Search results for "Oliver Nelson"

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 Nelson: Stolen Moments (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 11, 08

Based on a C-minor blues, this quintessential jazz standard embodies the finest elements of the lexicon, with Oliver ...

Oliver Nelson: Hoe Down (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 11, 08

My best advice is "never listen to this tune" because once you do, you'll never get it of your mind. I don't quite un...

Oliver Nelson: Yearnin' (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 01, 09

The Blues and the Abstract Truth is a landmark for more reasons than one. It's a "supergroup" record that's the farth...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ROY HAYNES

The century mark is a uniquely exciting time in the development of a major musical style. History is unearthed, co...

Oliver Nelson: A Bientot (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 29, 08

After his seminal The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961), Oliver Nelson was in high demand as arranger of choice for...

Oliver Nelson: Three Plus One (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 01, 08

It is interesting that Oliver Nelson did not choose an all-star lineup for this date, although his prestige by t...

Oliver Nelson: Teenie's Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 01, 08

In this blues-based cooker, which may have been dedicated to saxophonist Tina Brooks, Ben Tucker's walking bassline c...

Oliver Nelson: Stolen Moments (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 11, 08

This was my introduction to Freddie Hubbard as a young teenager. I was listening to WHAT-FM the jazz station in Phill...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RANDY BRECKER SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL FREDDIE HUBBARD TRACKS

Note: During the course of a career that spanned more than a half century, Freddie Hubbard made his mark as one of th...

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 ...

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...

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...

Bill Cunliffe: Yearnin' (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

The Blues And The Abstract Truth, take 2 is pianist Bill Cunliffe's tribute to the classic jazz album by Oliver Nelso...

Count Basie: Kilimanjaro (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

In the early '70s, big bands were not so fashionable. During the mid-'60s, Count Basie even ventured far from his usu...

Sarah DeLeo: Stolen Moments (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music January 22, 09

"Stolen Moments" is the jazziest number on vocalist Sarah DeLeo's I'm In Heaven Tonight. The familiar strains of this...

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...

Lake, Oliver (Eugene) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Lake, Oliver (Eugene), alto and soprano saxophonist, flute, synthesizer percussionist; b. Marianna, Ark., 14 Septembe...

Jimmy Smith: Walk on the Wild Side (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Unrelated to rocker Lou Reed's raunchy 1972 hit of the same name, Jimmy Smith's cover of Elmer Bernstein's movie them...

Nancy Wilson: Midnight Sun (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Alaska is the only U.S. state where periodically the sun shines around the clock. Thankfully, Nancy Wilson lets us un...

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