Search results for "Jeff "Tain" Watts"

Wynton Marsalis: Chambers of Tain (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 01, 07

My CD copy of this release does not provide any composer information, or list the musicians, or even tell you the sta...

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. ...

Jeff "Tain" Watts: Return of the Jitney Man (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 30, 09

If you didn't know the name of the bandleader, you might think the CD title Watts referred to the high-voltage lumine...

Jeff Tain Watts: 107 Steps (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 21, 09

The drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts has a fertile imagination, to say the least. How he transposed Bjork’s slow and sweepin...

Tain and the Ebonix: Samo © (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music June 10, 09

“Samo ©” is a deep-grooving funk tune dedicated to Jean-Michel Basquiat, a Neo-expressionist painter who rose to popu...

Branford Marsalis: The Return of the Jitney Man (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 06, 09

I liked the Jitney Man on Jeff "Tain" Watts's recent CD, and I am happy to see him return "one more once" (as Count B...

Wynton Marsalis: Black Codes (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

Say what you want about Wynton Marsalis the person but Wynton Marsalis the trumpeter, especially during the 1980s, p...

Branford Marsalis: Elysium (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Seven notes from Branford Marsalis’s tenor sax – seven notes – announce “Elysium,” the seventh of which is joined by ...

John Beasley: Bedtime Voyage (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music July 09, 08

Everybody from Ayler to Zappa has a tribute band. We love to pay our respects to the masters of the past. But how d...

Ron Affif: Bohemia After Dark (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music May 20, 09

Ron Affif's father, Charlie, was once the 8th ranked middleweight boxer in the world, and was also a friend of Miles ...

Wynton Marsalis: A Foggy Day (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 03, 09

The opening bars seem to herald a relaxed rendition of an old standard. But thirty seconds into the track, bassist H...

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. ...

Branford Marsalis: UMMG (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

Boy, does Branford Marsalis's take on Billy Strayhorn's "UMMG" swing! In contrast to the full, lush sounds of Duke E...

Sonny Fortune: On Second and Fifth (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 02, 09

Sonny Fortune turned 70 on May 19, 2009—he’s yet another "senior citizen" jazz musician whose chronological age does ...

Branford Marsalis: Sidney in Da Haus (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 14, 09

The Sidney of the title is Sidney Bechet, the Creole clarinet (and soprano sax) master of early New Orleans jazz. Us...

Branford Marsalis: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

On this long, slow blues meditation, Branford and his cohorts paint a modern-day abstraction employing the Coltrane p...

Mark Ledford: Blue in Green (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

The late Mark Ledford was a gentle, multi-instrumental hit man for the Pat Metheny Group. Here, a modern, Hip-Hop spi...

Wynton Marsalis: Delfeayo’s Dilemma (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

On Black Codes, then 23-year-old Wynton Marsalis shakes the all-too-apparent influences of his earlier years to expan...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS

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Danilo Perez: Evidence and Four in One (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 04, 07

Monk's music can make a person uncomfortable. Even with the most basic blues forms, his off-kilter phrasing had that ...

Wynton Marsalis: J Mood (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Even as a teenager, Wynton Marsalis dazzled audiences with the sureness of his technique and the power and beauty of ...

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. ...

Wynton Marsalis: Knozz-Moe-King (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 22, 09

The title of the song may demand "No Smoking," but this band is clearly in violation of the city ordinance. In fact, ...

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. ...

In Conversation with Jeff "Tain" Watts posted in Features and Interviews May 04, 09

By Ted Panken Seven years ago, I interviewed drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts upon the release of Bar Talk, his sec...

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