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Mark Murphy: On Green Dolphin Street (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 31, 08

Right from the start, when Murphy sings the verse solely with piano, you know it's going to be a great vocal version ...

J.J. Johnson/ Kai Winding Trombone Octet: A Night In Tunisia (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 04, 09

In April 1956, eight of New York's top trombonists joined an all-star rhythm section to record Jay & Kai + 6, an albu...

Antonio Carlos Jobim: Andorinha (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music July 16, 09

"Andorinha" sounds like most Jobim from the era, complete with a few added musical features. The electric keyboards ...

Dinah Washington: All of Me (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music April 08, 08

It's easy to see why novice filmmaker (and non-jazz fan) Bert Stern picked "All of Me" instead of a different Dinah W...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY

During the 1950s, the Newport Jazz Festival was an outdoor jamboree held in the exclusive environs of Rhod...

Antonio Carlos Jobim: Tereza My Love (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music September 19, 08

Antonio Carlos Jobim, one of the main architects of Brazilian music, finds himself in great company on this highly un...

Jimmy Smith: Walk on the Wild Side (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Unrelated to rocker Lou Reed's raunchy 1972 hit of the same name, Jimmy Smith's cover of Elmer Bernstein's movie them...

John Lewis: Three Little Feelings (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

This track both connects and disconnects Birth of the Cool and Third Stream. BOTC holdovers include Miles, J.J., Barb...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Billie Holiday: For All We Know (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

Billie told arranger/conductor Ray Ellis she wanted to “sound like Sinatra” after hearing Gordon Jenkins’s scoring fo...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL BILLIE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

              Billie Holiday, artwork by Michae...

Bill Evans & Claus Ogerman: Symbiosis (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 22, 08

Bill Evans was working in familiar territory on most of his 1970s recordings, playing standards and his own compositi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS

Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...

Antonio Carlos Jobim: God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music July 16, 09

Atypical experimentalism rules Antonio Carlos Jobim's "God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun." The hippie-minded ...

Gil Evans: Moon Taj (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 05, 08

John Carisi was one of the most highly respected composers in jazz, at least by those insiders who were aware of his ...

Fontana, Carl (Carl Charles Fontana) posted in Encyclopedia August 18, 09

Few trombonists have been able to convey the air of effortlessness in improvisation that was Carl Fontana's signatu...

Grassi, Lou (Louis) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Grassi, Lou (Louis), drums; b. Summit, NJ, 21 January 1947. He has a middle name Thomas which he took at the age of 1...

DiGregorio, Anthony Christopher (Tony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

DiGregorio, Anthony Christopher (Tony), guitarist, composer; b. Brooklyn, New  York, 1 June 1958. He was raised ...

Ron Carter: A Selected Discography posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 03, 07

Ron Carter is the consummate sideman, and one of the most active accompanists in the history of jazz. But Carter has...

Rissmiller, Gary (Robert) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Rissmiller, Gary (Robert), drums; b. Bethlehem, PA, 8 March 1955. Rissmiller has been playing drums for over 32 ye...

Lowry, Steve (Steven Michael) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Lowry, Steve (Steven Michael), trumpet, fluegalhorn, voice; b. Newark, NJ, 29 September 1945. His parents are Mary An...

McKusick, Hal (Harold Wilfred McKusick, Jr) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

McKusick, Hal [Harold Wilfred McKusick, Jr], saxes, clarinets, flutes, composer (also Keyboard knowledge and orchestr...

Nakasian, Stephanie (Patricia Stephanie) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Nakasian, Stephanie (Patricia Stephanie), singer; b. Washington DC, 29 August 1954. Her mother sang for troops in WWI...

Kuhn, Rolf posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Kuhn, Rolf, clarinet; b. Cologne, Germany, 29 September 1929. His brother is pianist Joachim Kuhn. Rolf demonstrat...

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