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Brulee: New Beginnings
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz has always been about being musically clever in inventive ways. Consider only Charlie Parker saying, on October 24, 1947, “I'm going to play “Embraceable You," winking, and then playing a completely different melody over the harmonic structure, and the cleverness in jazz is defined. Now, add a sense of humor to the proceedings and the ...
Putumayo Presents "Jazz," a Collection of Exceptional Recordings by Jazz Legends
Featured Artists: Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans * Mose Allison * Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson * Chet Baker * Blossom Dearie * Hampton Hawes * Billie Holiday * The Nat King Cole Trio * Anita O'Day * Nina Simone * Zoot Sims * Maxine Sullivan Putumayo announces the May 3rd release of Jazz, featuring a ...
A Biographical Guide To the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
by David Rickert
A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop SingersWill FriedwaldHardcover; 811 pagesISBN: 9780375421495Pantheon Books2010 Be prepared to spend a fair amount of extra money if you pick up Will Friedwald's A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Friedwald, one of ...
Items from the estate of Blossom Dearie for sale!
Unique and one of a kind items from the estate of Blossom Dearie are for sale. Items include: Signed items to Blossom from Cary Grant and Jo Stafford, Christmas cards from the White House and Bill and Hillary Clinton, Handwritten Leadsheet to Lullaby of Birdland, a hit for her group the Blue Stars of France, old ...
A Special Blossom Dearie Combo for the Holidays
Blossom Dearie with good friend and mentor Mike Renzi created two beautiful recordings. Featuring Blossom Dearie on solo vocals and piano(Erroll Garner's Steinway, no less)with arrangements and additional keyboards from Mike Renzi, Daffodil Records is proud to offer Christmas Spice So Very Nice and Tweedledum & Tweedledee. Christmas Spice So Very Nice is a perennial treasure ...
Blossom Dearie CDs for Jazz Fans in time for the Holidays at BlossomDearie.com!
From the jazz favorite “Tweedledum and Tweedledee" with guest arranger and keyboardist Mike Renzi to “Christmas Spice So Very Nice" fans, longtime and new, are enthralled with Blossom's music! In time for the Holidays, CDs like Blossom's final recording “Blossom's Planet" featuring what has been called the definitive version of Jobim's “Wave" along with “The Ladies ...
53rd Monterey Jazz Festival: A Distinctive New Orleans Flavor
by Larry Taylor
To summarize the high spots of the 2010 Monterey Jazz Festival would certainly take more than one lead paragraph. From Sept. 17 through 19 at the Monterey, California, Fairgrounds, there was a pervasive New Orleans spirit in the air and the music. This was emphasized by the appearances of Trombone Shorty on Saturday afternoon, and Harry ...
Michael Leonhart: A Fortunate Son
by Telly Davidson
For most musicians, writers and actors, making the final decision to go against the grain and pursue a paycheck-to-paycheck, month-to-month career as a performing artist is one of the harder choices in life. Yet for trumpeter Michael Leonhart, a life in jazz and art is “all in the family": his father is the noted jazz bassist, ...
Carrie Wicks: I'll Get Around to It
by Dan McClenaghan
In the crowded and talent-filled lady jazz vocalist field, standing apart is no small feat. Some natural vocal chops, combined with a bunch of hard work and a good backing band, can make for a very viable artistic effort, and there are a lot of those around. But a very workable artistic effort is not enough. ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Blossom Dearie
All About Jazz is celebrating Blossom Dearie's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Blossom DearieBorn 28 April 1928, East Durham, New York, USA. A singer, pianist and songwriter, with a “wispy, little-girlish" voice, Dearie is regarded as one of the great supper club singers. Her father was of ...
