Search results for "Horace Henderson"

Don Redman: Chant of the Weed (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Venture past this track's K-tel campiness—As-Seen-On-TV: All-time Smokin' Reefer Songs! Act Now! Supplies Are Limited...

Billie Holiday: Tain't Nobody's Business (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

On May 27, 1947, Billie Holiday was sentenced to a year and a day for possession of narcotic drugs, remaining in cust...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Horace Silver: Song For My Father (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

This is the title track of what is arguably Horace Silver's greatest album, and undoubtedly his biggest hit as well. ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Pretty Eyes (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

By the time that Horace Silver recorded The Cape Verdean Blues (certainly among his half-dozen best albums), the prec...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: The Cape Verdean Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 17, 09

The music of Horace Silver always referenced and sounded different than most other jazz. His music has a tinge to it ...

Horace Silver: Song for My Father (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Although Horace Silver was a mainstay of the hard-bop/soul movement in the 1950s as both pianist and composer, he did...

Horace Silver: Nutville (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

On half of The Cape Verdean Blues, Horace Silver added guest J.J. Johnson to his quintet. This enables us to hear Joh...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Joe Henderson: Our Thing (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

With its variable beats and hot bop lines, "Our Thing" could be considered something of a precursor to the better-kno...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JOE HENDERSON

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Joe Henderson: Inner Urge (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

As soon as Joe Henderson moved to New York in 1962 after a stint in the U.S. Army, he became one of the busiest men i...

Horace Silver: The African Queen (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

This was a breakthrough recording for Woody Shaw—for me, the first fully realized representation of the innovations t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BRIAN LYNCH SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL WOODY SHAW TRACKS

Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Silver, Horace (Ward Martin Tavares Silva) posted in Encyclopedia May 22, 08

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Henderson, Joe posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 08

Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson's playing has a distinctively tender sense of swing, which can be heard on dozens of ...

Eldridge, Roy (David) posted in Encyclopedia February 18, 09

              Roy Eldridge in Harlem (1952)    ...

Benny Goodman: King Porter Stomp (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 12, 07

Five years after Jelly Roll Morton recorded his tribute to pianist Porter King, bandleader Fletcher Henderson adopted...

In Conversation with Ron Miles & Bill Frisell posted in Features and Interviews January 18, 09

By Ted Panken In 1975, not long after he left the Berklee School of Music, Bill Frisell heard a recording by Car...

Tolles, Billy posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Tolles, Billy, saxophone; b. Waukegan, IL 11 May 1934. In Seattle, Washington, 13 year-old Billy picked up a saxop...

Feather, Lorraine (Billie Jane Lee) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Feather, Lorraine (Billie Jane Lee), lyricist, singer; b. New York, NY, 10 September 1948. She's the daughter of jazz...

Foster, Pops (George Murphy) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Bassist George Foster's powerful sense of rhythm and resonant tone rang out with authority across early jazz, earning...

Dorham, Kenny (McKinley Howard) posted in Encyclopedia February 18, 09

Kenny Dorham has been scandalously undervalued in the jazz trumpet lineage. His breathy tone was not the immediate wa...

THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07

In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...

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