Search results for "John Levy"
Adam Levy: Dear John (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 06, 08Adam Levy might be best known for his guitar work in Norah Jones's touring band, yet Levy has been adding tasteful, a...
George Shearing: East of the Sun (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 26, 07In 1949, pianist George Shearing committed jazz's cardinal sin: popularity. Building an appealing formula around clos...
Billie Holiday: I Loves You Porgy (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 31, 07In the 1940s, Billie Holiday had the misfortune (as if she needed any more) of being contracted to Decca Records, whi...
George Shearing: Conception (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 01, 07The luminous Shearing Quintet of 1949-51 shone most brightly on refashioned standards taken at medium or slow tempos,...
George Shearing: In a Chinese Garden (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 20, 07Like Albert W. Ketèlbey's 1925 "In a Chinese Temple Garden," one of the staples of British light music, "In a Chinese...
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...
Erroll Garner: Laura (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 04, 07The hardboiled jazzman went to the dead girl's apartment to work, not fall in love. Her friends were staging a wake a...
George Shearing: I'll Remember April (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 04, 07"The fire will dwindle into glowing ashes," goes the lyric. "For flames and love live such a little while." Depressin...
Garaj Mahal: Pundit-Ji (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 11, 09If Garaj Mahal's "Pundit-Ji" doesn't sound like it came straight out of the Mahavishnu Orchestra II Style Book, I am ...
Levy, Howard posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Levy, Howard, harmonica, pianist, composer, flute, ocarina, mandolin, saxophone, and percussion; Born and raised in N...
White, Rodric (John) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07White, Rodric (John), pianist, composer/arranger, vocalist; b. Sydney, NSW, Australia, 26 April 26, 1965. From 1972 t...
Stan Kenton: Chiapas (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 09, 08Kenton was still on the road -- and still leading an excellent band -- when this was taped during a week-long clinic ...
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...
Shearing, George (Albert) posted in Encyclopedia February 18, 09&#x...
Béla Fleck: The Sinister Minister (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 15, 08In the early days of fusion, one could never imagine that some day one of its more popular exponents would be playing...
Garner, Erroll (Louis) posted in Encyclopedia June 20, 08Pianist Erroll Garner established himself out of the rag tradition and created a sound all his own. In an era of pia...
Eames, JaRon posted in Encyclopedia May 20, 08Eames, JaRon, Eames, JaRon K., vocalist, archivist, journalist b. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 21 December 1953. He's th...
Remembering Don Ellis (Part 2) posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 03, 09Jeff Sultanof continues his look at the innovative bandleader Don Ellis in the second and final installment of his tw...
Eskelin, Ellery (Lane) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Eskelin, Ellery (Lane), tenor saxophone; b. Witchita, Kansas, 16 August 1959. Raised in Baltimore, Maryland since the...
The Spirit of Django Haunts Birdland posted in The Jazz.com Blog November 17, 08Bill Barnes is jazz.com’s resident expert on Gypsy jazz. Regular readers may recall his intriguing three-part art...
Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 08, 08Jazz.com’s team of hard-nosed critics never rest. Below are links to some of the reviews published in the last th...
Colligan, George (George Harrington Colligan IV) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Colligan, George [George Harrington Colligan IV], pianist; b. Summit, NJ, 29 December 1969. Grew up in Columbia, Mary...
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