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Birthday Celebrations for Shirley Horn and Judy Collins
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast celebrates songs about birds in the second hour plus birthday songbirds Judy Collins (who just turned 80) and the legendary Shirley Horn. New releases included vocalists Kalya Ramu, Holly Cole, Laurie Antonioli, Charles Ruggiero & Hilary Gardner, bassist Anne Mette Iversen, pianists Amina Figarova and Eric Reed, with more birthday shout outs to Bing ...
May Jazz Birthdays
by Marc Cohn
Miles, Gil, Papa Joe, Sidney & Paul! May birthdays on Gifts & Messages! We also celebrate pianists Stanley Cowell, John Lewis, Sun Ra & Dave McKenna; vocalists Shirley Horn & Betty Carter; saxophonists Arthur Blythe & Sonny Fortune; guitarist Jimmy Ponder, bassist Ron Carter, B-3 master Richard Holmes & flautist James Newton. Do enjoy the show! ...
Le French May Live Jazz Series in Hong Kong
by Rob Garratt
Samy Thiébault; Laïka and the Unit Hong Kong City Hall, Theatre Le French May Arts Festival: Live Jazz Series Hong Kong May 21-22, 2019 The now-annual Live Jazz Series of long-running Hong Kong arts fest Le French May might have slimmed in size and shifted from ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Shirley Horn
All About Jazz is celebrating Shirley Horn's birthday today! Shirley Horn remembered playing her grandmother\'s piano when she was four years old. Uninterested in playing with the neighborhood children, Horn enjoyed nothing more than to play that piano, and would close herself off in her grandmother\'s parlor, which was kept for guests and was chillier than ...
Shirley Horn: With Friends
by Maurizio Zerbo
I dischi di Shirley Horn per la Verve hanno segnato per la cantante-pianista statunitense una seconda vita artistica, foriera di più ampi riconoscimenti. Questo doppio CD antologico enuclea alcuni degli episodi più rilevanti, dove lasciano il segno anche preziosi cammeo di Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Toots Thielemans e Wynton Marsalis. In primo piano l'eterea sensualità del ...
A Conversation with Pianist and Singer Patricia Barber
by UDEiGWE
Patricia Barber's new album, Higher, is a storybook of songs complete with captivating—and sometimes outré—lyrics and a masterful story teller. Join Patricia and me, as she talks about art songs, European audience vs American audience, Shirley Horn, and other subtly related subjects. Higher features Patricia Barber on piano and voice, Patrick Mulcahy on ...
“Old” School
by H William Stine
Old hat; same old same old; you can't teach an old dog new tricks. I don't get it why people are so negative about the word, old. Some of our greatest songwriters have used that word in some of their best songs. And some of our youngest singers are giving new voice to these old songs. ...
Women in Jazz, Part 1: Early Innovators
by Karl Ackermann
"Lil Hardin [Armstrong]...often imagined herself standing...at the bottom of a ladder, holding it steady for Louis as he rose to stardom." (Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, 2012). “The all-female band is an anomaly in music, one that must constantly prove itself as a 'band,' and not just 'girls playing music together.'" (Mary Ann Clawson, 1999). Everything ...
With Friends
By Shirley Horn
Label: Verve
Released: 2018
Track listing:
CD 1:
Come Dance with Me; You Won't Forget Me; You Go to My Head; Summertime; Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'; Bye Bye Love; Maybe September; Baby, Won't You Please Come Home; Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah); Take Love Easy; Why Don't You Do Right; A Time for Love (Album Version); Just a Little Lovin'; The Boy from Ipanema (Live at the Free Jazz Festival, Sao Paulo/1993).
CD 2:
Come Back to Me; Ill Wind; It Had to Be You; Solitary Moon; If You Were Mine; This Is All I Ask; Meaning of the Blues; All or Nothing at All; Quietly There; Beautiful Love; Basin St. Blues; Makin' Whoopie; You'd Better Love Me; Once I Loved (Live at the Free Jazz Festival, Sao Paulo/1993).
Christmas Gifts and Messages, Some From the Grinch
by Marc Cohn
If you haven't had your fill of Christmas, click the play button for last Saturday's holiday show. One of our rotating traditions is to program the Duke Ellington version of “The Nutcracker Suite." Our first segment tracks mostly old favorites that we play almost every year. The rest are offered for the first time on the ...
