Search results for "Wellman Braud"

Duke Ellington: Washington Wobble (Rating: 62/100) posted in Music February 10, 08

As a tribute, this track serves double duty. "Washington Wobble" can refer to the Evergreen State, with its Cascadia ...

Louis Armstrong & Sidney Bechet: Coal Cart Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 10, 08

Since the post-Civil War development of its rich bituminous beds, West Virginia's coalfields have been as treach...

Duke Ellington: Jungle Nights in Harlem (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"The grotesque spectacle of Harlem nightclubs for all-white audiences," historian Ted Gioia believes, "served to miti...

Duke Ellington: Mood Indigo (1930) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Duke Ellington, photo by Herb Snitzer "Stan Kenton can stand in front of a thousand musicians and make a dra...

Duke Ellington: Cocktails for Two (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Among Duke Ellington's 7 singles and 2 albums enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame, the 2007 choice is least explicab...

Duke Ellington: Black and Tan Fantasy (OKeh) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Ellington's growing musical maturity from the 1920s through the 1940s is one of the most remarkable stories in the hi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM

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Duke Ellington (featuring Bubber Miley): The Mooche (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 26, 07

Duke Ellington once described Bubber Miley as "the epitome of soul and a master of the plunger mute." In time, M...

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...

Duke Ellington: It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

As Gunther Schuller points out in The Swing Era, the composer of this song that named its era was hardly dogmatic abo...

Duke Ellington: Sophisticated Lady (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 03, 07

During his illustrious 50-year recording career, Duke Ellington led >1,000 sessions, each yielding multiple tracks. W...

Duke Ellington: Daybreak Express (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

Unquestionably one of Duke Ellington’s masterpieces, “Daybreak Express” is one of the most thrilling train rides ever...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRAIN TRACKS

For big bands in the thirties, trains were the logical upgrade from the drudgery of the band bus. Airplanes wer...

Duke Ellington: Limehouse Blues (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

"Limehouse Blues" is not a blues, but it was inspired by the London neighborhood. When Duke Ellington recorded the so...

Jelly Roll Morton: High Society (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

Although Jelly Roll Morton is the leader of this recording, it is a rare instance where the pianist/composer is not t...

Braud, Wellman posted in Encyclopedia June 16, 09

Wellman Braud's percussive, slap-bass style made him a master at propelling the bands of Duke Ellington and others, i...

Sidney Bechet/Muggsy Spanier Big Four: That's A Plenty (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

The pairing of Sidney Bechet and Muggsy Spanier was the brainchild of Steve Smith, the president of the Hot Record So...

Duke Ellington: Beggar's Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music March 15, 09

The elegant Duke Ellington band is a rather surprising source for a track titled "Beggar's Blues." Yet with this tune...

Johnson, Bill (William Manuel) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Bassist Bill Johnson did more before 1917 to promote the New Orleans sound to a nationwide audience than virtually an...

Foster, Pops (George Murphy) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Bassist George Foster's powerful sense of rhythm and resonant tone rang out with authority across early jazz, earning...

Dodds, Baby (Warren) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

"We played for the comfort of the people," said drummer Baby Dodds, recalling the way he spread the joys of New Orlea...

Page, Walter (Sylvester) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

The walking bass is one of the defining sounds of jazz, and no one did more to establish this than “The Big One,” bas...

The Face of the Bass posted in Features and Interviews January 18, 08

by Don Mopsick, JCJB Bassist The great Milt Hinton often said that the bass is the “Atlas of jazz” because i...

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