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Skitch Henderson

Born: January 27, 1918

Skitch Henderson (born January 27, 1918, in Halstad, MN) began on piano at age 4, and trained as conductor under Fritz Reiner, Albert Coates, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernst Toch, and Arturo Toscanini, who invited him to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra. After starting his career in the 1930s playing piano in Midwest roadhouses, his major break came as an accompanist on a 1937 MGM tour with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. After World War II, he was music director for Frank Sinatra's "Light-Up Time" on NBC radio. He was also accompanist on "Philco Radio Time" with Bing Crosby, and played on Bob Hope's "Pepsodent Show." In 1946, he and the Golden Gate Quartet headlined a summer replacement program on NBC

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by Richard J Salvucci
March 13, 2015

In the iconic photo A Great Day in Harlem (1958), bandleader and pianist Count Basie has taken a seat on the curb. Eleven neighborhood kids and one ringer, Taft Jordan Jr, are seated single file to Basie's right. Marian McPartland and Mary Lou Williams stand behind the kids, chatting. They are bookended, appropriately, by Oscar Pettiford ...

Frank Sinatra: New York

by Mark Corroto
November 22, 2009

Frank Sinatra Sinatra: New York Reprise 2009 The true icons of American music, and there are only a few, include Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. Their art changed the way we listen to music, and probably more important, their personal style made a deep impression on ...

Skitch Henderson: Swinging With Strings

By Skitch Henderson

Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Japanese Sandman; My Gal Sal; Volga Boatman; Sophisticated Lady; Blue Moon; Oh, Lady, Be Good!; Lover Man; Easy Living; Goody, Goody; C-Jam Blues, If I Had You; In a Mellow Tone; The Hour of Parting; If There is Someone Lovelier Than You; I Could Have Danced All Night; When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day

Skitch Henderson: Skitch Henderson: Swinging With Strings

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 2002

Bounce, tap, stomp, slap, wiggle, giggle, snap—whatever it is you do when you hear music that makes you move, it will happen when you’ve got Skitch Henderson: Swinging With Strings in the CD player. Backed by a small yet potent army of violinists and Arbors regulars, the album is a great collection of catchy new tunes ...

Love Is All You Really Want / Suzanne

By Skitch Henderson

Label: London Records
Released: 0

Two Cigarettes In The Dark

By Skitch Henderson

Label: London Records
Released: 0

Autumn In New York

By Skitch Henderson

Label: London Records
Released: 0