Search results for "Harry Carney"

Duke Ellington (featuring Harry Carney): Frustration (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 22, 08

Harry Carney played the role of personal driver, trusted confidant and all-around best friend to the Duke throughout ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

                   Gerry Mulligan, ...

Duke Ellington: Limehouse Blues (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

"Limehouse Blues" is not a blues, but it was inspired by the London neighborhood. When Duke Ellington recorded the so...

Duke Ellington: Prima Bara Dubla (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 19, 08

Whole careers, it was said, could be rejuvenated with a single triumph at the Newport Jazz Festival. Case in point: D...

Lonnie Johnson with Duke Ellington: Move Over (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 09, 09

This track was the second recording on which Lonnie Johnson joined Duke's band, adding a virtuoso guitar part. The ba...

Duke Ellington (featuring Al Hibbler): Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

As most Ellington fans know, "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" was the pop song version of Duke's 1940 instrumental "Ne...

Duke Ellington: Artistry in Rhythm (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 21, 08

I promise I'll never again complain about excess bonus tracks on a CD. Though most such tracks tend to be alternate t...

Johnny Hodges: Medley – I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart / Don't Get Around Much Any More (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 17, 09

This medley of two Ellington classics is a real delight of superb jazz playing. "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart...

Duke Ellington: Happy-Go-Lucky Local (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

Duke Ellington’s “Happy-Go-Lucky Local” was originally the final movement of his Deep South Suite premiered at his 19...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Johnny Hodges: Jeep's Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 16, 09

"Jeep" was the second of the nicknames Johnny Hodges had acquired ("Rabbit" being the first, from his youth). This wa...

Duke Ellington: Kinda Dukish / Rockin' In Rhythm (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 30, 08

The Duke was a sophisticated gentleman who sometimes enjoyed pretending he was "just folks." While introducing musici...

Duke Ellington: Caravan (1936) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Duke Ellington's first "Caravan" set off from Hollywood five months before his better-known 1937 big-band excursion ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Duke Ellington: Black and Tan Fantasy (Victor) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

The second of Ellington's three 1927 "Black and Tan Fantasy" recordings disproves the adage that the Third Time'...

Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald: Imagine My Frustration (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

The appearances together in 1966-67 of Ella with the Duke Ellington Orchestra quickly assumed almost legendary propor...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL ELLA FITZGERALD PERFORMANCES

Ella Fitzgerald lived to sing. Nothing in her life meant as much to her. Yet she never had a music lesson in her life...

Duke Ellington (featuring Louie Bellson): Skin Deep (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 16, 09

A few years after this recording, rock bands would discover the allure of long, intense drum solos. This was more th...

Duke Ellington: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (OKeh) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 19, 07

The quintessential document of Duke’s "jungle music," this 1927 theme was so letter-perfect that Steely Dan paid it g...

Duke Ellington: Caravan (1937) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Ellington’s early contribution to the Latin jazz canon is a collaboration with valve trombonist Juan Tizol. “Caravan...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE LATIN JAZZ CLASSICS

         Percussionist,  artwork by Suzanne Cerny Editor's n...

Duke Ellington: Jungle Nights in Harlem (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"The grotesque spectacle of Harlem nightclubs for all-white audiences," historian Ted Gioia believes, "served to miti...

Duke Ellington: Blood Count (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Billy Strayhorn wrote or co-composed with Duke Ellington some of the best-loved pieces in the Ellington band’s repert...

Duke Ellington: Black, Brown and Beige (live 1943) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Preserving Duke's Carnegie Hall debut (attended by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, no less), this 3-part, 45-minute mas...

Duke Ellington: Jingle Bells (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Ten lords a leaping plus a Duke, Cat and Rabbit shake up "Jingle Bells" (1857) by James Lord Pierpont, who wasn't rea...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RUDY REINDEER'S FAVORITE JAZZ

First, about the name. The whole "Rudolph" thing started as a joke. To friends and family, I've always been Rudy. The...

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