Results for "Carol Sloane"

That Special Time of Year

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 15, 2018

This broadcast gets into the swing of the season, which includes holiday releases by Duchess and Laura Dickinson plus a new recording by pianist Kelly Green, with birthday shout outs to Gloria Lynne, Etta Jones, Arthur Schwartz, Johnny Mandel, June Christy and Hoagy Carmichael, among others. Playlist Geri Allen “In Appreciation" from Geri Allen ...

Thanksgiving Birthdays and Holiday Jazz

by Mary Foster Conklin
December 8, 2018

An assortment of Thanksgiving-inspired jazz to whet your appetite and get your gratitude on, with birthday shout outs to Mose Allison, Rickie Lee Jones, Johnny Mercer and Sheila Jordan, plus a preview of who's performing in NYC for the holidays. Playlist Jen Hodge “The Swamp Bucket Challenge" from All's Fair in Love and Jazz ...

Rebecca Parris: 1951-2018

by C. Michael Bailey
June 22, 2018

You'll happen my way on some mem'rable day And the month will be May for a while... I was never fortunate enough to have met Rebecca Parris in person; but, I was fortunate enough to live in and be a part of the musical universe that surrounded her. That universe was created ...

92Y Jazz In July Festival 2016 Season: July 19-28

July 10, 2016

Bill Charlap, Artistic Director. Featuring: Harry Allen, Gene Bertoncini, Anat Cohen, Freddy Cole, Jimmy Greene, Jon Gordon, Dick Hyman, Jon-Erik Kellso, Jeremy Pelt, Ken Peplowski, Houston Person, Renee Rosnes, Carol Sloane, Rossano Sportiello, Warren Vaché, Steve Wilson and More Single Tickets from $52 / Age 35 and Under- $25 212.415.5500 92Y’s 32nd annual Jazz ...

West Coast Release Party For "The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story"

July 11, 2012

Author Gregg Akkerman will be launching the release of his new book, The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story (Scarecrow Press, 2012), on the West Coast at a reading event in San Diego, California. The release marks the long-overdue biography of a vocalist best known for his eponymously titled album with the intrepid saxophonist John Coltrane ...

Hush-A-Bye

By Carol Sloane

Label: Justin Time
Released: 2010

Interview: Carol Sloane (Part 2)

March 18, 2010

No matter how hard singer Carol Sloane worked in the late 1950s, the odds of becoming a nationally known big band singer were against her. Younger audiences no longer found romance in the songs of Tin Pan Alley, and fewer adults were going out to hear music let alone dance. Touring with a big band, even ...

Interview: Carol Sloane (Part 1)

March 18, 2009

Carol Sloane is easily the finest jazz singer of the post-jazz era. After getting her start in 1958 with the Larry Elgart Orchestra, Carol experienced a series of Cinderella breaks just as rock was beginning to yank the commercial rug out from under jazz. Had Carol been born five years earlier, she surely would be as ...

Never Never Land & My Ship

Featuring the music of Carol Sloane
Duration: 5:33
March 5, 2008

Dearest Duke

By Carol Sloane

Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Sophisticated Lady; Solitude: I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart; I Didn