut h...
Moncur III, Grachan posted in Encyclopedia May 20, 09"Whenever I have a conversation about what's wrong with the jazz business, I always start out by saying, 'Where is G...
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