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In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
"In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" is a 1955 popular music, popular song composed by David Mann (songwriter), David Mann, with lyrics by Bob Hilliard. It was introduced as the title track of Frank Sinatra's 1955 album ''In the Wee Small Hours''. Background Mann and Hilliard wrote it during a post-midnight session at Hilliard's New Jersey home. Mann was about to depart for New York, when Hilliard insisted he remain to try some impromptu songwriting. Mann reluctantly agreed and eventually came up with the tune, to which Hilliard quickly wrote a lyric. Other recordings *Johnny Mathis, on the album ''Wonderful, Wonderful (Johnny Mathis album), Wonderful, Wonderful'' (1957). *Andy Williams, on the album ''Lonely Street (Andy Williams album), Lonely Street'' (1959). *Ella Fitzgerald, on the album ''Ella Fitzgerald Live at Mister Kelly's'' (recorded 1958/rel. 2007). *Julie London, on the albums ''Around Midnight'' (1960), ''The Ultimate Collection'' (2006) *Art Blakey & the Jaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Honorific nicknames in popular music, Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, most popular entertainers of the 20th century. Sinatra is among the List of best-selling music artists, world's best-selling music artists, with an estimated 150 million record sales globally. Born to Italian Americans, Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era and was influenced by the easy-listening vocal style of Bing Crosby. He joined the Harry James band as the vocalist in 1939 before finding success as a solo artist after signing with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "Bobby-soxer, bobby soxers". In 1946, Sinatra released his debut album, ''The Voice of Frank Sinatra''. He then signed with Capitol Records and released several albums wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April25, 1917June15, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, Intonation (music), intonation, absolute pitch, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career. Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to Norman Granz, who founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve, she recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto (; born Astrud Evangelina Weinert; March 29, 1940 – June 5, 2023) was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer and songwriter. She gained international attention in the mid-1960s following her recording of the song " The Girl from Ipanema". Biography Astrud Gilberto was born Astrud Evangelina Weinert, the daughter of a Brazilian mother and a German father, in Salvador in the Brazilian state of Bahia, on March 29, 1940. She was raised in Rio de Janeiro. Her father was a language professor, and she became fluent in several languages. She married João Gilberto in 1959. His affair with Miúcha, a Brazilian singer, caused the couple's separation. According to the Associated Press, their marriage ended in divorce in 1964; but a 2019 Facebook post by their son, João Marcelo Gilberto, said they had "merely separated" and never divorced. Astrud Gilberto had another son, Gregory LaSorsa, with a second partner; Gregory performed music with his mother. Gilberto later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinatra's Sinatra
''Sinatra's Sinatra'' is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1963. Ten of the album's twelve tracks are re-recorded versions of songs that Sinatra had previously released, with "Pocketful of Miracles" and "Call Me Irresponsible" being first-time recordings for Sinatra. Sinatra's two previous record labels, Columbia Records and Capitol Records, had both successfully issued collections of Sinatra's hits; this album was the attempt of his new label, Reprise Records, to duplicate this success by offering some earlier songs in stereophonic sound, which by 1963 was an exploding recording technology. The album was arranged and conducted by frequent Sinatra collaborator Nelson Riddle. Track listing #" I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 3:26 #"In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" ( David Mann, Bob Hilliard) – 2:43 #" The Second Time Around" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:03 #"Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Van Heusen) – 3:37 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Hartman
John Maurice Hartman (July 3, 1923 – September 15, 1983) was an American jazz singer, known for his rich baritone voice and recordings of ballads. He sang and recorded with Earl Hines' and Dizzy Gillespie's big bands and with Erroll Garner. Hartman is best remembered for his collaboration in 1963 with saxophonist John Coltrane, '' John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman'', a landmark album for both him and Coltrane. Biography Born to an African American family in Louisiana and raised in Chicago, Hartman began singing and playing the piano by the age of eight. He attended DuSable High School studying music under Walter Dyett before receiving a scholarship to the Chicago Musical College. He sang as a private in the Army's Special Services during World War II, but his first professional break came in September 1946 when he won a singing contest at the Apollo Theater, earning him a one-week engagement with Earl Hines, which lasted a year. Hartman's first recordings were with Marl You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Lights (Gerry Mulligan Album)
