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Grover Washington, Jr.: Mister Magic (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 23, 07This is the title track from a classic album by one of contemporary jazz’s most beloved artists. A grooving, R&B-flav...
George Benson: Breezin' (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 23, 07This Bobby Womack-penned tune is the title track from Benson’s 1976 breakthrough album Breezin’. Cheery, catchy, and,...
Grover Washington, Jr.: Let it Flow (For "Dr. J") (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 24, 07The late Grover Washington, Jr. loved basketball, particularly the Philadelphia 76ers, and his album Winelight featur...
Grover Washington, Jr.: Just the Two of Us (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music October 24, 07You’ve undoubtedly heard this intimate boudoir ballad a trillion times on your local soft-rock station, but the singl...
Herbie Mann: Push Push (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 16, 07The participants here set Mann’s composition in a great groove. The record is more famous to some for the presence of...
Bill Evans & Claus Ogerman: Symbiosis (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 22, 08Bill 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...
George Benson: Affirmation (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 20, 08A backbeat has never disqualified melody or harmony to my ears, so when I listen to this cut I hear George Benson, ja...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BOBBY BROOM SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GEORGE BENSON TRACKS
Editor's Note: Around 1975, Bobby Broom, a 14-year-old guitar aspirant from Harlem who was playing R&B, funk, and so...
George Benson: Soulful Strut (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 20, 08Back in 1968, this tune was an instrumental pop/soul radio hit. George and company must have felt, ‘if it ain’t broke...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BOBBY BROOM SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GEORGE BENSON TRACKS
Editor's Note: Around 1975, Bobby Broom, a 14-year-old guitar aspirant from Harlem who was playing R&B, funk, and so...
George Benson: We All Remember Wes (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 20, 08True jazz lovers and jazz guitar geeks should rejoice when they hear this one! It’s a song written in tribute to the ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BOBBY BROOM SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL GEORGE BENSON TRACKS
Editor's Note: Around 1975, Bobby Broom, a 14-year-old guitar aspirant from Harlem who was playing R&B, funk, and so...
Grant Green: The Final Comedown (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 03, 09As a soundtrack song from a 1972 blaxploitation movie of the same name, “The Final Comedown” isn’t really a song; it’...
Ron Carter: A Selected Discography posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 03, 07Ron Carter is the consummate sideman, and one of the most active accompanists in the history of jazz. But Carter has...
Earl Klugh: Living Inside Your Love (Rating: 68/100) posted in Music January 24, 09This is one of the world's most mainstream jazz tracks. Earl Klugh's "Living Inside Your Love" lurches on unidentifia...
Earl Klugh: Captain Caribe (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 24, 09"Captain Caribe" is the initial track from Earl Klugh's Living Inside Your Love, and its hyperactivity still sounds f...
Bob James: Feel Like Making Love (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music January 24, 09Bob James reprised his role on the more famous Roberta Flack version of this tune, but his rendition of "Feel Like Ma...
Simon, Richard posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Simon, Richard, acoustic (upright) bass; b. Kansas City, MO, 5 July 1949. His siblings are Ruth Luban, Judy Kamm, Eve...
Smith, Peter (Malcolm) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Smith, Peter (Malcolm), saxophone and flute; b. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 5 January 1959. Peter Smith is youngest of ...
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