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1. Ella Fitzgerald Video Showcase Ella Fitzgerald was deservedly the most well-known and well-loved jazz singer of the twentieth century. Her career spanned decades and spawned a million imitators. Few could match the power and range of Fitzgerald's distinctive voice or the joyous pe...
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3. Baby It's Cold Outside: A Winter Standard Frank Loesser wrote Baby It's Cold Outside for he and his wife, Lynn, to perform at a dinner party in 1944. The song was such a hit that the two were popular guests for years. They were so well known for the song, in fact, that Loesser decided to giv...
4. Christmas Music It's the most wonderful time of the year! Don't you love The Holidays? All the the decorations and Christmas music, the spirit is in the air. When it comes to Christmas and the holidays, nothing quite gets you in the mood to celebrate the way that Chr...
5. Caravan: A Jazz Standard Although the original recording of Caravan was made in 1936 by Barney Bigard And His Jazzopators, Duke Ellington composed the music for this jazzy cover song recorded it many times. Then again, Irving Mills wrote the lyrics and the song was based on...
6. Scat Singing and Nonsense Songs: Playing with Words Folks have been doing the verbal two-step with scat singing for a hundred years. The creativity and virtuosity that scat allows a singer to display within the confines of any song make it a popular medium. And some of the most fun songs take scat to...
7. Ain't Nobody's Business Would you believe that there are three songs, all having been recorded for decades, expressing identical sentiments that it "ain't nobody's business" what the performer does? While Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do and Ain't Nobody's Business But My Ow...
8. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm As any Irving Berlin fan knows, I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm first appeared in a movie titled On the Avenue in 1937. As with so many of Berlin's fabulous songs, it was an instant hit and Billie Holiday covered the song that same year. Over the se...
9. Sweet Georgia Brown: A Whistlin' Jazz Standard Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard got together and composed a little ditty, for which Kenneth Casey wrote some saucy lyrics. Thus, Sweet Georgia Brown was born, a song which Bernie and His Orchestra recorded in 1926, at the height of the roaring 20s, and...
10. Mack the Knife: A Swingin' Standard For a complete explanation of where Mack the Knife came from (and why you ought not be too taken with the scoundrel), check The Straight Dope. This lens picks up at the point where Louis Armstrong recorded the smash hit swing version of the song in 1...
11. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Irving Mills explained to the world, in 1931, that It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got that Swing, and the world listened. Duke Ellington kicked off the Swing Era with the song in the thirties and big bands all around the country picked up this fun...
12. Rap Pack Vs. Rat Pack Virtual Dream Concert Who Was the Pregnant Lady At the Grammy's? I was nervous for rap artist M.I.A. scared she was going to have to count on Kanye West to act as midwife with Jay Z as the R.N (rap nurse) with plenty of baby bounce rapping alongside the rest of the Rap Pa...
13. Ella Fitzgerald Biography Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Singer Best known as: Jazz vocalist known for "scat singing" She is the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. She won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. She worke...
14. Ray Charles Biography Ray Charles Biography (1930-2004)... we still miss you!!!! Ray Charles Robinson was born September. 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia. Ray Charles died June 11, 2004 (At his home in Beverly Hills, California.He was 73) His parents were simple but hard worki...
15. Summertime By George Gershwin: The Greatest Cover Song Ever Everbody who's anybody in the music world has covered George Gershwin's Summertime at one point or another. From mournful, operatic versions true to the original aria to Janice Joplin's throaty shout-blues to Billy Stewart's exuberant scat, Gershwin'...
16. My newest album "Good Girl Sings the Blues" "Good Girl Sings the Blues" is a collaboration project between NYC based singer/songwriter Boggie and blues composer Lawrence Fritts. Boggie is a classically trained singer and pianist. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Voice Performance from the...
17. Andrea Davis Pinkney, Caldecott Medal Winning Author My daughter brought her reader home from school awhile ago and announced that she had a story to read. This is the point where I usually have a moment of self-pity and I let out a silent groan inside my head. I then ready myself for the story. This t...
18. Adele a soulful singer Adele is gonna take us by storm with her unique voice and wonderful soulful songs. I had seen the video Chasing Pavements months back and the song has stayed with me - the video is awesome as well. She has won 2 Grammy Awards - with 2 other nominatio...
19. Cole Porter What do "The Simpsons," Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Barbra Streisand, and "Saturday Night Live" have in common? These and MANY others have all performed or featured music by Cole Porter. Cole Porter's music has been heard for nearly a cent...
20. Joe Pass Virtuoso Jazz Guitarist.