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Count Basie: Dickie's Dream (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Four days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland to kick off World War II, Count Basie's Kansas City Seven invaded a New Y...

Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: Dickie's Dream (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 15, 08

Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra can play an old territory band-type of arrangement with the precisi...

Dicky Wells: Japanese Sandman (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 28, 09

Even before the Quintette of the Hot Club of France started recording, Django Reinhardt was a first-call player whene...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY DJANGO

          Django Reinhardt, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Count Basie All-Stars: I Left My Baby (1957) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

James Andrew Rushing, born in Oklahoma City in 1903, first recorded "I Left My Baby" in 1939 under the aegis of Willi...

Frankie Laine / Buck Clayton: Until the Real Thing Comes Along (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music May 26, 08

If you remember Frankie Laine, you're definitely on AARP's mailing list. During the 1950s, Old Leather Lungs, as the ...

Billie Holiday & Lester Young: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

The collaborations between Billie Holiday and Lester Young still speak to us today -- and not just as historical docu...

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...

Billie Holiday: Tain't Nobody's Business (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

On May 27, 1947, Billie Holiday was sentenced to a year and a day for possession of narcotic drugs, remaining in cust...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Count Basie (with Lester Young): Song of the Islands (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

I once asked Stan Getz which Lester Young recordings he most admired, and this was the first track he mentioned. I h...

Lester Young: Lester Leaps In (1939) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Lester Young was the major influence on a generation of tenor saxophonists who preferred his relatively light, pure t...

Anita O'Day: Yesterdays (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Decades before recycling became fashionable, Russ Garcia was doing his part, reworking an arrangement of "Con Alma," ...

Paul Quinichette: Paul's Bunion (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

His style was so strongly reminiscent of Lester "Prez" Young's, that Paul Quinichette was inevitably dubbed the "Vice...

New Reviews of Well-Aged Tracks posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 17, 09

We’re nostalgic types here at jazz.com. So in addition to highlighting the best of the recent releases, we review lo...

Count Basie: Taxi War Dance (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

Perhaps his finest moment on record, Young is probably also (mostly) responsible for “Taxi War Dance’s” very simple h...

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...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Jazz's Most Iconic Photo Is Half a Century Old posted in Features and Interviews August 11, 08

by Alan Kurtz "When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire," Dizzy Gilles...

Harrison, Jimmy (James Henry) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Trombonist Jimmy Harrison was the rare instrumentalist who developed a personal vocabulary for jazz which was distinc...

Johnson, J. J. (James Louis) posted in Encyclopedia January 19, 09

Trombonist, arranger and composer J.J. Johnson is one of the handful who revolutionized the way his instrument is pla...

Clayton, Buck (Wilbur) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

The 1938 recordings by Count Basie's rhythm section are rightly celebrated in the annals of popular music for their ...

Morton, Benny (Henry Sterling) posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 09

Benny Morton's consistent excellence on the trombone made him one of the few pioneers of jazz on his instrument to en...

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