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Live At The North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (Oscar Peterson Album)
''Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980'' is a 1980 album by Oscar Peterson, accompanied by Joe Pass, Toots Thielemans and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Track listing # "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 11:21 # " Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) – 8:54 # "There's No You" (Tom Adair, Hal Hopper) – 6:35 # "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) – 7:19 # "City Lights" (Oscar Peterson) – 6:36 # "I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) – 6:10 # " A Time for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 7:17 # "Bluesology" (Milt Jackson) – 6:57 # "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) – 8:13 # "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) – 8:14 Personnel Performance * Oscar Peterson – piano * Toots Thielemans – harmonica * Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – double bass * Joe Pass – guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy, and received numerous other awards and honours. He played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, simply "O.P." by his friends, and informally in the jazz community as "the King of inside swing". Biography Early years Peterson was born in Montreal, Quebec, to immigrants from the West Indies (Saint Kitts and Nevis and the British Virgin Islands); His mother, Kathleen, was a domestic worker and his father, Daniel, worked as a porter for Canadian Pacific Railway and was an amateur musician who taught himself to play the organ, trumpet and piano. Peterson grew up in the neighbourh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Mills
Irving Harold Mills (born Isadore Minsky; January 16, 1894 – April 21, 1985) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose. Personal Mills was born to a Jewish family in Odessa, Russian Empire, although some biographies state that he was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. His father, Hyman Minsky (1868–1905), was a hat maker who had immigrated from Odessa to the United States with his wife Sofia ''(née'' Sophia Dudis; born 1870). Hyman died in 1905, forcing Irving and his brother, Jacob ''(aka'' "Jack"; 1891–1979), to work odd jobs including bussing at restaurants, selling wallpaper, and working in the garment industry. By 1910, Mills was listed as a telephone operator. Mills married Beatrice ("Bessie") Wilensky (1896–1976) in 1911 and they subsequently moved to Philadelphia. By 1918, Mills was working for publisher Leo Feist. His brother, Jack, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Time For Love (song)
A Time for Love may refer to: * ''Time for Love'' (film), a 1935 American animated film * ''A Time for Love'' (film), a 1970 Hong Kong film * ''Time for Love'' (radio program), a 1953–1954 American radio drama * ''A Time for Love'' (Arturo Sandoval album), 2010 * ''A Time for Love'' (Tony Bennett album), 1966 * A Time for Love (TV series), a 1972 Australian television series * ''Time for Love ''Time for Love'' is the fifth studio album by American singer Freddie Jackson. It was released by Capitol Records on August 3, 1992 in the United States. The album includes the singles " Me and Mrs. Jones", "Can We Try" and the album's opener "I ...'', an album by Freddie Jackson, 1992 * "A Time for Love", a song written by Johnny Mandel and Paul Francis Webster for the film '' An American Dream'', 1966 See also * No Time for Love (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallichs. He is best known as a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, but he also composed music, and was a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as songs written by others from the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s. Mercer's songs were among the most successful hits of the time, including " Moon River", " Days of Wine and Roses", " Autumn Leaves", and "Hooray for Hollywood". He wrote the lyrics to more than 1,500 songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received nineteen Oscar nominations, and won four Best Original Song Oscars. Early life Mercer was born in Savannah, Georgia, where one of his first jobs, aged 10, was sweeping floors at the original 1919 location of Leopold's Ice Cream. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as " Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", " A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "The Song Is You", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Long Ago (and Far Away)". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg. A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades. His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm Old Fashioned
"I'm Old Fashioned" is a 1942 song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer. It was written for the film ''You Were Never Lovelier'' (1942), where it was introduced by Nan Wynn who dubbed for Rita Hayworth as part of a song and dance routine with Fred Astaire. Background According to Mueller: "Constructed sparsely in a kind of theme and variations form (ABA'A") it is particularly notable for the appealing way the strains link up – especially for the poised and dramatic transitions between the A' and A" strains". Mercer recalled working with the older Kern, and how Kern reacted to the lyrics for "I'm Old Fashioned": "We hit it off right away. I was in such awe of him, I think he must have sensed that. He was very kind to me, treated me more like a son than a collaborator. And when he thought I had a great lyric he said, 'Eva, Eva, come down here', and he kissed me on the cheek and he said, 'Eva, I want you to hear this lyric'. Well, of course I was thrille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Kahn
