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"Many jazz musicians prefer recording their own original songs and rarely want to feature a song by anyone outside of their band—unless the composer is dead and gone.
A few major jazz musicians are bucking this trend, and I applaud them. I just wish more improvisers would follow their lead."
Ted Gioia, jazz historian & trumpet colleague, in an interview @ Marc Myers' JazzWax about his new book The Jazz StandardsAnother lovely Lady named Diana
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Category Archives: Harry James
Repost: Another Springstrumental ∽ HARRY JAMES & “SPRING CAN REALLY HANG YOU UP THE MOST” ∽ ‘Live’ in Las Vegas, Spring, 1964
Isn’t this a lovely interpretation of the fabulous bitter sweet Spring ballad? Here it is, as played by Harry James, live in Las Vegas: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most. Harry used almost no vibrato, no schmaltz at … Continue reading →
Posted in April, Harry James, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Poetry, Spring
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Tagged great american songbook, great solo, hotel gig, jazz ballad, love, quiet jazz, standard
PALMS OF PARADISE, or: HARRY JAMES’ VERY SPECIAL EXOTICISMS ;)
Today is Palm Sunday, at least for Christians. This offers me the opportunity to play one of Harry James’ forgotten ballads with a slightly syrupy vocal by Fran Heines: Palms Of Paradise, recorded for Varsity on February 12, 1940 (Varsity … Continue reading →
FEBRUARY’s SEASONAL SOUND REVISITED: HARRY JAMES & HIS MUSIC MAKERS with ‘CEPT FEBRUARY WHICH HAS 28 – 1949
This little weekend-post shall serve as an invitation to visit my monthly “Seasonal Sound” widget on the right column of this swingin’ blog (below the search box). Here we go again with February and Harry James & His Music Makers … Continue reading →
SOMETHING HEARTWARMING FOR THE COLD FEBRUARY: HARRY JAMES & HIS MUSIC MAKERS – “MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME” & MORE – ‘ROUND 1946
This is track #5 on side 2 of one of my favorite Harry James LP’s: HARRY JAMES & HIS ORCHESTRA – THE UNCOLLECTED – VOL. 1 – 1943-46 The album contains not only greatly swingin’ instrumentals like the posted “My … Continue reading →
Posted in CD review, Dedication, Harry James, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Jive, Sabina, Swing Era, Trumpet, Winter
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Tagged big band, great american songbook, great solo, hindsight, jazz, love, oldie, the uncollected, world war 2
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Nancy Ames & Harry James in 1967 with “BLOW, GABRIEL, BLOW!” (enhanced)
The sound of the original video was so badly distorted that I decided to re-edit the version of the video which is already on JazzTube. As you can hear, have I cleaned the audio track and slightly enhanced the picture as … Continue reading →
Posted in Blues, Dedication, Harry James, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Trumpet
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Tagged big band, great american songbook, jazz, language, love
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