Name: Nick Deriso
Dateline: Louisiana
Weblog: somethingelsemusic.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 28
First Published: Thursday, February 8, 2007
Last Published: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Currently listing articles 28-1:
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Music Review: Bill Moring & Way Out East - Spaces In Time— Assorted jazz that moves your soul. That's the Way Out East way.
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Music Review: Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery - Bags Meets Wes— A chance meeting of two jazz legends turned into a memorable record.
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Music Review: Maceo Parker - Roots and Grooves— The most fully realized compliment ever paid to Ray Charles makes up for the hip-shakers that are often too polite.
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Oscar Peterson, 1925-2007— Jazz piano giant Peterson, whom Duke Ellington once referred to as the "Maharajah of the keyboard," died Sunday.
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Forgotten Series: Ike Turner - 1958-1959— Ike Turner spun a very intense mixture of what would become full-bore rock 'n' roll.
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The Best Beatles Songs You're Not Already Sick Of— Some of our favorite Beatles songs that didn't become hits.
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Music Review: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Caravan— Art Blakey demanded bravado from his bands, and this one was perhaps his most intense and adventurous.
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One Track Mind: Journey - "Don't Stop Believin"— Will we have to wait for the movie to find out why Tony Soprano chose Journey over Tony Bennett?
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One Track Mind: Paul McCartney "See Your Sunshine" — This is the kind of pure pop that McCartney parlayed into a soundtrack for the decade following the Beatles. And just as welcome.
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Music Review: Alvin Batiste - Marsalis Music Honors Series— On his swan song release, Batiste remains that most special of things: The old-school modernist.
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Music Review: John Mellencamp - Freedom's Road— Mellencamp has never sounded more comfortable in relating the uncertainties that exist inside the reliable traditions of middle America.
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Music Review: Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back— Staples transcends humble homage to record one of the most emotionally honest albums I've heard in years.
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Forgotten series: Dizzy Gillespie— People told him those bullfrog cheeks would ruin his playing. The embouchure, very important.
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Music Review: Wynton Marsalis - The Magic Hour— Marsalis finally returns to small-band work in his Blue Note debut.
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Music Review: Julian "Cannonball" Adderly - Somethin' Else— This is the lesser-known, but very worthy, companion piece to Kind of Blue that every Miles fan should have.
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Music Review: Joshua Redman - Wish— On Wish, Dewey Redman's son earns his degree in Ornette-thology.
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Music Review: Miles Davis with Gil Evans - Miles Ahead— Originally labeled Miles Davis plus 19, with Gil Evans, it was that 20th guy, who was the important one.
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Music Review: The Best Lester Young Ever, Says Nick— Pres was in bad shape physically during the 1950's but when the mood struck him, his tenor was still in fine form.
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Forgotten Series: Idris Muhammad - Power of Soul— "Acid-jazz" leading light Idris Muhammad has drummed on countless great records. Here's a great record he made himself.
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Best Tenors Ever, Says Nick— The ten best tenor saxophone players in all of jazz. Says me.
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Music Review: Branford Marsalis - Bloomington— Branford's message was simple: "We're going on a ride, guys. Why don't you take a seat, strap yourself in, and hold on."
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Forgotten Series: Coleman Hawkins— Hawkins took a chance by stirring in some talented unknowns that had yet to reach a mainstream audience. The gamble paid off.
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Desert Island and The Beatles— If you could have only one Beatles album, which one would it be?
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Sleeper Picks: Johnnie Johnson - Blue Hand Johnnie— Every legend has at least one sideman who made him great. For Chuck Berry, that sideman was Johnnie Johnson.
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Music Review: Peter Gabriel - Us— After a good bit of digesting, I found Us to be one of my favorites by this most challenging artist.
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Forgotten Series: Bill Evans - The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings— Evans found, with his bassist Scott LaFaro, an improbable relationship, one based on simultaneous composition and improvisation.
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One Track Mind: Elton John - "Come Down in Time"— You listen in slack-jawed wonder — realizing that "Come Down in Time," alone, could have established the legend of any lesser artist.
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Forgotten Series: Leon Russell— A quick look at the career of perhaps the last of the bird-flipping genre-busters.
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