Search results for "Ray Drummond"
Jessica Williams: Alone Together (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 15, 09Sometime after Williams recorded this absorbing extended live version of "Alone Together," she surprisingly wrote the...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JESSICA WILLIAMS
Superlatives abound in the many reviews and articles about the now 61-year-old pianist Jessica Williams, as well as...
David Murray: I Want to Talk About You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 03, 09Tenor saxophonist David Murray puts his lush, Ben Webster-ish ballad tone to good use on "I Want to Talk About You," ...
Giacomo Gates: Summertime (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music January 01, 08Giacomo Gates has a big baritone voice in the tradition of Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman, and with his rich, choc...
Mad Duran: How Deep is the Ocean? (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 28, 08Mad Duran has long been admired among the San Francisco jazz insiders for her first-class alto work, and though she h...
Idris Muhammad: GCCG Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 12, 09Say what you will, there's a good chance this blowing session is so warm and uninhibited because three of the mu...
Toshiko Akiyoshi: Cleopatra's Dream (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 01, 08Bud Powell's final Blue Note session as a leader (1958) featured several memorable originals, including the minor coo...
David Murray: Ming's Samba (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 06, 09As remarkably prolific a recording artist as David Murray has been since his debut in 1976, it took 13 years before M...
Houston Person: Lester Leaps In (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 03, 09The CD is entitled Mellow, but Houston Person closes it with a track that is anything but. Lester Young's personal t...
Tom Harrell: The Mountain (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 11, 07Although he has continually battled against paranoid schizophrenia since his twenties, the troubled and inward-lookin...
Woody Shaw: Stormy Weather (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 08, 08Such eminent balladeers as Lester Young, Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon always looked to a song's lyrics as key to its...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STORMY WEATHER
Ethel Waters induced "Stormy Weather" in 1933 at the Cotton Club, an oasis of prosperity in Depression- era Harlem wh...
Giacomo Gates: Melodious Funk (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music February 24, 08The only thing missing in "Melodious Funk" is that obvious rhyme: Thelonious Monk. Or maybe a felonious punk in a co...
Carl Fontana: I Thought About You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 24, 09Carl Fontana's unique post-bop personality is on full display on this track, one of the signature songs of his career...
Pamela Luss: Nice And Easy (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music September 14, 09The lovely Pamela Luss has teamed with the iconic Houston Person to offer a mixed bag of favorites from the Great Ame...
Drummond, Billy posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Drummond, Billy, drums; b. Newport News, VA, 19 June 1959. He began to play the drums at the age of four, influenced ...
Drummond, Ray posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Drummond, Ray, bass; b. Brookline, MA. 23 November 1946. He later relocated to California. He played various horns in...
Ernie Andrews: Don't You Know I Care (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 10, 08Ernie Andrews was part of the vibrant Central Avenue jazz scene in Los Angeles during the 1940s, which he and other t...
Mark Elf: Tea Cup (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 01, 08"We are living on a conducting globe surrounded by a thin layer of insulating air, above which is a rarefied and cond...
Thomas Chapin: Drinkin' (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 01, 08Thomas Chapin was an essential figure in the experimental downtown New York music scene of the 1990s, centered around...
Johnny Griffin: A Monk's Dream (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 02, 08Johnny Griffin celebrated his 80th birthday on April 24, 2008. Thirty years prior, in 1978, he returned to the U.S. f...
Brown, Donald (Ray) posted in Encyclopedia September 17, 09Pianist Donald Brown’s synthesis of post-bop styles has placed him at the forefront of a new school of melodicists. B...
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