Search results for "Frank Wess"

Frank Wess: Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music March 13, 09

During his tenure with Count Basie in the 1950s and '60s, tenor saxophonist/flutist Frank Wess probably had occasion ...

Frank Wess: Lush Life (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 13, 09

Tenor saxophonist/flutist Frank Wess is one of the few great Basie-ites active into the 21st century. In 2008—on the ...

Frank Wess: Low Life (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

Six months to the day after these same musicians (except Burrell and Thigpen) recorded "Low Life" with Count Basie's ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES

"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...

Tony Bennett & Count Basie: Ol' Man River (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

Antonio Benedetto of Astoria, NY, might have sung bel canto, but Tony Bennett (as he became) actually loved to "rock ...

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

It was inevitable that someone would ask Gerald Wilson to record many of his classic arrangements with an all-star Ne...

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

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Dorothy Ashby: Taboo (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

F.W. Murnau's silent film Tabu (1931) introduced a sacred Polynesian word into the pop lexicon. Shot on location...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

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...

Count Basie: April in Paris (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

It’s almost May in Paris by the time the song concludes. Basie leads his band through two fake endings until finally...

Count Basie: Li'l Darlin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

The “New Testament” Basie band that began during the 1950s retained all the buoyant swing of the early group from the...

Count Basie: Counter Block (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

This performance by the Basie band took place during a late-night gig at a Disc Jockeys of America convention on May ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: PETER ERSKINE

In the music world, but especially in the jazz world, everyone wants to know what everybody else is listening to. So ...

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...

Alberta Hunter: My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

Ain't it just like a woman? At the peak of her 1970s comeback, 83-year-old blues doyen Alberta Hunter catalogs the vi...

Etta Jones: Don't Go To Strangers (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 22, 08

Tom Lord's usually infallible The Jazz Discography CD-ROM (version 7.0) informs us that this soulful classic was reco...

Count Basie: Half Moon Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 21, 08

The concept behind this album was to feature original pieces by several current members (as of 1958) and one former m...

Vignola, Frank posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Vignola, Frank, guitar; b. Islip, NY, 30 December 1965. He grew up in a musical environment. His father played banjo ...

Count Basie: The M Squad Theme (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Count Basie, photo by Herb Snitzer Pound for pound, the toughest 1950s TV cop was Lt. Frank Ballinger of Chicago...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CRIME JAZZ

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

Song of the Day posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 17, 07

The Song of the Day is a regular feature at jazz.com. Five days per week, jazz.com highlights an exceptional track d...

Reid, Rufus (L.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Reid, Rufus (L.), bass, educator, author; b. Atlanta, GA, 10 February 1944. His mother, Sylvia Reid, and his father, ...

Seaton, Lynn (Earl) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Seaton, Lynn (Earl), bass, educator; b. Tulsa, OK, 18 July 1957. His father was Earl Alva Seaton (Born 1919 Died 1992...

Taylor, Dotti (Dorothy Anita) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Taylor, Dotti (Dorothy Anita), pianist, flautist, composer, vocalist, poet; b. New York City, 5 October 1942. Her fat...

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