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Jimmie Lunceford: Harlem Shout (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 16, 08

Jimmie Lunceford is the odd man out in jazz history. This bandleader made no waves with his musicianship – his prefe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM

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Kansas City Six: Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

Eddie Durham’s arrangement for this 1922 standard is such a perfect one for the swing era that it should be in every ...

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...

Jimmie Lunceford: For Dancers Only (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 12, 07

Sometimes history reflects its target like binoculars turned back to front. Objects, instead of appearing closer, see...

Billie Holiday (with Count Basie): They Can't Take That Away From Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

Count Basie featured three singers with his band on this June 30, 1937 live broadcast from Harlem's famous Savoy Bal...

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...

Lester Young: I Want a Little Girl (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Setting aside his tenor sax, Lester Young switches to his beloved but dilapidated metal clarinet. Upon seeing this pi...

Lester Young: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 24, 09

Although Lester Young will forever be associated with Kansas City jazz, he came from a Louisiana family and spent muc...

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...

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...

Morton, Benny (Henry Sterling) posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 09

Benny Morton's consistent excellence on the trombone made him one of the few pioneers of jazz on his instrument to en...

Christian, Charlie (Charles Henry) posted in Encyclopedia April 21, 08

“Who the hell wants to hear an electric guitar player?” asked clarinetist Benny Goodman when producer John Hammond su...

Basie, Count (William James) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 08

Swing was the sound of William “Count” Basie for more than fifty years. At the keyboard, his spare yet exuberant styl...

Page, Walter (Sylvester) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

The walking bass is one of the defining sounds of jazz, and no one did more to establish this than “The Big One,” bas...

Clayton, Buck (Wilbur) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

The 1938 recordings by Count Basie's rhythm section are rightly celebrated in the annals of popular music for their ...

Count Basie: Blue and Sentimental (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

A year before his untimely death from heart disease at age 29, "tough Texas" tenorman Herschel Evans revealed his gen...

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...

Benny Goodman (featuring Charlie Christian): Solo Flight (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

During the Swing Era, as bands swelled in size, acoustic guitarists turned to amplification to avoid being buried ali...

Count Basie: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

With his customary sparse piano, wily Bill B. sets the stage for this easygoing anthem of the Swing Era. Big-toned te...

Charlie Christian: Up On Teddy's Hill (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

Eddie Durham, inventor of the electric guitar, taught Charlie Christian to play it in 1937. Two years later, Christia...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JAZZ GUITAR

          The Guitarist, artwork by Suzanne Cerny They say t...

Benny Goodman: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 04, 09

While his inter-personal skills left much to be desired, Benny Goodman cared about his band and was always interested...

King Cole Trio: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 05, 09

Nat King Cole must have been quite a Basie fan. The King Cole Trio had quite a few Basie tunes in its repertoire, an...

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