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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 ...

Count Basie: Half Moon Street (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 21, 08

The concept behind this album was to feature original pieces by several current members (as of 1958) and one former m...

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...

Count Basie: Do You Want to Know a Secret? (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Jazz in the 1950s survived Elvis by ignoring him. Miles Davis did not apply his moody Harmon mute to "Heartbreak Hote...

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: April in Paris (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

It’s almost May in Paris by the time the song concludes. Basie leads his band through two fake endings until finally...

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...

Serge Chaloff: A Handful of Stars (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 23, 08

The best baritone saxophonist most listeners have never heard of: Serge Chaloff, whose rather incredible talents comb...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

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Count Basie: Kilimanjaro (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

In the early '70s, big bands were not so fashionable. During the mid-'60s, Count Basie even ventured far from his usu...

Payne, Jim posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Payne, Jim, drummer; b. Bridgeport, CT, 25 February 1943. After receiving his BA (Yale '65) he moved to New York, ...

Stitt, Sonny (Edward) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

Saxophonist Sonny Stitt combined bebop, blues, and swing into a sound that took chances. A versatile player of alto, ...

Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

Away with pretenders! The throne belongs to but one Ring-a-Ding King. A quarter century after achieving stardom with ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Count Basie: The M Squad Theme (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Count Basie, photo by Herb Snitzer Pound for pound, the toughest 1950s TV cop was Lt. Frank Ballinger of Chicago...

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 ...

Count Basie: Michelle (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 06, 08

"Michelle" is one of Paul McCartney's many love songs, but the chromatic movement in the melody and descending guitar...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ PERSPECTIVES ON THE BEATLES

During the 1960s, jazz became more stylistically diverse than ever. Conventional norms were assertively challen...

Count Basie & His Orchestra (featuring Al Grey): Makin' Whoopee (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 31, 09

Frank Sinatra's 1966 live album Sinatra At The Sands with Count Basie is remembered as one of his finest. Highlight...

Martinez, Andre posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Martinez, Andre, drums; b. Brooklyn, NY, 14 October 1955. Growing up in a family of professional musicians, music ...

Count Basie & Joe Williams: Every Day I Have the Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

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Count Basie & Joe Williams: All Right, OK, You Win (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 05, 08

From 1967-1987, Sooner State license plates bore the legend "Oklahoma is OK." This less-than-ringing endorsement was ...

James, Harry (Haag) posted in Encyclopedia September 22, 08

Trumpeter and bandleader Harry James forged a reputation as one of the hottest horn blowers in Swing, and scored some...

Tony Bennett & Count Basie: Ol' Man River (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

Antonio Benedetto of Astoria, NY, might have sung bel canto, but Tony Bennett (as he became) actually loved to "rock ...

Count Basie: Speaking of Sounds (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 27, 09

One of four fine Thad Jones originals from an album in which all the material was written by current or former Basie ...

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