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Count Basie Orchestra (featuring Jack Washington): Somebody Stole My Gal (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 22, 08

Jack Washington stands with Harry Carney as one of the first featured baritone saxophonists in jazz. Performing in Be...

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

                   Gerry Mulligan, ...

Count Basie & His Orchestra: Exactly Like You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 04, 09

“Exactly Like You” has been a jam session staple for years, but when Count Basie recorded it on his second Decca sess...

Billie Holiday (with Count Basie): They Can't Take That Away From Me (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

Count Basie featured three singers with his band on this June 30, 1937 live broadcast from Harlem's famous Savoy Bal...

Count Basie (with Lester Young): Song of the Islands (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

I once asked Stan Getz which Lester Young recordings he most admired, and this was the first track he mentioned. I h...

Count Basie: Cheek to Cheek (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 31, 07

Count Basie did not have a pleasant 1949. He'd already disbanded, put together a new group, and was scraping for gigs...

Count Basie: Stay On It (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

It says quite a bit when ensembles led by Basie and Dizzy Gillespie give equally convincing performances of a particu...

Jack Wilson: Serenata (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 04, 09

Jack Wilson was a lyrical and versatile pianist whose career never really took off. He backed Dinah Washington for a ...

Mitchel Forman: My Foolish Heart (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 18, 08

I can never say enough great things about Mitchel Forman. To me, he is one the best interpretive piano players and co...

Benny Goodman (featuring Billie Holiday): Riffin' the Scotch (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

This is Holiday’s recording debut at the age of 18. Record producer John Hammond had taken Benny Goodman, Red Norvo a...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Wilkins, Jack posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Wilkins, Jack, guitar, teacher; b. Brooklyn, NY, 3 June 1944. His father is Jack Rivers Lewis. His mother was Mary Ge...

In Conversation With Jack DeJohnette posted in Features and Interviews June 15, 09

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Brownlow, Jack posted in Encyclopedia July 26, 09

Pianist and composer; b. Spokane, WA, 3 March 1923. "Bruno" was his nickname from the time a neighbor's child pronou...

Dickenson, Vic (Victor) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Vic Dickenson's whimsical and conversational trombone style, coupled with a keen sense of musical humor, made him o...

Count Basie: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

With his customary sparse piano, wily Bill B. sets the stage for this easygoing anthem of the Swing Era. Big-toned te...

Bennie Moten: Moten Swing (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 10, 07

It is difficult to believe that this recording was made on the cusp of 1933. Basie’s later spare style (complete wit...

Count Basie: Blee Blop Blues (issued as "Normania") (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 14, 08

One of the last recordings by the original Count Basie Orchestra, this composition is the work of A.K. Salim, who wou...

Count Basie: Dance of the Gremlins (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

As evidenced throughout "Dance of the Gremlins," Jo Jones was the undisputed king of maintaining a swinging hi-hat pu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HISTORIC RHYTHM SECTIONS

            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Chaloff, Serge posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

The bebop upheaval which swept through jazz in the 1940s empowered baritone saxophonist Serge Chaloff to expand the e...

Count Basie: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

With Walter Page and Jo Jones standing firm behind him, Count Basie’s two stride piano choruses at the opening of “Ho...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Count Basie: Dark Rapture (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

“Dark Rapture” is a taut showpiece for singer Helen Humes that ranks among the glossiest productions of the early Bas...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

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