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Sidney Bechet & Martial Solal: All The Things You Are (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

It must have seemed strange, in the late stages of a "war" between jazz traditionalists and supporters of the bop rev...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Louie Bellson & Clark Terry: Chicago Suite 1 – State Street Swing (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music April 27, 08

When I was a kid, Merv Griffin and his aging buddies were always telling audiences that the Big Band era was coming b...

Louie Bellson & Clark Terry: Terry's Mood (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark made only one expedition; it spanned two years (1804-1806) and covered lots of ter...

Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh: Topsy (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

           Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and      Bud Powell a...

Charlie Parker & Lennie Tristano: I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 31, 08

This rare private recording finds Bird visiting Lennie Tristano at 317 E. 32nd St., where the pianist had set up a mo...

Dexter Gordon: Willow Weep for Me (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

One of the high points of Dexter Gordon’s 15-year self-imposed exile from the U.S. is this Parisian collaboration wit...

Dexter Gordon: A Night In Tunisia (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

Discouraged by the palpable lack of appreciation throughout the first twenty years of his career, Dexter Gordon reloc...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DEXTER GORDON

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Dizzy Gillespie: Fiesta Mojo (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music February 05, 08

Originally released in Europe as The Giant, this album was retitled to avoid confusion with two other Gillespie relea...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A DIZZY DOZEN GILLESPIE CLASSICS

From his seminal work with Charlie Parker to his collaborations with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie continually br...

J.J. Johnson (with Clifford Brown): Turnpike (alternate take) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

June of 1953 was a very busy and prolific month for Clifford Brown. Having recently left the Blue Flames, he was wor...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Charlie Christian: Stompin' at the Savoy (Live at Minton's) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Charlie Christian’s relatively short recording career provided an invaluable historical link in the transition from s...

Miles Davis: Rouge (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 03, 08

John Lewis throws us off track at the beginning of this charming piece by not only writing an introduction in 3/4, bu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BIRTH OF THE COOL

On September 4, 1948, a live broadcast from the Royal Roost featured a group led by trumpeter Miles Davis. Th...

Billie Holiday & Lester Young: All of Me (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

If hot jazz was defined by Louis Armstrong in the 1920s, then the lyrical side of jazz found its perfect exponents in...

Eddie Heywood (featuring Billie Holiday): All of Me (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 08

On what was their final Columbia session together, Young was given only two brief solos on the sides selected for rel...

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

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Thelonious Monk: Caravan (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

     Charles Delaunay and Thelonious Monk, 1954             ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Miles Davis: Bemsha Swing (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Miles Davis’s Christmas Eve 1954 session was the one where, legend had it, Miles instructed Monk to “lay out” while t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Dizzy Gillespie: Manteca (1947 version) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Dizzy Gillepsie, photo by Herb Snitzer The “Latin tinge” in jazz dates back at least to Jelly Roll Morton, w...

The Modern Jazz Quartet: Django (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Ceremonially attired, affecting deadpan expressions suitable for illustrations in an embalmer’s manual, the MJQ l...

J.J. Johnson: Turnpike (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Apart from single-handedly inventing the modern jazz trombone and becoming its foremost exponent, being a first-rate ...

Miles Davis: Walkin' (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

Following his Birth of the Cool obstetric triumph, Miles Davis ceased to be a factor in jazz's development. The sharp...

Miles Davis: Au Bar du Petit Bac (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

As director Louis Malle projected scenes from Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958), his film policier (released stateside...

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 ...

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