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Gil Evans: Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

This arrangement is a wonderful lesson in the art of building excitement. Gil opens simply and in the low register, ...

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...

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...

Gil Evans: Bird Feathers (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

Gil Evans has long had the well-earned reputation as jazz's supreme orchestral colorist. There was, however, a lot mo...

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...

Miles Davis (featuring Bob Dorough): Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

The cynical, bah-humbug "Blue Xmas" was probably not what Columbia executives had in mind in 1962 when they asked Mil...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BOB DOROUGH

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George Handy: The Sleepwalker (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 19, 09

At this point in time it is safe to assume that the name George Handy is unlikely to be familiar to most jazz listene...

Gil Evans: The Barbara Song (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 20, 09

Gil Evans’ use of space, interesting combinations of instruments, and keen eye for talent are all in evidence on this...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: FRANK KIMBROUGH

Not many jazz musicians have had a stronger revitalizing and sustaining impact on the everyday NYC jazz scene over ...

Michel Legrand: A Night in Tunisia (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

In 1958, when Michel Legrand landed stateside to conduct American all-stars playing his arrangements, some participan...

Gil Evans (featuring Wayne Shorter): Time of the Barracudas (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

On a series of stellar albums under his own name in the 1960s, Gil Evans went one step forward in cementing his reput...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSSENTIAL WAYNE SHORTER TRACKS

Early stints with Horace Silver and Maynard Ferguson introduced Wayne Shorter’s riveting sound to the jazz community ...

Miles Davis (featuring Philly Joe Jones): Gone (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

"The thing about Philly Joe's playing," said Paul Motian in a 1996 Percussive Notes interview, "was that somehow his ...

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...

Count Basie All-Stars: I Left My Baby (1957) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

James Andrew Rushing, born in Oklahoma City in 1903, first recorded "I Left My Baby" in 1939 under the aegis of Willi...

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...

Miles Davis: Fishermen, Strawberry and Devil Crab (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 09, 08

As Act II, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935) opens, dawn breaks over Catfish Row. As always, day...

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: Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

Of the numerous jazz adaptations of Porgy and Bess in the mid-to-late 1950s – many motivated by the production of a H...

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: It Ain't Necessarily So (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

The wistful, longing intro by Davis, cleverly utilizing the opening melodic line from "I Got Plenty of Nothin'," coul...

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: My Man's Gone Now (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

British critic Max Harrison felt that the full potential of Gil Evans's charts for Miles Davis's Porgy and Bess was n...

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: Gone, Gone, Gone (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music June 14, 08

Act I, Scene 2 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935) finds a roomful of destitute Negroes attending the sheet-cov...

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...

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