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Nat King Cole: Jumpin' at Capitol (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 09, 08

"Jumpin' at Capitol," along with "I Just Can't See for Lookin'" and "Easy Listening Blues," is one of only three song...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRACKS BY PIANO TRIOS WITH GUITAR AND BASS

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Nat King Cole: The Frim Fram Sauce (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

The King Cole Trio offered a mid-1940s alternative to the shrillness of bop and the bombast of big bands; their subdu...

Nat King Cole: Straighten Up and Fly Right (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

"That's the filthiest song I ever heard in my life," declared comedienne Lucille Ball, rejecting this track for one o...

Nat King Cole: If I Had You (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 04, 07

During their 1940s heyday, the King Cole Trio swept up material with the tenacity of a Hoover (the vacuum cleaner, no...

Nat King Cole: Route 66 (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

In olden times (pre-Interstates), U.S. Route 66 was the main highway from Chicago to L.A. It was lawful to travel in ...

Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

Partridges, as ground-nesting seedeaters, have no business in pear trees, unless they're waiting for said fruit ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RUDY REINDEER'S FAVORITE JAZZ

First, about the name. The whole "Rudolph" thing started as a joke. To friends and family, I've always been Rudy. The...

Gil Evans: La Nevada (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 24, 08

“La Nevada” is Spanish for “Snowfall,” bandleader Claude Thornhill’s theme. Yet in contrast to the airtight orchestra...

Gil Evans: Stratusphunk (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

I remember when I first heard this album during college. It had a huge effect on me. I loved the angularity, the hu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Gil Evans: Bird Feathers (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

Gil Evans has long had the well-earned reputation as jazz's supreme orchestral colorist. There was, however, a lot mo...

Miles Davis-Gil Evans: Bess, Oh, Where Is My Bess? (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

How does one pick a favorite piece from Gil's and Miles' Porgy and Bess album? Tough to do. I've chosen this piece ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Miles Davis: Bess, Oh Where's My Bess (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

In Act III, Scene 3 of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess (1935), Porgy returns to Catfish Row after a week in jail that...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF PORGY AND BESS

Kind of Blue (1959) is usually cited as Miles Davis's best-selling album, and has often been called the bes...

Herbie Hancock: Tell Me a Bedtime Story (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 02, 07

The smart horn writing on "Tell Me a Bedtime Story" looks back to the textures of "Speak Like a Child," but by now H...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL HERBIE HANCOCK PERFORMANCES

When Miles Davis hired Herbie Hancock (along with Ron Carter and Tony Williams) in 1963, few fans believed that this ...

Gil Evans: La Nevada (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

Gil Evans was always adept at the “less is more” theory. One year before this recording, he issued Great Jazz Standar...

Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 20, 09

On “The Prisoner” I love the contrast between what the ensemble is playing on the structure of the piece and the free...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: URI CAINE SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL HERBIE HANCOCK TRACKS

Few jazz-related artists are busier these days than pianist-composer Uri Caine, whose international career transpires...

Gil Evans: Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

This arrangement is a wonderful lesson in the art of building excitement. Gil opens simply and in the low register, ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MARIA SCHNEIDER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GIL EVANS TRACKS

In 2006, during a “listening session” with New York Times music writer Ben Ratliff, Maria Schneider compared Gil Evan...

Gil Evans: Stratusphunk (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

Gil Evans and George Russell first paced together in Birth of the Cool's modernity ward—the late-1940s salon in Gil's...

Charles Mingus Sextet: Fables of Faubus (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

When Jaki played with Charles Mingus’ group in 1964, Mingus gave him a long, unaccompanied solo on “Fables of Faubus,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JASON MORAN SELECTS 12 CLASSIC JAKI BYARD TRACKS

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King Cole Trio: One O'Clock Jump (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 05, 09

Nat King Cole must have been quite a Basie fan. The King Cole Trio had quite a few Basie tunes in its repertoire, an...

Jazz at the Philharmonic: Blues (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 02, 07

"Blues," composed by legendary linotypist Etaoin Shrdlu for the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert, exposes every...

George Shearing: So Rare (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 16, 08

“So Rare” marks the start of George Shearing’s U.S. recording career. Prior to 1947, the blind pianist wasn’t known i...

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