Search results for "Pepper Adams"

Pepper Adams: Valse Celtique (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 11, 08

After the beautiful solo piano intro, the entrance of the rest of the band sounds a bit like a pack of bulls charging...

Pepper Adams: Reflectory (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 29, 08

Recorded shortly after Pepper Adams left the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis band to set out on his own as a soloist, "Reflector...

Pepper Adams: I've Just Seen Her (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 10, 09

The album title Encounter! refers mainly to the rare joining of Pepper Adams with Zoot Sims in the front line. But Ad...

Donald Byrd (featuring Pepper Adams): Jeannine (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

From 1958-'63, Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams combined to form one of the most appealing hard-bop partnerships. Byrd's ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

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Pepper Adams: The Long Two/Four (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

10 to 4 at the 5 Spot delivers a single set of music from the famed NYC jazz club in 1958, a combination of Blak...

John Coltrane: Route 4 (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 05, 08

Among the many innovative technological failures of the mid- and late 1950s, the 16-rpm phonograph record stands as t...

Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band: Little Pixie (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

Sure, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band occasionally entered the electric/fusion world with funk-groove experiments: ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MODERN BIG BANDS

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Donald Byrd: Here Am I (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

When the New York Herald Tribune coined the term “hard bop,” it was like saying “wet water.” Bop had always been har...

Toots Thielemans: East of the Sun (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Toots Thielemans single-handedly made it feasible to use "hip" and "harmonica" in the same sentence. Toots spent the ...

Dizzy Gillespie: Tour de Force (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 05, 08

The band Gillespie assembled for this date was not his regular working group. Nonetheless the performance is cohesive...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A DIZZY DOZEN GILLESPIE CLASSICS

From his seminal work with Charlie Parker to his collaborations with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie continually br...

Charles Mingus: Moanin' (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Unlike Bobby Timmons' righteous "Moanin'" recorded the previous year by The Jazz Messengers, Mingus's "Moanin'" is te...

Joe Williams: Night Time is the Right Time (to be with the One You Love) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 31, 09

Evaluating the relative merits of Joe Williams' recorded tracks with Count Basie in the '50's, as compared to those h...

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Big Dipper (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 13, 08

This track is the first tune played on the first night of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, a Monday night tradition...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...

Charles Mingus: Tensions (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

“Moods,” “contrasts” and “changes” are a few words that have taken on elemental significance in Mingus’ song titles, ...

George Benson: Giblet Gravy (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

At the time of this session – not his first, but certainly his best at this stage of his career – George Benson was o...

Adams, "Pepper" (Park) posted in Encyclopedia October 21, 08

The baritone sax can be a hard sell to jazz fans as a lead instrument: nowhere is this more evident than in the caree...

Nussbaum, Adam posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Nussbaum, Adam, drums; b. New York City, 29 November 1955. Raised in Norwalk CT from 4. Nussbaum studied piano fro...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Mraz, George (Jiri) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Bassist George Mraz has dedicated his career to developing the melodic potential the bass in the modern jazz ensemble...

Jones, Elvin (Ray) posted in Encyclopedia March 21, 08

Elvin Jones expanded the jazz drummer’s role from timekeeper to volatile improviser. Jones’s approach was more extrem...

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