Search results for "Little Walter"
Lester Young: I Want a Little Girl (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07Setting aside his tenor sax, Lester Young switches to his beloved but dilapidated metal clarinet. Upon seeing this pi...
Bill Evans (sax): My Favorite Little Sailboat (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 13, 09Bill Evans (sax) is an avid fisherman. So it's no surprise that many of his song titles refer to the outdoors or ...
Gil Evans with RMS: Little Wing (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 11, 08After gaining recognition with bandleader Claude Thornhill, arranger Gil Evans worked with Miles Davis, Charlie Parke...
Diana Krall: Have Yourself a Very Merry Little Christmas (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 01, 08Am I the only one who thinks the gifted Diana Krall has a tendency to come across as being somewhat depressed? I gues...
Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Little House I Used to Live In (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 12, 08As jazz.com's editor-in-chief Ted Gioia makes clear in his review of Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia," Zappa posses...
Anita O'Day: Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 04, 08For a 60-mile stretch along North Carolina's southwest border, going a little bit south puts you in Georgia. Anit...
Donald Byrd (featuring Sonny Red): Fly Little Bird Fly (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 23, 08Sylvester Kyner was his real name, but he was better known as Sonny Red. Despite several recordings as a leader and f...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE SONNYS OF JAZZ
Jazz Quiz: What do these names have in common? Saul Berman Herman Blount Conrad Yeatis Clark William Criss C...
Muddy Waters: Honey Bee (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 24, 08By late 1950, producer Leonard Chess was finally admitting that the 1940s amplified duets approach had run its course...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL MUDDY WATERS
Muddy Waters, artwork by Leslie Herman ...
Muddy Waters: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 24, 08From the mid-1950s into the '60s, Muddy Waters's Chess singles and "hits" kept a-comin' – not big-money chart numbers...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL MUDDY WATERS
Muddy Waters, artwork by Leslie Herman ...
Muddy Waters: Louisiana Blues (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 24, 08Little Walter's distinctive and soon-to-be prominent harp work was introduced on this October 1950 session, providing...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL MUDDY WATERS
Muddy Waters, artwork by Leslie Herman ...
Muddy Waters: Long Distance Call (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 24, 08At the session that produced "Honey Bee," Muddy Waters also cut this gently rocking ballad, its slightly stately pace...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL MUDDY WATERS
Muddy Waters, artwork by Leslie Herman ...
Muddy Waters: Hoochie Coochie Man (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 24, 08You might say that for Muddy Waters 1954 came in with a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am, as bassist Willie Dixon and great b...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL MUDDY WATERS
Muddy Waters, artwork by Leslie Herman ...
Donald Byrd: Book's Bossa (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music July 16, 09It's kind of astonishing the amount of jazz musicians that recorded and performed Bossa nova in the late 1960s. I gue...
Kansas City Five (featuring Count Basie & Lester Young): Don't Be That Way (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 15, 09John Hammond, that extraordinary jazz entrepreneur, record producer, and scion of the Vanderbilt family organized and...
Donald Byrd: Slow Drag (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 16, 09Here we have yet another Bossa nova song disguised by a heavy piano bass and some bluesy changes. The opening to this...
Max Roach: All Africa (from Freedom Now Suite) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 27, 07The horns only make the briefest appearance on this movement from Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite. We open with Abbey ...
Norris, Walter (Metcalf) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Norris, Walter (Metcalf), piano, educator; b. Little Rock, Arkansas, 27 December 1931. He lived his first eighteen ye...
Little, Booker posted in Encyclopedia January 18, 09Endowed with a magician's ear, Booker Little's innate lyricism and unwavering consistency of tone made ambitious and ...
Rollins, Sonny (Theodore Walter) posted in Encyclopedia September 20, 08By age twenty-five, Sonny Rollins was hailed as a "colossus" of the tenor saxophone. Yet for some, this colossus has ...
The Little Giant Plays in East Harlem posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 14, 09Tomas Peña is a regular contributor to jazz.com, and twenty of his interviews have been featured on the site. (See t...
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