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“I’m still here”, swingin’ sisters and brothers. ∽ As for the heat: RAY ANTHONY & HIS ORCHESTRA, 1955
It was during the very hot Summer of 1978, when I purchased this wonderful EP (pictured), featuring Ray Anthony & His Orchestra with four songs from the soundtrack to “Daddy Long Legs” (1955). OK, some may have named the man … Continue reading →
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LET’s START THE YEAR WITH SOME GREAT BIG JAZZ BY … ‘Little Jazz’ Roy Eldridge (1911-1989) — (Some Links added, 01-10-2015)
This is what I sent to a couple of friends and to my trumpet students: “Bruno’s New Year’s Compilation”, featuring ‘Little Jazz’ Roy Eldridge with Gene Krupa & His Orchestra, Anita O’Day, and some more obscure tracks with Roy as … Continue reading →
Posted in Anita O'Day, Benny Goodman, Big Band Vocalist, Blogging is swell!, Chu Berry, Delikatessen...LOLL., Gene Krupa, It's been a ball!, It's gonna be a ball, Jazz History Lecture, Jazz in Paris, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Jive, Madness, Roy Eldridge, Swing Era, Trumpet
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Tagged big band, cup mute, from swing to bop, great american songbook, great solo, hotel gig, jam session, jazz, jazz ballad, jazz soundtrack, jazz vocal, living jazz history, love, private tape, race, soundtrack, standard, trumpet feature, up tempo, world war 2
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75 YEARS SPREADING “NOTES AZURES” — HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, “BLUE NOTE” !!!
There’s not much I can tell you about the most influential of all jazz labels which hasn’t been said already by all those experts. Anyway, today is the very day when Mr. Alfred Lion, “Blue Note’s” imaginative founder (together with … Continue reading →
Posted in Anniversary, Blogging is swell!, Blue Note (label), Blues, Dedication, George Gershwin, Jazz History Lecture, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Sidney Bechet
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Tagged blues, Clarinet, great american songbook, great solo, jazz ballad, living jazz history, love, soundtrack, world war 2
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“LADY DAY” BILLIE HOLIDAY ON FILM – Dedicated to my photographer Fräulein Liphinchen Blass
We met yesterday in my favorite café at the beautiful Chlodwigplatz, and I brought a gift: Billie Holiday At Storyville, one of my favorite LP’s. This is dedicated to you, Liphinchen. Enjoy the show! Sincerely, Yours truly, Brew … Continue reading →
Posted in Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Dedication, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings, Lady Day, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Portrait, Roy Eldridge
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Tagged bad habits, blues, great american songbook, great solo, jazz, jazz ballad, jazz soundtrack, jazz vocal, living jazz history, love, oldie, race, soundtrack, standard
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BY THE WAY…
… 😉 Thanks a load, WordPress, I surely will! Sincerely, Bruno Leicht [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV4iViKWRe8&w=420&h=315]
Posted in Birthday Party, Blogging is swell!, Delikatessen...LOLL., It's been a ball!, Jazz Stories & Tales, Invented Truths & Actual Happenings
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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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…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 … 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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