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Tina Brooks: Good Ole Soul (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 13, 08

A week after Tina Brooks played on Freddie Hubbard's debut recording as a leader, Open Sesame, Hubbard returned the f...

Tina Brooks: For Heaven's Sake (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 13, 08

Fans of Tina Brooks will surely find this beautiful ballad painful to listen to – knowing that, after just a decade o...

Tina Brooks: Star Eyes (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 15, 08

Tina Brooks did not record during the last dozen years of his life, and was a largely forgotten figure at the time of...

Freddie Hubbard: But Beautiful (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

Freddie Hubbard was among the most frequent members of the Jazz Messengers' later years. He first appeared with the b...

There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Jackie McLean: Appointment in Ghana (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Although later influenced by free jazz, Jackie McLean was once the quintessential hard-bop altoist. His Appointment i...

Jimmy Smith: The Sermon (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

“The Sermon” is a straight-ahead, 12-bar blues in which everyone solos. It also was the tune that proved, once and fo...

Brooks, "Tina" (Harold Floyd) posted in Encyclopedia May 22, 08

Tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks was a rhythm-and-blues trained hard bopper whose career was cut short by narcotics addi...

Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog May 29, 08

As regular visitors to this site know, jazz.com takes a different approach to reviewing music. Our team of more t...

Pullen, Don (Gabriel) posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 09

Pianist Don Pullen straddled the line between the lyrical devices of bebop and the primal dissonance of free jazz. Th...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Regular site visitors to jazz.com are probably familiar with our Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians. But they might no...

Revisiting Jazz Classics posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 10, 08

Five days per week, jazz.com highlights a classic recording from the past. This feature, called A Classic Revisit...

Lyons, Jimmy posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons took Charlie Parker's innovations and ran with them into free jazz, where he developed h...

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...

Freddie Redd: O.D. (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

The New York Times called Jack Gelber's off-Broadway play The Connection (1959) "a farrago of dirt, empty talk and ex...

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 ...

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...

McLean, Jackie posted in Encyclopedia July 18, 08

Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean was one of the most talented young Harlemites who followed Charlie Parker down the pat...

Jarvis, Clifford (Osborne) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08

Drummer Clifford Jarvis is best known for his two decades with one group: the Sun Ra Arkestra. Many may be surprised ...

I hate to spoil a birthday party. But the current celebration of Blue Note Records' 70th anniversary inevitabl...

Coles, Johnny posted in Encyclopedia February 19, 09

Trumpeter Johnny Coles knew how to say the essential with very few notes: his sound was fragile, endearing, soft and ...

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