Search results for "Jimmy Rogers"

Muddy Waters: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

From the mid-1950s into the '60s, Muddy Waters's Chess singles and "hits" kept a-comin' – not big-money chart numbers...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL MUDDY WATERS

            Muddy Waters, artwork by Leslie Herman ...

Muddy Waters: Hoochie Coochie Man (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

You might say that for Muddy Waters 1954 came in with a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am, as bassist Willie Dixon and great b...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL MUDDY WATERS

            Muddy Waters, artwork by Leslie Herman ...

Shorty Rogers: Popo (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

As a trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, arranger and bandleader, Shorty Rogers was one of the most important figures...

Shorty Rogers: Didi (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 17, 08

Before West Coast cool jazz turned ponderous and overambitious, in the same spirit that tainted Stan Kenton’s work, t...

Jimmy Greene: Mission Statement (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 31, 09

Greene’s great facility as a composer and arranger comes from finding endless harmonic possibilities out of the tried...

Jimmy Greene: Blue Bossa / Boudreaux (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

Jimmy Greene chills out in this unorthodox version of "Blue Bossa" in 7. His solo flows with total rhythmic freedom a...

Bud Shank: Casa de Luz (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

His Latin interest piqued by a 1953 collaboration with guitarist Laurindo Almeida, Bud Shank alighted in "Casa de Luz...

Shelly Manne: Pas de Trois (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Concurrent sentences under warden Stan Kenton left Shelly Manne and Shorty Rogers, like career criminals acquiring ne...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Stan Kenton: Easy Go (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

During his "Innovations" period, Kenton would drop the strings between tours and play dance gigs to recoup the money ...

Woody Herman: Ebony Concerto (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Emigrating to the U.S. during World War II, the world's foremost composer found himself financially strapped. Gratefu...

Charlie Parker: Lover Man (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 04, 08

Recorded in Hollywood for Dial during a West Coast trip, "Lover Man" marks a turning point in Parker’s career. High a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CHARLIE PARKER'S OVERLOOKED GEMS

There are no bad Charlie Parker recordings. Everything Bird recorded had the blues and soul baked right in. So to ass...

Giuffre, Jimmy (James Peter) posted in Encyclopedia September 17, 09

Reedist, composer and musical visionary Jimmy Giuffre's career spanned six decades and many styles. Best known as the...

Mancuso, Roger (John Roger Mancuso) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Mancuso, Roger [John Roger Mancuso], drums; b. Bayonne, NJ, 13 1941. His mother, Helen Marie Ladzinski Mancuso, was b...

Marucci, Mat (Mathew Roger Marucci III) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Marucci, Mat [Mathew Roger Marucci III], drums; b. Rome, NY, 2 July 1945. He was born to a family with musical histor...

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...

Stan Kenton: Sambo (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

During his decades helming jazz's most overpopulated band, through whose ranks trooped hundreds of musicians, Stan Ke...

Maynard Ferguson: Love Locked Out (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music February 06, 08

Maynard Ferguson led an impressive band in Canada as a teen, and would soon join the bands of Jimmy Dorsey, Boyd Raeb...

In Conversation with Charlie Haden posted in Features and Interviews October 02, 08

By Stuart Nicholson Charlie Haden is not just a jazz legend, he’s universally recognized as one of the musi...

Juul, Lars (Hansen) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Juul, Lars (Hansen), drummer, composer, educator; b. Bornholm, Denmark, 15 July 1965. His father's name is Per Juul H...

Paul Horn: Mirage for Miles (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

The exceptional versatility of jazz flutists transcends the fact that most were primarily saxophonists. Even fulltime...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES

"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...

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