Search results for "John Williams"

Charles Mingus: Eulogy for Rudy Williams (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

A tribute to the late saxophonist of the Savoy Sultans, drowned shortly before the session in a summer swimming accid...

John Lee Hooker, Jr.: Dear John (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

John Lee Hooker, Jr. has had a tough, troubled life even by the standards of blues musicians. But he has gotten his ...

Vinnie Colaiuta: John's Blues (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 20, 08

Most recently playing with Herbie Hancock, but having starred with many jazz and rock giants such as Chick Corea, Jef...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Red Alert (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 10, 08

This collection, a combination of the two releases Believe It and Million Dollar Legs, features what was known as The...

Stan Getz: Rustic Hop (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 04, 09

This early 1950s track by the Stan Getz Quintet not only features the agile swinging of one of the most popular tenor...

Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music August 13, 09

Major label executives, producers and (quite possibly) Washington insiders envisioned a new direction for Louis Armst...

Stan Getz (with Bob Brookmeyer): Rustic Hop (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 04, 09

In the mid-1980s, Stan Getz helped raise money for his own salary as artist-in-residence at Stanford University by gi...

Henry Mancini: My Manne Shelly (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Henry Mancini was the sincerest man in Hollywood. Donning different s...

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

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 22, 08

I always have felt a bit sorry for Tony Williams. Here was a truly gifted artist who as a 17-year-old kid was playing...

John McLaughlin: Are You the One? Are You the One? (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 31, 08

Only the absent Larry Young (who would tragically die that March at the age of 37) prevented this from being a full r...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Beyond Games (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music December 06, 08

Someday I will very carefully ask John McLaughlin what he thought about Tony Williams's singing. There was a more dem...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Spectrum (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 22, 08

"Spectrum" first appeared on John McLaughlin's Extrapolation, recorded in England in 1968. On that recording he credi...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Vuelta Abajo (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 06, 08

Even today, The Tony Williams Lifetime is an acquired taste. Heard live back in 1969 and '70, its music could be dang...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TUNES THAT TAKE YOU PLACES

Artwork by Suzanne Cerny Editor's Note: Walter Kolosky recently contributed memorable Dozens columns o...

The Tony Williams Lifetime: This Night This Song (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

This is the kind of weirdness I love. It's a great statement by polished, highly skilled musicians, including Cream's...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: BEN ALLISON

Ben Allison, recently featured in an interview and concert review on jazz.com, now participates in our "Desert Islan...

Jessica Williams: Mr. Syms (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

Williams has often remarked that her piano style is more influenced by saxophonists than by other pianists, usually s...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JESSICA WILLIAMS

Superlatives abound in the many reviews and articles about the now 61-year-old pianist Jessica Williams, as well as...

Tony Williams Lifetime: Vashkar (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 06, 08

Tony Williams Lifetime sounds like it was recorded in a cardboard box. The poor sound quality of this band's recordin...

John McLaughlin: Friendship (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 01, 08

In my review of "To Whom All Things Concern," I trace the history of Fuse One: The Complete Recordings. Reading it ma...

Jessica Williams: Kristen (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

The Williams trio with Witala and Spangler had been playing together for about six years when the Nothin' but the Tru...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JESSICA WILLIAMS

Superlatives abound in the many reviews and articles about the now 61-year-old pianist Jessica Williams, as well as...

John McLaughlin: Fallen Angels (live) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 25, 09

"Fallen Angels" had appeared on this band's previous studio recording The Heart of Things. I have a small complaint w...

John Carter: Dauwhe (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

John Carter’s masterwork, the five-volume Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music, tra...

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