Search results for "Clark Terry"

Louie Bellson & Clark Terry: Terry's Mood (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark made only one expedition; it spanned two years (1804-1806) and covered lots of ter...

Terry Gibbs: Main Stem (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

DC's Duke Ellington and Brooklyn's Terry Gibbs deserve to be honorary Mainers. After all, Maine's motto Dirigo ("I le...

Lee Konitz & Clark Terry: Flyin' - Mumbles and Jumbles (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 16, 09

At first listen, few would think that these two instrumentalists were venerable, seasoned musicians (Terry, 73 at the...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE LEE KONITZ DUETS

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Clark Terry: Cotton Tail (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music May 18, 08

As first recorded by Duke Ellington's 15-piece band in 1940, "Cotton Tail" tore through the cabbage patch quicker tha...

Louie Bellson & Clark Terry: Chicago Suite 1 – State Street Swing (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music April 27, 08

When I was a kid, Merv Griffin and his aging buddies were always telling audiences that the Big Band era was coming b...

Clark Terry: In Orbit (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music May 03, 09

Terry's unfairly neglected In Orbit album is notable not only for his warmly expressive fluegelhorn and clever origin...

Ray Brown-Milt Jackson: Lined With A Groove (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

This recording is with Oliver Nelson’s big band—Grady Tate is playing drums, Clark Terry is playing flugelhorn, Milt ...

Clifford Brown: What is This Thing Called Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

This lengthy, minimally arranged track provides an opportunity to compare and contrast the improvising styles of thre...

Gary McFarland: I Believe in You (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

Gary McFarland's first album as a leader was a collection of Frank Loesser songs from the then-hit Broadway show How ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GARY MCFARLAND

Gary McFarland's life could be the subject of a movie screenplay. Until he was in his mid-20s, McFarland (1933-1971) ...

Tito Rodriguez: Perdido (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 07, 08

The Tito Rodriguez band is not as well known as those of his compatriots Machito and Tito Puente, but cognoscent...

Count Basie: Blee Blop Blues (issued as "Normania") (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 14, 08

One of the last recordings by the original Count Basie Orchestra, this composition is the work of A.K. Salim, who wou...

Gerry Mulligan: Lady Chatterley's Mother (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 09, 08

Gerry Mulligan's early '60s Concert Jazz Band was one of the most musically influential big bands of its time. That i...

Duke Ellington (featuring Louie Bellson): Skin Deep (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 16, 09

A few years after this recording, rock bands would discover the allure of long, intense drum solos. This was more th...

Charles Mingus: Half-Mast Inhibition (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Mingus began "Half-Mast Inhibition" at age 18, but left it unfinished for 20 years. As tempting as it might be to cal...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Duke Ellington: A Tone Parallel To Harlem (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Many fans back in the early 1950s thought that the arrival of the LP -- youngsters, that stands for "Long Playing" re...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM

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Mark Murphy: Doodlin' (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

This track comes perilously close to being not imitation hip, but the real thing. Horace Silver's "Doodlin'" was a fo...

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 ...

Dinah Washington: You Don't Know What Love Is (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 22, 07

Though she tends to take a backseat to Lady Day and Sassy in most jazz criticism, it’s difficult to find anything to ...

Count Basie: Cheek to Cheek (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 31, 07

Count Basie did not have a pleasant 1949. He'd already disbanded, put together a new group, and was scraping for gigs...

Ella Fitzgerald (with Duke Ellington): Take the 'A' Train (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 06, 08

Matching Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on its signature tune is a surefire winner. But when you ...

Duke Ellington: Solitude (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

Ellington Indigos is one of my favorite Ellington albums. Recorded right after Such Sweet Thunder, it was designed to...

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