Sunday Archives - Paul – and some of that Jazz

From the Studio #73 – Changes – This is another tune by the very productive songwriter Walter Donaldson, with some tricky changes of key in the middle. It’s well illustrated on the sheet music cover. If you want to hear the classic version with a full orchestra, look out for Paul Whiteman’s (…) read more and listenread more and listen

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 Record Shelves #212 – Sunday – The Vintage series made compilations of tunes from special years on some albums. I bought them as they came out in chronological reverse order, starting in 1928 and finish with 1926 which is the album that (…) read more and listenread more and listen