''Night Lights'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Gerry Mulligan featuring performances recorded in 1963 and first released on the Philips label. The album's re-release on the Verve Label, includes the bonus track "The Lonely Night (Night Lights 1965 Version) which originally only appeared on Mulligan's 1965 album "Feelin' Good" with vocals by his partner, Judy Holliday.Gerry Mulligan Discography accessed February 22, 2016 The album was re-released on vinyl by New Land in 2022. Reception Writing in the '''', Russ Wilson described the album as "Done with a lights-out, after-hours feel it is high caliber jazz that is played ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996), also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, pianist, composer and arranger. Though primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. His piano-less quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz ensembles. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Several of his compositions including " Walkin' Shoes" and "Five Brothers", have become standards. Biography Early life and career Gerry Mulligan was born in Queens Village, Queens, New York, the son of George and Louise Mulligan. His father was a Wilmington, Delaware, native of Irish descent; his mother a Philadelphia native of half-Irish and half-German des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trio (Oscar Peterson Album)
''The Trio'' (alternatively titled ''The Trio: Live From Chicago'') is a 1961 live album by the Oscar Peterson Trio, recorded at the London House jazz club in Chicago, during a period in which the pianist "was generally in peak form." Three other Oscar Peterson Trio albums were also released featuring music from the London House concerts: ''The Sound of the Trio'', ''Something Warm'' and '' Put On a Happy Face''. The complete sessions were released in 1996 as '' The London House Sessions''. Track listing Side One #" I've Never Been in Love Before" (Frank Loesser) – 5:35 #"In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 8:07 #"Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 8:55 Side Two # " The Night We Called It a Day" ( Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 4:47 #" Sometimes I'm Happy" ( Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans) – 11:41 #" Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 5:46 #" Billy Boy" (Traditional) – 1:46 1997 CD reissue bonus tracks # "The Lonesome One" (Oscar Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. As a virtuoso who is considered to be one of the greatest Jazz piano, jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the The Recording Academy, Recording Academy, and received numerous other awards and honours. He played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, simply "O.P." by his friends, and informally in the jazz community, "the King of inside swing". Peterson worked in duos with Samuel Jones (musician), Sam Jones, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Joe Pass, Irving Ashby, Count Basie, and Herbie Hancock. He considered the trio with Ray Brown (musician), Ray Brown and Herb Ellis "the most stimulating" and productive setting for public performances and studio recordings. In the early 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caravan (Art Blakey Album)
''Caravan'' is a jazz album released by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in February 1963. It was Blakey's first album for Riverside Records after he signed with them in October 1962. The songs were recorded at the Plaza Sound Studio in New York City, on October 23–24, 1962 The producer was Orrin Keepnews who also supervised the album's remastered re-release on CD. In 2007, the BBC described it as "a slick, fluid, professional set of hard bop at its finest".Reynolds, Nick. (August 24, 2007"Art Blakey Jazz Messengers Caravan Review"BBC. Accessed September 7, 2011. Track listing # " Caravan" ( Juan Tizol) – 9:47 # "Sweet 'n' Sour" (Shorter) – 5:31 # " In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" ( Mann, Hilliard) – 4:06 # "This Is for Albert" (Shorter) – 8:21 # " Skylark" ( Carmichael, Mercer) – 4:51 # "Thermo" (Hubbard) – 6:48 *''The remastered CD re-issue features two alternate takes, each preceding its master take.'' #"Thermo (Take 2)" (Hubbard) – 7:26 #"Swe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers were a jazz combo that existed for over thirty-five years beginning in the early 1950s as a collective, and ending when long-time leader and founding drummer Art Blakey died in 1990. Blakey led or co-led the group from the outset. "Art Blakey" and "Jazz Messengers" became synonymous over the years, though Blakey did lead non-Messenger recording sessions and played as a sideman for other groups throughout his career. The group evolved into a proving ground for young jazz talent. While veterans occasionally re-appeared in the group, by and large, each iteration of the Messengers included a lineup of new young players. Having the Messengers on one's resume was a rite of passage in the jazz world, and conveyed immediate bona fides. Many former members of the Jazz Messengers established careers as solo musicians, such as Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Timmons, Hank Mobley, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, Billy Harper, Keith Jarrett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
