This Week’s Rhapsody is the Melancholy Rhapsody by Harry James and his band.
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For this week’s Rhapsody we have The Crusaders and their Rhapsody and Blues with Joe Sample on Keyboard, David T Walker on Guitar and Wilton Felder on Saxophone
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A very happy 115th birthday to Mr. Louis Armstrong! Let’s celebrate his life by joining him in celebrating life in general with his wonderful and optimistic performance of the title song from Caberet! (minus all of that pesky cynicism and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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A very happy 96th birthday to Mr. Charlie Parker! Let’s celebrate with his arrangement of Gershwin’s “I’ve Got Rhythm!”
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A very Happy Birthday to Mr. Dizzy Gillespie! Let’s Celebrate with version of Mr. Thelonious Monk’s 52nd Street Theme, with Milt Jackson on the vibraphone and Charlie Rouse on tenor sax!
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A very Happy Birthday to Mr. Dizzy Gillespie! Let’s celebrate by listening to his theme to Cool World! No, not that one.
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I really need to start doing this more, but it’s a case of having to spend more time for research. So let’s start where we first began, with George Gershwin. I found this one completely by accident, but it’s well worth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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A very happy to Mr. Miles Davis. Let’s celebrate by listening to him perform “Dear Old Stockholm.” From his “Young Man With a Horn” Album.
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A very happy birthday to Mr. Dizzy Gillespie! Let’s celebrate by listening to him and his people perform Chano Pozo’s Tin Tin Deo
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Let’s all wish Mr. Charlie Parker a very happy birthday, by listening to one of his classics, Au Privave!
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