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Wayne Shorter: Condition Red (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 09, 08

Multi-Grammy winner Wayne Shorter's importance to jazz is much more than being a part of seminal jazz-rock group Weat...

Red Mitchell-Harold Land Quintet: Catacomb (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 20, 09

This track is a fine example of the work of this excellent but short-lived group. Though this was geographically a We...

Lee Konitz & Red Mitchell: Just One of Those Things (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 12, 09

Is it because Red Mitchell tuned his bass like a cello that it has this huge, elastic bouncing feel while he plays a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE LEE KONITZ DUETS

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Jim Hall: Good Friday Blues (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 28, 07

In 1960, when producer Richard Bock conceived a blues anthology for his Pacific Jazz label, he called Jim Hall, ...

Hampton Hawes: Yesterdays (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 29, 09

Hampton Hawes' style integrated vestiges of stride with his own version of bebop. His sound was uniquely his own. Rec...

Oliver Jones: I Love You (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 22, 09

Oliver Jones, who turned 75 this month (9-11-09), has always played second fiddle to Oscar Peterson amongst mainstrea...

Jim Hall: Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 15, 08

It's a matter of historical record. Jim Hall was born in Buffalo. What we can't figure out is which section of Buffal...

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

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Hampton Hawes: Broadway (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 30, 08

The interaction between Hampton Hawes and Jim Hall on all three volumes of the All Night Session dates is a real...

André Previn: I Feel Pretty (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 24, 08

André Previn was among the first to record a jazz version of West Side Story songs, and his adaptation has a very Wes...

André Previn: Something's Coming (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 08, 09

From the choice of a Ben Shahn painting for the cover art, to the speedy, lighthearted treatments within, André Previ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEST SIDE STORY

Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...

Moods Unlimited: All The Things You Are (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 12, 08

These sessions must have been a dream come true for the young Bill Evans (sax). He was only 24 at the time, and here ...

Gerry Mulligan: Theme from I Want to Live! (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

I Want to Live! (1958) is the true story of three lowlifes who, after murdering a disabled widow during a botched rob...

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 ...

Cal Tjader: America (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 08, 09

Immigrants have been coming to America's shores for a millennium, and some witty reflections on that fact can be foun...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MUSICAL AMERICANA

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Quincy Jones: King Road Blues (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

The original Go West, Man! featured Quincy Jones-managed recording sessions by four trumpets and rhythm, four alto sa...

Billie Holiday: Comes Love (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

By the mid-1950s, Billie Holiday had been rescued by a record label (Verve) with the wisdom to scrap her former ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: FIFTIES FEMMES FATALES

In 1958, as evidence that love's fever is a long-running malady, singer/lyricist Peggy Lee alluded to Romeo & Julie...

Mel Tormé (with Marty Paich): The Carioca (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Whoever doubts Mel Tormé's skill as a jazz singer should listen to the first 25 seconds of this track, where he sings...

Billie Holiday: All or Nothing at All (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Norman Granz told me that although he once had to wind up a recording session with Billie because she was too drunk t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

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Art Pepper: September Song (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 03, 08

Art Pepper had performed and recorded this song many times with the Stan Kenton band in the early 1950s, but this 197...

Mel Tormé (with Marty Paich): Lulu's Back in Town (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 21, 08

I've never much cared for "back in town" songs. Whether it's Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town" or just Matt D...

Barney Kessel: 64 Bars on Wilshire (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

Kessel's busy ode to a traffic-soaked Los Angeles thoroughfare contains several wild conflagrations by pianist Hampto...

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