Search results for "Kenny Barron"
Joe Locke, Kenny Barron: But Beautiful (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 22, 09One of Joe Locke's lesser-known CDs is But Beautiful, a duet outing with Kenny Barron that came early in the vibrapho...
Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: Soul Eyes (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 22, 09The musical relationship between Stan Getz and Kenny Barron blossomed in 1987 with a concert by Getz's quartet at the...
Kenny Barron & Lionel Loueke: Duet (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music August 06, 08Here is a different side to Kenny Barron, edgy and unpredictable. The music sounds completely improvised, and almost...
Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: Night and Day (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 04, 08After a short up-tempo intro, Getz and Barron launch the theme in a brisk, radiant manner that could lift the spirits...
Kenny Barron: Witchcraft (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 20, 07"I'll charm the air to give a sound," the First Witch cackles to her weird sisters, "while you perform your antic rou...
Kenny Barron & Regina Carter: Fragile (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 11, 08One of Sting's most notable compositions is the anti-war song "Fragile" ("nothing comes from violence and nothing eve...
Regina Carter: Our Delight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 16, 09When Regina Carter joined the String Trio of New York in 1992, she succeeded Charles Burnham, and before him Billy Ba...
Stan Getz: Voyage (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 13, 09During this extraordinary 1987 Copenhagen concert, the man we have come to know as “The Sound” pauses to request that...
Joel Frahm: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 15, 09Archie Shepp once said "Ballads are the biggest challenge. You can hear every minute of every hour of every year a gu...
Buddy Rich: Cardin Blue (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 24, 09Buddy Rich presided over two jazz clubs in New York City in the early '70's, Buddy's Place and then Buddy's Place II....
Bennie Wallace: The Nearness of You (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 08, 07Bennie Wallace owns one of the most distinctive styles in jazz. With a full sensuous tone that harks back to ea...
Stan Getz: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 13, 09Stan Getz wasn’t exactly prolix, preferring to let his Selmer MarkVI do the talking for him. But on the occasions wh...
Chet Baker: You Can't Go Home Again (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 19, 07Chet Baker, artwork by Michael Symonds Don Sebesky takes composer credit here – and also handles a...
Ron Carter: Little Waltz (1977) (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 02, 07Having two bass players in a band is like having two spouses -- friction and fireworks are almost inevitable. Duke E...
Joe Henderson: Tetragon (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 17, 08"Tetragon" is a modernized bebop tune, with the head demonstrating Joe Henderson's flair for imaginative chord progre...
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Stan Getz: I Thought About You (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 30, 09In the mid-1980s, Stan Getz was living in Menlo Park, California—famous for start-ups and high tech, rather than jazz...
Nick Brignola: Tears Inside (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 04, 08The late Nick Brignola was an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, but it was on his main instrument – the baritone sa...
Sheila Jordan: The Very Thought of You (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 29, 08Sheila Jordan will turn 80 on November 18, 2008, and still awaits the kind of recognition she has deserved throughout...
Stan Getz: Falling In Love (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 05, 08There are those who may not have realized that Serenity was recorded live on the same day in 1987 that produced Getz'...
Harvie S: Miyako (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 26, 09As stated in the liner notes for Now Was The Time, playing the songs is never about dazzling technique for these two ...
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