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Doc Cheatham: New Orleans (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 19, 09In the span of his long career, Doc Cheatham played with Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Chick Webb, Cab Calloway, Teddy Wi...
Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton: Jeepers Creepers (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 18, 09Trumpeter Nicholas Payton is a musician who deeply understands and has assimilated Louis Armstrong's legacy. Doc Che...
Billie Holiday: Embraceable You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 06, 07Her autobiography is entitled Lady Sings the Blues, and her most endearing performance is her blues "Fine and Mellow"...
Alberta Hunter: My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 30, 07Ain't it just like a woman? At the peak of her 1970s comeback, 83-year-old blues doyen Alberta Hunter catalogs the vi...
Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow (Sound of Jazz, 1957) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 11, 08This 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, 08Who 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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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...
A History of New Orleans Music in 100 Tracks (Part Two) posted in Features and Interviews September 02, 09Edited by Ted Gioia Below is the second and final part of jazz.com's history of New Orleans music in 100 tracks. ...
Payton, Nicholas (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia May 21, 09Trumpeter Nicholas Payton's style combines the rich vibrato of Louis Armstrong with the flexible articulations of C...
Sayer, Cynthia (Nan) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Sayer, Cynthia (Nan), banjoist, pianist, vocalist, tenor guitarist, percussionist; b. Waltham, MA, 20 May 1956. ...
Rapson, John posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Rapson, John, trombonist, composer; b. Gary, IN, 4 February 1953. He's the son of Ira Rapson (deceased June 1993) and...
Richards, Trevor (Hamilton Edward) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Richards, Trevor (Hamilton Edward), drummer, bandleader, writer; b. Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, 29 August 1945. ...
Cavaseno, Joseph "G-Clef" (Harry) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Cavaseno, Joseph "G-Clef" (Harry), saxophonist, clarinetist, pianist, singer, composer; b. Mineola, NY, 2 June 1967....
Decesare, John (Nicholas) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Decesare, John (Nicholas), string bass, electric bass, guitar, keyboards, singer, composer; b. New York City, 10 Augu...
DuPre, Bryant (Williams) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07DuPre, Bryant (Williams), drums, saxes (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and flutes, singer and historian; b. New Orleans,...
In Conversation with Nicholas Payton posted in Features and Interviews August 29, 08By Ted Panken ...
Cullum, Jim (James Allen Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia January 28, 08Cornetist and bandleader Jim Cullum was born in 1941 in San Antonio, Texas,where he taught himself to play a cornet h...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Dick Katz posted in Features and Interviews December 22, 08For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. OctoJAZ...
Persson, Bent posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Persson, Bent, trumpeter and cornetist; b. Karlskrona, Sweden, 6 September 1947. He grew up in Stockholm. His mother ...
Eames, JaRon posted in Encyclopedia May 20, 08Eames, JaRon, Eames, JaRon K., vocalist, archivist, journalist b. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 21 December 1953. He's th...
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