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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 with the Benny Carter Band; Gillespie said he composed it on the piano at Kelly’s Stables, a jazz clu...

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 Bebop movement. He influenced all its key players, along with helping mentor both John Coltrane and Son...

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 Ain't 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, Clarence Skyliner - Charlie Barnet, Barnet, Charlie Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Charlie B...

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 godmother of RnB queens and punks alike. This 1959 obituary by Time magazine sums up the Establishment...

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