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Stan Getz: Windows (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

Sweet Rain was Stan Getz's first significant release following his bossa nova period, and the first of his two classi...

Blossom Dearie: My New Celebrity Is You (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

If ever the outmoded appellation "girl singer" applied to anyone, it was Blossom Dearie, given the gentle, little-gir...

Stan Getz (with Chick Corea): Litha (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 05, 09

Stan Getz's name is often linked with that of Zoot Sims, Al Cohn and other disciples of Lester Young who came of age ...

Abbey Lincoln: A Child is Born (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

This reading of Thad Jones’s standard has a sedate, introspective quality, and the solos from Johnson and Kendrick ar...

Roland Kirk: Alfie (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Yet another great movie theme from my youth evoking melancholy and ennui addressed by one of the great musicians/char...

Wes Montgomery: Watch What Happens (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

By 1967, Pop Jazz was staler than last night's butts, as shown by an ashtray's contents on this track's close-up albu...

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...

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...

Wes Montgomery: California Dreaming (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

In 1963, the year California overtook New York as the most populous state, folk-rockers John and Michelle Phillips we...

Zoot Sims: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 02, 08

Zoot Sims started doubling on soprano sax in 1973, well into his 40s. Until then he was known as an excellent hard-sw...

Jimmy Smith: Blues For J (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 08, 08

Organ Grinder Swing, a trio session, was a rarity during Jimmy Smith's heavily orchestrated Verve years. The appealin...

Grant Green: The Final Comedown (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 03, 09

As a soundtrack song from a 1972 blaxploitation movie of the same name, “The Final Comedown” isn’t really a song; it’...

Zoot Sims: Moonlight in Vermont (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 06, 09

Not many swing or bop saxophonists have put the soprano to good use—few if any during the '30s and '40s, when those s...

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

           Soprano Sax and Piano      Fab...

Quincy Jones: Killer Joe (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

According to an interview I saw with Quincy maybe 6 or 7 years ago, “Killer Joe” was the last straight-ahead tune tha...

Grady Tate in Harlem posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 26, 09

The jazz world has dealt with a lot of bad news in recent months. Hardly a week goes by without word of another j...

Ray Brown-Milt Jackson: Lined With A Groove (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

This recording is with Oliver Nelson’s big band—Grady Tate is playing drums, Clark Terry is playing flugelhorn, Milt ...

Oliver Nelson: Three Plus One (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 01, 08

It is interesting that Oliver Nelson did not choose an all-star lineup for this date, although his prestige by t...

Oliver Nelson: Teenie's Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 01, 08

In this blues-based cooker, which may have been dedicated to saxophonist Tina Brooks, Ben Tucker's walking bassline c...

Zoot Sims and Oscar Peterson: How Long Has This Been Going On (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

The melody of “How Long Has This Been Going On” is one of those tunes that’s so fine and memorable it keeps replaying...

Easley, Bill posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Easley, Bill, Tenor, Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, and Bass Clarinet, Flute, Alto Flute and piccolo; b. Olea...

Tymas, Baron (Thor) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Tymas, Baron (Thor), guitarist, composer; b. Washington DC, 6 February 1960. He's the elder of two children of Willia...

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