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Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
The Ballad of the Sad Young Men (1958) is a popular song with music by Tommy Wolf and lyrics by Fran Landesman written for the 1959 Off-Broadway musical ''The Nervous Set''. The song depicts young men, sitting alone in bars, "drinking up the night and trying not to drown." History In the jazz musical ''The Nervous Set'' about the Beat Generation, the song is sung by the character Jan (originally portrayed by actress Toni Seitz) who sympathizes with the Beats and their culture. Music reviewer Terrance Blacker likens the title to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s collection of short stories ''All the Sad Young Men''. As a jazz standard (sometimes called ''Ballad of the Sad Young Men''), the song has been performed and recorded by several artists, including Anita O’Day on her album ''All the Sad Young Men'' (1962), Shirley Bassey '' And I Love You So'' (1972) and Roberta Flack '' First Take'' (1969). ''Rolling Stone'' named the song in their list of ''18 Essential Roberta Flack Songs'' as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Song
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.Popular Music. (2015). ''Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia'' As a kind of popular art, it stands in contrast to art music. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through sound recording, recordings. Traditional music forms such as early blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller, local audiences. The original application of the term is to music of the 1880s Tin Pan Alley period in the United States. Although popular music sometimes is known as "pop music", the two terms are not interchangeable. Popular music is a generic term for a wide variety of genres of music that appeal to the tastes of a large segment of the populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Russo
Renato Russo (born Renato Manfredini, Jr., March 27, 1960 – October 11, 1996) was a Brazilian musician who was the lead singer of the pop rock band Legião Urbana. A Brazilian film depicting his life and career was released in 2013, called ''Somos Tão Jovens'' (''We Are So Young''). Early life Renato Manfredini Jr. was born in Governador Island, Rio de Janeiro. He started his studies at an early age, at Colégio Olavo Billac. During this period he wrote an essay titled "Old house, in ruins". His father was an executive at Banco do Brasil, and the family moved to New York City in 1967, when he was assigned a job in the city. Renato and his family returned later to Rio de Janeiro and moved in with his uncle Sávio. At 18 years old, he came out as bisexual to his mother, and in 1988 he made it public by writing the song "Meninos e Meninas" ("Boys n' Girls") with the chorus stating, in English, "I like St. Paul, I like St. John, I like St. Francis and St. Sebastian, and I lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his oratorio '' Blood on the Fields'' was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Marsalis is the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year. Early years Marsalis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961, and grew up in the suburb of Kenner. He is the second of six sons born to Dolores Ferdinand Marsalis and Ellis Marsalis Jr., a pianist and music teacher.Stated on ''Finding Your Roots'', PBS, March 25, 2012 He was named after jazz pianist Wynton Kelly. Branford Marsalis is his older brother and Jason Marsalis and Delfeayo Marsalis are younger. All three are jazz musicians. While sitting at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Pop
''Pop Pop'' is an album by the American musician Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1991. The album contains cover versions, ranging from jazz and blues standards to Tin Pan Alley to Jimi Hendrix's "Up from the Skies". It reached No. 8 on the ''Billboard'' Contemporary Jazz Albums and No. 121 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Production The album was coproduced by David Was and Jones. Charlie Haden played bass on some of its tracks. The cover artwork resembles a package of bang snaps. Critical reception ''The New York Times'' wrote that Jones's "vocal eccentricities, her swoops and shudders and pucker-sweet coos, seem at odds with the material rather than complicitous." The ''Calgary Herald'' noted that "Jones's plaintive, muttering, whispering little-girl voice weaves a web of intimacy around the listener... Still, it's not for every taste." Track listing #"My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) – 5:55 #" Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (Fran Landesm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. Over the course of a career that spans five decades and 15 studio albums, she has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, pop, soul, and jazz. A two-time Grammy Award winner (from eight nominations), Jones was listed at No. 30 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll in 1999. AllMusic stated: "Few singer/songwriters are as individual and eclectic as Rickie Lee Jones, a vocalist with an expressive and smoky instrument, and a composer who can weave jazz, folk, and R&B into songs with a distinct pop sensibility." She released her self-titled debut album in 1979, to critical and commercial success. It peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200, and spawned the hit single " Chuck E.'s in Love", which peaked at No. 4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album went platinum later that year, and earned Jones four Grammy Award nominations in 1980, including Best New Artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Into My Life (album)
''Into My Life'' is a studio album by jazz trumpeter Chet Baker and the Carmel Strings recorded in 1966 and released on the World Pacific label. accessed August 16, 2013 Reception rated the album with 3 stars.Allmusic listingaccessed August 16, 2013 Track listing # "A Man and a Woman (Un Homme et une Femme)" () - 2:10 # " |
