Search results for "Hal McKusick"

Hal McKusick: Jambangle (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 21, 08

Hal McKusick was a veteran of the Boyd Raeburn and Claude Thornhill orchestras, and was an active freelance musician ...

George Russell: All About Rosie (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 12, 08

George Russell's contribution to the 1957 Brandeis University Jazz Festival of the Arts is his masterpiece. Initially...

Lee Konitz & Jimmy Giuffre: Palo Alto (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

A flowing though rather abstract melody penned by Lee Konitz, wrapped in the smooth yet swinging arrangement of his p...

George Russell: Concerto for Billy the Kid (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Every important theorist needs a worthy practitioner. The collaboration between composer George Russell and pianist B...

Boyd Raeburn: Blue Moon (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music December 30, 07

Raeburn began his career in the Midwest leading a functional Lawrence Welk-type band. By 1943, he switched gears and ...

McKusick, Hal (Harold Wilfred McKusick, Jr) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

McKusick, Hal [Harold Wilfred McKusick, Jr], saxes, clarinets, flutes, composer (also Keyboard knowledge and orchestr...

Gil Evans: Jambangle (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 21, 08

Gil Evans kept a low profile in the music world from 1949-1955, even though he arranged for Billy Butterfield and var...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

The Best Jazz Web Links: June 2008 posted in Miscellaneous Pages July 01, 08

Ronnie Matthews dead at age 72 The pianist succumbs to pancreatic cancer. Dave Carpenter dead...

Jazz Classics That Aren't Kind of Blue posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 23, 09

Did you hear that there was an anniversary for Miles Davis's Kind of Blue? Of course you did. The jazz world ...

The Artistry of George Russell (Part 1) posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 05, 09

Jeff Sultanof is our resident expert on arranging and composing at jazz.com. As an editor, he is responsible for mak...

George Russell: Manhattan (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 30, 08

George Russell's album-length tribute to New York City remains a major work of the period and one of his most importa...

Red Norvo: Congo Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 15, 08

In the 1950s, best-selling author Jack Kerouac godfathered the Beat Generation, an unwashed gaggle of ofay deadb...

In Conversation with Paul Motian posted in Features and Interviews November 01, 08

By Ted Panken “I think rehearsing takes away from the beauty of the music,” says Paul Motian. “I’ve been playi...

Charles Mingus: Hobo Ho (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

Time and again, exploring the forward-thinking approach of any of jazz's true stylistic innovators ultimately leads f...

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Gerry Mulligan: All the Things You Are (1957) (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 11, 09

This recording was part of a project that "might have been." Columbia Records producer George Avakian asked Mulligan ...

The Artistry of George Russell (Part 2) posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 14, 09

A few days ago, jazz.com published part one of Jeff Sultanof's overview of the life and music of the late George Russ...

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