Jazz Articles about Anne Kerry Ford

Anne Kerry Ford: Weill

by Michael P. Gladstone
April 19, 2007

Anne Kerry Ford's third album, Weill, is quite an accomplishment for the actress and singer. A Juilliard graduate, Ford has been pursuing her muse in films, theatre, and now the Cabaret music of German-born Kurt Weill. Weill fled pre-war Germany in the early '30s to avoid the anti-Semitic fever that was a symbol of the years to come in Europe. When Weill arrived in the United States it signified a new beginning during which he collaborated with lyricists including Ira ...

Anne Kerry Ford: Weill

by C. Michael Bailey
February 9, 2007

Kurt Weill (1900-50) was the consummate crossover composer. Born in Dessau, Germany, he immigrated to the United States in 1933 prior to the antisemitic National Socialist wave during the period. Primarily a composer for the stage, Weill worked with such disparate talents as Bertolt Brecht (The Threepenny Opera, 1928) and Langston Hughes (Street Scene, 1947).

Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin made Weill an American household name with their respective recordings of “Mack the Knife ("Die Moritat von Mackie Messer," from ...