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Chu Berry & Roy Eldridge: Body and Soul (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

This record exerted a tremendous influence during the late 1930s. Coleman Hawkins may well have learned from Berry's...

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...

Cab Calloway (featuring Chu Berry): Ghost of a Chance (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 04, 07

If he hadn't died from a car crash at 31, Chu Berry might've joined the great first-generation triumvirate of tenorme...

Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow (Sound of Jazz, 1957) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

This is generally acknowledged as the greatest jazz moment ever broadcast on national television. And with good reas...

Cab Calloway: Tarzan of Harlem (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 17, 08

Who could possibly follow the Ellington band at the Cotton Club? Only Cab Calloway, the heppest cat on the third plan...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM

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Papa Mutt Carey: Ostrich Walk (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

With two Papas (Papa Mutt Carey and Pops Foster) and a Baby (Dodds) on hand—each of them a New Orleans pioneer of the...

Billie Holiday: Fine And Mellow (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

“I summed up all existence in an epigram,” Oscar Wilde once bragged; Lester Young doesn’t quite capture all existence...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Sir Charles Thompson, Charlie Parker, Buck Clayton, Dexter Gordon, etc.: Takin' Off (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

From a Delmark album comprising three recording sessions for the Apollo label from 1945 and 1947, this title track is...

Richards, Trevor (Hamilton Edward) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Richards, Trevor (Hamilton Edward), drummer, bandleader, writer; b. Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, 29 August 1945. ...

Sager, David posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Sager, David, trombonist, historian; b. Takoma Park, Maryland, 22 March 1958. His parents are Beverly Stevens (b. 192...

Cab Calloway (featuring Dizzy Gillespie): Pickin' the Cabbage (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 04, 08

Originally released on the Vocalion label, "Pickin' the Cabbage" is often referred to as Gillespie's first attempt at...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A DIZZY DOZEN GILLESPIE CLASSICS

From his seminal work with Charlie Parker to his collaborations with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie continually br...

The Monterey Jazz Festival Photography of Ron Hudson posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 18, 08

  Danny Barker at the Monterey Jazz Festival           &...

Red Allen All-Stars: Wild Man Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

A few days before CBS-TV's all-star special The Sound of Jazz (1957), most of the scheduled participants appeared for...

Nichols, Herbie (Herbert Horatio) posted in Encyclopedia December 16, 08

Composer and pianist Herbie Nichols’ inquisitive spirit lives on amongst a growing group of young followers, and in t...

Marsalis, Wynton (Learson) posted in Encyclopedia March 18, 09

The entire history of jazz trumpet is present in Wynton Marsalis's sound. His style is rooted in an impeccable, class...

Niles, Richard (Romano) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Niles, Richard (Romano), composer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, broadcaster, journalist, author; b. Hollyw...

Jamming on the Carrot Panpipes posted in The Jazz.com Blog October 05, 08

I never fail to be impressed with the range of strange musical offerings available on the Internet. Recently, I wr...

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