Weekend Track Review Roundup – Jazz.com

January 24, 2008 · 0 comments

Weekend Track Review Roundup

Jazz.com continues its quixotic but noble pursuit of reviewing all the great - and even not-so-great – jazz tracks recorded since Jelly Roll Morton was in swaddling clothes.

Here is a round-up of a few of the reviews published during the last the ten days. As always, we provide smart and final assessments, and a ranking based on our proprietary 100 point scale. We also include, whenever possible, links for fast (and legal) downloading. And site visitors are can add their own two cents, or even high denomination bills, in the 'comments' section at the bottom of every review.

You can search through all 1,400 reviews in our large (and constantly growing) database by using the search engine in the left sidebar on our Music page.

Count Basie (with J.J. Johnson): Rambo
Count Basie: Stay On It
John Coltrane: The Night has a Thousand Eyes
Miles Davis: Footprints
Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan: All the Things You Are
Duke Ellington: Jack the Bear
Bill Evans (with Claus Ogerman): Symbiosis
Taylor Haskins: Live Free or Die
Billie Holiday: Good Morning Heartache
Stan Kenton: All the Things You Are
Stan Kenton: Elegy for Alto
Oliver Lake: Montana Grass Song
Pat Martino: Dozen Down
Charles Mingus: II B.S.
King Oliver and Louis Armstrong: Chimes Blues
Jack Reilly: Round Midnight
Shorty Rogers: Didi
Jamie Saft: Ariel
Ken Serio: Big Blue Cars
George Shearing: So Rare
Wayne Shorter (with Milton Nascimento): Ponte de Areia
Horace Silver: Enchantment
Steely Dan: Aja
John Taylor: Tramonto
Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-tette: The Carioca
Lennie Tristano: 317 E. 32nd Street
Mark Turner (with Joshua Redman): 317 E. 32nd Street
McCoy Tyner (with Michael Brecker): Flying High
Weather Report: Elegant People
John Zorn: New Jersey Scum Swamp

This blog entry was posted by Ted Gioia.

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