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Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey
by C. Andrew Hovan
While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...
Lester Young/Roy Eldridge/Harry Edison: Laughin' to Keep from Cryin'
by David Adler
This 1958 all-star date documents Pres on his last legs, about a year away from death. His tone is faltering and his energy level is low — especially on the clarinet, which he plays on “Salute to Benny" and “They Can’t Take That Away From Me." But still, on “Gypsy In My Soul" and “Please Don’t ...
Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio
By Lester Young
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 1998
Track listing: Ad Lib Blues; I Can't Get Started; Just You, Just Me; Almost Like Being in Love; Tea for Two; There Will Never Be Another You; (Back Home Again in) Indiana; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Star Dust; I?m Confessin';; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; These Foolish Things; (It Takes) Two to Tango; I Can't Get Started (False Start).
