Search results for "Gene Allen"
Rod Levitt: Holler (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 20, 08Rod Levitt was a trombonist and composer-arranger whose playing and writing struck a near-perfect balance between ver...
Hal McKusick: Jambangle (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 21, 08Hal McKusick was a veteran of the Boyd Raeburn and Claude Thornhill orchestras, and was an active freelance musician ...
Gerry Mulligan: You Took Advantage of Me (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 08, 07In 1960, when Gerry Mulligan and his former longtime sideman Bob Brookmeyer assembled a 13-piece band, economics rend...
Benny Goodman: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 04, 09While his inter-personal skills left much to be desired, Benny Goodman cared about his band and was always interested...
Benny Goodman: Blue Skies (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 12, 09The star of this performance is Fletcher Henderson's chart. The intro starts with an Ellingtonian growl that morphs ...
Open Letter to Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen & Bill Cosby posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 13, 08Jazz fans have long enjoyed a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. We appreciate the jazzy soundtracks and are...
Jackson, Gene posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Jackson, Gene, drums; b. West Philadelphia, PA, 16 October 1961. Roy Haynes, Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, Billy Hig...
Benny Goodman: Sing, Sing, Sing – as heard in Woody Allen's New York Stories (1989), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) ... (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 20, 07Immensely popular in its day, "Sing, Sing, Sing" is the nadir of white jungle music. Not to be confused with the 1990...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN
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Friedman, Jeff (Jeffrey Allen) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Friedman, Jeff (Jeffrey Allen), composer, guitarist, educator; b. Miami Beach, FL, 6 May 1957. He grew up in North Mi...
Mitchell, Blue (Richard Allen) posted in Encyclopedia January 27, 08Trumpeter Blue Mitchell’s contributions to the emergence of the hard bop style remain largely underappreciated. He is...
Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band: Weep (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 05, 08After Gary McFarland arrived in New York City in the fall of 1960, he met Bob Brookmeyer, who invited him to a rehear...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GARY MCFARLAND
Gary McFarland's life could be the subject of a movie screenplay. Until he was in his mid-20s, McFarland (1933-1971) ...
Gerry Mulligan: Lady Chatterley's Mother (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 09, 08Gerry Mulligan's early '60s Concert Jazz Band was one of the most musically influential big bands of its time. That i...
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra: These Foolish Things (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music June 17, 08This is more a tone poem than a big band chart. You will find no battling horn sections here, no kicks in the pants ...
Gerry Mulligan: All the Things You Are (1957) (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 11, 09This recording was part of a project that "might have been." Columbia Records producer George Avakian asked Mulligan ...
A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...
Davis, Eddy posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Davis, Eddy, banjo, singer; He received his formal training at Purdue University, University of Chicago and both the ...
Song of the Day posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 17, 07The Song of the Day is a regular feature at jazz.com. Five days per week, jazz.com highlights an exceptional track d...
Higginbotham, J.C. (Jay C., Jack) posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 09J.C. Higginbotham brought a uniquely bombastic element to jazz trombone playing, making a career as one of the Swin...
Jazz's Most Iconic Photo Is Half a Century Old posted in Features and Interviews August 11, 08by Alan Kurtz "When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire," Dizzy Gilles...
THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...
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