This seems to be the week for unexpected videos to materialize. In the piece highlighted in the previous exhibit, Jack Berry joined me in lamenting that we could find no evidence of Vince Guaraldi on film or tape. Jazz writer...
sad to say, we since Guaraldi's back for a few moments, then a moment where he casts a furtive glance toward the camera. Seeing as how he was the greatest...
"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" - one of the greatest Yiddish songs - is performed by a host of performers of all backgrounds via this clip from the Yiddish Radio Project. Listen here to A musical montage of various recordings of "Bei Mir" by Guy Lombardo, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman (who played it at Carnegie Hall), Lee Marjane, Zarah Leander, Felix & His Crazy Cats, the Lennon...
Jimmy Rushing Rushing Lullabies >>>> Download Rushing Lullabies <<<< artist: Jimmy Rushing album: Rushing Lullabies Tracklist: 1 You Can't Run Around mp3 2 Say You Don't Mean it mp3 3 Deed I Do mp3 4 Pink Champagne mp3 5 Did You Eaver mp3 6 I Cried for You mp3 7 Three Long Years mp3 8 I Can't Believe that You're in Love with Me mp3 9 Good Rockin Tonight mp3 10 One Evening mp3
By: Bernard Chazelle Obama-wise, let's just say I am speeched-out. When everyone else hears a new Gettysburg Address, I hear a new ABBA song. Take this BS, cribbed from his 2004 Convention speech and perpetually recycled ever since: That large-heartedness -- that concern and regard for the plight of others -- is not a partisan feeling. It's not a Republican or a Democratic feeling. It, too, is part...
Heroes deserve a valediction. Two years before he died, Lester Young got one. --- In 1957, the Count Basie big band took the stage at the Newport Jazz Festival. By this time, Basie’s ensemble was a well-oiled machine playing fairly...
JIMMY RUSHING: He Ain't Got Rhythem Along with BIG JOE TURNER, Jimmy Rushing helped set the standards by which all other blues shouters would be judged. Rushing, a small, rotund man whose ability to sing over big bands was legendary, could also phrase his lyrics with great skill and incorporate much emotion in his delivery. From the late 1920s all the way up to 1950, Rushing and pianist-bandleader...
From America's heartland, Glenn Patrik sings and plays the kind of blues that made Kansas City a hub where musical pioneers met and exchanged ideas about swing, rhythm, blues, and being spontaneous. It was shortly before World War II and just about the same time that bebop was getting noticed in New York, when Kansas City began its parlay with the blues. Give {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} credit for much...
A spot of Friday blues with Jimmy Rushing: A great moment after around a minute, as the full Count Basie orchestra come in. I'd originally thought it was earlier - the Forties - but according to this guy it's from...
Douglas Henry Daniels, One O’clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006, 274 pp.) Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix, Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop—A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005,...
I've been sampling CDs by singers. For the most part, the CDs are new, but not all of the singers are. As an example, take Jimmy Rushing...please. Jimmy Rushing, The Scene: Live In New York (High Note). Rushing became famous...
Jamie Wood grew up in Natchez, Mississippi, about 170 miles from New Orleans. She eventually moved to California, and now divides her time living between the U.S. and Quebec. Her band in Quebec is comprised of Martin Gagnon (piano), Colin Perry (guitar), Ben Caissie (drums), and Costa Zafiropoulos (stand-up bass). Notably, she recently appeared in the Grandes Dames du Blues Tour and the Heritage Jazz...
Patti Bown died last Friday in a Pennsylvania nursing home, little known not only to the general public but also to many jazz listeners. Despite her talent as a pianist, Miss Bown never became celebrated to the degree that she...
Walk right up to the playlist and selected quotes below from last week’s show by Bob Dylan on XM Satellite Radio. Jack Scott — The Way I Walk Frankie Lee Sims — Walkin’ With Frankie (clip) ( “showing that you don't need more than one chord.” ) Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers — Walk Right In ( “According to some [...]
Jimmy Rushing Rushing Lullabies >>>> Download Rushing Lullabies <<<< artist: Jimmy Rushing album: Rushing Lullabies Tracklist: 1 You Can't Run Around mp3 2 Say You Don't Mean it mp3 3 Deed I Do mp3 4 Pink Champagne mp3 5 Did You Eaver mp3 6 I Cried for You mp3 7 Three Long Years mp3 8 I Can't Believe that You're in Love with Me mp3 9 Good Rockin Tonight mp3 10 One Evening mp3 11 Russian Lullaby mp3...
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