Search results for "Vic Dickenson"

Pee Wee Russell: That Old Feeling (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 19, 08

Journalists in the 1950s adored Pee Wee Russell as much for his looks (think dyspeptic basset hound with a mustache) ...

Sidney Bechet: Blue Horizon (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 21, 09

This is the ultimate mellow Sidney Bechet blues track. He gives us the richest, most sumptuous clarinet tone of his r...

Red Allen All-Stars: Wild Man Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

A few days before CBS-TV's all-star special The Sound of Jazz (1957), most of the scheduled participants appeared for...

Count Basie All-Stars: I Left My Baby (1957) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

James Andrew Rushing, born in Oklahoma City in 1903, first recorded "I Left My Baby" in 1939 under the aegis of Willi...

Billie Holiday: Embraceable You (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Her autobiography is entitled Lady Sings the Blues, and her most endearing performance is her blues "Fine and Mellow"...

Alberta Hunter: My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 30, 07

Ain't it just like a woman? At the peak of her 1970s comeback, 83-year-old blues doyen Alberta Hunter catalogs the vi...

Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow (Sound of Jazz, 1957) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

This is generally acknowledged as the greatest jazz moment ever broadcast on national television. And with good reas...

Billie Holiday: Fine And Mellow (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 16, 09

“I summed up all existence in an epigram,” Oscar Wilde once bragged; Lester Young doesn’t quite capture all existence...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LESTER YOUNG AT 100

It’s hard to imagine what it was like. Today, New York City is so entrenched as the jazz scene of record that the...

Dickenson, Vic (Victor) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Vic Dickenson's whimsical and conversational trombone style, coupled with a keen sense of musical humor, made him o...

Jazz's Most Iconic Photo Is Half a Century Old posted in Features and Interviews August 11, 08

by Alan Kurtz "When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire," Dizzy Gilles...

Morton, Benny (Henry Sterling) posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 09

Benny Morton's consistent excellence on the trombone made him one of the few pioneers of jazz on his instrument to en...

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Wetmore, Dick (Richard Byron), violin, cornet, baritone horn, double bass, composer; b. Glens Falls, NY, 13 January 1...

LeDonne, Mike posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

LeDonne, Mike, piano and Hammond organ; b. Bridgeport, CT, 26 October 1956. His parent's names are Mickey and Marion ...

Sudhalter, Richard M. (Merrill) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Sudhalter, Richard M. (Merrill), trumpeter, historian, broadcaster. b. Boston, MA, 28 December 1938. d. New York, NY,...

Lea, Barbara posted in Encyclopedia March 02, 08

Vocalist Barbara Lea was born Barbara LeCocq on April 10, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan. She traces her musical heritage...

Count Basie Orchestra (featuring Jack Washington): Somebody Stole My Gal (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music December 22, 08

Jack Washington stands with Harry Carney as one of the first featured baritone saxophonists in jazz. Performing in Be...

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

                   Gerry Mulligan, ...

Teagarden, Jack (Weldon Leo) posted in Encyclopedia May 21, 09

Trombonist and singer Jack Teagarden may have been at ease in the tailgate style of his generation, but he was the fi...

In Conversation with Steve Kuhn posted in Features and Interviews September 11, 09

By Ted Panken                 ...

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