Results for "Jimmy Van Heusen"

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW March 22, 2020

Ian Shaw, Iain Ballamy, Jamie Safir: What's New

What's new? Not the dozen songs on this enchanting trio album. Most of them have been around for well over fifty years and people will likely still be enjoying them in another fifty. The composers include Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Van Heusen, Michel Legrand and Leonard Bernstein. Musically sophisticated and lyrically literate, the ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW March 19, 2020

Freddie Hubbard: Open Sesame

By CHRIS MAY

Blue Note's two 180gm vinyl-reissue series--Blue Note 80 and Tone Poet--continue on their enigmatic going on erratic, but mostly magnificent paths. Tone Poet is billed as the audiophile option but, on a fairly limited sampling of both series, there seems to be little, if anything at all, separating the two in audio terms. The key difference ...

ARTICLE: FILM REVIEW September 27, 2017

Frank Sinatra: Live From Caesar’s Palace | The First 40 Years

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Frank Sinatra Live From Caesar's Palace | The First 40 Years Eagle Rock Entertainment 2017 As the National Academy of Recording Arts so wonderfully puts it: “Frank Sinatra didn't put Las Vegas on the map, but he certainly made it worth the trip." (Sin-atra City: The Story of Frank Sinatra and ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW March 4, 2016

Doug MacDonald: Solo Plus

By HRAYR ATTARIAN

The field of jazz guitarists seems to have exploded with variety of discs that put one sort of spin or another on the music. From Latin touches to rock and roll beats and from avant-garde dissonance to popish smoothness this releases run the range of sounds striving to be “exeptional." It is, therefore, refreshing to hear ...

NEWS: EVENT March 16, 2012

Angeles Chorale Presents Spirituals, Gospel & Jazz, including Robert Ray's Gospel Mass March 24

Like Scheherazade, the Angeles Chorale has become a storyteller extraordinaire, devoting its entire 37th season to “Stories Worth Telling." The season opened last December with the story of Christ when the Chorale presented Handel's Messiah. Now, on Saturday, March 24 at 8 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, the renowned choral ensemble will leave ...
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