St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
The St. Louis-based independent label MAXJAZZ today announced plans for four new CD releases in the coming year. Guitarist Russell Malone ( pictured) will release his fourth project on MAXJAZZ, a studio recording of originals and standards with bassist David Wong and drummer and East St. Louis native Montez Coleman. Trumpeter Terell Stafford also will record again for MAXJAZZ, with his third date for...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Henry Mancini, John Barry, John Williams, Lalo Schifrin: composers whose work has become as memorable as the show or film it was written for – music that arguably defines the era in which it was made. One such score is Lalo Schifrin's theme to Mission: Impossible which has made it ...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
Bob Newhart had one-of-a-kind Grammy album | Entertainment | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle : "Henry Mancini, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Lauryn Hill and Toto have one particular thing in common: a best-album Grammy. From the moment Mancini's The Music From Peter Gunn stomped all over recordings by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Van Cliburn back in the Grammys' inaugural year of 1959, every single...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
Lesser lights later claimed the song as their own, but "Moon River," with music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, really belongs to Audrey Hepburn, who debuted it in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's , highlighted here. Miss Hepburn died on this day in 1993. Enjoy this flashback in her honor.
It's Eclectic! It's Eccentric! It's RadioNowhere's... (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
"All things music where film is concerned, themes, cues, songs from and used in the movies and those dodgy covers! Features include - EPIC and VINTAGE movie tracks." TRACK/COMPOSER/ARTIST-PERFORMER/FILM It Had Better Be Tonight/Henry Mancini/Erich Kunzel & Cincinnati Pop Orch/The Pink Panther Soldiers Things Tom Waits/Tom Waits/Jarhead Main Title Basic Instinct/Jerry Goldsmith/Original...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/10/2010
Royce Campbell's The Art of Chord Solo Guitar extends his considerable collection of solo guitar releases, this time working on a series of standard tunes. Campbell's extensive resume includes stints with everyone from Marvin Gaye and Eddie Harris to Henry Mancini , and it's clear he's used his professional time to gain the skills necessary to create interesting and fresh arrangements on these tunes....
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 12/29/2009
Inspired by recording the music of Henry Mancini in a previous project and by hearing vocalist Kenny Washington during a club gig, vibraphonist Joe Locke put this group together investigate some of their his songs. The band features Washington along with Geoffrey Keezer on piano, George Mraz on bass and Clarence Penn on drums. Much of the music is taken at a slow ballad pace, but "Old Devil Moon"...
Laci the Dog (Free subscription) | 12/19/2009
I'd have to think what the Christ in Christmas crowd would do about this one I found in the BBC London Weekend Guide if are upset about the Slutcracker : Make the Yuletide Gay with Sandie Shaw (Saturday 20 December, 7.30pm, £16.50 - £36.50, Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street EC2. Box office: 020 7638 8891) You can tell when Christmas has truly arrived in London: when music promoter...
Cool-Mo-Dee (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
(posted at mientras otros duermen ) 01.- JACK JONES - Sleigh Ride 02.- ESQUIVEL - Frosty The Snowman 03.- THE HOLLYRIDGE STRINGS - Santa's Got A Brand New Bag 04.- JOHN BARRY - Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown 05.- DEAN MARTIN - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer 06.- HENRY MANCINI - Winter Wonderland - Silver Bells 07.- EDDIE DUNSTEDTER - I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus 08.- JOHN KLEIN - Santa...
Ernie (Not Bert) (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Christmas isn't the only time of year I get into the Holiday spirit around here. Each July since 2006, I post a small clutch of tracks each day that seem to have a little bit of that Christmas magic in them, only none of them come from Christmas albums. I'm sure you've occasionally stumbled across one of these songs yourself. It's right in the middle of a regular album, a song that features sleigh...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
African Methodist Choir - African Hymns (Arc Music ) Alessandr Magnanini - Someway Still I Do (Phantom ) Bob Baldwin - Collector's Pack (NuGroove ) Bruce Turner - Dirty Bopper (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Bruce Turner - The Dirty Bopper (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Caledonia Jazz Band - Street People ( ) Collage - Fifty-Four Minutes Twenty Seconds (Wool ) Collage - Fifty Four Minutes...
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
“Oh skylark Have you seen a valley green with spring? Where my heart can go a journeying Over the shadows and the rain To a blossom-covered lane.”—“Skylark,” lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Hoagy Carmichael (1942) Johnny Mercer , the incomparably lyricist whose centennial we celebrate today, might be the most unique and multi-faceted contributor to the Great American...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Today is the centenary of the birth of Johnny Mercer who wrote the lyrics to Come Rain or Come Shine, I’m Old Fashioned, Skylark, Too Marvelous for Words, Moon River and Jeepers Creepers . Those happen to be the six songs whose sheet-music title-pages are reproduced on the back cover of his newly-published collected lyrics, but in itself it’s an arbitrary list. One could just as easily...
Double O Section (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
More Upcoming Spy Music: Inspector Clouseau Boy, there sure is a lot of spy music coming out in the final months of 2009! And that's a wonderful thing. Due out the second week of December is Ken Thorne's fantastic score to Inspector Clouseau (1968). Yes, Inspector Clouseau is a spy movie. It's basically a Bond parody, moreso than any of the other Clouseau movies . It's also, of course, the only movie...
East Side Jazz Club (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
8.30 - 11.00pm £5 on the door Tony Coe (tenor sax & clarinet) John Horler (piano) Andrew Cleyndert (bass) Clive Fenner (drums) Tony Coe began his performing career with Humphrey Lyttelton’s band and in 1965 Count Basie offered him a place in the Basie Band sax section. His credits since then include the John Dankworth Orchestra, Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Band, Stan Tracey, Mike Gibbs,...
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