Here's a personally selected Spotify playlist of Big Jazz. Featuring Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and many more... https://open.spotify.com/user/21gfcblypfg4fvhmktfb73eya/playlist/1XChxoYHuzvRdN3MX2ji3L?si=byADzeFNRE2o0hNsxtgi3g
Day 19: A Song that Makes You Think About Life My life or life in general? Let's go with a mix with Frank Sinatra and That's Life https://youtu.be/zoXLKgX0MgU
Day 9: A Song that makes you happy Cab Calloway: Papa's in Bed with His Britches On https://youtu.be/NQ_8zk3zIts
Here is Matt Palmer's Eagle Jazz Band playing the Tiger Rag and Bring Me Sunshine live at Upton Jazz Festival, at the bridge venue. This was was the band who opened the festival https://youtu.be/UveksGE0_yk
Right from the opening drum beat and the fan-fair introduction from the brass of the big band, it is evident this album was going to be something special. This album marks Clare Teal’s debut for Sony Jazz and is the better of them, cynics at the time could be forgiven for thinking Sony were jumping … Continue reading Album Review: Clare Teal- Don’t Talk
Now this album is somewhat of a tricky one for me to review, fond as I am of both Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and loved the original recordings they made together. So this album should by all accounts be made of win, the tracks are amongst the most well known they recorded … Continue reading Album Review: Frank Sinatra- I Remember Tommy
Matt Palmer's Rhythmic Reeds with Christine Tyrrel 8/5/16 Matt Palmer: Reeds George Huxley: Reeds Nick Ward: Skins Mark Challoner: Drums Brian Lawrence: String Bass Christine Tyrrel vocals It has been a while since I have been able to attend two sessions in a row and this has only occured due to Bank Holiday Monday giving … Continue reading At the Jazz Band Ball
Millennium Eagle Jazz Band. Jazz Club 90 24/4/16 It is something of a sad affair that my sojourns to Jazz Club 90 are the exception rather then the rule these days, but it is an unfortunate situation which cannot be avoided at the moment. So here we into May and the account here is only … Continue reading Jazz Time
Closet When I saw the prompt my immediate thought was of the phrase "skeleton in the closet", the term used to described a hidden secret normally of dark nature. A concept which is the drive of many a crime or horror story, and in the case of Psycho a literal skeleton in the closet. Now as far … Continue reading The Hidden Skeleton
A lot of Brits will no doubt always associate the titular song with Quality Streets, thanks to a long running advert in the mid-90s. The song itself originates from the musical "My Fair Lady" which we all know is an musical adaption of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmallion and will probably always be associated with Nat … Continue reading On the Street Where You Live
