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Herbie Mann: Consolação (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Herbie Mann was on that 1961 State Department tour that was just supposed to bring American jazz to Brazil; instead, ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BOSSA NOVA

Bossa nova never was a dance, despite the 1963 hit “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” (“the dance of love”). It was a mu...

Herbie Mann: One Note Samba (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Aside from the cleverness of a tune “built upon a single note,” this song is notable as one of the few for which Jobi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BOSSA NOVA

Bossa nova never was a dance, despite the 1963 hit “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” (“the dance of love”). It was a mu...

Herbie Mann: Comin' Home, Baby (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Herbie Mann's 1957 decision to flute exclusively was an unprecedented risk. Hard as it was to earn a living playing o...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES

"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...

Herbie Mann: Push Push (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

The participants here set Mann’s composition in a great groove. The record is more famous to some for the presence of...

Herbie Mann: Memphis Underground (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

A year after Mann, Ayers and Coryell moseyed south to record with the house rhythm section at Stax Records, renowned ...

Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette: Give a Little Whistle (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

Disney's animated morality play Pinocchio (1940) depicts a puppet's quest to become human by resisting corruption. "A...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES

"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...

Clifford Brown-Sarah Vaughan: September Song (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Sarah Vaughan met and heard Brownie while he was a member of Chris Powell and His Five Blue Flames, and claimed to ha...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Sarah Vaughan: Lullaby of Birdland (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Vaughan always makes the hard stuff look easy. When bebop was shaking up the older musicians and rewriting the rules...

Mann, Herbie (Herbert Jay Solomon) posted in Encyclopedia November 21, 08

Flautist Herbie Mann was one of the first jazz musicians to reach out into world music, and he had a knack for findin...

Mann, Geoff (Geoffrey David) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Mann, Geoff (Geoffrey David), drums and percussion, mandolin, cornet; b. New York City, 16 June 1975. His parents are...

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, ...

Jobim, Antonio Carlos posted in Encyclopedia June 19, 08

Pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim's subtle lyricism helped spark a worldwide craze for the music of Brazil, and his compo...

Sharrock, Sonny (Warren Harding) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

Guitarist Sonny Sharrock forged a path for the electric guitar in experimental jazz by adapting the improvisational s...

Gilberto, João (Prado Pereira de Oliveira) posted in Encyclopedia March 18, 09

Early in his career, singer and guitarist João Gilberto stepped out of Brazilian popular music. Unable to find work o...

Jones, Carmell (Carmell William Jones, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia April 16, 09

Trumpeter Carmell Jones stepped out of the riff-based traditions of Kansas City swing into hard bop. Equally at home ...

Leviev, Micho (Isaacov) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Leviev, Micho (Isaacov), keyboardist, composer, educator; b. Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 19 December 1937. His mother was Nade...

Ray Brown-Monty Alexander-Sam Most: Too Late Now (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 03, 09

There's plenty of Ray Brown and Monty Alexander to be heard on numerous CDs, but most of flutist Sam Most's work is h...

Jazz.com's First Annual Album Cover Awards posted in The Jazz.com Blog November 27, 08

During our inaugural year, jazz.com has published more than 3,500 track-by-track reviews spanning the entire 91-year ...

New Jazz Bios: From Buddy Bolden to Sun Ra posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 15, 09

Hidden away in the inner recesses of jazz.com is our ambitious Encyclopedia Project. Dozens of contributors have b...

Workman, Reggie (Reginald) posted in Encyclopedia July 16, 09

Bassist Reggie Workman has cultivated an advanced understanding of hard bop and avant-garde jazz through his many yea...

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