Search results for "Rufus Reid"

Frank Wess: Lush Life (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 13, 09

Tenor saxophonist/flutist Frank Wess is one of the few great Basie-ites active into the 21st century. In 2008—on the ...

Judy Niemack: Beautiful Love (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 25, 09

Niemack is a singer's singer who has never quite achieved the name recognition she deserves. Her formal training, pl...

Joel Frahm: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

Archie Shepp once said "Ballads are the biggest challenge. You can hear every minute of every hour of every year a gu...

Jon Mayer: Rip Van Winkle (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 31, 08

Mayer is an assured bop-based pianist who recorded with both John Coltrane and Jackie McLean in the '50s, played with...

Chris Connor: Let's Face The Music and Dance (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

What makes the 1986 Classic one of Chris Connor's best albums was probably best summed up by the vocalist herself at ...

Stan Getz: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

Stan Getz wasn’t exactly prolix, preferring to let his Selmer MarkVI do the talking for him. But on the occasions wh...

Stan Getz: Voyage (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

During this extraordinary 1987 Copenhagen concert, the man we have come to know as “The Sound” pauses to request that...

Dexter Gordon: As Time Goes By (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

After a long expatriation, Dexter Gordon came home during the height of 1970s fusion confusion, and helped restore ja...

Stan Getz: Blood Count (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 28, 08

"Blood Count" was originally titled "Blue Cloud," to be the first part of a three-part piece that Strayhorn began wri...

Andrew Hill: Golden Sunset (alternate take) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

This is from one of a couple of records that Andrew did for Blue Note in the late ‘80s. The album itself has a certai...

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 ...

Stan Getz: Falling In Love (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 05, 08

There are those who may not have realized that Serenity was recorded live on the same day in 1987 that produced Getz'...

Jon Irabagon: January Dream (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 18, 09

Did you ever have to make up your mind? asks an old rock song. For many jazz musicians, the answer is a resolute no...

Reid, Rufus (L.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Reid, Rufus (L.), bass, educator, author; b. Atlanta, GA, 10 February 1944. His mother, Sylvia Reid, and his father, ...

J.J. Johnson: Carolyn (In the Morning) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 31, 08

In this bookend piece that both starts the album Heroes and ends it with a piece appropriately titled "Carolyn (In th...

Rosewoman, Michele (Donna Michele) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Rosewoman, Michele (Donna Michele), pianist, composer; b. Oakland, CA, 19 March 1953. Her father Louis Roseman was a ...

Faulk, Dan posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Faulk, Dan, tenor and soprano saxophone, composer, educator; b. Philadelphia, PA, 22 November 1969. He was raised in ...

The Best Jazz Web Links: July 2008 posted in Miscellaneous Pages August 01, 08

Yogi Berra on Jazz "If you play it too right, it's wrong." Remembering Frankie Newton J...

Abrams, Muhal Richard posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09

Pianist and composer Muhal Richard Abrams combines influences from classical, jazz and experimental music i...

Lawson, Janet (Janet Ann Polun) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Lawson, Janet (Janet Ann Polun), singer educator; b. Baltimore, MD, 13 November 1940. Her father Oscar Jack Polun (19...

Schneiderman, Rob (Robert Roland) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Schneiderman, Rob (Robert Roland), pianist, composer, arranger, educator, mathematician; b. Boston, MA, 21 June 1957....

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