Search results for "Jimmy Rowles"

Jimmy Rowles: Lullaby of the Leaves (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

In addition to playing in the bands of a who’s who of jazz, pianist Jimmy Rowles served as accompanist for such singe...

Al Cohn & Jimmy Rowles: Them There Eyes (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Six-and-a-half minutes of sheer fun. Al Cohn and Jimmy Rowles have a blast with this corny standard from 1930, and yo...

Benny Goodman & Jimmy Rowles: Mean to Me (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 05, 08

Every serious jazz fan has heard of the Benny Goodman Quartet and the Benny Goodman Trio. But what about the Benny G...

Stan Getz & Jimmy Rowles: The Peacocks (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Rowles was on a roll in the 1970s. After years of accompanying singers and languishing in obscurity, Rowles relocate...

Gary Foster: The Peacocks (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

The alto flute is the Lauren Bacall of musical instruments. Its slightly lower pitch than the concert flute makes for...

Lee Konitz: Tenorlee / Lady Be Good (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 21, 08

It can't have been an accident that altoist Lee Konitz chose the quintessential Lester Young vehicle "Lady be Good" t...

Gerry Mulligan-Ben Webster: Tell Me When (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 06, 09

The Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster album is best known for its exquisite version of Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Brid...

Lee Konitz: Thanks For The Memory (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

For Americans of my generation, "Thanks For The Memory" is the song Bob Hope sang at the end of his TV shows, usually...

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...

Woody Herman: Woodchopper's Ball (1946) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Woody Herman's "Woodchopper's Ball" (1939) was a natural hit for the native of Wisconsin, which even today is nearly...

Billie Holiday: All or Nothing at All (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Norman Granz told me that although he once had to wind up a recording session with Billie because she was too drunk t...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette: Give a Little Whistle (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

Disney's animated morality play Pinocchio (1940) depicts a puppet's quest to become human by resisting corruption. "A...

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...

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...

Billie Holiday: Comes Love (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

By the mid-1950s, Billie Holiday had been rescued by a record label (Verve) with the wisdom to scrap her former ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: FIFTIES FEMMES FATALES

In 1958, as evidence that love's fever is a long-running malady, singer/lyricist Peggy Lee alluded to Romeo & Julie...

Harry 'Sweets' Edison: How Deep Is the Ocean? (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 05, 07

Browsing rival websites recently for good stuff to steal—or, make that transmute into high art—we found Sweets Edison...

Billie Holiday: What's New (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Do you prefer to take your Holiday earlier or later? Hard choice . . . The early Billie Holiday sings with more pop s...

Blossom Dearie: Rhode Island Is Famous For You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music April 02, 08

When Jack Haley (Wizard of Oz's Tin Man) inventoried the best-known products of 21 states for Broadway's Inside U.S.A...

Billie Holiday: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

I wonder if Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer were thinking of Billie Holiday when they wrote “Come Rain Or Come Shine”....

Jo Stafford: What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry? (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 05, 09

Jo Stafford never called herself a jazz singer, but her landmark album Jo + Jazz gives us a taste of what might have ...

Ray Brown: Ain't Misbehavin' (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 09, 09

Ray Brown's 1960 album Jazz Cello was one of the first albums in mainstream jazz to be devoted entirely to the cello....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ CELLO

Can the cello swing? Can the cello be as melodically sophisticated as traditional jazz instruments? Is the cell...

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