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The flipSide 04/24/2017

4/24/2017

  for the flipSide - Jerry Leyendecker
  The best from the 70's
  when we were all not paying attention to jazz

Warren Vaché (born February 21, 1951) is a jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and flugelhornist born in Rahway, New Jersey. He came from a musical family as his father was a bassist. In 1976 he released his first album.[1] He has often worked with Scott Hamilton and has some popularity among swing audiences.[2]

Warren Vache - "As leader"

Horn of Plenty (with Houston Person) (Muse, 1994)
An Affair to Remember with Brian Lemon (Zephyr, 1995)
Warren Plays Warren with Kenny Drew Jr., Jimmy Cobb, Randy Sandke (Nagel-Heyer, 1996)
Shine with Tony Coe, Alan Barnes, Brian Lemon (Zephyr, 1997)
What Is There to Say? with Joe Puma, Murray Wall, Eddie Locke (Nagel-Heyer, 1999)
2gether with Bill Charlap (Nagel-Heyer, 2000)
The Best Thing for You (Nagel-Heyer, 2001)
The Warren Vache Quintet Remembers Benny Carter (Arbors, 2015)

Warren Vache - "As Sideman"
With Howard Alden

The Howard Alden Trio Plus Special Guests Ken Peplowski & Warren Vache (Concord, 1989)
I Remember Django (Arbors, 2010)

With Benny Goodman

Live at Carnegie Hall 40th Anniversary Concert (London, 1978)

With Bucky Pizzarelli

Five for Freddie (Arbors, 2007)

With George Shearing

George Shearing in Dixieland (Concord, 1989)

With George Wein

Wein, Women and Song and More, George Wein Plays and Sings (Arbors)

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Harv

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The flipSide 04/17/2017

4/17/2017

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for the flipSide - Jerry Leyendecker
Tunes from long ago that you have forgotten

Buddy Morrow (born Muni Zudekoff, aka Moe Zudekoff; February 8, 1919, New Haven, Connecticut – September 27, 2010)[1] was an American trombonist and bandleader. He is known for his mastery of the upper range which is evident on records such as "The Golden Trombone," as well as his ballad playing.

"Daddy Cool" is a song by US doo-wop group The Rays and was released on Cameo Records as the B-side of their 1957 single "Silhouettes". It became a #3 hit on the Billboard Pop singles chart.[1][2][3] The song was written by Bob Crewe and Frank Slay. Fellow 1950s doo-wop band The Diamonds, from Canada, covered both sides of The Rays' single "Silhouettes"/"Daddy Cool" in the same year (1957) and saw their version reach #10.

"Peter Gunn" is the theme music composed by Henry Mancini for the television show of the same name.[1] The song was the opening track on the original soundtrack album, The Music from Peter Gunn, released in 1959 as RCA Victor LPM/LSP-1956.[2]Mancini won an Emmy Award and two Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Arrangement.[3]

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994)[1] was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film,[2][3] he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.
His best known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series

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The flipSide 04/10/2017

4/10/2017

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for the flipSide - Jerry Leyendecker

Tunes from the 1940s and 1950s when we were young
and
when the big bands were in vogue.

So Rare James "Jimmy" Dorsey (February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957) was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big band leader. He was known as "JD". He recorded and composed the jazz and pop standards "I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)" and "It's The Dreamer In Me". His other major recordings were "Tailspin", "John Silver", "So Many Times", "Amapola", "Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)", "Pennies from Heaven" with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Frances Langford, "Grand Central Getaway", and "So Rare".

At Last / Stardust / String of Pearls

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing in action December 15, 1944)[1] was an American big band musician, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known big bands. Miller's recordings include "In the Mood", "Moonlight Serenade", "Pennsylvania 6-5000", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "A String of Pearls", "At Last", "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", "American Patrol", "Tuxedo Junction", "Elmer's Tune", and "Little Brown Jug".[2]
While he was traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's aircraft disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel.

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Harv

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The flipSide 04/03/2017

4/3/2017

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Music from the 1940s, you remember that Harv? Maybe for the 'Flip Side', best JL

Thanks for your suggestion JL - Here Ya go!

"In the Mood" is a popular big band-era #1 hit recorded by American bandleader Glenn Miller. It topped the charts for 13 straight weeks in 1940 in the U.S. and one year later was featured in the movie Sun Valley Serenade. The first recording of "In the Mood" was release by Edgar Hayes and his Orchestra in 1938
In 1983, the Glenn Miller recording from 1939 was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

"Moonlight Serenade" is an American swing ballad composed by Glenn Miller with subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was an immediate phenomenon when first released in May 1939 as an instrumental arrangement, though it had been adopted and performed as Miller's signature tune as early as 1938, even before it had been given the name "Moonlight Serenade." In 1991, Miller's recording of "Moonlight Serenade" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African American communities in the 1870s. [1][2] It was eventually extended from piano, to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western music, and gospel. While the blues traditionally expresses a variety of emotions, boogie-woogie is mainly associated with dancing.[3] Here we listen to the Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey band.

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