Chet Baker
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool". Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals: '' Chet Baker Sings'' (1954) and '' It Could Happen to You'' (1958). Jazz historian Dave Gelly described the promise of Baker's early career as " James Dean, Sinatra, and Bix, rolled into one". His well-publicized drug habit also drove his notoriety and fame. Baker was in and out of jail frequently before enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1970s and 1980s. Biography Early years Baker was born December 23, 1929, in Yale, Oklahoma, and raised in a musical household. His father, Chesney Baker Sr., was a professional Western swing guitarist, and his mother, Vera Moser, was a pianist who worked in a perfume factory. His maternal grandmother was Norwegi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Close Your Eyes (Kurt Elling Album)
''Close Your Eyes'' is the debut studio album by Kurt Elling, released in 1995. At the 38th Grammy Awards Elling was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for ''Close Your Eyes''. Reception The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album four stars, and said "Chicago vocalist Elling pushes the envelope, challenging listeners and his musicians with beat poetry, ranting, and his Mark Murphy-ish singing. There's quite a bit of dramatist/actor in Elling, although the romantic in him is also pretty prevalent...There's clearly more in store for Elling as he matures, but this is as auspicious a vocal jazz debut as the world has heard.a worthy statement from Elling, who shows yet again that vocal jazz can be more than just easy listening" Track listing # " Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) - 6:06 # "Dolores Dream" (Wayne Shorter, Kurt Elling) - 6:32 # "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Tommy Wolf, Fran Landesman) - 6:17 # "(Hide the) Salomé" (Elling, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Elling
Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz singer and songwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Rockford, Elling became interested in music through his father, who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. He sang in choirs and played musical instruments. He encountered jazz while a student at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. After college, he enrolled in the University of Chicago Divinity School, but he left one credit short of a degree to pursue a career as a jazz vocalist. Elling began to perform around Chicago, scat singing and improvising his lyrics. He recorded a demo in the early 1990s and was signed by Blue Note. He has been nominated for ten Grammy Awards, winning Best Vocal Jazz Album for '' Dedicated to You'' (2009) and '' Secrets Are the Best Stories ''(2021). Elling often leads the ''Down Beat'' magazine Critics' Poll. He had a longtime collaboration with pianist Laurence Hobgood, leading a quartet that toured throughout the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribute (Keith Jarrett Album)
''Tribute'' is a live double album by the Keith Jarrett Trio recorded at the Kölner Philharmonie on October 15, 1989 and released on ECM a year later. The trio—Jarrett's " ''Standards'' Trio"—features rhythm section Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. October 1989 tour ''Tribute'' was recorded in concert during the "Standards trio" October 1989 European tour, in which the Keith Jarrett trio performed fourteen concerts:edicated to Lee Konitz(Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) – 13:14 # "I Hear a Rhapsody" [dedicated to Jim Hall (musician), Jim Hall] (Jack Baker, George Fragos, Dick Gasparre) – 11:19 # "Little Girl Blue (song), Little Girl Blue" Nancy_Wilson_(jazz_singer).html" ;"title="edicated to Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)">Nancy Wilson(Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 6:05 # "Solar (composition), Solar" [dedicated to Bill Evans] (Miles Davis) – 9:32 # "Sun Prayer" (Keith Jarrett) – 14:15 # "Just in Time (song), Just in Time" Sonny_Rollins.html" ;"title="edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd (jazz musician), Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a group leader and solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, including Western classical music, gospel music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music. His album ''The Köln Concert'', released in 1975, is the best-selling piano recording in history. In 2008, he was inducted into ''DownBeat'' Jazz Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll. In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize and was the first recipient to be recognized with prizes for both contemporary and classical music. In 2004, he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. In February 2018, Jarrett suffered a stroke and has been unable to perform since. A second stroke in Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener (album)
''The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener'' is the ninth album released by Petula Clark in the United States. It entered the ''Billboard'' 200 on February 17, 1968 and remained on the charts for 23 weeks, peaking at #93. It fared better in the United Kingdom, where it reached #37. After collaborating with producer/songwriter Tony Hatch on nine US Top 40 hits, Petula Clark had begun to work independently of Hatch in 1966 collaborating with Sonny Burke on " This is My Song" which would become Clark's most successful global hit in the spring of 1967: Burke also oversaw the resultant '' These Are My Songs'' album although that album did feature one Clark/Hatch collaboration: "Don't Sleep in the Subway" which would provide Clark with a further Top Ten hit. Clark's next single: " The Cat in the Window (The Bird in the Sky)" was produced by Charles Koppelman and Don Rubin, and was released in August 1967 as the first advance single for what would become Clark's ''The Other Man's Grass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
