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Cal Tjader: When Lights Are Low (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music May 13, 09

Cal Tjader recorded prolifically for Berkeley's Fantasy label, but his last project is my favorite. Released as Brea...

Shelly Manne: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 29, 08

In 1959 producer Lester Koenig had the good sense to record Shelly Manne & His Men for four nights at San Francisco's...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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Lennie Niehaus: Bunko (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 04, 09

The first track Lennie Niehaus recorded as a leader was a sprightly "I'll Take Romance." Well, I'll take Niehaus, and...

Stan Getz: A Time for Love (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Early in his career, Stan Getz was dubbed The Sound, just as Sinatra was The Voice. Small wonder. Getz's tenor tone w...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Vince Guaraldi: Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Pop Quiz: when issued as a 45-rpm single in late 1962, "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" was side B. What was side A? Pr...

Shelly Manne: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

In 1959, Shelly Manne led his L.A.-based Men (why not Menne?) north to Frisco's famed Blackhawk for a multi-album liv...

Shelly Manne: Fallout (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

On his two albums of Peter Gunn music, Shelly Manne's streamlining was to Henry Mancini's hulking originals what Cali...

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 ...

Shelly Manne: Sorta Blue (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Conte Candoli was Superman's sibling. Pete Candoli, lead trumpeter in Woody Herman's mid-1940s First Herd, would char...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Collett, Frank posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Collett, Frank, piano; b. 3 May 1941. Joseph and Mary Taglieri became the proud parents of their first child, Frank.&...

Shorty Rogers: Martians' Lullaby (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

On the cusp of the Space Age, many otherwise well-informed people believed in Martians. Orson Welles's Halloween 1938...

Gordon, Joe (Joseph Henry) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Trumpeter Joe Gordon valued the quality of the melodic line over pompous brassy flashiness, an affinity he shared wit...

Kelly, Bev (Beverly Wolfe Kelly) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Kelly, Bev (Beverly Wolfe Kelly), vocalist, composer, vocal coach; b. Rittman, Ohio, 18 June 1934. She grew up in Tro...

Marucci, Mat (Mathew Roger Marucci III) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Marucci, Mat [Mathew Roger Marucci III], drums; b. Rome, NY, 2 July 1945. He was born to a family with musical histor...

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