Search results for "Kenny Dorham"

Kenny Dorham: Blue Spring Shuffle (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music August 22, 08

Maybe it's because I'm a bassist, but there's just something so authoritative about the way Paul Chambers dishes out ...

Kenny Dorham (featuring Cecil Payne): La Villa (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

As time goes by, multi-reed specialist Cecil Payne is increasingly recognized as the foremost originator of the bebop...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

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Kenny Dorham: I'll Remember April (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

Excepting the legendary Clifford Brown/Art Blakey collaborations recorded live at Birdland in 1954, Kenny Dorham was ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BEST OF THE ART BLAKEY ALUMS

There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Kenny Dorham: Una Mas (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

“Una Mas” is a testament to Dorham’s singular approach to mixing bossa and bop. His breathy articulations also add sp...

Joe Henderson: Blue Bossa (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Joe Henderson was developing a personal approach at a time when many tenor saxophonists were emulating John Coltrane....

Joe Henderson: Blue Bossa (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

As the title advertises, "Blue Bossa" is bossa nova with blues overtones. An eminently catchy tune (even non-jazz fan...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JOE HENDERSON

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Max Roach: Lover (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Like Dave Brubeck's 1955 "Lover," this track sticks exclusively to waltz meter. These cats, however, are card-carryin...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Joe Henderson: Recorda Me (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

Like its more recognizable album mate "Blue Bossa," "Recorda Me" is bossa nova at its core. However, this Joe He...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JOE HENDERSON

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Joe Henderson: Our Thing (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

With its variable beats and hot bop lines, "Our Thing" could be considered something of a precursor to the better-kno...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JOE HENDERSON

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Max Roach: Blues Waltz (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 12, 08

This edition of Roach's quintet doesn't get the same attention that his earlier band with Clifford Brown has received...

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers: Hankerin' (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

Even though just a year (nearly to the day) had elapsed between Art Blakey's classic recordings with Clifford Brown l...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ART BLAKEY

By the age of 25 (1944), Pittsburgh-native Art Blakey had already completed stints with Mary Lou Williams and Fletche...

Andrew Hill: Refuge (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 20, 08

This opening track from Andrew Hill's Point of Departure LP may not have made as much money for Blue Note as its othe...

Horace Silver: The Preacher (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

"I can't stand the faggot-type jazz," Horace Silver fumed to Down Beat in 1956, "the jazz with no guts." He didn't na...

Max Roach: Valse Hot (1957) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

Max Roach waltzes with Sonny Rollins again a year after they'd twice recorded "Valse Hot" at more plodding tempos. At...

Charlie Parker: White Christmas (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

Two turtle doves (an indecisive species; are they turtles or doves?) happened to perch one Christmas night at Manhatt...

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...

Horace Silver: Doodlin' (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 26, 08

From one of the classic hard-bop albums comes Horace Silver's first hit. Take a simple riff, rhythmically displace it...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HORACE SILVER

Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Andrew Hill: Refuge (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

Point of Departure is one of the first CDs I ever bought, around 1990 or 1991, when I first got a CD player, when I w...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: VIJAY IYER SURVEYS THE MUSIC OF ANDREW HILL

In 1995, Vijay Iyer, then a 24-year-old Berkeley PhD candidate in Physics with an interest in the neurobiology of ...

Dorham, Kenny (McKinley Howard) posted in Encyclopedia February 18, 09

Kenny Dorham has been scandalously undervalued in the jazz trumpet lineage. His breathy tone was not the immediate wa...

Sonny Rollins: Asiatic Raes (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

An early leader date by the unpredictable Rollins produced some of his most in-the-pocket playing on record. Drummer ...

Roy Hargrove's Crisol: Afrodisia (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 15, 08

Invited by pianist Chucho Valdes, Roy Hargrove took his quintet to Havana, Cuba, for a jazz festival in 1996. For 11 ...

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