Search results for "Ellis Larkins"
Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins: Exactly Like You (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 04, 09Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins were great duet partners, bringing out the best qualities in each other. Braff could alw...
Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 20, 09Because the lyric is gender-specific and character-driven, the verse to "My Funny Valentine" is rarely performed. Yet...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE
My Funny Valentine, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...
Ellis Larkins: Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 21, 07On its face, the unsung lyric seems pedestrian: another loser pining for a bygone lover. But when you realize it was ...
Ella Fitzgerald: But Not For Me (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 20, 07Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown at Birdland, photo by Marcel Fleiss "I never knew how good ou...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: FIFTIES FEMMES FATALES
In 1958, as evidence that love's fever is a long-running malady, singer/lyricist Peggy Lee alluded to Romeo & Julie...
Ella Fitzgerald: Someone to Watch Over Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 19, 08In truth, any of the eight selections produced by Milt Gabler for the 10-inch Decca album Ella Sings Gershwin would d...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL ELLA FITZGERALD PERFORMANCES
Ella Fitzgerald lived to sing. Nothing in her life meant as much to her. Yet she never had a music lesson in her life...
Mildred Bailey: These Foolish Things (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 14, 08After Decca failed to renew her recording contract in 1942, Mildred Bailey had a difficult time finding another compa...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY
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Chris Connor: Come Back to Sorrento (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 30, 07"I've always wanted to sing with a trio," Chris Connor confided. "I had to fight loud brass for too many years." Sur...
Mildred Bailey: It's a Woman's Prerogative (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 14, 08"It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind." Cliché but funny and tongue in cheek. Mildred Bailey at her sly best...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY
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Wilson, Nancy posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09Singer Nancy Wilson came into her own voice on discs for Capitol and Blue Note in the early 1960s, with a youthful jo...
Fitzgerald, Ella posted in Encyclopedia January 14, 08To paraphrase the poet Robert Graves, Ella Fitzgerald was really very good, despite all the people who said she was...
Bailey, Mildred (Mildred Rinker) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08Mildred Bailey was known as “Mrs. Swing” to her fans in the thirties and forties, and rightly so. She and fellow Wash...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Dick Katz posted in Features and Interviews December 22, 08For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. OctoJAZ...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Carline Ray posted in Features and Interviews March 17, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...
Williams, Joe (Joseph Goreed) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09&#x...
Pizzarelli, Bucky (John Paul) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli's superior range of harmonic qualities has made him equally effective as a soloist as with...
Jacquet, Illinois ( Jean-Baptiste) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 09Illinois Jacquet’s full-bodied sound expanded possibilities for the modern saxophonist. The original "Texas Tenor," J...
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