34 Results for "carroll dickerson"

To My Queen is Walt Dickerson's crowning achievement, a perfect balance between his intellectually advanced concepts and deeply felt passion. Dickerson had always displayed a fertile imagination, but there hadn't been much indication that his vision could be as expansive as it was on...

DRG's The Magic of Diahann Carroll is a two-fer CD reissue of the two Carroll LPs that United Artists Records released in 1960, the studio set Diahann Carroll and André Previn (UAS-6069) and the live album Diahann Carroll at the Persian Room (UAS-6080). Despite being only...

A largely overlooked duo improv date recorded on July 11, 1978, by the Danish jazz impresario Nils Winther, Visions matches Walt Dickerson's cool vibes with Sun Ra's idiosyncratic piano in a way that shows both men's contrasting styles to surprisingly cohesive effect. This was not...

On Carroll's 19th effort, she interprets some of her personal favorite songs (hence the title, taken from the Cole Porter number performed here). The record also dips into the songbooks of Stephen Sondheim, Harold Arlen, Charlie Parker and Billy Strayhorn. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

This is one of the better later recordings by Barbara Carroll. A op-based pianist and a cabaret singer, Carroll balanced her two very different skills quite well throughout the date. There are a few instrumentals along the way (including "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Lester...

Karen Carroll has plenty of opportunity to strut her stuff on her debut, Had My Fun. Unlike many contemporary blues albums, which are highly polished blasts of blues-rock, Had My Fun takes its time. Many of the songs are torchy slow blues or down and dirty Chicago blues -- either way, they sound...

This reissue from Collectables highlights an out of print 1967 Diahann Carroll LP, Say Wonderful Things. Originally released on Columbia as Nobody Sees Me Cry, these 11 tracks focus on easy listening versions of standards from the songbooks of, among others, Sammy Cahn, Harold Arlen and Lorenz...

Still only in her mid-twenties, Diahann Carroll had a varied career leading up to her sole Atlantic Records album, including nightclub appearances, several albums on RCA Victor and United Artists, and appearances in such musical films as #Carmen Jones and #Porgy & Bess (although her singing...

Eddie Lusk's only solo album is a blues revue, as he leads a variety of singers through several classic blues songs from all of the music's subgenres. ~ Thom Owens, All Music Guide

Walt Dickerson never got quite the credit he deserved for pioneering a modernist approach to the vibes during the early '60s, aligning himself with the emerging "new thing" scene and expanding the instrument's vocabulary beyond Milt Jackson's lues and op influences....

The veteran pianist and occasional vocalist provides intimate reworkings of standards, some bluesy repertory, and singing, plus some solid piano solos. The heat comes via trumpeter Claudio Roditi, who brings some energy to the date. Bassist Jay Leonhart and drummer Akira Tana complete the rhythm...

Ladies of Jazz is a reissue of an early LP that devoted a side apiece to these two talented pianists in a trio setting. Most of Barbara Carroll's recordings from this era are long out of print, and she was recorded rather sporadically until a flurry of activity in the early '90s, so...

Recorded at the same session that resulted in Divine Gemini, this set of duets by vibraphonist Walt Dickerson and bassist Richard Davis features five Dickerson originals. Although the music is often complex and a touch esoteric, the attractive sound of the intimate duo makes the performances...