Search results for "Ed Jones"
Count Basie: April in Paris (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07It’s almost May in Paris by the time the song concludes. Basie leads his band through two fake endings until finally...
Quincy Jones: Rack 'Em Up (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music May 08, 09The speedy "Rack 'em Up" energizes its way through a maze of electric jazz guitar, predominant piano overdubs (panned...
Ornette Coleman: The Garden of Souls (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 24, 08It seems almost an article of faith among critics that New York Is Now! and Love Call are among Ornette Coleman's les...
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb: Some Kiss (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music July 30, 09It's an impossible task to catalog and order the many sultry moments in the history of female jazz vocals. I'm thinki...
Gary McFarland: I Believe in You (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 05, 08Gary McFarland's first album as a leader was a collection of Frank Loesser songs from the then-hit Broadway show How ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GARY MCFARLAND
Gary McFarland's life could be the subject of a movie screenplay. Until he was in his mid-20s, McFarland (1933-1971) ...
Count Basie (with Lester Young): Song of the Islands (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 09I once asked Stan Getz which Lester Young recordings he most admired, and this was the first track he mentioned. I h...
Count Basie: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07With his customary sparse piano, wily Bill B. sets the stage for this easygoing anthem of the Swing Era. Big-toned te...
Frank Wess: Low Life (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 30, 07Six months to the day after these same musicians (except Burrell and Thigpen) recorded "Low Life" with Count Basie's ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES
"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...
Count Basie (featuring J.J. Johnson): Rambo (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 18, 08J.J. Johnson was a promising young trombonist/arranger when he left the Benny Carter band and joined up with the Coun...
Count Basie: Stay On It (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 18, 08It says quite a bit when ensembles led by Basie and Dizzy Gillespie give equally convincing performances of a particu...
Count Basie & His Orchestra: Exactly Like You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 04, 09“Exactly Like You” has been a jam session staple for years, but when Count Basie recorded it on his second Decca sess...
Thigpen, Ed (Edward Leonard) posted in Encyclopedia October 21, 08The title of drummer Ed Thigpen's 1991 solo album, Mr. Taste, aptly sums up his career. His calm and elegant confiden...
Schuller, Ed (Edwin) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Schuller, Ed (Edwin), acoustic bass, jazz composer, educator; b. New York City, NY, 11 January 1955. Schuller move...
Jones, Elvin (Ray) posted in Encyclopedia March 21, 08Elvin Jones expanded the jazz drummer’s role from timekeeper to volatile improviser. Jones’s approach was more extrem...
Jones, Hank (Henry) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09Pianist Hank Jones’s use of space and sophisticated lyricism has been documented on the hundreds of albums he has rec...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Hank Jones posted in Features and Interviews July 30, 08For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. OctoJ...
Jones, Alan posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Jones, Alan, drums; b. Longview, WA, 5 August 1962. Alan was raised in Portland, Oregon wh...
Dave Brubeck: On the Alamo (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 02, 09The classic Dave Brubeck Quartet didn't actually come together until 1957. Before that, Dave and Paul Desmond enjoyed...
Ray Brown-Milt Jackson: Lined With A Groove (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09This recording is with Oliver Nelson’s big band—Grady Tate is playing drums, Clark Terry is playing flugelhorn, Milt ...
Tony Bennett & Count Basie: Ol' Man River (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 16, 09Antonio Benedetto of Astoria, NY, might have sung bel canto, but Tony Bennett (as he became) actually loved to "rock ...
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