Search results for "Richard Davis"

Miles Davis: My Funny Valentine (1956) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

Miles's first recording of "My Funny Valentine" was made at the end of a marathon session designed to complete his co...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE

            My Funny Valentine, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Andrew Hill: Smokestack (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

This is one of my favorite albums of all time, of any artist, on any instrument. It takes Richard Davis and Roy Hayne...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: VIJAY IYER SURVEYS THE MUSIC OF ANDREW HILL

In 1995, Vijay Iyer, then a 24-year-old Berkeley PhD candidate in Physics with an interest in the neurobiology of ...

Andrew Hill: Siete Ocho (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

This is a fascinating intersection, because we have Andrew Hill with Elvin Jones, two powerful forces. Also, Hill and...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: VIJAY IYER SURVEYS THE MUSIC OF ANDREW HILL

In 1995, Vijay Iyer, then a 24-year-old Berkeley PhD candidate in Physics with an interest in the neurobiology of ...

Andrew Hill: Refuge (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

Point of Departure is one of the first CDs I ever bought, around 1990 or 1991, when I first got a CD player, when I w...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: VIJAY IYER SURVEYS THE MUSIC OF ANDREW HILL

In 1995, Vijay Iyer, then a 24-year-old Berkeley PhD candidate in Physics with an interest in the neurobiology of ...

Andrew Hill: Erato (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 07, 09

“Erato” is a masterpiece, one of many by Andrew Hill that I could have chosen for this list. It’s named for the Gree...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: FRANK KIMBROUGH

Not many jazz musicians have had a stronger revitalizing and sustaining impact on the everyday NYC jazz scene over ...

Bobby Hutcherson: Idle While (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 16, 09

Although Bobby Hutcherson's earlier date, The Kicker, has since been released on CD, Dialogue, at the time of origin...

Andrew Hill: Siete Ocho (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

Most of Andrew Hill's Blue Note sessions of the '60's featured horns, but on Judgment only Hutcherson's vibes joined ...

Joe Williams: Night Time is the Right Time (to be with the One You Love) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 31, 09

Evaluating the relative merits of Joe Williams' recorded tracks with Count Basie in the '50's, as compared to those h...

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Tiptoe (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Thad Jones was arguably the most consistently interesting big band arranger of the 1960s and 1970s, and “Tiptoe” is o...

Eric Dolphy & Booker Little: Fire Waltz (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 25, 07

Trumpeter Booker Little would be dead from uremia less than three months after this celebrated recording, a promising...

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...

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Big Dipper (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 13, 08

This track is the first tune played on the first night of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, a Monday night tradition...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...

Wes Montgomery: California Dreaming (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

In 1963, the year California overtook New York as the most populous state, folk-rockers John and Michelle Phillips we...

George Coleman: Have You Met Miss Jones (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 29, 09

Coleman has long had a liking and affinity for Richard Rodgers' compositions, going back to the saxophonist's endurin...

Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Eric Dolphy, artwork by Michael Symonds Although influenced initially by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy went on to d...

Eric Dolphy: Something Sweet, Something Tender (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Eric Dolphy, artwork by Michael Symonds Eric Dolphy stands alone in the jazz pantheon. There I said it! While th...

Eric Dolphy: Gazzelloni (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Eric Dolphy, artwork by Michael Symonds Summer 1963. Manhattan. Avant-garde composer John Cage is performing his V...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL JAZZ FLUTE PERFORMANCES

"The flute," flutist Bud Shank informed historian Ted Gioia in 1988, "is a stupid instrument to be playing jazz music...

Pat Martino: The Visit (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 15, 08

Pat Martino is widely recognized as one of the guitar's greatest stylists after Wes Montgomery and before the rock-in...

Brother Jack McDuff: Moon Rappin' (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music January 29, 08

An 8-track copy of “Moon Rappin’” should be stored safely in the dash of every 1970s Cadillac for emergency top-down ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 CLASSIC BLUE NOTE GROOVES

Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson’s 1970 Blue Note recording Everything I Play Is Funky opens with a corny but telling d...

Roland Kirk: Slippery, Hippery, Flippery (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

"Some of the sounds I made with my horn. The rhythm section was playing free. Some of the tape sounds I got arou...

Andrew Hill: Refuge (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 20, 08

This opening track from Andrew Hill's Point of Departure LP may not have made as much money for Blue Note as its othe...

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