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Jerome Richardson: Warm Valley (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 02, 08

Jerome Richardson was one of the best and most successful musicians on the New York scene during the last golden age...

Quincy Jones: Soul Bossa Nova (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 17, 08

Surprise! The opening theme song to the Austin Powers trilogy wasn't composed specifically for everybody's favorite h...

Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band: Little Pixie (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

Sure, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band occasionally entered the electric/fusion world with funk-groove experiments: ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MODERN BIG BANDS

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Cannonball Adderley: Chasm (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Chasms are defined as wide open spaces, but Cannonball Adderley's "Chasm" is filled with vibrancy and sound. The tun...

Charles Mingus: Track A - Solo Dancer (Stop! Look! and Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music June 10, 09

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is one of Charles Mingus’ true masterpieces, highlighting his incredible control ...

Gerald Wilson: Triple Chase (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 04, 08

Only distortion on the original recording detracts from this up-tempo showcase for the Wilson orchestra's tenor saxop...

Joe Williams: Night Time is the Right Time (to be with the One You Love) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 31, 09

Evaluating the relative merits of Joe Williams' recorded tracks with Count Basie in the '50's, as compared to those h...

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Tiptoe (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Thad Jones was arguably the most consistently interesting big band arranger of the 1960s and 1970s, and “Tiptoe” is o...

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Big Dipper (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 13, 08

This track is the first tune played on the first night of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, a Monday night tradition...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...

Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Bess, Oh, Where Is My Bess? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

How does one pick a favorite piece from Gil's and Miles' Porgy and Bess album? Tough to do. I've chosen this piece ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Miles Davis: Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

In Act III, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935), Porgy returns to Catfish Row after a week in jail that...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Charles Mingus: Hora Decubitus (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Mingus was at the peak of his powers in 1963. First he set down his long-form masterpiece, The Black Saint and The Si...

Johnny Hodges: Don't Sleep in the Subway (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"Everybody knows Johnny Hodges," went Duke Ellington's standard introduction. By the mid-'60s, it was no longer true....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

Charles Mingus: II B.S. (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

“II B.S.” is a slightly different – shorter and more concentrated – version of “Haitian Fight Song”, which Mingus rec...

Oscar Pettiford: Not So Sleepy (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 07, 08

Seldom in jazz has such an unusual and rich combination of sonorities been assembled into one performance. Bassist Os...

Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 20, 09

On “The Prisoner” I love the contrast between what the ensemble is playing on the structure of the piece and the free...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: URI CAINE SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL HERBIE HANCOCK TRACKS

Few jazz-related artists are busier these days than pianist-composer Uri Caine, whose international career transpires...

Cannonball Adderley: Bohemia After Dark (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Cannonball Adderley's "Bohemia After Dark" is one snazzy tune. Free-flowing in its conception, the track kicks off a...

Cannonball Adderley: With Apologies To Oscar (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

"With Apologies to Oscar" is not the most precisely performed track on Cannonball Adderley's Spontaneous Combustion, ...

A Fitting Epitaph to Mingus's Big Score posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 18, 09

When jazz fans discuss the really big compositions of the past, a small number of controversial classics dominate the...

Mraz, George (Jiri) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Bassist George Mraz has dedicated his career to developing the melodic potential the bass in the modern jazz ensemble...

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