rom Josh Deutsch: Greetings friends, family & colleagues, Hope you had an excellent thanksgiving! Im writing to let you know about a show Ill be playing this coming Monday (Nov. 30) at Tulas. Ill be playing with some of my favorite Seattle area musicians, so this promises to be a very fun show. Well be playing a mix of originals and pieces from the great jazz composers, including Billy Strayhorn,...
Btms^ for Sunday November 29 Drink 4cast 4 2day: Bald Peak Merlot 2 toast 2 deal-making funny man Howie Mandel, born in Canada 2day in 1955. Celebrations on this Date in… 1777 - The pueblo of San Jose was founded in California…”Do you know the way…?” 1791 – Gaetano Donizetti born…to be an Italian composer of bel canto opera; his most famous, [...]
Billy Strayhorn, one of the unsung heroes of jazz, was born on this date in 1915. Strayhorn worked for decades as an arranger for Duke Ellington, and he composed or co-composed some of Ellington’s most famous pieces, including “Take the ‘A’ Train,” “Chelsea Bridge,” “Lotus Blossom,” “Passion Flower,” and “Satin Doll.” Ellington...
LGBT people born today: 1764 – Percy Jocelyn – Irish Bishop – Died 3 rd September 1843 1915 – Billy Strayhorn – US Composer – Died 31 st May 1967 1960 – Philippe Elan – French Singer 1962 – Martha Beck – US Sociologist / Therapist / Author 1965 – Guillaume Dustan – French Author / Journalist – Died 3 rd October 2005 1979...
Today is the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Johnny Mercer. With the publication of The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer last month, Mercer's place in the pantheon of artists responsible for the great American songbook seems more secure than ever. Among the more than 1,000 songs for which Mercer is known to have written the lyrics are "I Remember You," "That Old Black Magic,"...
The Chris Greene Quartet is willing to try anything once. No matter the genre of music, put it in this group's capable hands and bear witness to music taking on a whole new style and feel. On the group's third recording, Merge, saxophonist Chris Greene leads his quartet of four years all over the musical spectrum. Tackling songs by the likes of {{Billy Strayhorn = 4670}}, Johnny Green, Madonna and...
This album's subtitle is The Music of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington, and it's refreshing to find the two pianist/composers united in a single conception, pointing out that they probably have more similarities than differences. This selection's other strong point (and this is all before its players even strike a note) is that the repertoire avoids almost all of the accustomed tune choices. From...
...there isn't any, anymore. And those days are gone...4EVER! Effective right now, practically all new RCA Victor releases announced in Billboard are on both 45 rpm and 78 rpm records! And that's going to be true of RCA Victor releases from now on! The 45 rpm system is going places fast! A Chicago Tribune newspaper article by Steve Johnson appears in Saturday's Schenectady Gazette, entitled "Top...
God Save Gertrude, a punk rock musical take on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, opens this Saturday at The Theater at Boston Court in Pasadena. Borrowing from Shakespeare for musical theater (and just about every other creative pursuit) is nothing new of course; it has spawned iconic shows like West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet,) Kiss Me Kate [...]
In his new memoir, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives, Paul Shaffer tells how Letterman made him famous. The story goes that when the great composer Billy Strayhorn was summoned uptown by Duke Ellington, Strayhorn heard that the A train was the...
IT WAS IN 1973 DUKE ELLINGTON CHOSE RANDALL KEITH HORTON TO SUCCEED BILLY STRAYHORN On Sunday, October 4th at 7:00PM, Jazz at Lincoln Center Rose Theater presents the premier of A HREF=http:www.randallkeithhorton.com TARGENT=blank> Randall Keith Horton's Ellington-Horton full-length orchestral tone poem, "Black, Brown And Beige." Hear distinguished composer Carman Moore, and Kirke Mechem,...
It would be ungallant to reveal Marilyn Maye's age, but before you go see her at the Rrazz Room - and, boy, should you ever go see her at the Rrazz Room - check the year of her birth on the Internet. Then be prepared to disbelieve. Maye took the stage...
Born: 25 April, 1916, in Chicago. Died: 21 August, 2009, in Chicago, aged 93.ERNEST Brown was the last surviving and most diminutive member of the Original Copasetics, an ensemble of tap-dancing stars formed in 1949 that helped to revive the art of tap.The Original Copasetics was a fraternity of vividly individual tap dancers, each with his own casually authoritative style and speciality. Its shows...
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