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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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Repost Of “Dedicated To A Forgotten Ode To Spring: SPRING WILL BE SO SAD (WHEN SHE COMES THIS YEAR)”
“Spring Will Be So Sad (When She Comes This Year)” by Margaret Bonds and Harold “Hal” Dickinson from The Modernaires is another one of those fantastic, nevertheless forgotten songs of the “Great American Songbook”, and I wonder who else has … Continue reading →
Posted in April, Big Band Vocalist, Blogging is swell!, Dedication, Glenn Miller, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Jerry Gray, Poetry, Ray Eberle, Sabina, Spring, Swing Era, The Modernaires, World War II
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Tagged bad dream, great american songbook, jazz ballad, love, oldie, standard, world war 2
HAUNTED HOUSES IN HARLEM, A LONELY COTTAGE FOR SALE & A DESERTED FARM
This darkest of all my articles is about mysterious houses I have shot during a recent trip through the eastern part of Germany, the former DDR: Rostock, Magdeburg, Dresden, Leipzig & Görlitz. I was lucky because some of the impressive … Continue reading →
Posted in Artie Shaw, Blues, Dedication, Etymology, Film Noir, Germans, Glen Gray, Henry "Red" Allen, Jazz Adaptation, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Portrait, Trumpet, Winter
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Tagged bad dream, big band, blues, ghosts, great american songbook, haunted houses, jazz, jazz ballad, jazz soundtrack, living jazz history, love, oldie, soundtrack, standard
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Repost In The Light Of Marc Myers’ Recent CD-Tip: ARTIE SHAW – AN AUTOGRAPH by THE KING of CLARINET & NINE of his DREAMS
This is a dated autograph by Artie Shaw (from 1949) I had dug up in the web years ago; it has survived some computer crashes until today (May 21, 2009). So I took the chance and can now proudly present … Continue reading →
…as for WEST SIDE STORY :)
– And now? Now, ya gonna be cool, and ya gonna dance to the westside o’town, an’ ya get a copy o’ the Dee-Vee-Dee & the original soundtrack … somewhere A self-critical P.S. by lyricist Stephen Sondheim can be found … Continue reading →
Posted in Jazz Adaptation, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Jerome Robbins, Jive, Leonard Bernstein, Nathalie Wood, Native Americans, Obituary, Portrait, Robert Wise, Stephen Sondheim, Tongue In Cheek, West Side Story
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Tagged bad dream, big band, blues, cold war, cool, great american songbook, jazz, jazz soundtrack, language, love, quiet jazz, soundtrack, standard
REPOST FROM 2010: BETRAYED — AN ANTI WAR THREAD
Although I once claimed that “this thread will be a work in progress” when I first posted it in April 2010, I got distracted by some rehearsals for “Novecento”, and simply forgot about it. Anyway, I dug it up from … Continue reading →
