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John Pizzarelli: This Can't Be Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 22, 08

John Pizzarelli is a jazz guitarist born in 1960. His father Bucky Pizzarelli is a jazz guitarist born in 1926. But...

Berger, Kenny posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Berger, Kenny, baritone saxophone, clarinet, flute,bass clarinet, bassoon, composer; b. Manhattan (N.Y.), 19 December...

Duke Pearson: New Girl (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 06, 09

Duke Pearson's Big Band was a vital part of the New York jazz scene from the late 1960s to the mid '70s. This great b...

Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 04, 08

Last week, jazz.com published its 3,000th review. Since jazz.com’s launch last December, our team of more than fo...

Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 25, 08

Our intrepid reviewers sometimes even surprise this seasoned editor. Their latest batch of track reviews cove...

Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog October 16, 08

Yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay When you hear that sound, you know it’s time again for the jazz.com weekend track review round...

Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog February 05, 09

Jazz.com published its 6,000th article yesterday—a total which includes more than 4,000 track reviews contributed by...

Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 19, 09

We continue in our noble if quixotic quest to review all of the great and almost great tracks in the history of jazz....

A Batch of Track Reviews posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 06, 09

As regular visitors to the site know, jazz.com reviews individual tracks not entire CDs. A team of more than 50 writ...

A Jazz.com Sampler: 25 Track Reviews posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 08, 09

Is it really possible to review all the important jazz tracks recorded since the first story was told in Storyville? ...

Johns, Steve (Stephen Samuel) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Johns, Steve (Stephen Samuel), drums; b. Boston, MA, 25 November 1960. He began playing the drums at the age o...

Johnson, Dean (Douglas) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Johnson, Dean (Douglas), bassist; b. Renton, WA, 12 September 1956. Grew up in Renton and Bellevue, WA, and also 5 ea...

Oscar Pettiford: Nica's Tempo (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 26, 08

Though Oscar Pettiford is well remembered as one of the fathers of modern jazz bass playing, his unique, short-lived ...

Thelonious Monk: Jackie-ing (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 14, 08

The 1950s and '60s were a time when many jazz giants walked the earth, but there was also an abundance of distinctive...

Count Basie: Half Moon Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 21, 08

The concept behind this album was to feature original pieces by several current members (as of 1958) and one former m...

Pepper Adams: Reflectory (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 29, 08

Recorded shortly after Pepper Adams left the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis band to set out on his own as a soloist, "Reflector...

John Coltrane: Route 4 (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 05, 08

Among the many innovative technological failures of the mid- and late 1950s, the 16-rpm phonograph record stands as t...

Gil Evans: Moon Taj (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 05, 08

John Carisi was one of the most highly respected composers in jazz, at least by those insiders who were aware of his ...

J.J. Johnson: El Camino Real (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 13, 08

J.J. Johnson will forever be remembered as the most influential trombonist in jazz from the late 1940s onward. His pi...

Adrian Rollini: Beatin' The Dog (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 13, 08

This track is one of a series of classic recordings of what can best be described as chamber jazz led by Joe Venuti f...

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