Search results for "Sir Roland Hanna"
James Newton: Cotton Tail (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 13, 09James Newton's tribute album to the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, The African Flower, is memorable lar...
Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Tiptoe (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 09, 07Thad Jones was arguably the most consistently interesting big band arranger of the 1960s and 1970s, and “Tiptoe” is o...
Sarah Vaughan: The Island (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 23, 09Sarah Vaughan self-produced Crazy and Mixed Up, her final and perhaps finest album for Norman Granz's Pablo label. Th...
Jim Hall: Concierto de Aranjuez (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 16, 07Jim Hall’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” unites three of the purest melodists in jazz in Baker, Desmond, and the guitarist ...
Ron Carter: Tamalpais (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 12, 08Ron Carter and this great ensemble assay Oscar Pettiford's composition with the kind of élan and impeccable verve we'...
Joe Williams: Night Time is the Right Time (to be with the One You Love) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 31, 09Evaluating the relative merits of Joe Williams' recorded tracks with Count Basie in the '50's, as compared to those h...
Charles Mingus: Half-Mast Inhibition (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 21, 07Mingus began "Half-Mast Inhibition" at age 18, but left it unfinished for 20 years. As tempting as it might be to cal...
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 ...
Pepper Adams: Reflectory (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 29, 08Recorded shortly after Pepper Adams left the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis band to set out on his own as a soloist, "Reflector...
Freddie Hubbard : Blues by Five (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 08, 09While working on his final recording, On the Real Side, Hubbard would spend the commute back and forth from the studi...
Hanna, Sir Roland (Pembroke) posted in Encyclopedia September 16, 09Pianist Roland Hanna's playing highlights the relationship between the rhythmic components of swing and the melodic c...
Ron Carter: A Selected Discography posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 03, 07Ron Carter is the consummate sideman, and one of the most active accompanists in the history of jazz. But Carter has...
Mraz, George (Jiri) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09Bassist George Mraz has dedicated his career to developing the melodic potential the bass in the modern jazz ensemble...
Glassman, Greg (Gregory Scott) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Glassman, Greg (Gregory Scott), trumpet; b. New York City, 4 June 1977. He was raised in High Falls, NY (Hudson Valle...
Tanksley, Francesca (Franzeska Esther) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Tanksley, Francesca (Franzeska Esther), piano and composer; b. Vicenza, Italy, 21 November 1957. Her father Jewel Ric...
Friedlander, Erik (Verner) posted in Encyclopedia October 19, 09Cellist Erik Friedlander has cultivated a personal style which blends the techniques of classical music with the impr...
Griffith, Miles (Lloyd) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Griffith, Miles (Lloyd), singer, educator; b. Brooklyn, NY, 13 May 1969. His father Mervyn Griffith Sr. (born c. 1934...
Easley, Bill posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Easley, Bill, Tenor, Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, and Bass Clarinet, Flute, Alto Flute and piccolo; b. Olea...
Dawson, Alan (George) posted in Encyclopedia July 14, 09Alan Dawson’s skills as both a drummer and a teacher were legendary amongst his peers. When he died in 1996, his most...
Blair, John posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Blair, John, violinist; b. Toledo, OH, 8 November 1943. His mother is Evelyn Blair and his father is Lorenzo Blair. H...
Louis, Kevin posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Louis, Kevin, trumpet; "A native New Orleanian, I started playing trumpet in the fourth grade, when I was eight. T...
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