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Boswell Sisters: Shuffle Off To Buffalo (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

“Shuffle Off To Buffalo” was one of three Busby Berkeley song-and-dance productions in the film 42nd Street, released...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Happy-Rose Orchestra: Get Happy (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music July 12, 08

Hit of the Week was a flexible one-sided record sold at newsstands for 15¢ beginning in early 1930. By summer, sales ...

Ethel Waters: Black and Blue (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

April Fool's Day, 1930. Ethel Waters covers a self-pitying song from Broadway's Hot Chocolates (1929) that Louis Arms...

Mel Tormé: The Hut-Sut Song (Rating: 66/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Although Mel Tormé's musicianship made him one of jazz's finest singers, on this track the Velvet Frog (well, Tormé i...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

Lionel Hampton: Flying Home (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

Jazz's most indefatigable showman, legendary vibist Lionel Hampton, routinely whipped "Flying Home" to such a fr...

Jack Teagarden: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 12, 07

Swing Era and Big Band Era are not necessarily synonymous. Medium-sized groups produced much of the Swing Era's fines...

Artie Shaw: Frenesi (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

After one of his intermittent, annoyingly short-lived retirements, Garboesque bandleader Artie Shaw returned from a M...

Lena Horne: Stormy Weather (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Eight days after Pearl Harbor, the breathtaking Lena Horne correctly forecasts long-term war clouds. The following ye...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER

Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...

The Boswell Sisters: Shout, Sister, Shout (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 19, 07

In his book Jazz Singing (1990), Will Friedwald calls The Boswell Sisters "the greatest of all jazz vocal groups." Pr...

Mildred Bailey: Junk Man (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 14, 08

Mildred Bailey doesn't make her entrance until halfway through this track, but it's worth the wait, with Benny Goodma...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY

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Ella Fitzgerald: Blue Skies (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 05, 09

“Blue Skies” was originally recorded for (and eventually omitted from) The Irving Berlin Song Book, and it was first ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SCAT SINGING

Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...

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