Search results for "George Lewis"

George Lewis: Homage to Charles Parker (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

George Lewis—the wunderkind trombonist, electronic musician and composer from Chicago—was 26 when he premiered “Homag...

George Lewis: La Marseillaise (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 14, 09

People often talk about the "Spanish tinge" in New Orleans music, but what about the "French tinge"? After all this ...

Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell: Bound (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music March 17, 09

This 11-minute electro-acoustic improvisation is dominated by George Lewis's laptop. Whether it's generating its own ...

Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell: Scrape (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 17, 09

Free jazz inspired by those noted post-boppers Henry Cowell and John Cage. Just kidding (kinda), but it's true that t...

The Modern Jazz Quartet: My Man's Gone Now (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 09, 08

Jazz.com recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the the most famous jazz adaptation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess...

Mengelberg, Lacy, Lewis, Gorter, Bennink: Change of Season (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

For someone who scuffled in virtual anonymity during his lifetime, the highly individualistic post-bop pianist/compos...

Mengelberg, Lacy, Lewis, Gorter, Bennink: Spinning Song (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

Herbie Nichols is one of the very few pre-Ornette, bop-derived composers whose tunes have attracted interpreters from...

Roscoe Mitchell: Music for Trombone & B Flat Soprano (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 06, 09

The initial free jazz successes of the late '50s and early '60s were centered mostly in New York, where musicians l...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SOPRANO SAX

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Gil Evans: Up From the Skies (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

The collaboration that tragically never materialized between master arranger Gil Evans and guitar hero Jimi Hendrix n...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MODERN BIG BANDS

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Bunk Johnson: You Are My Sunshine (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music August 05, 09

Bunk Johnson should be remembered for his music, but instead he will forever be a figure of contention and controvers...

John Lewis: The Golden Striker (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 13, 09

When Gunther Schuller (classical musician with jazz interests) collided with John Lewis (jazzman classically trained)...

Stan Kenton: La Guera Baila (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

I love the entire Cuban Fire Suite. In fact, I love all of the music that Johnny Richards wrote for the Kenton band. ...

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 ...

Warne Marsh: Moose the Mooche (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music May 07, 09

The prevailing notion that Marsh was merely a cool-toned, cerebral saxophonist began to change to some extent in the ...

Stan Getz: I Thought About You (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 30, 09

In the mid-1980s, Stan Getz was living in Menlo Park, California—famous for start-ups and high tech, rather than jazz...

Gerry Mulligan: Deception (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

It's hard to believe that the complete Birth of the Cool, including all 12 studio tracks recorded in 1949 and '50, di...

Jan Hammer: Make Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 28, 09

Maliny Maliny was Jan Hammer's first album as leader. Recorded live in Germany, the recording was very much unknown o...

Gerry Mulligan: Lady Chatterley's Mother (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 09, 08

Gerry Mulligan's early '60s Concert Jazz Band was one of the most musically influential big bands of its time. That i...

Miles Davis: Deception (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

           Miles Davis, Lee Konitz, Art Blakey and      Bud Powell a...

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...

Stan Getz: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

Stan Getz wasn’t exactly prolix, preferring to let his Selmer MarkVI do the talking for him. But on the occasions wh...

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