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SOLOS: the jazz sessions is a 39-part television music profile/performance series produced in Canada by Original Spin Media. Each episode features complete musical pieces, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with some of today's most notable jazz artists.
The song's bridge begins with a "dreamy" keyboard section, which leads into the first trumpet solo. [4] According to Ramone, the urgency and sexiness of the trumpet part is enhanced by the ascending and descending line played on bass guitar beneath the solo. [4] The second solo comes at the end of the song and goes into the fade out. [5]
In jazz, a turnaround is a passage at the end of a section which leads to the next section. This next section is most often the repetition of the previous section or the entire piece or song. [1] The turnaround may lead back to this section either harmonically, as a chord progression, or melodically.
"Easy Living" is a jazz standard written by Ralph Rainger with lyrics by Leo Robin for the 1937 film Easy Living [1] [2] A popular recording of the song was released in 1937 by Teddy Wilson for Brunswick Records , [ 1 ] featuring Billie Holiday , Benny Goodman , and Lester Young .
Jazz critic Nat Hentoff recalled that during rehearsals Holiday and Young kept to opposite sides of the room. Young was very weak, and Hentoff told him to skip the big band section of the show and that he could sit while performing in the group with Holiday. During the performance of "Fine and Mellow", Webster played the first solo.
The composition, in the words of jazz writer, Donald Clarke, is "an object lesson in how to swing at a slow tempo." [3]Gary Giddins expands on the importance of tempo in the performance of "Li'l Darlin '", saying that "in the enduring 'Li'l Darlin ' ', [Hefti] tested the band's temporal mastery with a slow and simple theme that dies if it isn't played at exactly the right tempo.
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The theme song of the program was "Take the A Train". At its height, the Voice of America Jazz Hour was listened to by up to 30 million people. Although the Voice of America was prohibited from broadcasting in the United States by the Smith-Mundt Act , the shortwave signal was receivable in the US and had a sizable USA audience.