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Dexter Gordon: Willow Weep for Me (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

One of the high points of Dexter Gordon’s 15-year self-imposed exile from the U.S. is this Parisian collaboration wit...

Miles Davis: Au Bar du Petit Bac (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

As director Louis Malle projected scenes from Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958), his film policier (released stateside...

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

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

Dexter Gordon: A Night In Tunisia (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 14, 09

Discouraged by the palpable lack of appreciation throughout the first twenty years of his career, Dexter Gordon reloc...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DEXTER GORDON

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Ivery, Marchel (Lee) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Ivery, Marchel (Lee), saxophonist; b. Ennis, TX, 13 September 1938. His father is Hawkins Ivery and his mother is Mar...

Manzecchi, Franco (Gian) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Manzecchi, Franco (Gian), drummer; b. Ravenna, Italy, Sept.10,1931; d. Konstanz, Germany, March 25, 1979. The name of...

The Swingle Singers: Prelude #9 (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Bach was big in the '60s. No, not the 1760s—the 1960s! Before Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (1967) rocked B...

Sidney Bechet & Martial Solal: All The Things You Are (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

It must have seemed strange, in the late stages of a "war" between jazz traditionalists and supporters of the bop rev...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Stéphane Grappelli: Body and Soul (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music March 25, 08

Stéphane Grappelli's career flew a bit under the radar in the 1950s, although he toured Europe and England and regula...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL STÉPHANE GRAPPELLI

 Stéphane Grappelli, by Jos L. Knaepen Below are twelve essential tracks drawn from the long and i...

Powell, Bud (Earl Rudolph) posted in Encyclopedia May 22, 08

Pianist Bud Powell's lyrical style seemed to effortlessly blend arpeggios with chromatic notes, which he topped off w...

Gigi Gryce: La Rose Noire (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 20, 09

A twenty-year old Quincy Jones was already showing his influential ability as an astute arranger on this session with...

Clifford Brown: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

Recorded right before he left Paris with the Lionel Hampton band, this impromptu session was a rare opportunity for C...

Clarke, Kenny "Klook" (Kenneth Spearman) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

"That man is modern!" exclaimed Louis Armstrong in 1940 when drummer Kenny “Klook” Clarke joined his band. But Clarke...

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