Search results for "Tadd Dameron"

Tadd Dameron: Super Jet (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

Just a month after the classic Miles Davis Quintet (Davis, Coltrane, Garland, Chambers and Jones) recorded its final ...

Dexter Gordon (featuring Leo Parker): Dexter's Riff (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music December 22, 08

Performing with Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, and Illinois Jacquet in the 1940s, Leo Parker looked to be prepping ...

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

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Babs' Three Bips and a Bop: Oop-pop-a-da (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

First, Newark-born Lee Brown morphed into turban-clad Ram Singh to chauffeur matinee idol Errol Flynn around Hollywoo...

Fats Navarro: Nostalgia (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 28, 07

Among bebop's catchiest melodies, "Nostalgia" (based on "Out of Nowhere") includes a thoughtful intro (rare in bop), ...

Charlie Parker: Ko-Ko (1948 live version) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 29, 09

This is one of the slickest melodies that I've ever heard. And the manner in which it is played is just sophisticated...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STEVE COLEMAN ON CHARLIE PARKER

The music of Charles Christopher Parker—as well as the music of many other musicians—probably has the greatest infl...

Dameron, Tadd (Tadley Ewing Peake) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 08

Called the "romanticist" of bebop by Dexter Gordon, pianist Tadd Dameron was known for the substance and depth of hi...

Sarah Vaughan: If You Could See Me Now (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

A year after recording with Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker, the finest singer of the bebop era had already turned h...

John Coltrane: Good Bait (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 25, 08

This is from Soultrane, one of the first significant Coltrane records that I lived with as a real young player and ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JOE LOVANO SELECTS ESSENTIAL JOHN COLTRANE

                     Joe Lovano,...

Count Basie: Stay On It (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

It says quite a bit when ensembles led by Basie and Dizzy Gillespie give equally convincing performances of a particu...

Roy Haynes: Our Delight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 21, 08

Phineas Newborn is certainly one of Bud Powell's greatest heirs. On this first Roy Haynes trio album, there's no doub...

James Moody & Hank Jones: Good Bait (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 03, 08

The loping "Good Bait" is one of the friendliest, most optimistic tunes in the standard jazz repertoire, making it a ...

Regina Carter: Our Delight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

When Regina Carter joined the String Trio of New York in 1992, she succeeded Charles Burnham, and before him Billy Ba...

Kelsey Jillette: Medley – Hot House / What Is This Thing Called Love? (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 17, 09

Every time I hear a version of Tadd Dameron's "Hot House," my eyes and ears return to the one-of-a-kind video clip of...

Clifford Brown-Max Roach: Good Bait (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

When Harold Land left the quintet in November 1955 to tend to an ailing grandmother in California (he also missed his...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Ted Heath: Ladybird (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 18, 08

By this time in its history, the Heath band's schedule was made up of tours, BBC broadcasts, recordings for U.K. Decc...

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...

Navarro, Fats (Theodore) posted in Encyclopedia January 18, 09

Theodore “Fats” Navarro played the trumpet with a clear, resonating tone at dizzying speeds. His command of scales, r...

Harris, Barry (Doyle) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09

Pianist Barry Harris seamlessly blends bebop’s lyrical phrasing with an exceptional accompanying style, drawn from hi...

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...

Combs, Paul (Lawrence) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Combs, Paul (Lawrence), saxophonist, flutist, composer, educator; b. St. Louis, MO, 7 June 1946. He was born to Flore...

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