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Dave Frishberg: Brenda Starr (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 04, 09

As the newspaper business continues to decline, here’s a tongue-in-cheek tribute to a fictional heroine of newspapers...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: DAVE FRISHBERG

Dave Frishberg once offered his original song “The Underdog” to Frank Sinatra. The song told the story of a gambler...

Joe Williams: Night Time is the Right Time (to be with the One You Love) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 31, 09

Evaluating the relative merits of Joe Williams' recorded tracks with Count Basie in the '50's, as compared to those h...

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Tiptoe (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Thad Jones was arguably the most consistently interesting big band arranger of the 1960s and 1970s, and “Tiptoe” is o...

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: Big Dipper (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 13, 08

This track is the first tune played on the first night of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, a Monday night tradition...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...

Johnny Hodges: Don't Sleep in the Subway (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"Everybody knows Johnny Hodges," went Duke Ellington's standard introduction. By the mid-'60s, it was no longer true....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

Count Basie: Li'l Darlin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

The “New Testament” Basie band that began during the 1950s retained all the buoyant swing of the early group from the...

Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...

George Benson: Giblet Gravy (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

At the time of this session – not his first, but certainly his best at this stage of his career – George Benson was o...

Count Basie: Counter Block (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

This performance by the Basie band took place during a late-night gig at a Disc Jockeys of America convention on May ...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: PETER ERSKINE

In the music world, but especially in the jazz world, everyone wants to know what everybody else is listening to. So ...

A Fitting Epitaph to Mingus's Big Score posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 18, 09

When jazz fans discuss the really big compositions of the past, a small number of controversial classics dominate the...

2009 NEA Jazz Masters Honored posted in The Jazz.com Blog October 22, 08

Jazz fans love a party, and the biggest bash in jazz these days is the annual celebration of the NEA Jazz Masters. T...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: Joe Wilder posted in Features and Interviews June 03, 09

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...

Stamm, Marvin (Louis) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Stamm, Marvin (Louis), trumpet and Flugelhorn; performer, educator, writer; b. May 23, 1939, Memphis, TN.  His f...

Hauff, Tim (Timothy Andrew) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Hauff, Tim (Timothy Andrew), bass (primarily acoustic); b. Sioux City, Iowa, 15 January 1952. His father is Warren Ha...

Benny Golson at the Kennedy Center (Reviewed by David Tenenholtz) posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 27, 09

Without Benny Golson’s gifts, hard-bop would have emerged far less abundant with charming straight-ahead standards ...

Barash, Jeffrey (Samuel) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Barash, Jeffrey (Samuel), saxophone, clarinet, flute, educator; b. Los Angeles, CA, 5 July  1955. While he was a...

Brookshire, Eddie (Lee) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Brookshire, Eddie (Lee), acoustic and electric bassist, educator; b. Carthage, Miss, 18 August 1941. He moved to Dayt...

Coker, Keller posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Coker, Keller, trombone, sackbut, cittern, viola da gamba, composition; b. Salem, Oregon, 4 December 1965. A native ...

Oliver Nelson: A Bientot (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 29, 08

After his seminal The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961), Oliver Nelson was in high demand as arranger of choice for...

Oliver Nelson: Teenie's Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 01, 08

In this blues-based cooker, which may have been dedicated to saxophonist Tina Brooks, Ben Tucker's walking bassline c...

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