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Meade Lux Lewis: Honky Tonk Train Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

With its insistent 8-to-the-bar rhythm, boogie-woogie piano is a natural match for a freight train. While there have ...

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...

Edmund Hall: Jammin' in Four (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Hall was one of the great New Orleans clarinetists, but he was a fixture of the New York jazz club scene at the time ...

Sidney Bechet: Summertime (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

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Sidney Bechet: Summertime (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 29, 08

Sidney Bechet's version of "Summertime" is one of the great recordings in jazz history. Bechet takes the Gershwin son...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

A History of New Orleans Music in 100 Tracks (Part One) posted in Features and Interviews August 26, 09

Edited by Ted Gioia New Orleans does not rank in the top 50 cities in the US, when measured by population. It...

In Conversation with Steve Kuhn posted in Features and Interviews September 11, 09

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Mance, Junior (Julian Clifford, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Pianist's Junior Mance's soulful sound has guided him through his seven decades at the keyboard, from his teens with ...

Luley, Jan posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Luley, Jan, keyboard, voc, composper; b. Bad Hersfeld, Germany, 9 June 1971. His family has a long music tradition...

Oscar Peterson: Blues for Big Scotia (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Putdown master Miles Davis once said Oscar Peterson "had to learn to play the blues," as if other jazzmen sprang from...

Brooks, Hadda (Hapgood) posted in Encyclopedia January 19, 09

Pianist and singer Hadda Brooks was an approximate contemporary of Julia Lee and Nellie Lutcher, yet, unlike them, he...

Bechet, Sidney posted in Encyclopedia February 17, 09

“Of all the musicians, Bechet to me was the very epitome of jazz," composer Duke Ellington once said of soprano saxo...

Susannah McCorkle: Chattanooga Choo-Choo (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

Recorded to fill out the U.S. release of a Harry Warren collection, Susannah McCorkle’s version of the chestnut “Chat...

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...

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