Today’s Rhapsody is Melancholy Rhapsody by Eddie Higgins.
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A very happy birthday to Duke Ellington! So let’s celebrate this year with one of the many jazz standards we can thank him for… “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”
Just heard that Dave Brubeck died yesterday, he was 91. He will be missed. So in memory enjoy his great Take Five.
http://youtu.be/e1S_vA0ougg
For today’s selection we are going with John Coltrane‘s version of Dick Gasparre, George Fragos and Jack Baker’s “I Hear a Rhapsody” from his album Lush Life. To be honest I’m not sure if it actually counts as a Rhapsody. But hey why dither over an excuse to play Coltrane?
A very happy birthday to the great Dizzy Gillespie. To cellebrate lets enjoy his wonderful “Night in Tunisia.”
Today’s Rhapsody is another from the great Duke Ellington the Lazy (or Swanee) Rhapsody.
