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"Birdland" is a jazz/pop song written by Joe Zawinul of the band Weather Report as a tribute to the Birdland nightclub in New York City, which appeared on the band's 1977 album Heavy Weather. The Manhattan Transfer won a Grammy Award with their 1979 version of the song, which had lyrics by Jon Hendricks . [ 1 ]
In 1956, Gulda performed and recorded at Birdland in New York City [10] and at the Newport Jazz Festival. [3] He organized the International Competition for Modern Jazz in 1966, [11] and he established the International Musikforum, a school for students who wanted to learn improvisation, in Ossiach, Austria, in 1968. [12]
Shearing was the composer of over 300 songs, including the jazz standards "Lullaby of Birdland" and "Conception", and had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s. [2]
Jeremy Soule Soule in 2010 Background information Born (1975-12-19) December 19, 1975 (age 49) Keokuk, Iowa, U.S. Genres Orchestral classical ambient Occupations Composer arranger symphonist Instrument Piano Years active 1994–2019 Labels DirectSong (2005–19) Materia Collective (2017–19) Musical artist Jeremy Soule is an American composer of soundtracks for film, television, and video ...
Billy Stritch (born February 12, 1962) is an American composer, arranger, vocalist, and jazz pianist. For many years, he was best known as a confidant, music director, and piano player for Liza Minnelli .
Birdland, an erotic comic book by Gilbert Hernandez, published by Eros Comix; Birdland, an American series produced by Walter F. Parkes; Gibson Byrdland, an electric guitar made by Gibson; Music. Birdland (Birdland album), the debut album by Birdland; Birdland (The Yardbirds album), a 2003 album by the Yardbirds
George Shearing wrote "Lullaby of Birdland" in 1952 for Morris Levy, the owner of the New York jazz club Birdland.Levy had gotten in touch with Shearing and explained that he had started a regular Birdland-sponsored disk jockey show, and he wanted Shearing to record a theme which was "to be played every hour on the hour."
Kenneth Lee Ascher (born October 26, 1944, in Washington, D.C.) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres — in live venues, recording studios, and cinema production. [1]