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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...

Coleman Hawkins: The Man I Love (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 11, 08

Nearly everyone hearing this track for the first time would likely become a lifelong Hawkins fan and admirer, if not ...

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...

Billie Holiday: Embraceable You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Her autobiography is entitled Lady Sings the Blues, and her most endearing performance is her blues "Fine and Mellow"...

Alexander, Monty (Bernard) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Alexander, Monty (Bernard), piano; b. Kingston, Jamaica, 6 June 1944. Monty grew up in Jamaica with his parents his p...

Dickenson, Vic (Victor) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Vic Dickenson's whimsical and conversational trombone style, coupled with a keen sense of musical humor, made him o...

Billie Holiday: God Bless the Child (1941) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

"Them that's got shall get / Them that's not shall lose / So the Bible said." Thus claims Arthur Herzog's purported "...

Doc Cheatham: New Orleans (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 19, 09

In the span of his long career, Doc Cheatham played with Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Chick Webb, Cab Calloway, Teddy Wi...

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