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Bill Evans & Jeremy Steig: So What (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 13, 09

When Denny Zeitlin was brought in by producer John Hammond to play piano on Jeremy Steig's 1963 debut recording, Flut...

Bill Evans: A Face Without a Name (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 24, 08

I generally prefer Evans's earlier trio work over the projects he pursued during his longstanding collaboration with ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

Mitchel Forman: My Foolish Heart (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 18, 08

I can never say enough great things about Mitchel Forman. To me, he is one the best interpretive piano players and co...

Bill Evans: So What (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 05, 09

Sometimes I wonder how hip a crowd is. If I were there for this concert, I would have started applauding when bassist...

Bennie Wallace: The Nearness of You (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Bennie Wallace owns one of the most distinctive styles in jazz. With a full sensuous tone that harks back to ea...

Paul Bley: Walking Woman (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

Vicious. That's the word. With Eddie Gomez and Milford Graves holding down the low end, Sun Ra's not-so-secret weapon...

Steps Ahead: Pools (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Steps Ahead was one of the best of the fusion groups in part because all its members were outstanding jazz players. ...

Bill Evans & Claus Ogerman: Symbiosis (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 22, 08

Bill Evans was working in familiar territory on most of his 1970s recordings, playing standards and his own compositi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

Mitchel Forman: Very Early (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 24, 08

It's no secret that I consider Mitchel Forman one of the most underrated jazz pianists of the last 25 years. He ...

Bill Evans: Very Early (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 26, 08

This recording was not released until 11 years after Evans's death. Featuring one of his last trio lineups, it was re...

Giuseppi Logan: Tabla Suite (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 22, 08

Who doesn't love a good musical tightrope walk? Giuseppi Logan's sinuous horn kicks off the event, Don Pullen rides w...

Bill Evans: What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life? (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 05, 09

I know I age myself terribly with some of my older recollections. But what can I do? They are part of me and inf...

Bill Evans: Soiree (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 16, 09

Even though Bill Evans' style and technique have been widely achknowledged and copied by dozens of contemporary piani...

Bill Evans & Stan Getz: The Peacocks (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

The first time I met Stan Getz, at his California home in 1983, he made a tape of a Bill Evans recording for me as a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

Chick Corea: Part II (Dedicated to John Coltrane) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

While primarily known as a rock/pop drummer with Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, and James Taylor, Gadd is a successful and...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

Alex Riel: On Again, Off Again (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Lester Young vs. Coleman Hawkins. Dexter Gordon vs. Wardell Gray. Gene Ammons vs. Sonny Stitt. The tenor saxopho...

Bill Evans: B Minor Waltz (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 24, 08

Back in 1977, Warner Bros. was peddling records by Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac, the Doobie Brothers, the Sex Pistols...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

Jack DeJohnette: Bayou Fever (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

From the only studio recording by Jack DeJohnette's short-lived supergroup, "Bayou Fever" is essentially a formless a...

Bill Evans: Lullaby for Helene (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music July 16, 09

This song opens up with a striking minor chord on the guitar, sounding almost classical, as Evans plays a beautiful m...

In Conversation with Eddie Palmieri and Brian Lynch posted in Features and Interviews January 21, 08

By Bob Blumenthal Introduction: For the past six years, I have served as critic-in-residence at the Discover...

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