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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...

Gerry Mulligan: A Ballad (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

As chief arranger and co-principal soloist, Gerry Mulligan helped deliver Miles Davis's obstetric triumph Birth of th...

Stan Kenton: Evening in Pakistan (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

Like the proverbial Ark, Stan Kenton's behemoth Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra included at least two of every ...

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

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

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...

Stan Kenton: Ennui (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 09, 08

Kenton took his Innovations in Modern Music concert jazz orchestra on two tours throughout the U.S. Although there we...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL STAN KENTON PERFORMANCES

Stanley Newcomb Kenton led one of the most controversial big bands in the history of American music. People either lo...

Stan Kenton: City of Glass (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 31, 08

"You're not supposed to understand it," Stan Kenton advised. "You experience it with your subconscious." Audiences, t...

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...

Pell, Dave (David) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Pell, Dave (David), tenor and baritone saxophonist, leader; b. NY, 26 February 1925. He played with the big bands ...

Geller, Herb (Herbert) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Geller, Herb (Herbert), alto, soprano saxes, flutes, clarinet, piano, arranger and composer; b. Los Angeles, CA, 2 No...

Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra: Texas Tex (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music April 04, 08

Following World War II, during which Major Glenn Miller's plane mysteriously vanished over the English Channel, tooth...

Stan Kenton: Trajectories (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

As usual, Stan Kenton was ahead of the curve. His Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra was an icebreaker, intrepidly...

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 ...

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...

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