Search results for "Ralph Burns"

Woody Herman: Goosey Gander (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

This track takes its name from a nursery rhyme, but don't let Woody Herman's First Herd anywhere near the nursery. Tr...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ FOR THE BIRDS

It's only fitting. Since birds inspire us with their songs, composers return the favor, dedicating music in every gen...

Woody Herman (featuring Sonny Berman): Sidewalks of Cuba (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 28, 07

Sonny Berman was on the road as a jazz trumpeter at age sixteen and dead from a heroin overdose at 22. He worked wit...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Woody Herman: Lady McGowan's Dream (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

This has to be the only composition named after a nymphomaniacal woman who held orgies in her hotel room for members ...

Woody Herman: Laura (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

This track was the first recording made for the first session in Herman's contract for Columbia Records. Herman had l...

The Soft Winds: Early Autumn (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 10, 08

Upon their release in 1949, Woody Herman's "Summer Sequence (Part 4)" on Columbia and "Early Autumn" on Capitol serve...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRACKS BY PIANO TRIOS WITH GUITAR AND BASS

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Carmen McRae: Bye Bye Blackbird (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

While the album's concept is a little hokey, Birds Of A Feather remains one of Carmen McRae's finest albums. Paired w...

Woody Herman: Everywhere (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 28, 07

The most majestic trombone solo ever recorded. After a fanfare, Woody Herman's star sideman Bill Harris assays his ow...

Ray Charles: Come Rain or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

In addition to being an iconic rhythm ‘n’ blues vocalist, Ray Charles played jazz piano and alto saxophone. But it w...

Woody Herman: Early Autumn (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

During the 1950s, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz became the most popular of Lester Young's followers. But his breakthro...

Raya Yarbrough: Early Autumn (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 29, 08

Ralph Burns's impressionistic composition "Early Autumn" is much beloved by an older generation of jazz fans, but rar...

Ray Charles: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 17, 09

The Genius Of Ray Charles is an essential album and an important cornerstone in Charles’ career. The last album he ma...

Woody Herman (with Stan Getz): Early Autumn (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 07, 09

When asked about this solo years later, Getz noted that he didn't own copies of his old recordings, then added: "I do...

Carmen McRae: Baltimore Oriole (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 08, 09

I think that Carmen McRae was born to sing "Baltimore Oriole". For one thing, she was one of the few singers that cou...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HOAGY CARMICHAEL

Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899. His given name, Hoagland, derived fr...

Woody Herman: Apple Honey (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

In the mid-1940s, Woody Herman's fire-breathing Thundering Herd was the most exciting big band in jazz. Sparked by th...

Herman, Woody (Woodrow Charles Thomas) posted in Encyclopedia November 19, 08

For fifty years, clarinetist and alto saxophonist Woody Herman led the most remarkable orchestras in jazz. His music...

Miles Davis's Memorable Nonet posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 03, 08

On September 4, 1948, Miles Davis brought a nine-piece band into the Royal Roost, a club on Broadway and 47th which...

Bennett, Tony (Anthony Dominic Benedetto) posted in Encyclopedia November 20, 08

The cover to Tony Bennett's 2006 album, Duets – An American Classic, makes a remarkable visual statement about the si...

Fishman, Greg (Gregory Allen) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Fishman, Greg (Gregory Allen), tenor saxophonist, flutist; b. Skokie, IL, 6 January 1967. He grew up in Morton Grove,...

Woody Herman: Bijou (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Recorded by Woody Herman's all-white Herd two years before Dizzy Gillespie introduced Afro-Cuban jazz, "Bijou" (subti...

Woody Herman: Opus de Funk (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

This mid-1950s version of Woody Herman’s big band was known as the Third Herd and featured a number of fine improvise...

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