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Dizzy Gillespie: Manteca (1947 version) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Dizzy Gillepsie, photo by Herb Snitzer The “Latin tinge” in jazz dates back at least to Jelly Roll Morton, w...

Will Sellenraad: It's Been A Long Time (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 26, 09

The title came about probably because drummer Victor Lewis wrote it a long time ago, but finally brought it to l...

Will Sellenraad: Prayer (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 22, 09

You might think that a tribute to the great Elvin Jones would be a thunderous song, to represent the drummer's monume...

Bill Wimmer: Soy Califa (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music March 10, 09

Omaha isn’t the first place that comes to mind when one thinks of very happening jazz scenes, but obviously there's s...

Jessica Williams: Alone Together (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 15, 09

Sometime after Williams recorded this absorbing extended live version of "Alone Together," she surprisingly wrote the...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JESSICA WILLIAMS

Superlatives abound in the many reviews and articles about the now 61-year-old pianist Jessica Williams, as well as...

Joel Frahm: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

Archie Shepp once said "Ballads are the biggest challenge. You can hear every minute of every hour of every year a gu...

Bill Wimmer: Cherry Red (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music March 10, 09

Tenor saxophonist Bill Wimmer leads his group of native Nebraskans on this funky tune credited to the blues shouter a...

Stan Getz: I Thought About You (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 30, 09

In the mid-1980s, Stan Getz was living in Menlo Park, California—famous for start-ups and high tech, rather than jazz...

Stan Getz: Falling In Love (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 05, 08

There are those who may not have realized that Serenity was recorded live on the same day in 1987 that produced Getz'...

Stan Getz: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

Stan Getz wasn’t exactly prolix, preferring to let his Selmer MarkVI do the talking for him. But on the occasions wh...

Stan Getz: Voyage (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

During this extraordinary 1987 Copenhagen concert, the man we have come to know as “The Sound” pauses to request that...

Woody Shaw: Escape Velocity (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Woody Shaw is one of the great overlooked trumpeters in jazz history. He bridged the gap between hard bop and the ava...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS

                 Trumpeter by...

Stan Getz: A Time for Love (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Early in his career, Stan Getz was dubbed The Sound, just as Sinatra was The Voice. Small wonder. Getz's tenor tone w...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Woody Shaw: Theme for Maxine (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 25, 07

"Woody Shaw was the next major stylist on his instrument," Michael Cuscuna writes, "after Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

James Carter: Bro. Dolphy (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 28, 08

Some artists try to maintain a single mood or attitude for an entire CD . . . or perhaps even an entire career. Not ...

Stan Getz: Blood Count (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 28, 08

"Blood Count" was originally titled "Blue Cloud," to be the first part of a three-part piece that Strayhorn began wri...

Woody Shaw: Woody I: On The New Ark (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

I feel that in many ways Woody III is the masterpiece of Woody Shaw’s recorded output in the studio The three pieces ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BRIAN LYNCH SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL WOODY SHAW TRACKS

Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Woody Shaw: Isabel the Liberator (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 17, 08

In the late 1970s and early 1980s Woody Shaw had arguably the finest touring jazz (straight ahead) small group on the...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BRIAN LYNCH SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL WOODY SHAW TRACKS

Editor's Note: From the nature of his remarks on these dozen choice tracks by the iconic trumpeter Woody Shaw (1944-1...

Sonny Rollins: More Than You Know (Live) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 22, 08

Tenorist Sonny Rollins is the closest thing the jazz world has to a force of nature. And like tornadoes and earthqua...

Stan Getz: Blood Count (1982 studio version) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 05, 09

Billy Strayhorn wrote it; Duke Ellington recorded it; but make no mistake—Stan Getz owned this song. In the 1980s, G...

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