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Born To Be Blue (Mel Tormé Song)
"Born to Be Blue" is a 1946 traditional pop torch song written by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells. It was first recorded by Tormé and Sonny Burke in 1946. It was revived by both singers and instrumentalists starting in the mid-1950s, and is considered a jazz standard. Cover versions See also *List of jazz standards A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References 1940s jazz standards 1946 songs {{1940s-jazz-composition-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditional Pop
Traditional pop (also known as classic pop and pre-rock and roll pop) is Western culture, Western pop music that generally pre-dates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s. The most popular and enduring songs from this era of music are known as pop standards or American standards. The works of these songwriters and composers are usually considered part of the canon known as the "Great American Songbook". More generally, the term "Standard (music), standard" can be applied to any popular song that has become very widely known within mainstream culture. AllMusic defines traditional pop as "post-big band and pre-rock & roll pop music". Origins Classic pop includes the song output of the Broadway theatre, Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood show tune writers from approximately World War I to the 1950s, such as Irving Berlin, Frederick Loewe, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lullaby For A Monster
''Lullaby for a Monster'' is an album led by saxophonist Dexter Gordon, recorded in 1976 and released on the Danish SteepleChase label in 1981. accessed March 24, 2015 Reception In his review for , Scott Yanow said that "this Dexter Gordon album features him in a surprisingly sparse setting. ...he is up to the challenge and his lengthy solos never lose one's interest".Track listing # "Nursery Blues" () - 6:02 # "Lullaby for a Monster" ( ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born To Be Blue (Grant Green Album)
''Born to Be Blue'' is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1962 but not released until 1985 on the Blue Note label.Grant Green discography accessed September 16, 2010 Green is accompanied by tenor saxophonist , pianist , bassist Sam Jones and drummer . Recep ...
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Grant Green
Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer. Recording prolifically for Blue Note Records as both leader and sideman, Green performed in the hard bop, soul jazz, bebop, and Latin-tinged idioms throughout his career. Critics Michael Erlewine and Ron Wynn write, "A severely underrated player during his lifetime, Grant Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar ... Green's playing is immediately recognizable – perhaps more than any other guitarist." Critic Dave Hunter described his sound as "lithe, loose, slightly bluesy and righteously groovy". He often performed in an organ trio, a small group featuring a Hammond organ and drummer. Apart from fellow guitarist Charlie Christian, Green's primary influences were saxophonists, particularly Charlie Parker, and his approach was therefore almost exclusively linear rather than chordal. He thus rarely played rhythm guitar except as a sideman on albums led by other musicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swingin's Mutual!
''The Swingin's Mutual!'' is an album by the George Shearing quintet, accompanied on the original 1961 release on six songs by the vocalist Nancy Wilson (singer), Nancy Wilson. Reception The initial ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' review from March 13, 1961 commented of Wilson's singing that "These are standout renditions by the youthful thrush, in which she offers fanciful, stylised and sometimes moody interpretations as "Born to Be Blue", "The Things We Did Last Summer", "Let's Live Again" and "On Green Dolphin Street". The contemporaneous ''DownBeat'' reviewer concluded: "This is a pleasant, at times, even enjoyable album. The biggest flaw is its superficiality and lack of real effort on the parts of two fine artists [Shearing and Wilson]". Track listing (1997 Jazz Heritage CD reissue) # "The Things We Did Last Summer" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:41 # "All Night Long" (Curtis Reginald Lewis) – 3:06 # "Gentleman Friend" (Arnold Horwitt, Arnold B. Horwitt, Richard Lewi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Wilson (jazz Singer)
Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American singer and actress whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist". She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice". Early life Nancy Wilson was born on February 20, 1937 in Chillicothe, Ohio, to Olden Wilson, an iron foundry worker, and Lillian Ryan. Wilson attended Burnside Heights Elementary School and developed her singing skills by participating in church choirs. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Shearing
