Let's play some older music today. First up is jazz vocalist Johnny Hartman doing Billy Strayhorn's Lush Life. Hartman is accompanied by John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner, among others. After that, Ella Fitzgerald does September Song accompanied by pictures from Billie Wilder's film The Apartment. Finally, we've got the "Hoofer's Club" tap dance scene from Francis Ford Coppola's underrated 1984 movie The Cotton Club. Enjoy.
Lush Life was blocked outside N.A. so I found some Japanese site:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTU4Mjc0Nzky.html
That music is so Lush indeed. I love tap dance from Cotton Club and September is so simple but beautiful.
I offer Piaf-La vie en Rose-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKgcKYTStMc
and in Anglais
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZA0cHlXAjo&feature=related
and Sarah Vaughn-the Sassy One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1X6y9Gzhs
Nat King Cole- The Autumn Leaves-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IDUxk9sSXI&feature=related
Comedian Harmonists- Aufwiedersehen, My Dear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u53ffdchAxY
A couple years ago my wife (Russian ) was surprised I dodn't know Edith Piaf and got me a CD collection of such classics with Vaughn, Piaf, Harmonists, Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dean MArtin, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Ella fitgerald, Dean Martin, Dinah Washington.
Posted by: Edward Boyle | 10/23/2010 at 02:24 PM