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Violets For Your Furs
"Violets for Your Furs" is a 1941 song written by Matt Dennis with words by Tom Adair, and first recorded in that year by Tommy Dorsey's orchestra with vocals by Frank Sinatra. The song describes the wearing of violets with furs on an evening in Manhattan. Song is said to be about Lana Turner, who was involved with Sinatra at the time. Turner often wore flowers pinned to her furs. Selected recordings * Frank Sinatra — ''Songs for Young Lovers'' (1954) * Beverly Kenney — ''Come Swing with Me'' (1956) * John Coltrane — '' Coltrane'' (1957) * Jutta Hipp — ''Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims'' (1957) * Billie Holiday — ''Lady in Satin'' (1958) * Chet Baker — '' Chet Baker with Fifty Italian Strings'' (1959) * J.R. Monterose — ''The Message'' (1959) * Nat Adderley — ''Work Song'' (1960) * Dave Brubeck Quartet — '' Angel Eyes'' (1964) * Jimmy Roselli — ''New York: My Port of Call'' (1965) * Al Haig — ''Piano Interpretations'' (1976) * Shirley Horn — ''Violets for Your F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Dennis
Matthew Loveland Dennis (February 11, 1914 – June 21, 2002) was an American singer, pianist, band leader, arranger, and writer of music for popular songs. Biography Dennis was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. His mother was a violinist and his father a singer, and the family was in vaudeville, so he was exposed to music early. In 1933 he joined Horace Heidt's orchestra as a vocalist and pianist. Later on, he formed his own band, with Dick Haymes as vocalist. He became vocal coach, arranger, and accompanist for Martha Tilton, and worked with a new vocal group, The Stafford Sisters. Jo Stafford, one of the sisters, joined the Tommy Dorsey band in 1940 and persuaded Dorsey to hire Dennis as arranger and composer. Dennis wrote prolifically, with 14 of his songs recorded by the Dorsey band in one year alone, including " Everything Happens to Me", an early hit for Frank Sinatra. After four years in the United States Air Force in World War II, Dennis returned to music writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chet Baker With Fifty Italian Strings
''Chet Baker with Fifty Italian Strings'' is an album by trumpeter Chet Baker which was recorded in Italy in 1959 and released on the Jazzland label. accessed August 14, 2013 Reception awarded the album with 1½ stars stating "Fans will want this set but, due to the mundane string arrangements and the lack of variety, more general collectors should acquire his earlier jazz-oriented dates first".Yanow, SAllmusic listing accessed August 14, 2013 '' |
Dreamsville
''Dreamsville'' is a studio album by jazz singer Stacey Kent. It was released in 2001 by Candid Records. This was Kent's fourth studio album, it was produced by Alan Bates and features her husband, tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson. Reception David R. Adler, writing on Allmusic.com gave the album three stars out of five. In his review, Adler said that "...Kent may or may not be "the greatest ballad singer in half a century," as her PR claims, but her straightforward renditions of these by-request ballads are not at all generic...There's a certain brassiness, a trumpet-like pointedness, in her voice, as well as a host of endearing idiosyncrasies. Adler reserves praise for Kent's accompanists, describing Jim Tomlinson's clarinet solo on "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" as "sumptuous" and the interplay of the band on " Little Girl Blue". Track listing # "I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:43 # "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) - 4:35 # "Isn't It a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacey Kent
Stacey Kent (born March 27, 1965) is an American jazz singer from South Orange, New Jersey. Kent was nominated for a Grammy Award and was awarded the Chevalier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture in 2009. She is married to saxophonist, composer Jim Tomlinson, who produces Kent's albums and writes songs for her with his lyricist partner, novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. Early life and education Stacey Kent was born in South Orange, New Jersey. Her paternal grandfather was Russian and grew up in France. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she traveled to England to study music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she met saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, whom she married on August 9, 1991. Career In the 1990s, she began her professional career singing at Café Bohème in London's Soho. After two or three years, she began opening for established acts at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. In 1995 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Trane (Johnny Hartman Album)
''For Trane'' is a compilation album by American jazz vocalist Johnny Hartman that was released in 1995 by Blue Note Records. It contains material from two albums that Hartman recorded in Tokyo in 1972, ''Hartman Meets Hino'' and ''Hartman Sings Trane's Favorites''. The original LPs were only available in Japan. ''For Trane'' marks the first time the songs have been released in the United States. Background In 1995, the commercial success of the soundtrack to ''The Bridges of Madison County'', which featured four songs by Johnny Hartman, led to a resurgence of interest in the vocalist's work. Eleven reissues and compilations were released by various record companies between 1995 and 1998, including ''For Trane'', from Blue Note, which contained material from two albums that Hartman had recorded for Capitol Music (Japan) in 1972 but had never been available stateside. Hartman had toured Japan with Art Blakey in 1963, and his participation in the ''John Coltrane and Johnny Hartm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Hartman
John Maurice Hartman (July 3, 1923 – September 15, 1983) was an American jazz singer who specialized in ballads. He sang and recorded with Earl Hines' and Dizzy Gillespie's big bands and with Erroll Garner. Hartman is best remembered for his collaboration in 1963 with saxophonist John Coltrane, ''John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman'', a landmark album for both him and Coltrane. Biography Born in Louisiana and raised in Chicago, Hartman began singing and playing the piano by the age of eight. He attended DuSable High School studying music under Walter Dyett before receiving a scholarship to the Chicago Musical College. He sang as a private in the Army's Special Services during World War II, but his first professional break came in September 1946 when he won a singing contest at the Apollo Theater, earning him a one-week engagement with Earl Hines, which lasted a year. Hartman's first recordings were with Marl Young during that time, though it was his collaboration with Hines t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violets For Your Furs (album)
