Search results for "Jimmy Rushing"

Dave Brubeck and Jimmy Rushing: There'll Be Some Changes Made (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 10, 08

This performance erupts with joy right from the first bars of the rhythm section's introduction. Rushing's entrance s...

Count Basie & His Orchestra: Exactly Like You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 04, 09

“Exactly Like You” has been a jam session staple for years, but when Count Basie recorded it on his second Decca sess...

Count Basie Orchestra (featuring Jack Washington): Somebody Stole My Gal (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 22, 08

Jack Washington stands with Harry Carney as one of the first featured baritone saxophonists in jazz. Performing in Be...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

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Count Basie All-Stars: I Left My Baby (1957) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

James Andrew Rushing, born in Oklahoma City in 1903, first recorded "I Left My Baby" in 1939 under the aegis of Willi...

Duke Ellington: Across the Track Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

As the premier bandleader of the 20th century, Duke didn’t really need to maintain the stride abilities he acquired a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ETHAN IVERSON ON STRIDE PIANO

Editor's Note: Music fans, jazz-oriented or otherwise, may know Ethan Iverson solely as the pianist in The Bad Plus—t...

Cannonball Adderley: Limehouse Blues (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

A friend of mine summed up The Cannonball Adderley Quintet In Chicago as "the Miles Davis band without Miles". True e...

John Coltrane: Nancy (With the Laughing Face) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

On an album of beautiful balladry, the closer, “Nancy (With the Laughing Face),” is the crème de la crème. It’s only ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JOHN COLTRANE PERFORMANCES

John Coltrane (1926-1967) started out as a promising straight-ahead bop player who served under Thelonious Monk, Mile...

John Coltrane: Naima (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

1959 was jazz’s magical year – with Trane, Ornette, Evans, Mingus, and Miles issuing their clarion calls – and here i...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JOHN COLTRANE PERFORMANCES

John Coltrane (1926-1967) started out as a promising straight-ahead bop player who served under Thelonious Monk, Mile...

Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

No other Jazz Age singer rivaled her versatility. Combining the tony diction of London's posh Mayfair salons (althoug...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER

Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...

Miles Davis: Someday My Prince Will Come (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 02, 07

Jazz waltzes were still fairly rare back in 1961, and Paul Chambers' pedal point intro keeps the meter a mystery duri...

Harrison, Jimmy (James Henry) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Trombonist Jimmy Harrison was the rare instrumentalist who developed a personal vocabulary for jazz which was distinc...

In Conversation with Johnny Griffin posted in Features and Interviews July 28, 08

By Ted Panken Can you recall your impressions when you arrived in New York for the first time in 1945 with Lion...

Page, Walter (Sylvester) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

The walking bass is one of the defining sounds of jazz, and no one did more to establish this than “The Big One,” bas...

Lewis, Mel (Sokoloff, Melvin) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Drummer Mel Lewis set a new standard for the modern big band as co-leader of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in th...

Hinton, Milt (Milton John) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

Bassist Milt Jackson advanced the role of the bassist in a jazz ensemble by performing with a keen rhythmic intellect...

Basie, Count (William James) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 08

Swing was the sound of William “Count” Basie for more than fifty years. At the keyboard, his spare yet exuberant styl...

Morton, Benny (Henry Sterling) posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 09

Benny Morton's consistent excellence on the trombone made him one of the few pioneers of jazz on his instrument to en...

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron), violin, cornet, baritone horn, double bass, composer; b. Glens Falls, NY, 13 January 1...

Mover, Bob (Robert Alan) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Mover, Bob (Robert Alan), alto sax; b. Boston, MA, 22 March 1952. His father is Jimmy Mover, born: 6/15/25. Played tr...

Longo, Mike posted in Encyclopedia January 22, 08

Pianist Mike Longo may be best known as one of Dizzy Gillespie’s closest musical collaborators. But since he began hi...

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