Search results for "Paul Desmond"

Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond: Battle Hymn of the Republican (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

Who else but frustrated Democrat Paul Desmond could come up with a title as witty as this? Besides being Dave Brubeck...

Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond: You Go to My Head (1952) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 01, 07

    Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond at Birdland, photo by Marcel Fleiss This is the quintessential cool j...

Paul Desmond: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

Sometimes I'm amazed at the good music I found in my high school days when I was just starting to learn about jazz. I...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE

            My Funny Valentine, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Dave Brubeck (with Paul Desmond): Blue Moon (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 24, 08

At the start of this 1953 track, Brubeck actually plays "Blue Moon" straight, sticking to the original chords and not...

Dave Brubeck: Over the Rainbow (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 01, 07

Twenty years after this performance was recorded at Boston's Storyville nightclub, a host of musicians (most of the...

Paul Desmond: Take Ten (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 27, 07

Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond had a deal. Whenever Desmond recorded as leader, to avoid competing with Brubeck's Quar...

Paul Desmond: Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

It's always the fellows you least suspect. Never loitered an unlikelier Lothario: bony, balding, bookish and bespecta...

Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan: The Way You Look Tonight (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 04, 09

Their light tones and upbeat lyricism an ideal match, Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond’s Two of a Mind was destined to...

Paul Desmond: When Joanna Loved Me (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Paul Desmond may have possessed the most beautiful alto saxophone tone in jazz since Johnny Hodges starred with Duke ...

Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan: All the Things You Are (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

If “All the Things You Are" is not the most played standard, it must be close. So, what is so special about this vers...

Paul Desmond: Wendy (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 12, 08

If cool jazz got any cooler than this, you would need to wear parkas to the gig. This is the perfect realization of ...

Paul Desmond: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 12, 08

Desmond's live recordings at Toronto's Basin Street club, made less than two years before his death, rank among my fa...

Dave Brubeck: Audrey (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond at Birdland, photo by Marcel Fleiss At the 26th Annual Academy Awards in March 195...

Dave Brubeck: Here Lies Love (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 26, 09

"Dave Brubeck? Oh, he can't swing, just clobbers those keys; weird galumphing rhythms and oddball time stuff. Without...

Dave Brubeck: On the Alamo (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 02, 09

The classic Dave Brubeck Quartet didn't actually come together until 1957. Before that, Dave and Paul Desmond enjoyed...

Dave Brubeck: Take Five (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Columbia Records balked when Brubeck proposed an entire album in odd time signatures. Even Paul Desmond considered it...

Dave Brubeck: Stardust (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Due in part to its innovative use of classical techniques, the Dave Brubeck Quartet became phenomenally popular in th...

Dave Brubeck: Tonight (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

The final word "and" of this album's original title indicates what's going on: the Brubeck Quartet performs only the ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEST SIDE STORY

Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...

Dave Brubeck: The Golden Horn (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 02, 09

I lived in Turkey in the mid-'50s, and that's where – as a young teen – I first heard the Dave Brubeck Quartet (some ...

Dave Brubeck: Someday My Prince Will Come (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

This was a turbulent period for the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The ensemble was still adapting to its new label (Columbia...

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