Results for "Straight No Chaser"

Straight No Chaser

If the phrase "male a cappella group" conjures up an image of students in blue blazers, ties, and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivied campuses… think again. If, on the other hand, it conjures up campy college ensembles singing joke versions of "Like A Virgin" in boxer shorts… think again. Straight No Chaser are neither strait-laced nor straight-faced, but neither are they vaudeville-style kitsch. As original member Randy Stine comments, "We take the music very seriously; we just don't take ourselves too seriously." In the process, they are reinventing the idea of a cappella on the modern pop landscape

Straight No Chaser

July 5, 2023

Album: YOU Are The Song
By Jean-Michel Pilc
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:48

Straight No Chaser

Featuring the music of Thelonious Dub
Duration: 5:04
October 15, 2009

Tunesmiths Wanted for Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project

March 8, 2009

The Johnny Mercer Foundation and the American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern University are presenting the fourth annual Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project on Northwestern's Evanston, Ill. campus, June 21 to 27. The no-fee, weeklong workshop led by Tony- and Grammy award-winning artists is seeking talented young songwriters or writing teams from all popular music genres to ...

Fifty Years Ago Today: "Freddie Freeloader" and the Start of "Kind of Blue"

March 3, 2009

Musicians arrived at Columbia 30th Street Studios in New York fifty years ago today to begin working on the new Miles Davis album. Present that day were saxophonists John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb. Kelly would record just one tune that day, before leaving and being replaced ...

Motion for Mardi Gras

February 25, 2009

Fat Tuesday is upon us! This year, on top of showing your favorite mask and beads, Zatarain's is asking America to show their festival spirit with “Motion for Mardi Gras". A tradition in New Orleans since before the turn of the century, the restaurant and food company begin by Emile A. Zatarain, Sr. is now behind ...

Fifty Years Ago Today: Ornette Coleman's "Turnaround"

February 24, 2009

Ornette Coleman was becoming well known in the Los Angeles jazz scene in the 1950's, supporting himself with menial jobs during the day and blowing bebop in the clubs at night. Deeply dissatisfied with following the pack, he began to play with others who felt the same way - , trumpeters Don Cherry and Bobby Bradford, ...

Straight No Chaser

By Mark Weinstein

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2008
Track listing: Loverin'; Miyake; Blues For Janice; Airegin; Shanti; Sleeping Beauty; Invitation; Violets For Your Furs; Straight,No Chaser; Crianza.

Holiday Spirits

By Straight No Chaser

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2008

Hark the Herald Angels Sing / Angels We Have Heard On High

December 16, 2008

Album: Holiday Spirits
By Straight No Chaser
Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2008
Duration: 04:19