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The sound of "Caravan" appealed to exotica musicians; Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman and Gordon Jenkins all covered it. The Mills Brothers recorded an a cappella version of the song. More than 350 versions have been recorded. [3] Duke Ellington – New York, May 14, 1937 [1] Valaida Snow – Valaida Snow (vocal and trumpet) and her Orchestra, 1939 ...
Released by the Isham Jones Orchestra as a B-side to "Life Begins When You're in Love", it was the band's last hit before Woody Herman took over as bandleader. The first jazz recording was made by Duke Ellington. [132] A part of the song's melody was borrowed from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. [133]
As an adult, Strayhorn was openly gay to his friends and the members of the Ellington band. [15] [16] He participated in the civil rights movement, and as a friend to Martin Luther King Jr., he arranged and conducted "King Fit the Battle of Alabam'" for the Ellington orchestra in 1963 for the historical revue (and album) My People, dedicated to ...
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book is a 1957 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, focusing on Ellington's songs. Part of Fitzgerald's "Song Book" series, it is the only one where the composer is also featured as a performer and the first occasion Fitzgerald ...
The Mills Brothers ad in The Film Daily, 1932. The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed The Four Mills Brothers and originally known as Four Boys and a Guitar, [1] were an American jazz and traditional pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records.
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
Al Aarons And The L.A. Jazz Caravan - Al Aarons (Los Angeles Jazz Society/LAJS, 1995) – Morrison sings on "Back Door Blues" and "Make The Man Love Me". Swingin' The Blues - Doc Severinsen & His Big Band (Azica, 1999) – Morrison sings on " Every Day I Have the Blues ", "Don't Touch Me" and "The Hucklebuck".
Louie Bellson (born Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer.