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For versatile Bobby Troup -- musician, composer, jazz authority, recording artist, actor, Emmy Award winner -- there's hardly a "first" left in show business to claim and conquer. His demanding role in "Emergency!", Jack Webb's hour-long Universal Television series, marks Troup's debut in action-drama. As a musician, Bobby Troup probably is best known as the composer of such hit songs as "Daddy". "Baby, Baby All the Time", "Route 66" and "Girl Talk". Or as the Emmy Award-winning host and narrator of ABC-TV's "Stars of Jazz". Or as a supper club star whose intimate styling has drawn capacity audiences of jazz enthusiasts to niteries in Las Vegas, New York City, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe and Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Music is a Troup tradition that dates back to the turn of the century when Bobby's grandfather established the J.H
Aubrey Logan and Her Bigger Than Average Big Band: Aubrey Logan and Her Bigger Than Average Big Band
by Nicholas F. Mondello
With this recording, Austin, Texas-based award-winning vocalist, trombonist and composer, Aubrey Logan and her Bigger Than Average Band send up ten genre-crossing tracks. The effort ranges from iconic jazz and pop to original selections. Things get going with a cover of the Carole King hit, “I Feel the Earth Move." Logan digs into ...
Sarah Hanahan, Samara Joy, Jenny Scheinman, Mavis Pan, Dwayne Clemons, Tania Grubbs, Diane Marino & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Sarah Hanahan, Samara Joy, Jenny Scheinman, Mavis Pan, Dwayne Clemons, Bill Charlap, Tania Grubbs and Diane Marino, with birthday shoutouts to Lakecia Benjamin, blues foremothers Victoria Spivey (Got The Blues So Bad) and Nellie Lutcher (He's A Real Gone Guy), vocalists Amy London, Anita O'Day, Esperanza Spalding, Laura Nyro and ...
Betty Bryant: Lotta Livin'
by Jack Bowers
First, double-check to make sure there aren't any misprints. No, it's an honest-to-goodness fact that Betty Bryant--who sings, plays piano, wrote four of the nine numbers and arranged half a dozen on her fourteenth album--really was almost ninety-four years old when Lotta Livin' was recorded in 2023. Bryant's rough and edgy voice is ...
New Releases by Estrella Acosta, Eddie Henderson, Vanessa Perea, Antoine Drye, Caroline Davis, Allison Au, Birthday Shoutouts & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases by Estrella Acosta, Eddie Henderson, Vanessa Perea, Antoine Drye, Caroline Davis and Allison Au}, with birthday shoutouts to {{m: Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Troup, Jane Bunnett, Anita O'Day, Barbara Fasano, Lakecia Benjamin, Laura Nyro, Esperanza Spalding, Brenda Earle Stokes and Jodi Proznick, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists ...
Terry Gibbs Legacy Band: The Terry Gibbs Songbook
by Jack Bowers
Legacy Band? At age ninety-eight, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs--the last remaining member of a legendary group of jazz musicians who defined the big-band era in America and helped expand and sharpen the music's vocabulary--hasn't finished writing his own legacy, which is why this album is subtitled “The Terry Gibbs Songbook." Although best known as ...
New Releases From Artemis, Musique Noire, Birthday Shoutouts to Carla Bley, Connie Crothers, Shirley Horn & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Artemis, Luiz Millan, Musique Noire, Grace McNally, Mike Melito, Rickie Lee Jones, with a second single from Nicky Schrire, plus birthday shoutouts to Andrea Brachfeld, Gunhild Carling, Lincoln Briney, Carla Bley, Connie Crothers, KJ Denhert, Tania Maria and Shirley Horn, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists ...
Jim Self: My America 2: Destinations
by Jack Bowers
Tuba maestro Jim Self's My America 2: Destinations is a successor of sorts to the album My America, recorded and released some twenty years before, also on Self's Basset Hound label. While personnel has inevitably changed (only trombonist Bill Booth returns from that earlier album), Self has employed the services of the same arranger, Kim Scharnberg—and ...
New releases from Hiromi, Karen Marguth, Houston Person and Beth McKenna
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast presents new releases from pianist Hiromi, vocalists Karuna Shinsho, Karen Marguth and saxophonists Houston Person and Beth McKenna with birthday shoutouts to Anita O'Day, Bobby Troup, Esperanza Spalding, Laura Nyro (born on the same day -how cool is that?), Thelonious Monk, Jenna Mammina, Jane Bunnett, Lakecia Benjamin, Freddy Cole and more. Thanks for listening ...
Born on the Cusp of Drama - Celebrating Esperanza Spalding, Bobby Troup and Laura Nyro
by Mary Foster Conklin
In astrology, October 18 zodiac people are on the Libra-Scorpio cusp, referred to as the Cusp of Drama. Esperanza Spalding, Bobby Troup and Laura Nyro share that birthday, which would certainly make for a dramatic dinner party. Besides shoutouts to this dynamic trio, vocalist Lee Wiley and pianist Thelonious Monk are celebrated as well. The broadcast ...
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