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Cannonball Adderley: Hippodelphia (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 09What can be said about Cannonball Adderley? Many things, his larger than life tone, his ability to play rapid solos...
Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: All The Things You Are (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 20, 09This track comes from the fabled Sonny Meets Hawk! sessions from July, 1963 with Rollins and Coleman Hawkins, and exh...
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 ...
Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: Lover Man (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 05, 07Sonny Rollins’ avant-garde period – culminating in East Broadway Rundown – was in full bloom when the 33-year-old rec...
Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: Just Friends (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 08, 08These two tenor legends may have been "just friends," but there is still an aggressive edge to this encounter. Rolli...
Cannonball Adderley: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 01, 07During a 1964 Playboy panel discussion, Cannonball Adderley contemplated jazz's economic predicament. "There is an au...
Mark Murphy: You've Proven Your Point (Bongo Beep) (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 06, 07No jazz vocalist has surpassed Mark Murphy at evoking the bohemian, beatnik sensibility of the 1950s in song form. ...
Bill Henderson: Never Make Your Move Too Soon (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music January 06, 09Bill Henderson was celebrating his 81st birthday, which had taken place three days before this gig at The Vic in Sant...
Cannonball Adderley: Sticks (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 03, 09Amazingly, this was the only song Julian "Cannonball" Adderley composed on this groundbreaking album. This song does...
Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins (with Paul Bley): All the Things You Are (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music June 12, 09The piano solo on this song was my first introduction to Paul Bley's music. When I heard it for the first time (7 ye...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AARON PARKS SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL PAUL BLEY TRACKS
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Thom Rotella: Bluze 4 Youze (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 18, 08The blues is an idiom that instantly attracts most people, despite a variety of musical tastes, by its inherently vis...
Michael Wolff-Kenny Rankin: Round Midnight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 08, 09Kenny Rankin, who died this past June at the age of 69, was generally thought of as a pop or soft-rock singer, but he...
Grimes, HenryAlonzo posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Grimes, Henry Alonzo, bassist, violinist, poet, educator, b. Philadelphia, PA, 3 November 1935. His twin brothe...
Bagg, Joseph (Joe) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Bagg, Joseph (Joe), piano, Hammond B-3 organ, composer; b. Los Angeles, CA, 12 January 1967. His parents are James Ba...
Berg, Shelly (Shelton Glen) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Berg, Shelly (Shelton Glen), pianist, composer, arranger and educator; b. Cleveland, OH, 18 August 1955. His father i...
Colangelo, Christopher posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Colangelo, Christopher, bassist, acoustic and electric; b. Camden, New Jersey, 30 August 1964. He and his family gre...
Saunders, Keith (Leo) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Saunders, Keith (Leo), piano, composer; b. Wilkes Barre, PA, 25 August 1960. He grew up in Los Angeles, CA His parent...
Senatore, Pat posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Senatore, Pat, bassist; b. Newark, NJ, 19 August 1935. S enatore has vivid memories of growing up in a large, exte...
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...
Stewart, Zan (Alexander L.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Stewart, Zan (Alexander L.), music journalist, tenor saxophonist; b. Los Angeles, CA, 29 March 1944. Stewart got h...
Jon Mayer: Rip Van Winkle (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 31, 08Mayer is an assured bop-based pianist who recorded with both John Coltrane and Jackie McLean in the '50s, played with...
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