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Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong: St. Louis Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

We apologize for joking in our review of Dizzy Gillespie's 1959 cover that W.C. Handy wrote "St. Louis Blues" amidst ...

Louis Armstrong: St. Louis Blues (1929) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

On Friday the 13th, six weeks after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Louis Armstrong was singing the blues—to be precis...

Fletcher Henderson (with Louis Armstrong): Sugarfoot Stomp (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

Fletcher Henderson’s “Sugarfoot Stomp” is very much an early recorded jazz repertory performance. It is a retitled v...

Louis Prima: Jump, Jive, an' Wail (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 11, 09

As a proud Sicilian-American, I have been known to enhance my jazz credentials by letting drop that my family comes f...

Horace Silver: Señor Blues (Live at Newport) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 31, 08

I read in the paper the other day that the value of Silver is on the rise. The folks at Blue Note must have taken no...

Jabbo Smith: Jazz Battle (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

"Jabbo was as good as Louis [Armstrong] then," bassist Milt Hinton later remembered. "He was the Dizzy Gillespie of ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Stéphane Grappelli & Stuff Smith: How High The Moon (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 25, 08

Stéphane Grappelli and Stuff Smith were, along with Joe Venuti, the most significant and influential early jazz violi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL STÉPHANE GRAPPELLI

 Stéphane Grappelli, by Jos L. Knaepen Below are twelve essential tracks drawn from the long and i...

Jabbo Smith: More Rain, More Rest (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music August 20, 08

In the late 1920s, Jabbo Smith was Louis Armstrong's chief rival and arguably the hottest trumpeter around. He record...

Duke Ellington: Black and Tan Fantasy (OKeh) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Ellington's growing musical maturity from the 1920s through the 1940s is one of the most remarkable stories in the hi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM

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Fletcher Henderson: Fidgety Feet (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 04, 09

Fletcher Henderson's pioneering jazz band relied heavily on the talents of his sidemen, and his arrangement of “Fidge...

Alberta Hunter: Early Every Morn (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music February 16, 09

A major singer in the first phase of blues recording, Alberta Hunter (recording under the pseudonym, "Josephine Beatt...

Ella Fitzgerald: Mack the Knife (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

“Mack the Knife” is from Ella in Berlin, one of her finest live albums. It became one of her biggest sellers and won ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL ELLA FITZGERALD PERFORMANCES

Ella Fitzgerald lived to sing. Nothing in her life meant as much to her. Yet she never had a music lesson in her life...

Smith, Louis (Edward) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Trumpeter Louis Smith recorded a few high-profile hard bop sessions in the late 1950s, including two Blue Note LPs un...

Smith, Bessie posted in Encyclopedia March 31, 08

Bessie Smith was the first singer to popularize early jazz song. Her iconic performances of the urban blues paved the...

Smith, Stuff (Hezekiah Leroy Gordon) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Some say Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff” Smith was the first to make the violin swing. Others say it was Joe Venuti, an...

Walkup, Cathi (B.) (nee Smith) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Walkup, Cathi (B.) (nee Smith), vocalist, lyricist, composer, b. St. Louis, MO, 13 February 1948. Her parents are W. ...

Smith, Harrison posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Smith, Harrison, tenor, soprano and alto saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, composer, teacher; b. Murton, County Durha...

Smith, Jabbo (Cladys) posted in Encyclopedia August 21, 08

At his best, trumpeter Cladys “Jabbo” Smith’s power and virtuosity made him the only true rival to Louis Armstrong in...

Smith III, Tom (Thomas H.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Smith III, Tom (Thomas H.), trombonist, bandleader, educator, author; b. Greenville, NC, 10 May 1957. Throughout c...

Hentoff on Jazz: The Jewish Soul of Willie "The Lion" Smith posted in The Jazz.com Blog October 08, 09

Nat Hentoff, a regular contributor to this column, not only writes about the legendary figures of jazz, he also knew ...

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