Results for "Peggy Lee"

Article: Year in Review

2020: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 2, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic put the jazz world in a tailspin, just like the world at large, in 2020. And there is plenty of uncertainty going into the new year about what “new normal: might emerge from the darkness. International Jazz Day, like so many other things, became an online virtual event this time around. Pianist Keith ...

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Ultimate Peggy Lee

By Peggy Lee

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: I Love Being Here With You; Fever; Things Are Swingin’; I Don’t Know Enough About You; I’m A Woman; Just In Time; Hallelujah, I Love Him So; Sweet Happy Life; Alright, Okay, You Win; Too Close For Comfort; Why Don’t You Do Right (Get Me Some Money Too); It’s A Good Day; You Deserve; Heart; Big Spender; He's A Tramp; I Wanna Be Around; Black Coffee; I’ve Got The World On A String; The Folks Who Live On The Hill; Is That All There Is?; Try A Little Tenderness;

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Ultimate Christmas

By Peggy Lee

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Winter Wonderland; The Christmas Waltz; Here Comes Santa Claus; The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You); Ring Those Christmas Bells; Happy Holiday; The Christmas Spell; Deck The Halls; Christmas Carousel; Santa Claus is Comin' To Town; Don't Forget To Feed The Reindeer; White Christmas; The Star Carol; I Like A Sleighride (Jingle Bells); The Tree; It's Christmas Time Again; Little Jack Frost Get Lost; The Little Drummer Boy; Peace On Earth; Song At Midnight; My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year); Here's To You;

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Peggy Lee - Happy Holiday

Featuring the music of Peggy Lee
Duration: 1:59
December 26, 2020

This season, UMe has opened its cherished holiday music library to some of the most exciting electronic music producers around the globe for a set of inspired, new Lofi remixes of classic Christmas and wintery songs from legendary artists like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, The Temptations and more.

Article: Album Review

Jim Waller Big Band: Bucket List

by Jack Bowers
November 5, 2020

One glance at Jim Waller's silver mane is enough to make it clear he is no young lion. In fact, Waller, a veteran composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist who calls San Antonio, Texas, home, is nearing his eighth decade. Even though Waller's career has been long and successful, there was one item on his Bucket List that ...

Article: Live Review

Marta Lotta Kukk At Parnu Jazz Klubi

by Martin McFie
August 10, 2020

Marta Lotta Kukk Endla Teater Jazziklubi Parnu, Estonia August 7, 2020 Estonia is bounded by sea on two sides, and by one of the largest lakes in Europe on a third side, separating it from Russia. On the fourth side, is the land border with Latvia, a fellow member ...

Article: Book Review

Peggy Lee: A Century Of Song

by Ian Patterson
July 24, 2020

Peggy Lee: A Century Of Song Tish Oney 250 pages ISBN: 978-1-5381-2847-3 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2020 A Century of Song marks the centenary of Peggy Lee's birth, but coming eighteen years after her death, the title is a reminder of the enduring legacy of one of the ...

Article: Album Review

Gordon Grdina Septet: Resist

by Mike Jurkovic
June 28, 2020

It takes a leap of unconditional faith to enter wholly the resistance. A mindset steadied for the long haul, readied for the next. On his third, integral, must-listen-to release of 2020, Canadian oudist/guitarist/composer Gordon Grdina grandly, darkly, intently, espouses all that and more. Hellbent on creating art as a political act, the sprawling, at times majestic ...

Article: Album Review

Cory Weeds Quartet: Day By Day

by Jack Bowers
June 13, 2020

At a time when classic jazz seems fractured and flying off in a hundred or more separate directions, it is comforting to encounter sessions like this one, a superlative quartet date led by alto saxophonist and Renaissance man Cory Weeds, and featuring David Hazeltine, one of the more proficient and enterprising pianists on the scene. Day ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Tamir Hendelman: The Many Colors and Cultures of Tamir

by Jim Worsley
June 12, 2020

With so many talented jazz pianists over the years, it can be a challenge to make your own mark or carve out your own identity. Many fine musicians have simply blended into the scene, seemingly unnoticed, due to a lack of singularity that sets them apart. Tamir Hendelman crashes that barrier with a signature sound that ...