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Milt Jackson with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Bags' Groove (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

Brothers Jeff and John Clayton and drummer Jeff Hamilton have co-led the premier West Coast big band for the last 20+...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MODERN BIG BANDS

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Milt Jackson-Ray Brown: Frankie and Johnnie (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

“Frankie and Johnnie” is just a great jam. Milt Jackson and Ray Brown were inseparable cronies. They were very much l...

Milt Jackson: Lover (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

After alternating the melody between 3/4 and 4/4, this pickup group settles into a frisky gambol better befitting bot...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Milt Jackson & John Coltrane: Be-Bop (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

There was more to Milt Jackson than putting on a tuxedo with the Modern Jazz Quartet and performing what some perceiv...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: GREAT VIBES

Vibraphonist Jay Hoggard, in the notes to his 1989 Overview release, made the following observations about his in...

Ray Brown-Milt Jackson: Lined With A Groove (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

This recording is with Oliver Nelson’s big band—Grady Tate is playing drums, Clark Terry is playing flugelhorn, Milt ...

Oscar Peterson & Milt Jackson: On Green Dolphin Street (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

Film music composer Bronislaw Kaper wrote this tune for the 1947 movie Green Dolphin Street, and it became a warhorse...

Milt Jackson (featuring Freddie Hubbard): People Make the World Go ‘Round (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Creed Taylor’s CTI label is often given the dubious distinction of spawning Smooth Jazz in the 1970s with its sometim...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS

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Milt Jackson: In a Sentimental Mood (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

"All music is folk music," observed Louis Armstrong. "I ain't never heard a horse sing a song." Without contradicting...

Modern Jazz Quartet: The Cylinder (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 18, 09

The Modern Jazz Quartet's "The Cylinder" is constructed around a single chord, and the form does not change until Mil...

John Coltrane: Three Little Words (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 25, 08

It’s incredible to hear Coltrane play on standard songs with this rhythm section. Hank is very free in the harmonic...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JOE LOVANO SELECTS ESSENTIAL JOHN COLTRANE

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The Modern Jazz Quartet: My Man's Gone Now (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 09, 08

Jazz.com recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the the most famous jazz adaptation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess...

Modern Jazz Quartet: The Golden Striker (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 18, 09

"The Golden Striker" was a staple of the Modern Jazz Quartet's live repertoire, and this rousing version adds a sheen...

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1951 version) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

One of Monk’s earliest recordings, made at a time when there were fewer expectations of the eccentric pianist. (The t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Roy Eldridge: Melange (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music July 21, 09

Shades of Jazz at the Philharmonic, Roy Eldridge's old stomping grounds. At 64 years-of-age at the time of this reco...

Modern Jazz Quartet: England's Carol (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Ironically, the greatest achievement of Third Stream music, for all its intellectual pretensions, was an update of th...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RUDY REINDEER'S FAVORITE JAZZ

First, about the name. The whole "Rudolph" thing started as a joke. To friends and family, I've always been Rudy. The...

Modern Jazz Quartet: No Happiness for Slater (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) was the best heist film since The Asphalt Jungle (1950). Singer Harry Belafonte plays a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CRIME JAZZ

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Tunisia (1946) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Here's Diz & Gang back in Manhattan but minus Charlie Parker, who jumped ship after their holiday engagement at Billy...

Benny Carter: Blue Star (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 22, 08

Much like J.J. Johnson, Benny Carter virtually disappeared from the active jazz scene for a number of years in order ...

Modern Jazz Quartet: Lonely Woman (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music July 12, 08

I have mixed feelings about this recording. The Modern Jazz Quartet comprised solid, assured performers who made some...

Modern Jazz Quartet with Laurindo Almeida: Silver (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

Four intense mood swings in the first minute and an untraditional song structure make this track inaccessible to most...

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