Search results for "Chubby Jackson"
Chubby Jackson: A Ballad For Jai (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 08, 08When we asked Jaijai Jackson, daughter of the late Chubby Jackson (1918-2003), to help us decipher "A Ballad For...
Woody Herman (featuring Sonny Berman): Your Father's Moustache (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 23, 08"Your Father's Moustache" captures Herman's First Herd in full charge, and noticeably emerging out of the band's glor...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE SONNYS OF JAZZ
Jazz Quiz: What do these names have in common? Saul Berman Herman Blount Conrad Yeatis Clark William Criss C...
Woody Herman: Goosey Gander (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 23, 07This track takes its name from a nursery rhyme, but don't let Woody Herman's First Herd anywhere near the nursery. Tr...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS
It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...
Woody Herman (featuring Sonny Berman): Sidewalks of Cuba (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 28, 07Sonny Berman was on the road as a jazz trumpeter at age sixteen and dead from a heroin overdose at 22. He worked wit...
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...
Woody Herman: Laura (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 12, 09This track was the first recording made for the first session in Herman's contract for Columbia Records. Herman had l...
Woody Herman: Apple Honey (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 16, 07In the mid-1940s, Woody Herman's fire-breathing Thundering Herd was the most exciting big band in jazz. Sparked by th...
The Jazz Network Takes Off posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 29, 08The word "community" has taken on many new meanings since the rise of the Internet. Certainly the often fragment...
Jazz's Most Iconic Photo Is Half a Century Old posted in Features and Interviews August 11, 08by Alan Kurtz "When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire," Dizzy Gilles...
Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 19, 08It’s not your typical Juneteenth around jazz.com. Like beaming parents, we are celebrating the arrival of our 2,5...
Sims, Zoot (John Haley) posted in Encyclopedia November 21, 08The name of Zoot Sims may be unfamiliar to some, but he earned his spot on the list of top tenor saxophonists the har...
West, Adrienne posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07West, Adrienne, vocalist, actress, lyricist, educator; b. Brooklyn, NY, 17 November 1951. Her mother is Henrietta Wes...
Dixon, Ben (Harold) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Dixon, Ben (Harold), drummer, composer, arranger, teacher, clinician; b. Gaffney, SC, 25 December 1934. As an i...
Pettiford, Oscar posted in Encyclopedia January 20, 09Oscar Pettiford set the standard for bassists in bebop by drawing out the melodic and solo potential of his instrumen...
Ted Heath: Father Knickerbopper (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music March 16, 08The Ted Heath band's exploration of the modern jazz repertoire ended at about this time, when Heath realized that mos...
Herman, Woody (Woodrow Charles Thomas) posted in Encyclopedia November 19, 08For fifty years, clarinetist and alto saxophonist Woody Herman led the most remarkable orchestras in jazz. His music...
Woody Herman: The Good Earth (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 11, 09This was in the Herman book for almost a year before it was recorded for Columbia Records, and was originally called ...
Woody Herman: Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 11, 09It consistently amazes me how arrangers could take a brand new song and create an interesting, original framework for...
Woody Herman: Wild Root (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 12, 09Once upon a time, an alternate take of "Wild Root" was the more commonly heard performance whenever the title would b...
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