Search results for "Oscar Pettiford"

Oscar Pettiford: Not So Sleepy (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 07, 08

Seldom in jazz has such an unusual and rich combination of sonorities been assembled into one performance. Bassist Os...

Oscar Pettiford: All The Things You Are (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 09, 09

Oscar Pettiford came into prominence during the 1940s through his associations with Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie ...

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

Can the cello swing? Can the cello be as melodically sophisticated as traditional jazz instruments? Is the cell...

Oscar Pettiford: Nica's Tempo (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 26, 08

Though Oscar Pettiford is well remembered as one of the fathers of modern jazz bass playing, his unique, short-lived ...

Oscar Pettiford & Max Roach (from Freedom Suite): There Will Never Be Another You (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

Sonny Rollins showed up late for the Freedom Suite session, and the result is this curio: a duet between bassist Osca...

Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh: Topsy (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

           Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and      Bud Powell a...

Ben Webster & Billy Strayhorn: Chelsea Bridge (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 17, 08

In his autobiography, Music is My Mistress (1973), Duke Ellington fondly recalls that in 1933, London became the firs...

Duke Ellington: Happy-Go-Lucky Local (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

Duke Ellington’s “Happy-Go-Lucky Local” was originally the final movement of his Deep South Suite premiered at his 19...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Sonny Rollins: The Freedom Suite (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

"The Freedom Suite" is a monument that fully belongs to the history of African-American music. It is not the first tr...

Lucky Thompson: Deep Passion (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 27, 08

This magnificent ballad performance could be considered Thompson's "Body and Soul." Hank Jones's rhapsodic piano intr...

Coleman Hawkins: The Man I Love (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 11, 08

Nearly everyone hearing this track for the first time would likely become a lifelong Hawkins fan and admirer, if not ...

Art Tatum: Sweet Lorraine (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 24, 08

The setting for this concert was the Metropolitan Opera House, and many of the greatest jazz artists of the era (or a...

The Esquire All Stars: I Got Rhythm (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 24, 08

The time was January 1944, and the first bebop band (led by Dizzy Gillespie) had just been hired on 52nd Street. Mea...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100

Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...

Miles Davis: I Didn't (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music December 17, 08

"I Didn't" is a rebuttal to Thelonious Monk's "Well, You Needn't," but more accurately, it's an accidental derivation...

Duke Ellington (featuring Al Hibbler): Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

As most Ellington fans know, "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" was the pop song version of Duke's 1940 instrumental "Ne...

Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (1956 version) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

“Brilliant Corners” is the most complex work in the 70-song Monk canon. It speeds up, it slows down, it shifts course...

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...

Thelonious Monk: Caravan (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

     Charles Delaunay and Thelonious Monk, 1954             ...

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...

Boyd Raeburn: Blue Moon (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music December 30, 07

Raeburn began his career in the Midwest leading a functional Lawrence Welk-type band. By 1943, he switched gears and ...

Kenny Dorham: I'll Remember April (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

Excepting the legendary Clifford Brown/Art Blakey collaborations recorded live at Birdland in 1954, Kenny Dorham was ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE BEST OF THE ART BLAKEY ALUMS

There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Jimmy Hamilton: Blues in My Music Room (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music June 27, 08

The leader is primarily known for his long association with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He took over the clarinet/t...

Pettiford, Oscar posted in Encyclopedia January 20, 09

Oscar Pettiford set the standard for bassists in bebop by drawing out the melodic and solo potential of his instrumen...

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