Posts Tagged Jazz
A quick happy birthday to one of the greatest Jazz vocalists ever. Couldn’t decide on what was the best song to show her off with but I decided to go with one of her signature pieces, “Strange Fruit”. It’s a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very happy birthday to Miles Davis. To commemorate this great man I am including a piece I have on my “Rhapsodies Soundtrack” for when I am writing, “I Could write a Book”
A very happy 110th birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong. And what better way to celebrate it with “What a Wonderful World”. For which version of this is a toss up between the end of the original Hitchhiker’s Guide to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A very happy 91st birthday to Charlie Parker a talent silenced far too soon.
A very happy 85th birthday to John Coltrane! And what better way to celebrate than with one of his signature pieces, “Favorite Things”
And here he is playing Blue Monk in Oslo, April 1966