Search results for "Charlie Rouse"

Charlie Parker: Cool Blues (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music May 27, 09

Without invoking the laws of physics, let's just stipulate that there are a finite number of Charlie Parker recording...

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...

Thelonious Monk: Jackie-ing (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 14, 08

The 1950s and '60s were a time when many jazz giants walked the earth, but there was also an abundance of distinctive...

Carmen McRae: Suddenly (aka In Walked Bud) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 07, 09

While she was plagued by poor health in her final years, Carmen McRae produced several fine recordings in the late 19...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SCAT SINGING

Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...

Thelonious Monk: Bright Mississippi (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

One of the most fun tunes Monk wrote, “Bright Mississippi” is based on the melody and chord changes of “Sweet Georgia...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Thelonious Monk: Green Chimneys (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

“Green Chimneys” was a new composition on this date, named after the school Monk’s daughter attended. At nine minutes...

Clifford Brown: Easy Living (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

This was Brownie’s first date as a leader for Blue Note Records and came about after Brown’s outstanding playing on t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (1964 live version) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Ask me, and I’ll tell you Live at the It Club is Monk’s best record. The latest two-disc version restores virtually e...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Fats Navarro: Nostalgia (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 28, 07

Among bebop's catchiest melodies, "Nostalgia" (based on "Out of Nowhere") includes a thoughtful intro (rare in bop), ...

Donald Byrd: Here Am I (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

When the New York Herald Tribune coined the term “hard bop,” it was like saying “wet water.” Bop had always been har...

Clifford Brown: Easy Living (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

While there is much injustice in the world, the death of Clifford Brown reads like a truly bad dream. Twenty-five yea...

Thelonious Monk: Thelonious (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music January 14, 09

Monk's tribute to himself is a linear swing that surprisingly does not deviate far from the chart. The tune is perfor...

Bheki Mseleku: Mister Allard (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 20, 08

The talented South African multi-instrumentalist Bheki Mseleku passed away in London on September 8, 2008, due to com...

Maxine Sullivan: Massachusetts (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 04, 08

In contrast to Anita O'Day's 1942 Paul Revere-style charge through "Massachusetts" rousing Gene Krupa's Swing Era min...

Red Norvo: Congo Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 15, 08

In the 1950s, best-selling author Jack Kerouac godfathered the Beat Generation, an unwashed gaggle of ofay deadb...

In Conversation with Roswell Rudd posted in Features and Interviews October 11, 08

By Tomas Peña "You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos."...

Rodney, Red (Robert Rodney Chudnick) posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09

Trumpeter Red Rodney’s bright tone acted as a natural bridge between swing and bebop. After his start with big bands,...

Williams, Jessica (Jennifer) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

"Don't ever let anyone stop you," is what Jessica Williams was once told by another relentlessly talented pianist, Ma...

Barron, Kenneth "Kenny" posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Barron, Kenneth "Kenny", piano; b. Philadelphia, June 9, 1943. His father William was a quiet man who worked in const...

In Conversation with Jimmy Cobb (Part Two) posted in Features and Interviews April 02, 08

by Ralph A. Miriello Below is part two of Ralph Miriello’s in-depth interview with drummer Jimmy Cobb. F...

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