Search results for "Ed Thigpen"

Oscar Peterson: Jet Song (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 08, 09

By 1962, the second Oscar Peterson Trio – guitar jettisoned, but retaining Ray Brown and adding Ed Thigpen – was well...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEST SIDE STORY

Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...

Oscar Peterson: Sometimes I'm Happy (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

“Sometimes I’m Happy” is one of the few tracks that I know on many Oscar Peterson records where the trio actually jus...

Sonny Stitt: Blues for Pres, Sweets, Ben and All the Other Funky Ones (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

Sonny Stitt was in prime form during his 1959 recording session with the Oscar Peterson Trio, perhaps partly because ...

Oscar Peterson Trio: Wheatland (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

I think this is the next-to-last recording that Ray did with the Oscar Peterson trio, the classic trio with Ed Thigpe...

Johnny Griffin: Blues For Harvey (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 08, 09

At the time of this 1973 recording, expatriates Johnny Griffin (Paris) and Kenny Drew (Copenhagen) had been living in...

Oscar Peterson: Night Train (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

To these ears, this version of “Happy-Go-Lucky Local” – or “Night Train,” whatever you want to call it – is the fines...

Blossom Dearie: Tea for Two (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music February 04, 08

Strangely enough, Blossom Dearie (accompanied by only herself at the piano) sings the verse of this song at a swifter...

Oscar Peterson: Wheatland (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

When you listen to Oscar Peterson's eight brilliant compositions that comprise his Canadiana Suite, you may wonder wh...

Frank Wess: Low Life (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

Six 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...

Oscar Peterson: Night Train (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

In a recent interview, Diana Krall said that Oscar Peterson’s Night Train was the album that made her want to be a ja...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Oscar Peterson: C Jam Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 01, 09

In a sense, Duke Ellington’s “C Jam Blues” is the jazz equivalent of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Both pieces are base...

Ben Webster: In the Wee Small Hours (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

Nobody's balladry differed more from his up-tempo style than Ben Webster's. On jump tunes, Big Ben growled and snarle...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Oscar Peterson & Milt Jackson: On Green Dolphin Street (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

Film music composer Bronislaw Kaper wrote this tune for the 1947 movie Green Dolphin Street, and it became a warhorse...

Oscar Peterson: Blues for Big Scotia (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Putdown master Miles Davis once said Oscar Peterson "had to learn to play the blues," as if other jazzmen sprang from...

Monty Alexander: The Serpent (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

For all their differences, one thing the world's religions share is the mythological Serpent. Here, Monty Alexander o...

Oscar Peterson: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 27, 08

Miles Davis once famously suggested that Oscar Peterson sounded like he had to learn how to play the blues. To which...

Thigpen, Ed (Edward Leonard) posted in Encyclopedia October 21, 08

The title of drummer Ed Thigpen's 1991 solo album, Mr. Taste, aptly sums up his career. His calm and elegant confiden...

Peterson, Oscar (Emmanuel) posted in Encyclopedia December 17, 08

Pianist and composer Oscar Peterson blended the sensibilities of bebop and the blues in a virtuosic sound all his...

Ray Brown-Milt Jackson: Lined With A Groove (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

This recording is with Oliver Nelson’s big band—Grady Tate is playing drums, Clark Terry is playing flugelhorn, Milt ...

Van Kemenade, Paul posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Van Kemenade, Paul, alto saxophone; b. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1957. He started his musical career at the age ...

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