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Count Basie: April in Paris (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

It’s almost May in Paris by the time the song concludes. Basie leads his band through two fake endings until finally...

Count Basie: Li'l Darlin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

The “New Testament” Basie band that began during the 1950s retained all the buoyant swing of the early group from the...

Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...

Count Basie: Counter Block (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

This performance by the Basie band took place during a late-night gig at a Disc Jockeys of America convention on May ...

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 ...

Count Basie & Joe Williams: Every Day I Have the Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

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Gerald Wilson: Dissonance in Blues (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 03, 08

Gerald Wilson's band was beginning to reach the highest rungs of popularity and stardom when the leader decided to di...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GERALD WILSON

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Count Basie & Joe Williams: All Right, OK, You Win (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 05, 08

From 1967-1987, Sooner State license plates bore the legend "Oklahoma is OK." This less-than-ringing endorsement was ...

Count Basie: Half Moon Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 21, 08

The concept behind this album was to feature original pieces by several current members (as of 1958) and one former m...

Tony Bennett & Count Basie: Ol' Man River (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

Antonio Benedetto of Astoria, NY, might have sung bel canto, but Tony Bennett (as he became) actually loved to "rock ...

Count Basie: Speaking of Sounds (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 27, 09

One of four fine Thad Jones originals from an album in which all the material was written by current or former Basie ...

Joe Williams with Count Basie and His Orchestra: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

The Greatest!! was the second album by Joe Williams with the Count Basie Orchestra. It was designed to show that Will...

Pepper, Art (Arthur Edward Pepper Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Alto saxophonist Art Pepper’s playing was cerebral in its melodic concepts, sophisticated in execution and mordant in...

Kiger, Al (Alan) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Kiger, Al (Alan), trumpet, flugelhorn, arranger; b. Muncie, IN, 19 June 1932. His mother Nell (1907-1993) taught pian...

Tom (Thomas Albert) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Tom (Thomas Albert), tenor saxophone; b. San Francisco, CA, 20 July 1926. His father, Milton Joseph Hart (1895-1972),...

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