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Lionel Hampton: Flying Home (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

Jazz's most indefatigable showman, legendary vibist Lionel Hampton, routinely whipped "Flying Home" to such a fr...

Gene Krupa: Disc Jockey Jump (1958) (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 24, 08

The first thing one notices in comparing this remake with Krupa's 1947 original is the much-improved sound. Stereo! W...

Miles Davis: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

    Miles Davis, photo by Herb Snitzer Concierto de Aranjuez (1939), directed its compose...

Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Bess, Oh, Where Is My Bess? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

How does one pick a favorite piece from Gil's and Miles' Porgy and Bess album? Tough to do. I've chosen this piece ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Miles Davis: Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

In Act III, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935), Porgy returns to Catfish Row after a week in jail that...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

This is arguably the finest of Gil's and Miles' collaborations. There are countless details one could highlight, but...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Johnny Hodges: Don't Sleep in the Subway (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"Everybody knows Johnny Hodges," went Duke Ellington's standard introduction. By the mid-'60s, it was no longer true....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

Jimmy Smith: Walk on the Wild Side (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Unrelated to rocker Lou Reed's raunchy 1972 hit of the same name, Jimmy Smith's cover of Elmer Bernstein's movie them...

Stan Kenton: All About Ronnie (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Chris Connor was recommended to Kenton by June Christy. Connor did not stay very long, but her stint with the band ma...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

George Benson: Giblet Gravy (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

At the time of this session – not his first, but certainly his best at this stage of his career – George Benson was o...

Oscar Pettiford: Not So Sleepy (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 07, 08

Seldom in jazz has such an unusual and rich combination of sonorities been assembled into one performance. Bassist Os...

Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...

Sonny Rollins: Grand Street (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 06, 08

Sonny Rollins had been recording steadily for 9½ years, but this was his first big band date. Of course, Sonny always...

Mark Murphy: Angel Eyes (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 12, 08

Introduced by an ominously repeated pattern from the brass and guitar that would suit the soundtrack of a film n...

Mark Murphy: On Green Dolphin Street (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 31, 08

Right from the start, when Murphy sings the verse solely with piano, you know it's going to be a great vocal version ...

Stamm, Marvin (Louis) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Stamm, Marvin (Louis), trumpet and Flugelhorn; performer, educator, writer; b. May 23, 1939, Memphis, TN.  His f...

Hamilton, Chico (Foreststorn (Chico) Hamilton) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Hamilton, Chico [Foreststorn (Chico) Hamilton], drums, leader; b. Los Angeles, CA, 21 September 1921.  His fathe...

Stan Kenton: You and the Night and the Music (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 20, 08

The influence of Bill Russo's teacher Lennie Tristano is reflected in this austere setting of the classic minor balla...

George Russell: Manhattan (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 30, 08

George Russell's album-length tribute to New York City remains a major work of the period and one of his most importa...

Gerald Wilson: Dissonance in Blues (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

Gerald Wilson's band was beginning to reach the highest rungs of popularity and stardom when the leader decided to di...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GERALD WILSON

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