Search results for "Doug Watkins"

Gene Ammons: Hittin' the Jug (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 29, 08

There's nothing better than hearing Gene Ammons play a slow ballad, except perhaps for a slow blues like "Hittin' the...

Horace Silver: Señor Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

After the demise of the cooperative group known as The Jazz Messengers (Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Dou...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Sonny Rollins: Blues for Philly Joe (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

"Blues for Philly Joe" is the only Rollins original on the versatile Newk's Time. By the time the album reaches this ...

Pepper Adams: The Long Two/Four (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

10 to 4 at the 5 Spot delivers a single set of music from the famed NYC jazz club in 1958, a combination of Blak...

Horace Silver: Señor Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

One of the pioneers of the hard-bop movement, pianist Horace Silver composed a number of tunes with infectious rhythm...

Charles Mingus: Ecclusiastics (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Kirk’s tenure with Mingus lasted only a few months, but the relationship was sympathetic and yielded a classic record...

Horace Silver: Cool Eyes (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Six Pieces of Silver marks the hard-bop pianist’s arrival as a legitimate bandleader and bop composer. Assembled fro...

Sonny Rollins: Moritat (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Rollins's dedication to the Great American Songbook is extended to this German chestnut, by Weill-Brecht, which most ...

Horace Silver: The Preacher (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

"I can't stand the faggot-type jazz," Horace Silver fumed to Down Beat in 1956, "the jazz with no guts." He didn't na...

Sonny Rollins: Asiatic Raes (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

An early leader date by the unpredictable Rollins produced some of his most in-the-pocket playing on record. Drummer ...

Charles Mingus: Eat That Chicken (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Many 1950s jazz modernists considered such forebears as Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller old hat. Not Charles M...

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...

Charles Mingus: Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

The threat of nuclear annihilation hung over the Space Age like a millennial migraine the morning after 100 consecuti...

Horace Silver: Enchantment (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 24, 08

New Mexico invited trouble in 1941 by emblazoning "Land of Enchantment" on their license plates. Enchanted visitors s...

Sonny Rollins: You Don't Know What Love Is (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 10, 08

From the moment Rollins barks out the opening note of his unaccompanied intro, the listener understands that this won...

Tina Brooks: Star Eyes (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 15, 08

Tina Brooks did not record during the last dozen years of his life, and was a largely forgotten figure at the time of...

Horace Silver: Doodlin' (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 26, 08

From one of the classic hard-bop albums comes Horace Silver's first hit. Take a simple riff, rhythmically displace it...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Cool Eyes (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

From the same Horace Silver album as his hit "Señor Blues," "Cool Eyes," with its 32-bar AABA theme, is a delightful ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

John Coltrane: Route 4 (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 05, 08

Among the many innovative technological failures of the mid- and late 1950s, the 16-rpm phonograph record stands as t...

Curtis Fuller: What Is This Thing Called Love (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

Curtis Fuller was the first and longest standing trombonist featured in the Jazz Messengers, and was a member of...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BEST OF THE ART BLAKEY ALUMS

There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Lateef, Yusef Abdul (William Evans) posted in Encyclopedia March 31, 08

Saxophonist and flutist Yusef Lateef is a prolific iconoclast who doubles on a number of instruments from around the ...

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