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Eddie Heywood (featuring Billie Holiday): All of Me (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

On what was their final Columbia session together, Young was given only two brief solos on the sides selected for rel...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Billie Holiday & Lester Young: All of Me (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

If hot jazz was defined by Louis Armstrong in the 1920s, then the lyrical side of jazz found its perfect exponents in...

Bennie Moten: Moten Swing (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 10, 07

It is difficult to believe that this recording was made on the cusp of 1933. Basie’s later spare style (complete wit...

Lionel Hampton: Flying Home (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

Jazz's most indefatigable showman, legendary vibist Lionel Hampton, routinely whipped "Flying Home" to such a fr...

Hot Lips Page: Lafayette (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 25, 07

Hot Lips Page departed the Basie band shortly before the group left Kansas City for New York. Page hooked up with Lo...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Play the Melody! posted in Features and Interviews January 18, 08

By Don Mopsick At the age of 23, I began to work weekends at resort hotels in the Catskill mountains of New York...

Three Jazz Piano Masters on DVD posted in The Jazz.com Blog December 22, 08

Thomas Cunniffe, who recently looked at Sonny Rollins’s work on DVD in this column, now turns his attention to some r...

Schoenberg, Loren posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Schoenberg, Loren, saxophone; b. Paterson, NJ, 23 July 1958. Schoenberg was raised in Fair Lawn, NJ. He entere...

Sudhalter, Carol (Stearns) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Sudhalter, Carol (Stearns), flute, baritone sax and tenor sax; b. Newton, MA, 5 January 1943. Sudhalter was born a...

DuPre, Bryant (Williams) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

DuPre, Bryant (Williams), drums, saxes (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and flutes, singer and historian; b. New Orleans,...

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