Search results for "Milt Hinton"

Gerry Mulligan with Marian McPartland: C Jam Blues (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 25, 08

At this stage of his career, Gerry Mulligan was best known for leading a quartet without a piano. Yet here he is at t...

Billie Holiday: For All We Know (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Billie told arranger/conductor Ray Ellis she wanted to “sound like Sinatra” after hearing Gordon Jenkins’s scoring fo...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Maxine Sullivan: Massachusetts (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 04, 08

In contrast to Anita O'Day's 1942 Paul Revere-style charge through "Massachusetts" rousing Gene Krupa's Swing Era min...

Frankie Laine / Buck Clayton: Until the Real Thing Comes Along (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music May 26, 08

If you remember Frankie Laine, you're definitely on AARP's mailing list. During the 1950s, Old Leather Lungs, as the ...

Pee Wee Russell & Coleman Hawkins: 28th and 8th (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 09, 09

The album title Jazz Reunion refers to the fact that Pee Wee Russell and Coleman Hawkins had not recorded together si...

Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves: Salt and Pepper (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 05, 09

This 1963 Stitt-Gonsalves encounter should be better known than it is. Stitt, of course, was one of the most prolifi...

George Russell: Concerto for Billy the Kid (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Every important theorist needs a worthy practitioner. The collaboration between composer George Russell and pianist B...

Johnny Hodges: Don't Sleep in the Subway (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"Everybody knows Johnny Hodges," went Duke Ellington's standard introduction. By the mid-'60s, it was no longer true....

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...

John Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

This track both connects and disconnects Birth of the Cool and Third Stream. BOTC holdovers include Miles, J.J., Barb...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Johnny Hartman: Sleepin' Bee (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Sometimes the finger-snapping is figurative; here it's literal, but quiet enough to not awaken a sleepin' bee. At lit...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Cab Calloway (featuring Chu Berry): Ghost of a Chance (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 04, 07

If he hadn't died from a car crash at 31, Chu Berry might've joined the great first-generation triumvirate of tenorme...

Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow (Sound of Jazz, 1957) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

This is generally acknowledged as the greatest jazz moment ever broadcast on national television. And with good reas...

Cab Calloway: Tarzan of Harlem (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 17, 08

Who could possibly follow the Ellington band at the Cotton Club? Only Cab Calloway, the heppest cat on the third plan...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM

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Red Allen All-Stars: Wild Man Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

A few days before CBS-TV's all-star special The Sound of Jazz (1957), most of the scheduled participants appeared for...

Sauter-Finegan Orchestra: These Foolish Things (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music June 17, 08

This is more a tone poem than a big band chart. You will find no battling horn sections here, no kicks in the pants ...

Hal McKusick: Jambangle (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 21, 08

Hal McKusick was a veteran of the Boyd Raeburn and Claude Thornhill orchestras, and was an active freelance musician ...

Billy Bauer: Lincoln Tunnel (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

Nowadays, few listeners are aware of the art of guitarist Billy Bauer, and that's a shame. Of course, this consummate...

Branford Marsalis: UMMG (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

Boy, does Branford Marsalis's take on Billy Strayhorn's "UMMG" swing! In contrast to the full, lush sounds of Duke E...

Billie Holiday: Fine And Mellow (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

“I summed up all existence in an epigram,” Oscar Wilde once bragged; Lester Young doesn’t quite capture all existence...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Hinton, Milt (Milton John) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

Bassist Milt Jackson advanced the role of the bassist in a jazz ensemble by performing with a keen rhythmic intellect...

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