Search results for "Victor Feldman"

Victor Feldman: Too Blue (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Transplanted Londoner Victor Feldman was 23 when he recorded "Too Blue" with 22-year-old Scott LaFaro, the Earl Scrug...

Miles Davis: Summer Night (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 29, 07

This is a hidden gem in the Miles Davis discography, a dark and moody ballad performance that got lost in the shuffle...

Steely Dan: Black Cow (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 11, 09

1977 was a year in which disco reigned supreme but underneath the glamor and the glitz was Steely Dan's epic masterpi...

Shelly Manne: Fallout (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

On his two albums of Peter Gunn music, Shelly Manne's streamlining was to Henry Mancini's hulking originals what Cali...

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 ...

Cannonball Adderley: Azule Serape (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

This crystal-clear live recording from the long-running West Coast Lighthouse club puts the listener up close to the ...

Shelly Manne: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

In 1959, Shelly Manne led his L.A.-based Men (why not Menne?) north to Frisco's famed Blackhawk for a multi-album liv...

Shelly Manne: Sorta Blue (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Conte Candoli was Superman's sibling. Pete Candoli, lead trumpeter in Woody Herman's mid-1940s First Herd, would char...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARMON-IZED TRUMPETS

"It has heretofore been a great annoyance for the neighborhood if a person commences to practice on a brass inst...

Shelly Manne: Summertime (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music July 29, 08

In 1959 producer Lester Koenig had the good sense to record Shelly Manne & His Men for four nights at San Francisco's...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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Steely Dan: Aja (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 18, 08

Wayne Shorter, along with the other founding members of Weather Report, put fusion on the map in the early 1970s. The...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSSENTIAL WAYNE SHORTER TRACKS

Early stints with Horace Silver and Maynard Ferguson introduced Wayne Shorter’s riveting sound to the jazz community ...

Steely Dan: Josie (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

From the wildly successful Aja CD, "Josie" is constructed around light jazz flourishes, a horn section that keeps the...

Steely Dan: Hey Nineteen (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

While the narrator in Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen" may not be a true "Gaucho" in the South American sense, he gets his...

Steely Dan: Do it Again (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

A #6 single and Steely Dan's highest chart entry, "Do It Again" acts as a blueprint for what would follow in their di...

Steely Dan: Rikki Don't Lose That Number (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

Some Steely Dan fans have speculated as to whether or not Donald Fagen's composition "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" w...

Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

The hidden meaning of Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic" will remain uncovered without asking Walter Becker and/or Donald F...

Marty Paich: Violets for Your Furs (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 30, 07

Art Pepper was a leading West Coast alto saxophonist during the 1950s before personal problems removed him from the s...

Henry Mancini: My Manne Shelly (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Henry Mancini was the sincerest man in Hollywood. Donning different s...

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 ...

Nancy Wilson: Midnight Sun (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Alaska is the only U.S. state where periodically the sun shines around the clock. Thankfully, Nancy Wilson lets us un...

Lorez Alexandria: Show Me (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Who knew? Turns out the Cockney Cinderella who morphs into a duchess for a musical set in Mayfair actually hailed fro...

Frank Rosolino: Too Marvelous for Words (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

After breaking in by scatting on Gene Krupa's "Lemon Drop" (1949), Frank Rosolino emerged during a stint with St...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: RING-A-DING-DINGS: TWELVE 1960S MALE VOCAL HIPSTERS

Sinatra named them, Sinatra claimed them. Frank's album Ring-a-Ding Ding! (1960) christened a boatload of actual and ...

Steely Dan: Peg (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

"Peg" is a rare instance in Steely Dan's discography where the music takes precedence over the lyrics. While the sto...

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