From the Studio #72 – Sunday – TI rather quickly sketched an arrangement on this lovely tune with just verse and chorus and a cornet solo. For once, I dusted off my saxophones. Maybe I will sing it another time because the lyrics are quite nice: All week long the world, Seems, oh, so blue (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #71 – Embraceable You – Today I felt like reviving another one of my favorite tunes. There are so many recordings of this George Gershwin classic to be inspired by—too many to mention, and I thought it was enough for now to just do a vocal and a cornet chorus (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #70 – Sing You Sinners – This song was composed by W. Franke Harling, with lyrics by Sam Coslow in 1930. As you see on the sheet cover, it was also featured in a movie later called “I’ll Cry Tomorrow.” (The film has a fine original jazz score beside this.) It has a rather dramatic verse (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #69 – Nobody’s Sweetheart – Today I play and sing a song from 1935 that was recorded by Bing Crosby, Red Allen, and Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday that same year. It’s by Ralph Rainger with lyrics by the American poet Dorothy Parker (1893–1967). I give you the lyrics here: (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #68 – Nobody’s Sweetheart – Here is jam on tune that seems to have been there always. Still I don’t play it very often. It was one of the first that I learned and I think that I have a recording somewhere from my first meeting with two guys that I came to play lot with. It happened in a cellar and (…) read more and listenread more and listen

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 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 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 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 Studio #63 – Love Is Here to Stay – I just have to sing this wonderful George Gershwin tune. And it’s got to be very slow. And then I had to play a cornet solo after that. The lyrics are not too bad either, here they are: It’s very clear, our love is here to stay (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #62 – You’ve Got to See Mamma Ev’ry Night – This tune has, if not nine lives, at least two. Like many other ones. It was popular by recordings of singers and early bands like The Georgians and Ladd’s Black Aces around 1923, then disappeared (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #61 – June Night – Here’s a couple of choruses on a song that, now that autumn has finally taken over, is bound to have a strong touch of nostalgia. In case you want to sing along, here are the lyrics: Just give me a June night The moonlight and you (…) read more and listenread more and listen