Year: 2024
From the Studio #67 – Love Me Tonight – I like this romantic tune; I like to listen to it with Bing Crosby and Frank Trumbauer, but it’s not too bad either to sing and play it. Victor Young composed it, and Bing and Ned Washington made up the lyrics: “Oh, what a night for sweethearts, Stars in the sky above (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Record Shelves #313 – High Society – The discography says: “1945 Mon 12th February. Recording for Dr. Frederick B.Exner at C.P. MacGregor Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles.” Four numbers resulted, and Kid Ory, who had assembled a band for the Mercury Radio show about a year earlier (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Record Shelves #312 – Woody’n You – In this tune from December 1947, we hear an inspired Dizzy Gillespie put life with his trumpet into an already very lively arrangement. He originally wrote it for Woody Herman’s Orchestra, and it was released under the title Algo Buono (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Studio #66 – The Boulevard of Broken Dreams – This is a sad song. Broken dreams are, if not the worst, one of the saddest things that can happen in life. But! You laugh tonight and cry tomorrow, then after that you may forget and again dance and sing… The lyrics: “I walk along the street of sorrow (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Record Shelves #311 – When You Wore a Tulip – They call themselves “Sidney DeParis and his Blue Note Stompers.” Dixieland or New Orleans Revival? Spontaneously I would put any of these two “labels” on the music heard on this LP. If I consider it dixieland, I could compare (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Record Shelves #310 – Little Did I Know – Under the leadership of saxophone player Glenn Gray and with the aid of good management, the Casa Loma Orchestra had success in the 30’s. Here, around the turn of the decade from the 20s, they appear as a mixture of a dance band and (…) read more and listenread more and listen
Konsert med Paul’s New Orleans Gang, featuring Angela Strandberg. Söndag 27 oktober 2024 på Helsingborgs Stadsteater. Medverkande: Angela Strandberg (kornett, sång, washboard), Kiki Desplat (kornett, sång, piano, ), Paul Bocciolone Strandberg (kornett, klarinett, sång), Göran Holmberg (banjo), Christer Andersson (tuba) (…) view eventKonsert den 25 oktober 2024
From the Studio #65 – Birmingham Bertha – The musical movie On with the Show from 1929 was the first all talkie and the second color film that Warner Brothers released. It featured Ethel Waters, and the most famous tune by Harry Akst was Am I Blue? But there was also this one (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Record Shelves #309 – Love for Sale – Several things stand out as different or special on this recording, the song and its subject and the arrangement. It’s not one of the bands most happy contributions to the roaring twenties, but now we have reached 1930 and the depression. The band (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Studio #64 – On Treasure Island – The book by Robert Louis Stevenson was published in 1883 and was “a story for boys.” So, as a boy, like many other boys and maybe a few girls, I read and enjoyed it. The song is from 1935 and is inspiring to play and to jam on. It has a characteristic minor (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Record Shelves #308 – The Gal from Joe’s/Riding on a Blue Note – I had the chance to hear Cootie Williams in Copenhagen sometime at the end of the 70s. He and Russell Procope were playing with a Danish group, including the fine tenor sax man Jesper Thilo (…) read more and listenread more and listen
From the Record Shelves #307 – I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise – The main attraction on this Paul Whiteman LP is the outstanding recording of Rhapsody in Blue. But there are also some early successes, including Whispering, the real big one from 1920 (…) read more and listenread more and listen