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Category Archives: Jazz

February 14, 2020

Button Up Your Overcoat – Or How To Keep An Old Song Perpetually Young

Jazz, music 1928, 1929, 1945, 1955, 1968, 1999, 2000, 2017, Brown, button, Button Up Your Overcoat, Chelsea, coat, DeSilva, Dorsey, Eddie, Etting, Frank, Freelon, Henderson, Hi-Lo's, jazz, Lang, Mel, Nnenna, over, Pied Pipers, record, Ruth, Sinatra, song, songbook, standard, Tin Pan Alley, Tommy, Torme, Williams 30 Comments J P
January 17, 2020

Ella Fitzgerald – Lucky So And So: The Other Lady Sings The Blues

Jazz, music 1946, Basie, Billy, blues, Chick, Count, Decca, Duke, Ella, Ellington, First Lady, Fitzgerald, I'm Just A Lucky So And So, jazz, Jimmy, Junior, Kyle, lucky, Miss Ella, Payne, Raglin, Shirley, So and So, Sonny, Webb 13 Comments J P
December 6, 2019

Here’s Something Cool – In A June Christy Kind Of Way

Jazz, music 1953, 1954, 1955, 1960, Blossom Dearie, Capitol, Christy, Ella Fitzgerald, jazz, Julie London, June, Kenton, music, Peggy Lee, Pete, Rosemary Clooney, Rugulo, Sarah Vaughan, Something Cool, Stan, Weep, Willow 13 Comments J P
November 8, 2019

Claude Thornhill Plays Robbins’ Nest – Cool Jazz In Gestation

Jazz, music 1947, 1948, big band, Claude, Columbia, Evans, Gil, jazz, Konitz, Lee, music, Robbins' Nest, Robin's Nest, Snowfall, Thornhill 17 Comments J P
October 4, 2019

Duke Ellington – Main Stem

Jazz 1942, 1944, band, Ben, big, Duke, Edward, Ellington, Hodges, jazz, Johnny, Main Stem, music, Orchestra, Rex, Stewart, swing, Victor, Webster 7 Comments J P
September 6, 2019

Coleman Hawkins (With Charlie Parker) – Bean & Bird Blend In A Ballad

Jazz, music 1950, Ballade, Bean, Brown, Buddy, Charlie, Coleman, Granz, Hank, Hawk, Hawkins, jazz, Jones, Norman, Parker, Ray, reed, rich, sax, saxophone, swing, tenor 14 Comments J P
August 9, 2019

When Cool Was New – The Miles Davis Nonet Plays Jeru

Jazz, music 1949, Al Haig, Birth, Birth Of The Cool, Capitol, classic, Cool, Davis, Gerry, jazz, Jeru, Kai Winding, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, Miles, Mulligan, Nonet, west coast 8 Comments J P
July 12, 2019

How Jazz Got All Bixed Up (And Was Never The Same Again)

Jazz, music 1927, Adrian, Beiderbecke, Bix, brass, cornet, Eddie, Frank, Goldkette, I'm Coming Virginia, jazz, Lang, Rollini, swing, Three Blind Mice, Trumbauer, trumpet, Whiteman, Wolverine 13 Comments J P
June 21, 2019

Rose Room By The Benny Goodman Sextet – Meet Charlie Christian And His E-Lectric Guitar

Jazz, music 1939, 1941, 1944, Artie, Benny, Bernstein, Charlie, Christian, Columbia, electric, Fatool, Fletcher, Goodman, group, guitar, Hampton, Henderson, jazz, Jess, Lionel, Nick, quartet, Rose Room, sextet, small, Solo Flight, Stacey, swing, trio, vibes, vibraphone 14 Comments J P
May 10, 2019

Manteca – Jalapeno Bebop

Jazz, music 1947, Afro, bebop, bop, Chano, Cuba, Dizzy, Gillespie, jazz, Manteca, music, New York, Pozo, RCA Victor 12 Comments J P

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