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Category Archives: music

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 22 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 21 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
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 14 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
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

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