Jazz Articles about Johnny Mercer

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Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me

by Samuel Chell
November 6, 2009

Johnny Mercer Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me TCM 2009

Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist Charlie Parker (Bird, 1988), during which the ever restless Eastwood got the idea to produce a feature-length film about pianist Thelonious Monk, released somewhat later during the same year as Straight No Chaser. Hence, it should surprise ...

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Johnny Mercer: Johnny Mercer

by Suzanne Lorge
December 13, 2007

In 1942 Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records with businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glen Wallichs. At the time, Mercer was churning out hits for Hollywood, collaborating with composers like Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen and Richard Whiting. He recorded dozens of hits for the label during the 1940s, his amiable, untrained baritone in effect one of the voices that brought romance to a generation and soothed a nation at war. Sixty years later, Mosaic has released a three-disc set of some of ...