Search results for "James Williams"

Duke Ellington: St. James Infirmary (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music August 16, 08

Manager Irving Mills got some publisher royalty money from the sales of this flexible Hit of the Week record starring...

Art Blakey (featuring Wynton Marsalis): How Deep Is the Ocean? (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 07, 08

I still remember the intense buzz when Art Blakey brought this band to San Francisco's Keystone Korner. The jazz cog...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Emily Remler: Waltz for My Grandfather (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

On this moving piece, which Remler wrote for her grandfather, she is joined by a great rhythm section that is anchore...

Claude Williams: Cherokee (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 03, 09

Claude Williams was the 85-year old senior member of the orchestra for the Black and Blue revue on Broadway when he w...

James Newton: Cotton Tail (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 13, 09

James Newton's tribute album to the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, The African Flower, is memorable lar...

Wayne Shorter: The Big Push (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

"The Big Push" was recorded after Wayne Shorter’s classic album Speak No Evil and then shoved into obscurity until th...

Dave Douglas: Spring Ahead (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 19, 09

Douglas recorded three "tribute" CDs in the '90's, to Booker Little (In Our Lifetime), Wayne Shorter (Stargazer), and...

Stan Getz: Corcovado (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

What do Perry Como, Miles Davis, and James Galway have in common? They’ve all covered Jobim’s “Corcovado” -- only “I...

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...

Woody Shaw: Woody I: On The New Ark (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

I feel that in many ways Woody III is the masterpiece of Woody Shaw’s recorded output in the studio The three pieces ...

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...

Wayne Shorter: Angola (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

Coming from one of Shorter's numerous releases for Blue Note Records during the 1960s, the song "Angola" is one of th...

John Carter: Dauwhe (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

John Carter’s masterwork, the five-volume Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music, tra...

Morris, Byron (James Byron) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Morris, Byron (James Byron), alto, sorprano, and tenor saxophonist, flutist; b. Roanoke, VA, 7 January 1941. His fath...

Dixon, Bill (William Robert) posted in Encyclopedia December 18, 08

In his work as a trumpeter and composer over the past sixty years, Bill Dixon has endeavored to create a singular bod...

Johnson, J. J. (James Louis) posted in Encyclopedia January 19, 09

Trombonist, arranger and composer J.J. Johnson is one of the handful who revolutionized the way his instrument is pla...

Weidman, James (James Edward Weidman Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Weidman, James [James Edward Weidman Jr.], piano; b. Youngstown, OH, 23 July 1953. He's studied with Tony Leonardi a...

Pierce, Bill (William Watson) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Pierce, Bill (William Watson), saxophonist and educator; b. Hampton, VA, 25 September 1948. (He is often called Billy...

Smith, Willie 'The Lion' (William Henry Joseph Berthol Bonaparte Bertholoff) posted in Encyclopedia September 18, 09

Willie "The Lion" Smith was a founding father of Harlem Stride piano who combined elements of ragtime, barrelhouse, a...

Williams, Jimmy (James Kendree Williams III) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Williams, Jimmy [James Kendree Williams III], guitarist, educator, author; b. Monterey, CA, 14 December 1962.  W...

Basie, Count (William James) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 08

Swing was the sound of William “Count” Basie for more than fifty years. At the keyboard, his spare yet exuberant styl...

Harrison, Jimmy (James Henry) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Trombonist Jimmy Harrison was the rare instrumentalist who developed a personal vocabulary for jazz which was distinc...

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