Gustav Gerson Kahn (November 6, 1886October 8, 1941) was an American lyricist who contributed a number of songs to the Great American Songbook, including "Pretty Baby", "Ain't We Got Fun?", "Carolina in the Morning", "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)", " My Buddy" " I'll See You in My Dreams", " It Had to Be You", " Yes Sir, That's My Baby", " Love Me or Leave Me", "Makin' Whoopee", " My Baby Just Cares for Me", "I'm Through with Love", "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and "You Stepped Out of a Dream". Life and career Kahn was born in 1886 in Bruschied, in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia, the son of Theresa (Mayer) and Isaac Kahn, a cattle farmer. The Jewish family emigrated to the United States and moved to Chicago in 1890. After graduating from high school, he worked as a clerk in a mail order business before launching one of the most successful and prolific careers from Tin Pan Alley. Kahn married Grace LeBoy in 1916 and they had two children, Donald and Irene. In hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nacio Herb Brown
Ignacio Herbert "Nacio Herb" Brown (February 22, 1896 – September 28, 1964) was an American songwriter, writer of popular songs, movie scores and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s. Amongst his most enduring work is the score for the 1952 musical film ''Singin' in the Rain''. Life and career Ignacio Herbert Brown was born in Deming, New Mexico, United States, to Ignacio and Cora Brown.1900 United States Federal Census He had an older sister, Charlotte. In 1901, his family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended Manual Arts High School. His music education started with instruction from his mother, Cora Alice (Hopkins) Brown. Brown first operated a tailoring business (1916), and then became a financially successful realtor, but he always wrote and played. After his first hit "Coral Sea" (1920) and a first big hit, "When Buddha Smiles" (1921), he eventually became a full-time composer. He joined American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Stepped Out Of A Dream
"You Stepped Out of a Dream" is a popular song with music written by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Gus Kahn that was published in 1940. The song has become a pop and jazz standard, with many recorded versions. It was a centerpiece in the 1941 musical ''Ziegfeld Girl'', in which it was sung by Tony Martin and accompanied an iconic image of Lana Turner walking down a grand staircase. Although Turner never officially sang or recorded the song, it became her theme song during her peak years as one of Hollywood's top leading ladies, often played when she entered a nightclub or restaurant. The song is played in the film '' The Abominable Dr. Phibes'' (1971) during a murder scene. The song was added to the Chichester/London 2012 Revival version of the musical '' Singin' in the Rain''. Other versions * Dave Brubeck – 1950 * Peter Cincotti * Nat King Cole * Ray Conniff * Eddie Lockjaw Davis * Teddy Edwards * The Four Freshmen * Art Garfunkel * Stan Getz – 1950 * Dexter Gordon †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Hopper
Harold Stevens Hopper (November 11, 1912 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – November 2, 1970 in Sylmar, California) was an American singer/songwriter, film score composer and screenwriter. Life Hopper was a member of The Pied Pipers singing group. He composed the themes tune to several television series such as ''Judge Roy Bean'', '' Colt .45'', ''26 Men'', ''Circus Boy'' and ''Bearcats!''. He guest starred on the CBS sitcom, '' Dennis the Menace'', starring Jay North in the title role. Hopper co-authored the script for the 1968 film ''Shalako'', starring Sean Connery Sir Sean Connery (born Thomas Connery; 25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. Origina .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopper, Hal 1912 births 1970 deaths Musicians from Oklahoma City American male singer-songwriters American film score composers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adair
Thomas Montgomery Adair (June 15, 1913 – May 24, 1988) was an American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter. Biography Adair was born on 15 June 1913, in Newton, Kansas, where his father owned a clothing store: he was the only child of William Adair and Madge Cochran. Around 1923 the family moved to Los Angeles, where Tom Adair attended Los Angeles Junior College (now Los Angeles City College). In his early career he worked as a complaints clerk at the local power company, while writing poetry and song lyrics in his spare time. In 1941, Adair met Matt Dennis in a club and the duo began writing songs together. Adair's song-writing career took him to New York during the 1940s where he penned several Broadway hits, and worked with Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra. He later returned to Los Angeles and worked with writer James B. Allardice on scripts for sit-coms. In 1949, Adair married Frances Adelle Jeffords; in later life, they worked together on songs and teleplays for Disney. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There's No You
"There's No You" is a popular song written by Harold S. Hopper better known as Hal Hopper with lyrics by Tom Adair. The song was first published in 1944. Two of the best-known versions of the song were recorded in 1944 by Jo Stafford and Frank Sinatra. Stafford's version was recorded on December 13, 1944 and it reached No, 7 in the Billboard charts in 1945. Sinatra's first recording of the song was made on November 14, 1944. Other notable recordings * Vic Damone (1955). * Miles Davis - ''Blue Moods'' (1955) * June Christy - ''The Misty Miss Christy'' (1956) * Frank Sinatra - ''Where Are You'' (1957) * Ray Charles - ''The Great Ray Charles'' (1957) * Louis Armstrong - ''Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson'' (1957) * Betty Carter - '' The Modern Sound of Betty Carter'' (1960) * Johnny Mathis - for his album ''Johnny's Mood'' (1960) * Sarah Vaughan - '' Close to You'' (1960) * Stacey Kent - '' Close Your Eyes'' (1997) * Diana Krall - ''This Dream of You'' (2020) References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
