Search results for "Wilbur Green"

Jeff Beck: Love Is Green (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 22, 08

In this download age, the 5- to 10-sentence album reviews that appear in music magazines and on music web sites are o...

Sun Ra: Medicine for a Nightmare (Rating: 69/100) posted in Music November 29, 07

During a mid-1950s concert for mental patients at a Chicago hospital, a chronic catatonic rose from the floor, made h...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Clayton, Buck (Wilbur) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

The 1938 recordings by Count Basie's rhythm section are rightly celebrated in the annals of popular music for their ...

Green, Freddy (Frederick William) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09

Guitarist Freddy Green's rock-solid, four-to-the-bar chords can be heard through the cracks of the Count Basie Orche...

In Conversation with Johnny Griffin posted in Features and Interviews July 28, 08

By Ted Panken Can you recall your impressions when you arrived in New York for the first time in 1945 with Lion...

Dixon, Ben (Harold) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Dixon, Ben (Harold), drummer, composer, arranger, teacher, clinician; b. Gaffney, SC, 25 December 1934.  As an i...

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...

Chambers, Paul (Laurence Dunbar, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia February 19, 09

"Mr. P.C.," Paul Chambers, had a distinctively accurate style which made him the bassist of choice for both Miles Dav...

Thielemans, Toots (Jean-Baptiste Fréderic Isador) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Jean “Toots” Thielemans created a space for the chromatic harmonica in modern jazz with his sweet tone and harmonical...

Threadgill, Henry (Luther) posted in Encyclopedia March 10, 08

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill is an iconoclast and individualist. These qualities are evident ...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: George Wein posted in Features and Interviews April 28, 09

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...

Hardman, Bill (William Franklin) posted in Encyclopedia May 17, 09

Bill Hardman was one of hard bop's go-to trumpeters, best known for his three separate stints in Art Blakey’s Jazz Me...

In Conversation with Mike Stern posted in Features and Interviews October 02, 09

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Lewis, Mel (Sokoloff, Melvin) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Drummer Mel Lewis set a new standard for the modern big band as co-leader of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in th...

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