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Tadd Dameron: Super Jet (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

Just a month after the classic Miles Davis Quintet (Davis, Coltrane, Garland, Chambers and Jones) recorded its final ...

Art Tatum & Roy Eldridge: Night and Day (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 10, 09

Art Tatum had performed with Roy Eldridge back in 1944 at a famous concert by the Esquire All-Stars, but their paths ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100

Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...

Thelonious Monk: I Should Care (1948) (Rating: 62/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

At a historic session where he first recorded his stunning originals "Evidence," "Misterioso," "Epistrophy" and "I Me...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

Billie Holiday: Embraceable You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Her autobiography is entitled Lady Sings the Blues, and her most endearing performance is her blues "Fine and Mellow"...

Erroll Garner: Penthouse Serenade – as heard in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1995) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 18, 07

One mark of a great jazz artist is the ability to make a standard his or her own. By that yardstick, and by any other...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN

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Erroll Garner: Lover (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Fans of post-1960 jazz piano trios might be shocked to find that previously such groups weren't wildly egalitarian gy...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Erroll Garner: Stormy Weather (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Erroll Garner didn't invent octave tremolos in jazz—fellow Pittsburgher Earl Hines gets credit for that. But Garner c...

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...

Billie Holiday: What's New (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Do you prefer to take your Holiday earlier or later? Hard choice . . . The early Billie Holiday sings with more pop s...

Billie Holiday: Good Morning Heartache (1946) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Like “That Ole Devil Called Love,” composed by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher, staff writers for a Decca publishing a...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Billie Holiday: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

I wonder if Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer were thinking of Billie Holiday when they wrote “Come Rain Or Come Shine”....

Andrew Hill: Compulsion (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

“Compulsion” is one of my all-time favorites. I can say right now that the whole album, and particularly this piece, ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: VIJAY IYER SURVEYS THE MUSIC OF ANDREW HILL

In 1995, Vijay Iyer, then a 24-year-old Berkeley PhD candidate in Physics with an interest in the neurobiology of ...

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

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Fats Waller: The Sheik Of Araby (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 02, 09

Fats Waller led a big band for a short period in the late 30s. Like Ray Charles would do years later, he built the ba...

Garner, Erroll (Louis) posted in Encyclopedia June 20, 08

Pianist Erroll Garner established himself out of the rag tradition and created a sound all his own. In an era of pia...

Erroll Garner: Summertime (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 30, 08

Erroll Garner's Columbia version of "Summertime" sounds like a playful romp, but there is a lot of musical substance ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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Erroll Garner: She's Funny That Way (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 19, 08

Early in his New York City performance career, Erroll Garner substituted for Art Tatum in Tatum's trio with Slam Stew...

In Search of Dupree Bolton (Part 1) posted in Features and Interviews April 14, 09

By Ted Gioia Trumpeter Dupree Bolton has long stood out as one of the most mysterious figures in the hist...

Clarke, Kenny "Klook" (Kenneth Spearman) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

"That man is modern!" exclaimed Louis Armstrong in 1940 when drummer Kenny “Klook” Clarke joined his band. But Clarke...

Stewart, Bob (Robert Alvin) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Stewart, Bob (Robert Alvin), tuba; b. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 3 February 1945. He lived in New York, N.Y. 1947-...

Workman, Reggie (Reginald) posted in Encyclopedia July 16, 09

Bassist Reggie Workman has cultivated an advanced understanding of hard bop and avant-garde jazz through his many yea...

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