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David Murray: David Mingus (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music September 10, 08

Ornette Coleman's harmolodics minus the clutter—that's "David Mingus," the one electric track on tenor saxophonist Da...

David Murray Trio: Coney Island (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 19, 09

At the time of this recording, in the company of these men, David Murray was arguably the most exciting young music...

David Murray: Ming's Samba (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

As remarkably prolific a recording artist as David Murray has been since his debut in 1976, it took 13 years before M...

David Murray Trio: Corazón (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 19, 09

Listening to this some thirty years after it was made, one is struck by the striking combination of originality and m...

Kahil El'Zabar & David Murray: Groove Allure (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 10, 09

David Murray is like pizza: there's good pizza and great pizza, but there's no such thing as bad pizza. Ok, may be th...

David Murray & the Gwo Ka Masters (with Taj Mahal and Sista Kee): Southern Skies (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 08, 09

David Murray returns to the studio with traditional Guadeloupian gwo-ka percussionists, and this time brings along Ta...

David Murray: In the Spirit (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

This session brought together, in David Murray and Don Pullen, two musicians whose styles confidently straddled post-...

David Murray and Randy Weston: The Healers (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

David Murray is arguably jazz's greatest bass clarinetist after Eric Dolphy. Though he can certainly swing like a dem...

David Murray and Randy Weston: Clever Beggar (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

David Murray puts his huge, vibrato-infused tenor sound to work on this pedal-point ballad in tandem with the pianist...

David Murray: I Want to Talk About You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Tenor saxophonist David Murray puts his lush, Ben Webster-ish ballad tone to good use on "I Want to Talk About You," ...

David Murray & Mal Waldron: I Should Care (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music July 24, 08

So many great pianists have put their stamp on this standard over the years: Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and Bill Ev...

David Murray & Mal Waldron: Soul Eyes (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music July 24, 08

"Soul Eyes" is Mal Waldron's most famous composition, recorded by John Coltrane on Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Ten...

World Saxophone Quartet: Sweet D (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 02, 09

The World Saxophone Quartet's brief association with Elektra/Nonesuch in the late 1980s resulted in some the group'...

World Saxophone Quartet: P.O. in Cairo (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

It’s unclear what the titular “P.O.” is here, maybe just a workaday “post office,” but perhaps a “private organizatio...

World Saxophone Quartet: I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart (Rating: 81/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

The W.S.Q. signed with the prestigious Elektra/Nonesuch label in 1986, and shifted their repertoire somewhat, too, co...

World Saxophone Quartet: Hattie Wall (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

No avant-garde jazz band ever combined musical sophistication with sheer, unadulterated down-and-dirtiness better tha...

David Eyges: Crossroads (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 10, 09

Alongside Abdul Wadud, David Eyges refined the presence of the cello in smaller ensembles. Originally trained at the ...

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

Can the cello swing? Can the cello be as melodically sophisticated as traditional jazz instruments? Is the cell...

Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Krazy Kat (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Hollywood's Young Man With a Horn (1950), writes film scholar David Sterritt, is "loosely based" on Bix Beiderbecke a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Jack DeJohnette: One for Eric (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 30, 08

All of Jack DeJohnette's sustained led or co-led groups produce consistently high-level jazz – from the Gateway group...

Ware, David S. (Spencer) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

Tenor saxophonist David S. Ware has an earthy yet spiritual sound full of kinetic energy. In performance, he soars aw...

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