Search results for "Sid Catlett"

Max Roach: For Big Sid (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

“For Big Sid” is one of three drum solos that Max recorded on Drums Unlimited, along with “The Drum Also Waltzes” and...

The Esquire All Stars: I Got Rhythm (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 24, 08

The time was January 1944, and the first bebop band (led by Dizzy Gillespie) had just been hired on 52nd Street. Mea...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100

Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...

Lester Young: Just You, Just Me (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Lester Young Photo by Herb Snitzer This track includes Slam Stewart's usual shtick—singing wordl...

Art Tatum: Sweet Lorraine (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 24, 08

The setting for this concert was the Metropolitan Opera House, and many of the greatest jazz artists of the era (or a...

Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins & Benny Carter: Smack (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

This ad-hoc recording ensemble (which revived a name used for various small group record dates from the 1920s and '30...

Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker: Salt Peanuts (1945 studio version) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Dizzy Gillespie, photo by Herb Snitzer In 1978 Dizzy Gillespie stole the show at a White House affair honoring j...

Chu Berry & Roy Eldridge: Body and Soul (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

This record exerted a tremendous influence during the late 1930s. Coleman Hawkins may well have learned from Berry's...

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...

Jack Teagarden (with Louis Armstrong): Stars Fell On Alabama (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music July 14, 09

By 1946, when Jack Teagarden resurrected his career with Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars, “Stars Fell On Alabama” h...

Billie Holiday: Embraceable You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Her autobiography is entitled Lady Sings the Blues, and her most endearing performance is her blues "Fine and Mellow"...

Sidney Bechet: Summertime (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

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Billie Holiday: Good Morning Heartache (1946) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Like “That Ole Devil Called Love,” composed by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher, staff writers for a Decca publishing a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Sidney Bechet: Summertime (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 29, 08

Sidney Bechet's version of "Summertime" is one of the great recordings in jazz history. Bechet takes the Gershwin son...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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Catlett, Big Sid (Sidney) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Drummer “Big” Sid Catlett's beat was steady and infectious, and made him one of the more complete drummers of the Swi...

Clarke, Kenny "Klook" (Kenneth Spearman) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

"That man is modern!" exclaimed Louis Armstrong in 1940 when drummer Kenny “Klook” Clarke joined his band. But Clarke...

Jones, "Philly Joe" (Joseph Rudolph) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

Philly Joe Jones established himself as the premier jazz drummer of the mid to late 1950s. As a member of trumpeter M...

Jacquet, Illinois ( Jean-Baptiste) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09

Illinois Jacquet’s full-bodied sound expanded possibilities for the modern saxophonist. The original "Texas Tenor," J...

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...

Barnett, Anthony (Peter John) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Barnett, Anthony (Peter John), author, percussionist, publisher, record producer; b. London, England, of Polish and L...

Suonsaari, Klaus (Henrikki) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Suonsaari, Klaus (Henrikki), drummer, composer; b. Helsinki, Finland, 7 November 1959. His father is Heikki Suonsaari...

Gillespie, Dizzy (John Birks) posted in Encyclopedia February 11, 08

Dizzy Gillespie always broke new ground. His collaborations with Charlie Parker in the forties set the benchmark by w...

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