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Category Archives: music

August 14, 2020

I Wonder – Pvt. Cecil Gant – The (Re-) Birth Of The Blues?

Jazz, music 1944, blues, Bronze, Cecel, Edge, Gant, Gilt, Grant, I Wonder, piano, Private, Pvt. 11 Comments J P
July 17, 2020

Red Top – Two Versions To Double Your Pleasure

Jazz, music 1947, 1952, 1953, Ammons, bebop, Beeks, Betty, Carter, Clarence, Gene, jazz, King, Mercury, music, Pleasure, Prestige, red, sing, singer, Top, vocal, vocalese 14 Comments J P
July 10, 2020

This: A Little Bit Of Beauty In A Troubled World

Faith, Life, music antiphon, beautiful, beauty, catholic, chant, Christian, faith, Gregorian, heroes, Kings Return, latin, polyphony, tradition, truth, Ubi Caritas 11 Comments J P
June 12, 2020

Wicks Kicks By The Ted Nash Quintet – An Obscure Bop That’s On The Nose

Jazz, music 1946, bebop, bop, Eric Bernay, Geoff Clarkson, Harry Lim, J.C. Heard, jazz, Joe Thomas, John Hammond, Keynote, Keynote Recordings, music, New York, Quintet, Records, Ted Nash, Trigger Alpert, Wicks Kicks 7 Comments J P
May 1, 2020

Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang – Goin’ Places

Jazz, music 1927, 1930, Beiderbecke, Bix, Cavanaugh, Columbia, Eddie, Gibson, Goin' Places, Goldkette, guitar, jazz, Jean, Joe, Lang, New York, Okeh, Paul, Philadelphia, Vanuti, violin, Whiteman 21 Comments J P
April 10, 2020

Musical Miscastings – Wherein Frank Sinatra And Ella Fitzgerald Try Trading Styles

Jazz, music 1946, 1947, 78, All Stars, Columbia, Decca, Ella, Fitzgerald, Frank, jazz, Metronome, miscast, mismatch, music, pop, record, Sinatra 9 Comments J P
March 13, 2020

Artie Shaw – So Easy. Except When It Isn’t

Jazz, music 1949, 1950, AL, Artie, band, bebop, big, bop, clarinet, Cohn, Dameron, easy, jazz, Orchestra, RCA, record, Shaw, So, Tadd, Thesaurus, transcription 20 Comments J P
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 20, 2019

Christmas The Magnavox Way

Faith, Life, music 1956, album, carol, choir, choral, chorus, Christmas, classic, fi, Fort Wayne, hi, Indiana, L.P., Magnavox, music, organ, pipe, Riverside Church, tradition, vintage, Virgil Fox 16 Comments J P

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