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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 ...

Wes Montgomery: California Dreaming (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

In 1963, the year California overtook New York as the most populous state, folk-rockers John and Michelle Phillips we...

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...

Billie Holiday: Tain't Nobody's Business (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

On May 27, 1947, Billie Holiday was sentenced to a year and a day for possession of narcotic drugs, remaining in cust...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Charles Mingus: Hobo Ho (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

Time and again, exploring the forward-thinking approach of any of jazz's true stylistic innovators ultimately leads f...

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

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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...

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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Terry, Clark posted in Encyclopedia November 19, 08

Trumpeter Clark Terry's lyrical imagination and virtuosity have brought him worldwide acclaim in a career which spans...

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...

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...

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