Search results for "Ted Gioia"

Ted Kooshian: Top Cat (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music May 07, 08

Despite his name, Top Cat didn't enjoy much time at the top. His Hanna-Barbera cartoon show was canceled after only ...

Cuong Vu: Accelerated Thoughts (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music February 28, 08

Cuong Vu delights in contrasts, and builds his compositions by juxtaposing rather than blending. "Accelerated Though...

Benny Carter: Nightfall (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 11, 09

Jazz history books will tell you how Lester Young single-handedly forged a more lithe and fluid approach to the tenor...

Loren Stillman: Man of Mystery (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 22, 09

In the hands of Loren Stillman, jazz is an austere art. His music is purged of licks and thrives in a funk-free zone...

Ike Sturm: Kyrie (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 28, 09

For a music so closely associated with vice, from Storyville to the speakeasies and beyond, jazz has developed a surp...

Gioia, Ted posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Gioia, Ted (Theodore), pianist, composer and jazz writer; b. Hawthorne, CA, October 1957. He lived there until he lef...

Sophie Tucker: Some of These Days (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music September 12, 09

Sometimes the edgy and risqué performers are the ones that seem the most dated to a later generation. What was darin...

Dizzy Gillespie: Manteca (1947 version) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Dizzy Gillepsie, photo by Herb Snitzer The “Latin tinge” in jazz dates back at least to Jelly Roll Morton, w...

Julia Dollison: Autumn in New York (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Yes, there are undiscovered gems in the growing ranks of self-produced CDs. Dollison is a major talent who deserves...

Stan Getz & Jimmy Rowles: The Peacocks (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Rowles was on a roll in the 1970s. After years of accompanying singers and languishing in obscurity, Rowles relocate...

Billie Holiday & Lester Young: All of Me (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 09, 07

If hot jazz was defined by Louis Armstrong in the 1920s, then the lyrical side of jazz found its perfect exponents in...

Ed Palermo: Toads of the Short Forest (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 08, 08

The next time some sourpuss tells you that the big band is dead . . . whip out your copy of The Ed Palermo Big Band P...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZY SIDE OF FRANK ZAPPA

"Jazz is the music of unemployment," Frank Zappa once quipped. But don't let these cynical words mis-lead you. Zapp...

Tierney Sutton: Get Happy (version one) (Rating: 77/100) posted in Music February 14, 08

Tracks like this are perhaps a sign that postmodern jazz has run its course. When we start interpreting lyrics to evo...

Lennie Tristano (with Lee Konitz): If I Had You (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 07, 08

Mr. Tristano's musical persona had so many different sides. Here he comps with thick, bouncy voicings behind Konitz'...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LENNIE TRISTANO

Few jazz pianists have demonstrated a more expansive and awe-inspiring vision of the improvisational arts than Lenn...

Jimmie Lunceford: Harlem Shout (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 16, 08

Jimmie Lunceford is the odd man out in jazz history. This bandleader made no waves with his musicianship – his prefe...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM

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Diana Krall: If I Had You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 24, 08

Diana Krall lets Benny Green take over the keyboard for this performance, and they send the rest of the rhythm sectio...

Paul Desmond: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 12, 08

Desmond's live recordings at Toronto's Basin Street club, made less than two years before his death, rank among my fa...

Duke Ellington & Ray Brown: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music July 12, 08

This recording, made 18 months before Ellington's death, aimed to recapture the magic of the Duke's 1939-1941 collabo...

Oscar Peterson: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 27, 08

Miles Davis once famously suggested that Oscar Peterson sounded like he had to learn how to play the blues. To which...

The Derek Trucks Band: Maybe This Time (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 22, 09

Now that Derek Trucks has recorded with McCoy Tyner, maybe jazz fans will start paying attention to this exceptional ...

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