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Stories of Standards—Night in Tunisisa Linda Hillshafer Share Tune in weekday mornings to hear our favorite versions of “Night in Tunisia.” Rodney Franks presents Stories of Standards Monday through Friday at 7:50 and 8:50 am beginning Monday, April 12! Stories of Standards is sponsored by ListenUp. Dizzy Gillespie  wrote “Night in Tunisia” in 1942; it was first recorded in 1944 under the title “Interlude.” It may have been written while Gillespie was playing wit...

Written by Emily Morrow on April 1, 2021 If legendary jazz musicians were collected together in one giant jigsaw puzzle and each musician was one piece – Thelonious Monk’s individual piece would be impossible to cut out. As a singular artist, his shape or place in jazz is too uniquely non-conforming. From a musical and historical standpoint, he is recognized as one of the first creators of modern jazz and a major influence on the later development of the Beb...

Charlie Barnet Smiles - Charlie Barnet, Callahan, J. Will Shady Lady - Charlie Barnet, Bennett, Dale That Old Black Magic - Charlie Barnet, Arlen, Harold Oh, Miss Jaxson - Charlie Barnet, Ellington, Duke Things Aint What They Used to Be - Charlie Barnet, Ellington, Mercer The Moose - Charlie Barnet, Burns, Ralph Powwow - Charlie Barnet, Bennett, Dale The Great Lie - Charlie Barnet, Calloway, Cab Drop Me off in Harlem - Charlie Barnet, Ellington, Duke Gulf Coast Blues - Charlie Barnet, Williams,...

Soma Ghosh , February 26th, 2021 11:26 Lee Daniels gorgeous star-spangled biopic of Billie Holiday honours the incomparable artist, but risks reducing her to a shiny, heroic emblem more than the harsh-throated contradiction she was, finds Soma Ghosh Norman Granz writes on the liner of Songs For Distingué Lovers (1957) that Billie Holiday “happened to some songs”. From the moment she happened, mainstream culture has tried to explain away the transgressions that make Billie the seminal god...

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Jeff Alessandrelli February 11, 2021 With the Covid-19 pandemic, there have obviously been dozens of books that haven’t received the shine they might have under normal circumstances. One in particular that I’ve enjoyed is Jaydn DeWald’s essay collection Sheets of Sound, out via the UK press Broken Sleep. Discussing the author’s background as a skateboarder, as a jazz musician, as a reader, teacher and writer, Sheets of Sound lovingly meanders across 239 pages. DeWald writes how �...

Mary Lou Williams, third from left, with friends in her New York apartment (photo: Alamy). In 1954 in Paris, the pianist Mary Lou Williams walked off the jazz bandstand at age 44, suddenly and at the very height of her fame. She had finally succumbed to her midlife panic and bouts of self-loathing that were enough to make just about anyone want simply to exit the stage. Thus began a chain of events leading to her conversion to Catholicism and to a new life’s purpose in composing jazz Masses ...

Jazz Pianist, prolific film composer Claude Bolling passes away at 90 ANI | Updated: Jan 03, 2021 09:37 IST Washington [US], January 3 (ANI): Claude Bolling, a French jazz pianist and composer whose work can be heard in over 100 films, died on December 29 in Garches, France. He was 90. According to Variety, Bollings representatives announced his death on his website. No cause was given. Bolling, who was born on April 10, 1930 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, Fra...

Claude Bolling obituary Leading figure in French jazz, as a pianist, composer and bandleader, who also wrote more than 100 film scores Claude Bolling’s hero was Duke Ellington, which prompted the writer Boris Vian to give him the nickname ‘Bollington’. Photograph: Christian Ducasse/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Claude Bolling’s hero was Duke Ellington, which prompted the writer Boris Vian to give him the nickname ‘Bollington’. Photograph: Christian Ducasse/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images JohnFo...

AFP via Getty Images toggle caption AFP via Getty Images A shot of jazz pianist Claude Bolling and friends, taken on a beach in Cannes, France in 1969. AFP via Getty Images French jazz pianist, bandleader and composer Claude Bolling, whose work spanned jazz clubs, the big screen, and Carnegie Hall, died Tuesday at the age of 90. His death was announced by his representatives. Americans knew Bolling best for a recording project with noted French flutist J...