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The New York Times wrote that "the album's songs, Mr. Rawls's rich drawling delivery and production that adds discreet pop flavoring to ensemble jazz arrangements all work together to bring jazz, blues and soul inflections into a perfectly relaxed and natural blend." [10] Newsday praised the "superb session help from George Benson and Cornell ...
Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet. (1987) Endlessly. (1988) Oop-Pop-A-Da. (1988) Endlessly is an album by the American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, released in 1988. [1] [2] Gillespie supported the album with a North American tour. [3] Endlessly peaked in the top ten of Billboard' s Jazz Albums chart.
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles area city of El Segundo since 2018, [4] it is the fifth-largest newspaper in nation and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760 and 500,000 online subscribers. [5]
Yanow was born in New York City and grew up near Los Angeles. [1][4] Starting in 1974, he was a regular reviewer of many jazz styles and was the jazz editor for Record Review. He wrote for many jazz and arts magazines, including JazzTimes, Jazziz, Down Beat, Cadence, CODA, and the Los Angeles Jazz Scene. In September 2002, Yanow was interviewed ...
The Los Angeles Times admired "Robin Eubanks' fat trombone doubling Coleman's elongated alto sax melody through 'Neutral Zone', and the slippery, peek-a-boo performance of 'Ice Moves'." The St. Petersburg Times wrote: "Taking polyrhythmic cues from Africa, Coleman has derived a freewheeling funk beat that eschews taut 4/4 patterns."
Jazz Calendar is a ballet created in 1968 by Frederick Ashton to the music of Richard Rodney Bennett. The ballet was first performed on 9 January 1968 by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with designs by Derek Jarman. [1] The work was performed over 50 times up to 1979 by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden but is not part ...
The Los Angeles Times called trumpeter Brian Lynch "a splendid writer and soloist." [4] Scott Yanow of AllMusic stated: "The final recording by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers found the 70-year old drummer (just months before his death) doing what he loved best, leading a group of young players through hard-swinging and generally new music in the ...
The New York Times called Nightflight one of the best blues albums of 1984, writing that Robinson's "guitar style has evolved from the aggressive, sharp attack of his 1950's Duke recordings to an understated, brooding, behind-the-beat approach, as if trying to push the pulse of the music."