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Count Basie & Joe Williams: Every Day I Have the Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

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Count Basie & Joe Williams: All Right, OK, You Win (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 05, 08

From 1967-1987, Sooner State license plates bore the legend "Oklahoma is OK." This less-than-ringing endorsement was ...

Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...

Count Basie: Counter Block (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

This performance by the Basie band took place during a late-night gig at a Disc Jockeys of America convention on May ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: PETER ERSKINE

In the music world, but especially in the jazz world, everyone wants to know what everybody else is listening to. So ...

Jimmy Smith: Walk on the Wild Side (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Unrelated to rocker Lou Reed's raunchy 1972 hit of the same name, Jimmy Smith's cover of Elmer Bernstein's movie them...

Count Basie: Li'l Darlin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

The “New Testament” Basie band that began during the 1950s retained all the buoyant swing of the early group from the...

Count Basie: April in Paris (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

It’s almost May in Paris by the time the song concludes. Basie leads his band through two fake endings until finally...

Count Basie: Queer Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Count Basie, photo by Herb Snitzer Since the successful release of the Monk/Coltrane Carnegie Hall Concert in ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT MOMENTS IN MODERN JAZZ DRUMMING

Transitions and developments at the drumset have been an essential driving force throughout the history of jazz. Fro...

Billie Holiday: Stormy Weather (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Possessing neither the theatricality of Ethel Waters nor the stateliness of Lena Horne, Billie Holiday eschews "Stor...

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...

Frank Wess: Low Life (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

Six months to the day after these same musicians (except Burrell and Thigpen) recorded "Low Life" with Count Basie's ...

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...

Count Basie (featuring J.J. Johnson): Rambo (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

J.J. Johnson was a promising young trombonist/arranger when he left the Benny Carter band and joined up with the Coun...

Count Basie: Stay On It (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

It says quite a bit when ensembles led by Basie and Dizzy Gillespie give equally convincing performances of a particu...

Joe Williams with Count Basie and His Orchestra: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

The Greatest!! was the second album by Joe Williams with the Count Basie Orchestra. It was designed to show that Will...

Baker, Newman (Taylor) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Baker, Newman (Taylor), drummer, singer; b. Petersburg, VA, 4 February 1943. His paternal grandfather, T. Nelson Bake...

Tony Bennett & Count Basie: Ol' Man River (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

Antonio Benedetto of Astoria, NY, might have sung bel canto, but Tony Bennett (as he became) actually loved to "rock ...

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...

Bobby Sanabria Recreates an Afro-Cuban Classic posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 03, 08

Jazz.com recently published a fascinating interview with Bobby Sanabria conducted by Eugene Marlow. Today, editor Ti...

Queen, Alvin posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Queen, Alvin, drummer, producer; b. Bronx, NY, 16 August 1950. His family relocated to Mt. Vernon when he was 2 years...

London, Barbara (Marie) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

London, Barbara (Marie), flutist, pianist, vocalist, composer, educator, author; b. Houlton, Maine, 3 December 1948. ...

Campbell Jr., Roy (Sinclair) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Campbell Jr., Roy (Sinclair), trumpeter, flugelhorn, flutist, composer, actor; b. Los Angeles, CA, 29 September 1952...

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