Search results for "Ruby Braff"

Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins: Exactly Like You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 04, 09

Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins were great duet partners, bringing out the best qualities in each other. Braff could alw...

Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

Because the lyric is gender-specific and character-driven, the verse to "My Funny Valentine" is rarely performed. Yet...

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

            My Funny Valentine, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Tony Bennett: Lover (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Finally! After three decades of jazz "Lovers" streaking to shatter the 3-minute mile, Tony Bennett shows what an ench...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE GREAT LOVERS

Jazz has always relied on popular songs to connect quickly with an audience. In return, jazz has helped keep alive ...

Pee Wee Russell: That Old Feeling (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 19, 08

Journalists in the 1950s adored Pee Wee Russell as much for his looks (think dyspeptic basset hound with a mustache) ...

Alden, Howard (Vincent) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Alden, Howard (Vincent) , guitar; b. Newport Beach, CA, 17 October, 1958. Alden grew up in Riverside, CA and Portland...

Vaché, Warren posted in Encyclopedia January 24, 08

Warren Vaché is a jazz trumpeter, cornetist and flugelhornist born on February 21, 1951 in Rahway, New Jersey. He ...

Pizzarelli, Bucky (John Paul) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli's superior range of harmonic qualities has made him equally effective as a soloist as with...

Pizzarelli, John (John Paul Pizzarelli, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Pizzarelli, John [John Paul Pizzarelli, Jr.], vocalist, guitarist, songwriter; b. Paterson, NJ, 6 April 1960. He was ...

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron), violin, cornet, baritone horn, double bass, composer; b. Glens Falls, NY, 13 January 1...

LeDonne, Mike posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

LeDonne, Mike, piano and Hammond organ; b. Bridgeport, CT, 26 October 1956. His parent's names are Mickey and Marion ...

Warren Vaché: Quasimodo (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

The post-World War II dispute between jazz modernists and Dixieland revivalists spawned the colorful term "moldy figs...

Letters: More on Bill Finegan posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 11, 08

In response to Jeff Sultanof's tribute to the late Bill Finegan, Ray Hoffman shares these warm recollections (p...

Russell, Pee Wee (Charles Ellsworth) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08

Pee Wee Russell took the clarinet from New Orleans out into the world. Still today, he stands as one of its most expr...

Bennett, Tony (Anthony Dominic Benedetto) posted in Encyclopedia November 20, 08

The cover to Tony Bennett's 2006 album, Duets – An American Classic, makes a remarkable visual statement about the si...

A Conversation With Mike LeDonne posted in Features and Interviews February 27, 09

By Tomas Peña                   ...

Page, Walter (Sylvester) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

The walking bass is one of the defining sounds of jazz, and no one did more to establish this than “The Big One,” bas...

Payton, Nicholas (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia May 21, 09

Trumpeter Nicholas Payton's style combines the rich vibrato of Louis Armstrong with the flexible articulations of C...

Dawson, Alan (George) posted in Encyclopedia July 14, 09

Alan Dawson’s skills as both a drummer and a teacher were legendary amongst his peers. When he died in 1996, his most...

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