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Gerald Wilson: Watermelon Man (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Gerald Wilson always included new compositions of artists he respected. His was the first big band besides Duke Ellin...
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Gerald Wilson: Blues for Yna Yna (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Gerald Wilson led bands on and off during the 1950s, but except for a group of recordings for the King label in '54, ...
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Gerald Wilson: Nancy Jo (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 03, 08Named for one of Gerald Wilson's daughters, this track is a blues with a major difference: every chord change is an a...
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Teddy Wilson (featuring Billie Holiday): What a Little Moonlight Can Do (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 20, 08In June 1935, John Hammond approached Brunswick and secured a 12-month contract guaranteeing one session a month buil...
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Teddy Wilson Orchestra (with Billie Holiday): He Ain't Got Rhythm (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 14, 09Besides great jazz musicians playing superbly, this track is a sheer delight because of the lyrics, and Billie Holida...
Teddy Wilson: More Than You Know (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 09, 08Teddy Wilson had already recorded this song as a sideman with Benny Goodman, and also under his own leadership with B...
Teddy Wilson (featuring Billie Holiday): I'll Get By (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 20, 08One of the high spots of recorded jazz is the Holiday-Young collaborations. Today these recordings are remembered for...
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Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton: Nice Work If You Can Get It (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 15, 09This is another of those tunes with clever lyrics telling a little story that speaks to facets and feelings in people...
Teddy Wilson (with Billie Holiday): Say It With A Kiss (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 16, 09If there be any doubt that Prez and Lady Day were musical soulmates, one listen to their work together on “Say It Wit...
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It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...
Red Norvo: I Surrender, Dear (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music May 28, 08This may be Red Norvo's date, but the stars on this track are trombonist Jenney and pianist Wilson. Jenney is a lyri...
Benny Goodman: Moonglow (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07B.G.'s come-hither clarinet and Hamp's voluptuous vibes make "Moonglow" one of jazz's most romantic encounters. The U...
Red Norvo: Congo Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 15, 08In the 1950s, best-selling author Jack Kerouac godfathered the Beat Generation, an unwashed gaggle of ofay deadb...
Benny Goodman Quartet: I Got Rhythm (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 12, 09If you just heard the record, you might think this performance was taped surreptitiously at some back room jam sessio...
Lester Young: All of Me (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 12, 08Propelled by Jo Jones's dynamic sticks, this tune (originally from the album Pres and Teddy) finds Pres in great shap...
Billie Holiday: Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 19, 07Making "Yankee Doodle" its official song was in keeping with Connecticut's Revolutionary spirit. As first sung by Bri...
Billie Holiday: Mean to Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 30, 07“I guess I’m not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse,” Billie Holiday recalled of a childhoo...
Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 31, 07Darling, I'd Die Without You, among the hoariest songwriting clichés, was never expressed with greater despondency th...
Benny Goodman: Avalon (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 17, 07Benny Goodman Photo by Herb Snitzer In Hollywood's sappy biopic The Benny Goodman Story...
Red Norvo: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music December 08, 07In his day, Red Norvo recorded and gigged with everyone -- Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Charles Min...
Mildred Bailey: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 14, 08Mildred Bailey's introduction to the radio audience is part of this track. She mentions that "Motherless Child" was a...
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