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Tag Archives: 1945

October 31, 2025

Sidemen In The Spotlight – Four Classic Jazz Performances Where The Leader Defers To A Featured Soloist

Jazz, music 1938, 1939, 1941, 1945, Artie Shaw, band, bandleader, Benny Goodman, big, Charlie Christian, cornet, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, leader, Lester Young, Rex Stewart, Roy Eldridge, saxophone, side men, sideman, trumpet 16 Comments J P

Rhapsody In Blue – A Gershwin Classic Turns 100

Jazz, music 1924, 1927, 1935, 1937, 1945, Artur Fiedler, Ferde Grofe', George, Gershwin, Ira, Oscar Levant, Paul, Rhapsody, Rhapsody In Blue, Whiteman 18 Comments J P

February 2, 2024

Laura – A Multimedia Extravaganza

Jazz, Life, music 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, Andrews, Byas, Caspary, Clifton Webb, Dana, Don, Garner, Gene, Herman, Laura, Otto, Preminger, Tierney, Vera, Woody 13 Comments J P

September 9, 2022

Mel Torme’s Mel-Tones – Jazz In Five Voices

Jazz, music 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, Artie Shaw, Indiana, Mel, Mel Torme, Mel-Tones, Tones, Willow Road 20 Comments J P

Since I Fell For You – Twenty Years And Five Flavors of a Top 5 Hit Song

Jazz, music 1945, 1947, 1961, 1963, 1967, Annie Laurie, blues, Buddy Johnson, Cadence, De Luxe, Decca, Dinah Washington, Ella Johnson, jazz, Lenny Welch, Mercury, Nina Simone, Paul Gayten, RCA, Since I Fell For You, version, Victor, vocal 11 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

Jazz Goes Modern: Dizzy Gillespie – Salt Peanuts (1945)

Jazz, music 1945, AL, bebop, bop, Byas, Catlett, Charlie, Clyde, Curley, Dizzy, Don, Gillespie, Guild 1003A, Haag, Hart, January, Manne, Manor 5000A, May, Oscar, Parker, peanuts, Pettiford, Russell, salt, Salted, Shelly, Sydney, Trummy, young 15 Comments J P

October 16, 2015

Watching Baseball

Life 1908, 1945, 2015, AL, American League, Back to the Future, baseball, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cubs, curse, goat. billygoat, Lou Boudreau, National League, NFL, NL, radio, Reds, Vince Lloyd, WGL, World Series 5 Comments J P

September 18, 2015

Three Minutes Well Spent

Jazz 1944, 1945, Artie Shaw, Barney Kessel, bass, bebop, clarinet, Dodo Marmarosa, drums, Gramercy Five, guitar, jazz, Little Jazz, Lou Fromm, Morris Rayman, piano, RCA Victor, rhythm, Roy Eldridge, Scuttlebutt, swing, trumpet, Wrecking Crew 9 Comments J P

Woody ‘N Me

Jazz 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, Caldonia, First Herd, Four Brothers, Herman Herd, jazz, Orchestra, Second Herd, Stan Getz, Woody Herman, Zoot Sims 6 Comments J P

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