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Cannonball Adderley: Waltz For Debby (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 18, 09

The transitional Know What I Mean? is too often overlooked when assessing the résumés of Cannonball Adderley and his ...

Modern Jazz Quartet: The Golden Striker (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 18, 09

"The Golden Striker" was a staple of the Modern Jazz Quartet's live repertoire, and this rousing version adds a sheen...

The Modern Jazz Quartet: My Man's Gone Now (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 09, 08

Jazz.com recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the the most famous jazz adaptation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess...

Milt Jackson & John Coltrane: Be-Bop (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

There was more to Milt Jackson than putting on a tuxedo with the Modern Jazz Quartet and performing what some perceiv...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: GREAT VIBES

Vibraphonist Jay Hoggard, in the notes to his 1989 Overview release, made the following observations about his in...

Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan: The Way You Look Tonight (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 04, 09

Their light tones and upbeat lyricism an ideal match, Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond’s Two of a Mind was destined to...

Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan: All the Things You Are (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

If “All the Things You Are" is not the most played standard, it must be close. So, what is so special about this vers...

Stan Getz & J.J. Johnson: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 21, 08

Back in the 1950s, some still thought that Stan Getz was a lightweight "cool school" player, and that J.J. Johnson's ...

John Coltrane: Three Little Words (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 25, 08

It’s incredible to hear Coltrane play on standard songs with this rhythm section. Hank is very free in the harmonic...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JOE LOVANO SELECTS ESSENTIAL JOHN COLTRANE

                     Joe Lovano,...

Coleman Hawkins: Bean Stalkin' (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 22, 09

A period of renewed interest and recognition for the influential saxophonist Coleman Hawkins began in the late '50's....

Paul Desmond: Take Ten (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond had a deal. Whenever Desmond recorded as leader, to avoid competing with Brubeck's Quar...

Modern Jazz Quartet: England's Carol (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Ironically, the greatest achievement of Third Stream music, for all its intellectual pretensions, was an update of th...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RUDY REINDEER'S FAVORITE JAZZ

First, about the name. The whole "Rudolph" thing started as a joke. To friends and family, I've always been Rudy. The...

Modern Jazz Quartet: No Happiness for Slater (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) was the best heist film since The Asphalt Jungle (1950). Singer Harry Belafonte plays a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CRIME JAZZ

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

Paul Desmond: When Joanna Loved Me (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Paul Desmond may have possessed the most beautiful alto saxophone tone in jazz since Johnny Hodges starred with Duke ...

John Lewis: Sketch (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

MJQ + string quartet = one felicitous match. Whereas many jazz groups would simply overwhelm such a setting—can ...

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 ...

Paul Desmond: Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

It's always the fellows you least suspect. Never loitered an unlikelier Lothario: bony, balding, bookish and bespecta...

Modern Jazz Quartet: Lonely Woman (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music July 12, 08

I have mixed feelings about this recording. The Modern Jazz Quartet comprised solid, assured performers who made some...

Modern Jazz Quartet with Laurindo Almeida: Silver (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

Four intense mood swings in the first minute and an untraditional song structure make this track inaccessible to most...

The Modern Jazz Quartet: Concorde (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 11, 09

"Jazz fugue" . . . the very name sounds oxymoronic. One wonders: are there country-and-western fugues or hip-hop fugu...

Modern Jazz Quartet: The Cylinder (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 18, 09

The Modern Jazz Quartet's "The Cylinder" is constructed around a single chord, and the form does not change until Mil...

The Modern Jazz Quartet: Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music September 17, 09

This song stayed in the repertoire of The Modern Jazz Quartet for many years—they would play it again at their so-cal...

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