Sir George Albert Shearing, (13 August 1919 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. Shearing was the composer of over 300 titles, including the jazz standards "Lullaby of Birdland" and " Conception", and had multiple albums on the '' Billboard'' charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s. He died of heart failure in New York City, at the age of 91. Biography Early life Born in Battersea, London, Shearing was the youngest of nine children. He was born blind to working-class parents: his father delivered coal and his mother cleaned trains in the evening. He started to learn piano at the age of three and began formal training at Linden Lodge School for the Blind, where he spent four years. Though he was offered several scholarships, Shearing opted to perform at a local pub, the Mason's Arms in Lambeth, for "25 bob a week" playing piano and accordion. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twisting The Jug
''Twisting the Jug'' is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons with trumpeter Joe Newman and organist Jack McDuff recorded in 1961 and released on the Prestige label. accessed December 11, 2012 Reception The review stated: "Gene Ammons' 1961 session ''Twistin' the Jug'' features not only the powerhouse tenor playing at the top of his form, but a killer set of sidemen... this is a fun, listenable early soul-jazz session featuring two of the greats of the field".Mason, SAllmusic Review accessed December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Ammons
Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. The son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, Gene Ammons is remembered for his accessible music, steeped in soul and R&B. Biography Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ammons studied music with instructor Walter Dyett at DuSable High School. Ammons began to gain recognition while still at high school when in 1943, at the age of 18, he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax's band. In 1944, he joined the band of Billy Eckstine (who bestowed on him the nickname "Jug" when straw hats ordered for the band did not fit), playing alongside Charlie Parker and later Dexter Gordon. Performances from this period include "Blowin' the Blues Away," featuring a saxophone duel between Ammons and Gordon. After 1947, when Eckstine became a solo performer, Ammons then led a group, including Miles Davis and Sonny Stitt, that performed at Chicago's Jumptown Club. In 1949, Ammon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born To Be Blue (Freddie Hubbard Album)
''Born to Be Blue'' is an album by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard recorded in December 1981 and released on the Pablo Today label in 1982. Reception The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album a "fine modern hard bop CD".Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed 14 June 2009. Track listing All compositions by Freddie Hubbard except where noted # "Gibraltar" - 12:16 # "True Colors" - 8:05 # "Born to Be Blue" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) - 7:25 # "Joy Spring" (Clifford Brown) - 6:48 # "Up Jumped Spring" - 7:11 * Recorded on Soundstream Digital Systems at Ocean Way Recording Studio, Hollywood; December 14, 1981 Personnel * Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn * Harold Land - tenor saxophone, flute * Billy Childs - keyboards * Larry Klein - bass * Steve Houghton - drums * Buck Clarke - percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He played bebop, hard bop, and post-bop styles from the early 1960s onwards. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop. Career beginnings Hubbard started playing the mellophone and trumpet in his school band at Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Trumpeter Lee Katzman, former sideman with Stan Kenton, recommended that he begin studying at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music (now the Jordan College of the Arts at Butler University) with Max Woodbury, the principal trumpeter of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. In his teens, Hubbard worked locally with brothers Wes and Monk Montgomery, and worked with bassist Larry Ridley and saxophonist James Spaulding. In 1958, at the age of 20, he moved to New York and began playing with some of the best jazz players of the era, including Philly Joe Jones, Sonny Rollin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
''Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!'' is a 1961 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, with a jazz quartet led by Lou Levy. The painting on the cover is by Jean Dubuffet. The liner notes are by Benny Green of the London Observer. Track listing For the 1961 Verve LP album, Verve V-4053 (Mono) & V6-4053 (Stereo) Side One: #" A Night in Tunisia" ( Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 4:06 #" You're My Thrill" (Sidney Clare, Jay Gorney) – 3:35 #"My Reverie" (Larry Clinton, Claude Debussy) – 3:16 #" Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:17 #" 'Round Midnight" ( Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 3:28 #"Jersey Bounce" (Tiny Bradshaw, Buddy Feyne, Edward Johnson, Bobby Plater) – 3:33 #"Signing Off" (Leonard Feather, Jessyca Russell) – 3:45 Side Two: #" Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton) – 4:13 #"This Year's Kisses" (Irving Berlin) – 2:14 #"Good Morning Heartache" (Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham) – 4:17 #" (I Was) Born to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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