Search results for "Shorty Rogers"

Shorty Rogers: Popo (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

As a trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, arranger and bandleader, Shorty Rogers was one of the most important figures...

Shorty Rogers: Didi (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 17, 08

Before West Coast cool jazz turned ponderous and overambitious, in the same spirit that tainted Stan Kenton’s work, t...

Shorty Rogers: Martians' Lullaby (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

On the cusp of the Space Age, many otherwise well-informed people believed in Martians. Orson Welles's Halloween 1938...

Bud Shank: Casa de Luz (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

His Latin interest piqued by a 1953 collaboration with guitarist Laurindo Almeida, Bud Shank alighted in "Casa de Luz...

Shelly Manne: Pas de Trois (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

Concurrent sentences under warden Stan Kenton left Shelly Manne and Shorty Rogers, like career criminals acquiring ne...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Stan Kenton: Easy Go (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

During his "Innovations" period, Kenton would drop the strings between tours and play dance gigs to recoup the money ...

Woody Herman: Ebony Concerto (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Emigrating to the U.S. during World War II, the world's foremost composer found himself financially strapped. Gratefu...

Stan Kenton: Evening in Pakistan (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

Like the proverbial Ark, Stan Kenton's behemoth Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra included at least two of every ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Stan Kenton: Trajectories (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

As usual, Stan Kenton was ahead of the curve. His Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra was an icebreaker, intrepidly...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Shorty Rogers: The Wild One (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Hollywood's first great biker flick told the semi-factual story of a small California town terrorized by rival motorc...

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 ...

Woody Herman: Lady McGowan's Dream (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

This has to be the only composition named after a nymphomaniacal woman who held orgies in her hotel room for members ...

A History of Cool Jazz in 100 Tracks posted in Features and Interviews May 14, 09

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Giuffre, Jimmy (James Peter) posted in Encyclopedia September 17, 09

Reedist, composer and musical visionary Jimmy Giuffre's career spanned six decades and many styles. Best known as the...

Adams, "Pepper" (Park) posted in Encyclopedia October 21, 08

The baritone sax can be a hard sell to jazz fans as a lead instrument: nowhere is this more evident than in the caree...

Hawes, Hampton (Hampton Barnet, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia February 18, 09

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Stan Kenton: Sambo (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

During his decades helming jazz's most overpopulated band, through whose ranks trooped hundreds of musicians, Stan Ke...

Elmer Bernstein: Frankie Machine (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) was the squalid story of a junkie card dealer and wannabe drummer played by Frank ...

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 ...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 24, 08

Jazz.com continues its quixotic but noble pursuit of reviewing all the great - and even not-so-great – jazz tracks re...

Revisiting Classic Jazz Tracks posted in The Jazz.com Blog October 30, 08

Regular visitors to jazz.com know that we highlight a great track from the past every day as part of a regular featur...

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