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Blue Mitchell: Hi-Heel Sneakers (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 29, 08

After Lee Morgan’s “The Sidewinder” rocked jukeboxes nationwide in 1964, Blue Note started searching for its next big...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC BLUE NOTE GROOVES

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson’s 1970 Blue Note recording Everything I Play Is Funky opens with a corny but telling d...

Horace Silver: Peace (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 28, 08

Horace Silver has never struck me as a convincing ballad performer, yet here he contributes one of the great ballad c...

Blue Mitchell: Fungii Mama (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Blue Mitchell was one of a long line of swinging but lyrical Blue Note trumpet players directly descended from Cliffo...

Horace Silver: Filthy McNasty (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Though this Horace Silver group contained no outright superstars, their unity and foot-stomping swing made them one o...

Horace Silver: Señor Blues (Live at Newport) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 31, 08

I read in the paper the other day that the value of Silver is on the rise. The folks at Blue Note must have taken no...

Horace Silver: Cookin' at the Continental (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

The album Finger Poppin' introduced Horace Silver's longest-lasting front line, Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook, who wo...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Sister Sadie (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

This irresistible gospel-inflected piece is one of Horace Silver's most popular and enduring compositions. It's also ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Lonely Woman (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

Horace Silver's ballad playing isn't always completely satisfying for me, especially when his fondness for quoting ma...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Nica's Dream (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 01, 08

Some people called her the 'jazz baroness': the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. But to the jazz greats she was...

Gene Ammons: Hittin' the Jug (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 29, 08

There's nothing better than hearing Gene Ammons play a slow ballad, except perhaps for a slow blues like "Hittin' the...

Gene Krupa: How High the Moon (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

By mid-1946, when Gene Krupa recorded 19-year-old arranger Gerry Mulligan's arrangement of "How High the Moon," the 1...

Gene Krupa: Disc Jockey Jump (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Gerry Mulligan was 19 when jazz superstar Gene Krupa waxed the lanky kid arranger's "Disc Jockey Jump." Like many pan...

Gene Krupa: Lover (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

With the Swing Era fading fast, its star drummer demonstrates how far both this song and big bands had come. In 1933,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Lennie Tristano (with Lee Konitz): If I Had You (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 07, 08

Mr. Tristano's musical persona had so many different sides. Here he comps with thick, bouncy voicings behind Konitz'...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Fats Waller: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

When Roaring '20s Chicago gangsters abducted Fats Waller to sing "Happy Birthday" to Al Capone, they showed more musi...

Lennie Tristano (with Lee Konitz): All the Things You Are (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

In the annals of jazz history, the Sing Song Room of the Confucius Restaurant will never be confused with Birdland or...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Ludwig, Gene (David Eugene) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Ludwig, Gene (David Eugene), Hammond B-3 Organ and piano; b. Twin Rocks, PA, 4 September 1937. His mother was Mary Ki...

Cooper-Moore (Gene Y. Ashton) posted in Encyclopedia March 04, 08

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, storyteller, instrument-builder and educator Cooper-Moore’s approach to music has go...

Smith, Louis (Edward) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Trumpeter Louis Smith recorded a few high-profile hard bop sessions in the late 1950s, including two Blue Note LPs un...

Monty Alexander: My Mother's Eyes (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 19, 08

Growing up on the island of Jamaica, Monty Alexander was exposed to the music of legendary guitarist Ernest Ranglin, ...

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