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Billie Holiday & Lester Young: All of Me (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

If hot jazz was defined by Louis Armstrong in the 1920s, then the lyrical side of jazz found its perfect exponents in...

Eddie Heywood (featuring Billie Holiday): All of Me (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

On what was their final Columbia session together, Young was given only two brief solos on the sides selected for rel...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Nancy Wilson: Midnight Sun (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Alaska is the only U.S. state where periodically the sun shines around the clock. Thankfully, Nancy Wilson lets us un...

Hot Lips Page: Lafayette (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 25, 07

Hot Lips Page departed the Basie band shortly before the group left Kansas City for New York. Page hooked up with Lo...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Nat King Cole: Ballerina (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

The first 30 seconds are given over to fanfares (including kettledrums) introducing "Mister Nat King Cole!" Kettledru...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Tim Collins: Joyride (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music August 11, 08

The jazzified pop tune. It's a longstanding tradition. Coltrane's transformation of "My Favorite Things" is perh...

Miles Davis: S'il Vous Plait (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music March 03, 08

When I was preparing edited scores for the Birth of the Cool folio, one of my hopes was that enough parts still exist...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BIRTH OF THE COOL

On September 4, 1948, a live broadcast from the Royal Roost featured a group led by trumpeter Miles Davis. Th...

Dizzy Gillespie: You Stole My Wife, You Horsethief (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

"Every generation of blacks since slavery," asserted Dizzy Gillespie, "has had to develop its own way of Tomming, of ...

Nellie Lutcher: Kiss Me Sweet (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 19, 08

My personal favorite Nellie Lutcher track is not one of her originals, nor a blues, but a contemporary pop novelty th...

Abercrombie, John posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Abercrombie, John , guitar; b. Port Chester, NY, 16 December, 1944. His mother Elizabeth (1911-2002) was born in Scot...

Gillespie, Dizzy (John Birks) posted in Encyclopedia February 11, 08

Dizzy Gillespie always broke new ground. His collaborations with Charlie Parker in the forties set the benchmark by w...

Brand X: And So To F… (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 23, 08

Phil Collins and Robin Lumley are back in Brand X for 1979's Product. The band's changing lineups were a product of t...

Brand X: Nuclear Burn (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 23, 08

Unorthodox Behavior was Brand X's first album and was performed by what most consider the original lineup. This is ac...

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...

Miles Davis: Move (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 03, 08

Written by drummer Denzil Best, this is one of the Birth of the Cool arrangements that could be naturally opened up f...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BIRTH OF THE COOL

On September 4, 1948, a live broadcast from the Royal Roost featured a group led by trumpeter Miles Davis. Th...

Brand X: Malaga Virgen (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music July 26, 08

Many Brand X fans thought the band really found its groove with the release of Moroccan Roll. Brand X, founded by gui...

Jackson, Milt (Milton) posted in Encyclopedia February 19, 09

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Johnson, Ellen (Joy) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Johnson, Ellen (Joy), singer, teacher; b. Chicago, IL, 18 December 1954. Johnson began her singing career in Chica...

Brand X: Nightmare Patrol (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 26, 08

Drummer Phil Collins is replaced on this recording by Kenwood Dennard. The easiest way to describe much of Brand X's ...

Davis, Wild Bill (William Strethen) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Wild Bill Davis gradually made his way from boogie-woogie piano to the jazz organ, and pioneered the use of this inst...

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