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Tommy Dorsey: Jammin' (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

“Jammin’,” an undeservedly obscure offering from Dorsey’s pre-Sy Oliver band, opens compellingly with Dorsey’s gruff,...

Woody Herman: The Good Earth (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 11, 09

This was in the Herman book for almost a year before it was recorded for Columbia Records, and was originally called ...

Woody Herman: Apple Honey (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

In the mid-1940s, Woody Herman's fire-breathing Thundering Herd was the most exciting big band in jazz. Sparked by th...

Benny Goodman (featuring Charlie Christian): Solo Flight (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

During the Swing Era, as bands swelled in size, acoustic guitarists turned to amplification to avoid being buried ali...

Tommy Dorsey: Song of India (Rating: 73/100) posted in Music November 12, 07

Rimsky-Korsakov's 1898 opera Sadko depicts a Russian harpist who deserts wife and home for foreign adventure. During ...

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

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Woody Herman: Goosey Gander (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

This 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, 07

Sonny 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...

Barrett Martin: Shapeshifter (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 17, 09

The music of Barrett Martin can be tough to pin down. Go ahead and listen to his work with the rock band Screaming Tr...

Gary Burton: Country Roads (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 11, 08

This all-star session is one giant rhythm section, and while "supergroups" often lead to a blowing session without mu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Miles Davis: Mademoiselle Mabry (Miss Mabry) (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music November 09, 08

The lengthiest track on Filles de Kilimanjaro is also its least effective. The melody is unforgettable, likely due to...

Tough, Dave (David Jarvis) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

As a teen, drummer Dave "Davey" Tough literally sat at the feet of Baby Dodds in Joe "King" Oliver's band at Chicago'...

Woody Herman: Laura (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

This track was the first recording made for the first session in Herman's contract for Columbia Records. Herman had l...

Nurturing Jazz in a Tough Town posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 06, 09

Willard Jenkins continues his investigations of successful grassroots jazz programs around the United States. In pre...

In Conversation with Dave Liebman posted in Features and Interviews January 03, 09

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Breaking Jazz News & Opinion: May 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages June 01, 09

Rumors of jazz movies Will they ever come to the screen? How jazz works Jay Thomas gives...

Woody Herman: Bijou (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Recorded by Woody Herman's all-white Herd two years before Dizzy Gillespie introduced Afro-Cuban jazz, "Bijou" (subti...

The Legacy of Ella Fitzgerald posted in The Jazz.com Blog February 20, 08

Jazz.com concludes its two-week focus on jazz singers with Stuart Nicholson’s feature on Ella Fitzgerald. Nicholso...

Tommy Dorsey: Lonesome Road (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 25, 09

Early in his career, while writing arrangements for local bands near his home in Rumson, New Jersey, Bill Finega...

Judy Roberts: My Attorney Bernie (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 04, 09

As performed by its composer and nearly everyone else, Dave Frishberg’s “My Attorney Bernie” is sung to a samba beat....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DAVE FRISHBERG

Dave Frishberg once offered his original song “The Underdog” to Frank Sinatra. The song told the story of a gambler...

Barnett, Anthony (Peter John) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Barnett, Anthony (Peter John), author, percussionist, publisher, record producer; b. London, England, of Polish and L...

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