Search results for "Horace Parlan"
Archie Shepp-Horace Parlan: Go Down Moses (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 13, 09Archie Shepp is no stranger to the duo, having performed/recorded in direct dialogue with Max Roach, Charlie Haden, D...
Horace Parlan: Wadin' (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music October 22, 07“Wadin’” resembles many of the instrumental blues performances on the Blue Note recordings of its day. Taken at a me...
Charles Mingus & Langston Hughes: Consider Me (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music May 16, 08"Jazz gives poetry a much wider following," said Langston Hughes in 1958, "and poetry brings jazz the greater respect...
Charles Mingus: Self-Portrait in Three Colors (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 22, 07We could spend a lot of time unpacking just the title of this song (originally written for Shadows, the directorial d...
Charles Mingus: Tensions (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music October 22, 07“Moods,” “contrasts” and “changes” are a few words that have taken on elemental significance in Mingus’ song titles, ...
Charles Mingus: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07Late in life, Lester Young was asked if any of the myriad younger musicians who copied his style had ever thanked him...
Charles Mingus: Moanin' (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music October 26, 07Unlike Bobby Timmons' righteous "Moanin'" recorded the previous year by The Jazz Messengers, Mingus's "Moanin'" is te...
Stanley Turrentine: Someone to Watch Over Me (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 01, 07Nowhere is nonpareil audio engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s renowned "Blue Note sound" more distinctive than on ballads. Be...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS
Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...
Charles Mingus: Better Git It In Your Soul (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 03, 07Three 1959 Mingus albums begin with the same Pentecostal pandemonium. February's "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" (Bl...
Dexter Gordon: You've Changed (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 14, 09With the exception of a couple of bop/hard-bop sessions (Daddy Plays the Horn and Dexter Blows Hot and Cool), the 195...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DEXTER GORDON
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Roland Kirk: A Quote From Clifford Brown (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music October 17, 08I Talk with the Spirits is Roland Kirk's only all-flute recording, aside from the occasional cuckoo clock or mus...
Mitchell, Leon posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Mitchell, Leon, composer; b. North Philadelphia, PA, 16 August 1934. He attended public schools and was an honor g...
Queen, Alvin posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Queen, Alvin, drummer, producer; b. Bronx, NY, 16 August 1950. His family relocated to Mt. Vernon when he was 2 years...
Turrentine, Stanley posted in Encyclopedia October 19, 08Stanley Turrentine, it has been said, could make the telephone book sound soulful. His elegant brawn in the lower reg...
Ervin, Booker (Tellefero Ervin II) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 08Saxophonist Booker Ervin’s hard-edged tone, drawn from his roots in rhythm and blues, were matched with a peerless a...
Miklin, Karlheinz posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Miklin, Karlheinz, saxophone, bassclarinet, flute, composition; b. Klagenfurt, Austria, 3 November 1946. His parents...
Winding, Kai (Chresten) posted in Encyclopedia May 20, 09Trombonist Kai Winding adapted the bebop language to his instrument, and in doing so expanded its harmonic function...
Weiss, Klaus posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Weiss, Klaus, drums; b. Gevelsberg, Westfalen, Germany, 17 February 1942. His parents are Dr.Wolfgang Weiss (general ...
Reid, Rufus (L.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Reid, Rufus (L.), bass, educator, author; b. Atlanta, GA, 10 February 1944. His mother, Sylvia Reid, and his father, ...
Rydin, Hakan (Andersson) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Rydin, Hakan (Andersson), pianist; b. Gislaved, (South) Sweden, 4 January 1951. For 25 years, he's lived in Malmo, th...
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