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Charlie Johnson: You Ain't the One (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music March 31, 08

This recording offers one of the very few aural glimpses we have of this fabled and pioneering Harlem big band. The ...

Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten: Harlem Drag (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 16, 08

From the middle of the Jazz Age to the depths of the Depression, Charlie Johnson's band graced the stage at Small's P...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM

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Chick Webb: If Dreams Come True – as heard in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 04, 07

Just as Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave" flaunted jazz's naughty influence on 1920s pop culture, "If Dreams Come True,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN

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Webb, William Henry “Chick” posted in Encyclopedia September 18, 09

Swing music literally emerged before Chick Webb's eyes as he sat on his drummer's throne on the stage of the Home of ...

Erroll Garner: Don't Be That Way (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

People often marveled at how well he played, considering that he couldn’t read music. To which Erroll Garner pointed ...

Geoff Keezer: Stompin' at the Savoy (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

Geoff Keezer performed in the final installment of the Jazz Messengers. He is therefore featured on a couple of origi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BEST OF THE ART BLAKEY ALUMS

There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Benny Carter: Blue Lou (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 10, 08

Nat Hentoff's liner notes for the original Jazz Giant described it as "the first all-jazz, hot, small combo blowing a...

Nichols, Herbie (Herbert Horatio) posted in Encyclopedia December 16, 08

Composer and pianist Herbie Nichols’ inquisitive spirit lives on amongst a growing group of young followers, and in t...

Joe Pass: Stompin' at the Savoy (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 17, 08

Joe Pass's hollow-body guitar is drenched in reverb and enhanced by low shelving; its trebleness is especially appare...

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Stompin' at the Savoy (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 09, 09

Whatever the contractual agreements were that allowed Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong to record together for Verv...

Kansas City Five (featuring Count Basie & Lester Young): Don't Be That Way (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

John Hammond, that extraordinary jazz entrepreneur, record producer, and scion of the Vanderbilt family organized and...

Teddy Wilson (with Billie Holiday): Say It With A Kiss (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

If there be any doubt that Prez and Lady Day were musical soulmates, one listen to their work together on “Say It Wit...

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...

Count Basie: Dark Rapture (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

“Dark Rapture” is a taut showpiece for singer Helen Humes that ranks among the glossiest productions of the early Bas...

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...

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