Search results for "Phil Woods"

Phil Woods: Adiós Nonino (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 29, 08

As prolific a recording artist as Phil Woods has been, many listeners may have missed his moving tribute CD to New Ta...

Phil Woods: A Beautiful Friendship (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Since the 1950s, altoist Phil Woods has been one of the leading descendents of Charlie Parker. Indeed, in 2001, ...

Marty Nau & Phil Woods: Delawareness (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Delaware is steeped in American history. Long before becoming the first state, the name was attached to a river, bay ...

Billy Joel (featuring Phil Woods): Just The Way You Are (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

Billy Joel might have created the consummate piano lounge song here if he hadn't already done so four years earlier w...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS

Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...

Bob Dorough: I've Got Just About Everything (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

Bob Dorough had been singing "I've Got Just About Everything," the title tune of his 1966 LP, for over 30 years when ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BOB DOROUGH

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Gerry Mulligan: Deception (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 06, 09

It's hard to believe that the complete Birth of the Cool, including all 12 studio tracks recorded in 1949 and '50, di...

Tom Harrell: Tune-A-Tune (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 19, 09

It's hard to imagine a better frontline than this—Harrell, Joe Lovano, and the trumpeter's former employer during the...

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...

Gene Krupa: Disc Jockey Jump (1958) (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 24, 08

The first thing one notices in comparing this remake with Krupa's 1947 original is the much-improved sound. Stereo! W...

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...

Eddie Costa: Stretch in "F" (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

This enjoyable jam-session style tune comes from one of the few albums that pianist/vibraphonist Eddie Costa made bef...

Bill Evans & Claus Ogerman: Symbiosis (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 22, 08

Bill Evans was working in familiar territory on most of his 1970s recordings, playing standards and his own compositi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

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...

Jimmy Woods: Not Yet (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 04, 07

In L.A. during the mid-1950s, Jimmy Woods worked as a stock clerk at the same Bullock's department store where Ornett...

Sun Ra: Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus (Rating: 59/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Unskilled, impoverished, equal parts showman, shaman and charlatan, Sun Ra was to jazz what low-budget filmmaker Ed W...

Markowitz, Phil posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Markowitz, Phil, pianist, composer and producer; b. Brooklyn, NY, 6 September 1952. Markowitz was raised in East H...

Michel Legrand: A Night in Tunisia (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

In 1958, when Michel Legrand landed stateside to conduct American all-stars playing his arrangements, some participan...

Nimmons, Phil (Philip Rista) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Nimmons, Phil (Philip Rista), composer, clarinetist; b. Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, 3 June 1923. Nimmons's...

Galper, Hal (Harold Galper) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Galper, Hal [Harold Galper], piano, author, educator; b. Salem, MA, 18 April 1938. Galper, Hal (Harold), pianist; b. ...

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