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In 2007, Benoit won his first B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award presented by the Blues Music Awards, described variously as "the highest accolade afforded musicians and songwriters in Blues music" [5] and "[t]he premier blues music event in the world". [6] Benoit was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame (LMHOF) on May 16, 2010 ...
These Blues of Mine is the ... Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "Better than expected soul-jazz interpretations of contemporary rock and pop songs stand ...
You can hear all these classic folk songs or jazz or blues or drinking songs, as well as early pieces of songs like 'Time in a Bottle' that were coming out of them. And at first he played his own songs timidly, whereas just a year or two later he had enormous confidence in playing his own material."
Urban Daydreams is an album by American pianist David Benoit released in 1989, recorded for the GRP label. The album reached #3 on Billboard ' s Contemporary Jazz chart. Track listing
Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown! is a 1989 album commemorating the 40th anniversary of the comic strip Peanuts and released by GRP Records. [2] The album contains versions of music and songs from the television specials originally performed by Vince Guaraldi, as well as some original compositions, performed by various jazz artists such as Dave Brubeck, David Benoit, Dave Grusin, Lee Ritenour ...
Jazz musician and historian Chris Tyle argues that most likely Mercer Ellington came up with the melody and his father then arranged the song for the band. [2] The song is most often played as an instrumental. Lyrics were written by Ted Persons. [1] Johnny Hodges played it first, in Hollywood on July 3, 1941.
Here's to You Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years! is an album by American pianist David Benoit released in 2000, and recorded for the GRP label. The album reached No. 2 on Billboard ' s Jazz chart. The album is a memorial to Charles M. Schulz , creator of Peanuts , and jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi , who composed music scores for the first 16 ...
These are the Blues is a 1963 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald featuring trumpeter Roy Eldridge and organist Wild Bill Davis. Sleeve artwork was painted by David Stone Martin. This is Fitzgerald's only example of recording an entire album of blues songs.