''Violets for Your Furs'' is a 1981 live album by Shirley Horn recorded at the North Sea Jazz Festival. Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "This lesser-known set is up to the same level as Shirley Horn's best-selling Verve sets. Recommended.". Track listing # " Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:27 # "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) - 7:25 # " Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" ( Andy Razaf, Don Redman) - 3:40 # " Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Roger ("Ram") Ramirez, James Sherman) - 5:18 # "Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 4:56 # " Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) - 4:14 # " My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) - 10:16 # " More Than You Know" ( Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) - 4:18 # "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" ( Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:25 Personnel * Shirley Horn - pia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Horn
Shirley Valerie Horn (May 1, 1934 – October 20, 2005) was an American jazz singer and pianist. She collaborated with many jazz musicians including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, Ron Carter, Carmen McRae, Wynton Marsalis and others. She was most noted for her ability to accompany herself with nearly incomparable independence and ability on the piano while singing, something described by arranger Johnny Mandel as "like having two heads", and for her rich, lush voice, a smoky contralto, which was described by noted producer and arranger Quincy Jones as "like clothing, as she seduces you with her voice". Biography Shirley Horn was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Encouraged by her grandmother, an amateur organist, Horn began piano lessons at the age of four. Aged 12, she studied piano and composition at Howard University, later graduating from there in classical music. Horn was offered a place at the Juilliard School, but her family could not afford to send her th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Interpretations
''Piano Interpretations'' is the début album by jazz pianist Wynton Kelly released on the Blue Note label featuring performances by Kelly with Oscar Pettiford/ Franklin Skeete, and Lee Abrams recorded in 1951.Wynton Kelly discography accessed February 26, 2010 The CD reissue features 11 additional tracks. Reception The review by states: "Kelly in 1951 was already long on his way to achieving his own sound. Influenced most by Bud Powell but also displaying some of the joy of Teddy Wilson's style along with his own chord voicings, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Haig
Alan Warren Haig (July 19, 1922 – November 16, 1982) was an American jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop. Biography Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in nearby Nutley. In 1940, he majored in piano at Oberlin College. He started performing with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in 1945, and performed and recorded under Gillespie from 1945 to 1946, as a member of Eddie Davis and His Beboppers in 1946 (also featuring Fats Navarro), and the Eddie Davis Quintet in 1947, under Parker from 1948 to 1950, and under Stan Getz from 1949 to 1951. The Gillespie quintet, which included Haig, recorded four 78 r.p.m. sides for Guild Records in May 1945 which are regarded as the first recordings to demonstrate all elements of the mature bebop style. He was part of the nonet on the first session of Miles Davis' ''Birth of the Cool''. For much of the 1950s and 1960s, "Haig was all but a forgotten giant", in Brian Case's words; "Jazz pianism, ever more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Roselli
Michael John "Jimmy" Roselli (December 26, 1925 – June 30, 2011) was one of the most significant Italian-American pop singers of his time, during an era of competition from such performers as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Frankie Laine, Vic Damone, Al Martino, and Jerry Vale. Early life Roselli was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Anna Bernadette Lovella, a seamstress, and Phillip Roselli, a boxer. His mother died two days after he was born and his father abandoned him, leaving him in the care of his aunts and his widowed grandfather, Michael Roselli, who spoke no English. He grew up five doors down from Frank Sinatra, who was ten years his senior. In 1944, Roselli joined the United States Army, serving in the 66th Infantry Division. During the war, he witnessed the sinking of the and served in northern France and Vienna. After the war, he returned to Hoboken, where he married Angeline Giuffra and had a daughter. During this time, he worked as a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel Eyes (Dave Brubeck Album)
''Angel Eyes'' is a 1965 studio album by Dave Brubeck and his quartet of music by Matt Dennis. The album peaked at 122 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The cover features a photo of model Terry Reno, who also appeared on the cover of '' My Favorite Things''. Reception The album was reviewed by Scott Yanow at Allmusic who wrote that the songs "...are given superior and swinging treatments with fine solos from Brubeck and altoist Paul Desmond." Track listing :''All music composed by Matt Dennis, lyricists indicated # "Let's Get Away from It All" (Tom Adair) - 3:55 # "Violets for Your Furs" (Adair) - 5:53 # " Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent) - 7:25 # "Will You Still Be Mine?" (Adair) - 5:24 # " Everything Happens to Me" (Adair) - 5:49 # "Little Man With a Candy Cigar" (Frank Killduff) - 3:37 # " The Night We Called It a Day" (Adair) - 6:11 Personnel *Dave Brubeck - piano *Paul Desmond - alto saxophone *Gene Wright - double bass *Joe Morello - drums *Teo Macero Attilio Joseph "Teo" Macero (Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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