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Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
by David Rickert
Alfred Lion was so captivated by Monk that once he got him in the studio, he recorded everything he had. However, most of the jazz listening public wasn’t quite open to such a maverick approach, and Monk struggled to find an audience early on. Once Monk hopped to Riverside after a brief stint at Prestige, producer ...
Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
by C. Michael Bailey
I listen to a great deal of music. Categorically, I can say there are really only two types'good and better. As with the appreciation of anything, time must pass before the inherent value can be appropriately realized. That is why it is such great pleasure to review re-released recordings. More often than not, older recordings that ...
Jimmy McGriff: McGriff Avenue
by Joel Roberts
Jimmy McGriff was originally slated to record this album on September 11, 2001 at Rudy van Gelder's studio in New Jersey, but the tragic events of that day led to an obvious need for rescheduling. As a result, the session was split in two, with somewhat different lineups at each. However, fans of the organist's trademark ...
Wes Montgomery: Boss Guitar
by Kurt Gottschalk
Wes Montgomery recorded Boss Guitar at age 38, near the end of his acclaimed Riverside years and just five years before his death. While the records that followed would give him some radio hits (and lose him some fans), the 1963 session was a time when he really could make the bold claim of the album’s ...
Bill Evans: Getting Sentimental: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Devotees of the immortal Bill Evans will jump at this bouquet of previously unreleased cuts, taped by fan Mike Harris at the Village Vanguard on January 15, 1978. During that week, Evans was trying out a different replacement for bassist Eddie Gomez each night, among them Rufus Reid and George Mraz. This recording was Michael Moore's ...
Bud Freeman: All-Star Swing Sessions
by Florence Wetzel
In the ‘20s, Chicago was one of jazz’s key geographic streams, and at the heart of the city’s music was the famed Austin High School gang, a group of young men who loved the new music so much they decided to play it. Amongst this group—which included Frank Teschemacher, Eddie Condon, Jimmy McPartland, and sometimes Benny ...
Cal Tjader: Cuban Fantasy
by Chris M. Slawecki
George Shearing's bands with percussionists Willie Bobo, Armando Peraza, and Mongo Santamaria also featured Cal Tjader. After his time with Shearing, Tjader employed his drums, timbales, percussion and vibes as a longstanding pillar of the San Francisco jazz scene. Bobo and Santamaria would later realign with Tjader in some of these bands. So did Vince Guaraldi, ...
Bill Evans: Getting Sentimental
by Russell Moon
Getting Sentimental is a bootleg tape released with the permission of the Evans estate. Like the recordings of The Secret Sessions box, it was recorded without Evans' knowledge by a fan who was a regular customer of the Village Vanguard, in this particular case on January 15, 1978. Bassist Eddie Gomez had recently left Evans after ...
Nightlife In Tokyo
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Nemesis 2. I Can Dream, Can't I? 3. Nightlife In Tokyo 4. I'll Be Around 5. Cold Smoke 6. Island 7.
Big R.C. 8. Lock up and Bow Out
