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Eddie Lang: Eddie's Twister (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

This is the best known of the relatively few recordings Eddie Lang made featuring him on guitar with a piano acc...

Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang: Have to Change Keys to Play These Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 08, 09

By 1928, Eddie Lang, ethnic Italian from Philadelphia, and Lonnie Johnson, African-American from New Orleans, were re...

Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang: Midnight Call Blues (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 13, 09

At least three of the nine other extraordinary guitar duets recorded by Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang in 1928-29 are be...

Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: Stringing the Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

"Stringing the Blues," drawing on the early jazz classic "Tiger Rag," is the first violin-guitar duet of Joe Venuti &...

Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang: A Handful of Riffs (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Guitarist and blues pioneer Lonnie Johnson’s most significant partnership captured on discs during the jazz age was h...

Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson: Hot Fingers (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

"Hot Fingers" is an appropriate title for this track, as these two ultimate masters of jazz and blues guitar in the 1...

Bix Beiderbecke (with Frankie Trumbauer & Eddie Lang): For No Reason at All in C (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

This track is unusual among the recordings made by Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Eddie Lang and other members o...

Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: Wild Cat (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

"Wild Cat" is an apt title for this recording, as the piece is taken at a fast, if not frenzied, tempo and played wit...

Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: Raggin' the Scale (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

Call me crazy, but to my ears (and to get a bit grandiose), this seems like a short-piece jazz answer to Bach's Brand...

Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra (featuring Bix Beiderbecke): Riverboat Shuffle (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 08, 09

When Bix Beiderbecke and the Wolverines recorded 'Riverboat Shuffle" in 1924, it was Hoagy Carmichael's first record...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HOAGY CARMICHAEL

Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899. His given name, Hoagland, derived fr...

Red Nichols: Buddy's Habits (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

The sanitized Hollywood biopic aside, Red Nichols was a tremendously gifted trumpeter and bandleader. There were usua...

Adrian Rollini: Beatin' The Dog (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 13, 08

This track is one of a series of classic recordings of what can best be described as chamber jazz led by Joe Venuti f...

Bix Beiderbecke: Singin' the Blues – as heard in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 17, 07

By the time Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool was first marketed as such (1954), cool jazz had been around for 30 years...

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The Boswell Sisters: Shout, Sister, Shout (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 19, 07

In his book Jazz Singing (1990), Will Friedwald calls The Boswell Sisters "the greatest of all jazz vocal groups." Pr...

Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Singin' the Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Bix needed Louis (at least in retrospect) to define his style; he needed Trumbauer just to get through the day. The s...