Search results for "Oliver Jones"

King Oliver and his Orchestra: Sweet Like This (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Recorded at the threshold of the Great Depression and the 1930s, this melancholy tune seems to presage King Oliver's ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

King Oliver: Everybody Does It in Hawaii (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Among Hawaii's many enchanting gifts to the mainland is the steel guitar, named for its slide plied in lieu of finger...

Oliver Jones: I Love You (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 22, 09

Oliver Jones, who turned 75 this month (9-11-09), has always played second fiddle to Oscar Peterson amongst mainstrea...

Hank Jones & Oliver Jones: What Am I Here For? (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 26, 09

I am just pleased that the label didn't go for a cornier joke in the title. Have You Met Mr. Jones? Me and Mr. Jone...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Jazzin' Babies Blues (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Joe Oliver had so much power that he must have been born to play with a mute. According to Jelly Roll Morton, Oliver ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Riverside Blues (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

A work of joy and salvation, this stirring piece sets the stage with four funereal minor-key measures, then emerges i...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

King Oliver's Jazz Band: Snag It (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Once New Orleans musicians started moving to Chicago in the 19-teens, South Side club owners began losing interest in...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

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 ...

Joe Lovano: Six and Four (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 10, 09

Although this CD's title comes from Joe Lovano's composition "Joyous Encounter," those words apply even more to the s...

Lester Young: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 24, 09

Although Lester Young will forever be associated with Kansas City jazz, he came from a Louisiana family and spent muc...

Gene Perla: I'm Popeye The Sailor Man (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 26, 09

What began as an intimate session involving Elvin Jones and multi-instrumentalist Gene Perla back in 1986 culminated ...

Gary McFarland: I Believe in You (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 05, 08

Gary McFarland's first album as a leader was a collection of Frank Loesser songs from the then-hit Broadway show How ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL GARY MCFARLAND

Gary McFarland's life could be the subject of a movie screenplay. Until he was in his mid-20s, McFarland (1933-1971) ...

Louis Armstrong: This Black Cat Has 9 Lives (Rating: 81/100) posted in Music August 13, 09

Talk about sloganeering. On one of the weirdest straightforward jazz recordings of all time, Louis "Pops" Armstrong ...

Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music August 13, 09

Major label executives, producers and (quite possibly) Washington insiders envisioned a new direction for Louis Armst...

Oliver, Joe 'King' posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 08

Cornetist Joe Oliver blew the blues through brass, and helped bring bottom-up swing to New Orleans at the turn of the...

Nelson, Oliver (Edward) posted in Encyclopedia August 21, 08

Many know saxophonist Oliver Nelson for what may be the best-titled jazz album of all time, 1961's Blues and the Abst...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: Hank Jones posted in Features and Interviews July 30, 08

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. OctoJ...

Mair, Albert O. (Oliver) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Mair, Albert O. (Oliver), pianist, vocalist, composer, producer, educator, rhodes, clavinet, moog, organ, digital syn...

Jones, Carmell (Carmell William Jones, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia April 16, 09

Trumpeter Carmell Jones stepped out of the riff-based traditions of Kansas City swing into hard bop. Equally at home ...

Song of the Day posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 17, 07

The Song of the Day is a regular feature at jazz.com. Five days per week, jazz.com highlights an exceptional track d...

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