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Eric Dolphy: On Green Dolphin Street (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 23, 08

With an almost tongue-in-cheek approach, the often dissonant Eric Dolphy lends his versatile talents to this unique a...

Miles Davis: Freddie Freeloader (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 09, 09

During the first 13 months following jazz.com's launch, our team of 50 contributors reviewed nearly 4,000 tracks, inc...

Count Basie: Speaking of Sounds (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 27, 09

One of four fine Thad Jones originals from an album in which all the material was written by current or former Basie ...

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...

Billie Holiday: Me, Myself and I (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

“Me, Myself and I” is one of the great classics of the Billie Holiday-Lester Young collaborations. The song is recor...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Count Basie: Dance of the Gremlins (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

As evidenced throughout "Dance of the Gremlins," Jo Jones was the undisputed king of maintaining a swinging hi-hat pu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Billie Holiday (with Count Basie): They Can't Take That Away From Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

Count Basie featured three singers with his band on this June 30, 1937 live broadcast from Harlem's famous Savoy Bal...

Count Basie (with Lester Young): Song of the Islands (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

I once asked Stan Getz which Lester Young recordings he most admired, and this was the first track he mentioned. I h...

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: Queer Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Count Basie, photo by Herb Snitzer Since the successful release of the Monk/Coltrane Carnegie Hall Concert in ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

Lester Young: I Want a Little Girl (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Setting aside his tenor sax, Lester Young switches to his beloved but dilapidated metal clarinet. Upon seeing this pi...

Count Basie: Do You Want to Know a Secret? (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Jazz in the 1950s survived Elvis by ignoring him. Miles Davis did not apply his moody Harmon mute to "Heartbreak Hote...

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...

Lester Young: Lester Leaps In (1939) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Lester Young was the major influence on a generation of tenor saxophonists who preferred his relatively light, pure t...

Count Basie: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

With his customary sparse piano, wily Bill B. sets the stage for this easygoing anthem of the Swing Era. Big-toned te...

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: Dickie's Dream (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Four days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland to kick off World War II, Count Basie's Kansas City Seven invaded a New Y...

Illinois Jacquet: Illinois Blows the Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

"The Italian navigator has landed in the new world," read the coded dispatch to Washington during World War II. "The ...

Billie Holiday: Stormy Weather (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Possessing neither the theatricality of Ethel Waters nor the stateliness of Lena Horne, Billie Holiday eschews "Stor...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER

Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...

Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Away with pretenders! The throne belongs to but one Ring-a-Ding King. A quarter century after achieving stardom with ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Billie Holiday & Lester Young: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

The collaborations between Billie Holiday and Lester Young still speak to us today -- and not just as historical docu...

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