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Sidney Bechet: Strange Fruit (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 06, 09The Billie Holiday recording of this song is justly famous. By contrast, this version is not well known outside the l...
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...
Henry 'Red' Allen & Coleman Hawkins: I Cover the Waterfront (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 26, 07"In 1957, [Henry 'Red' Allen] made a startling recording for Victor," Whitney Balliett wrote of this session. "It&nb...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS
We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...
Henry 'Red' Allen & Coleman Hawkins: S'Wonderful (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 26, 07Henry 'Red' Allen lets loose with a boisterous version of "S'Wonderful" that lives up to the exuberant proclamation o...
Ella Fitzgerald: Smooth Sailing (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 19, 08Ella as one of the founders of rock 'n' roll? Not as crazy as it sounds after listening to this wordless 12-bar scat-...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL ELLA FITZGERALD PERFORMANCES
Ella Fitzgerald lived to sing. Nothing in her life meant as much to her. Yet she never had a music lesson in her life...
Chris Connor: Come Back to Sorrento (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 30, 07"I've always wanted to sing with a trio," Chris Connor confided. "I had to fight loud brass for too many years." Sur...
Art Tatum: Tea for Two (1952) (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music February 04, 08Tatum recorded this tune several times, often as a solo performance. With his trio, he arranges the original melody b...
Henry "Red" Allen: Ain't She Sweet (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 27, 08Henry "Red" Allen spent his life in Louis Armstrong's shadow, usually figuratively but sometimes literally. Like his ...
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