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The Music of Hoagy Carmichael, part 2
ByHoagy Carmichael
piano1899 - 1981
His output was remarkably varied, and without a signature style that characterized the theater composers like Jerome Kern or Cole Porter. Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status.
Hoagy Carmichael began his musical life as a jazz musician in Indiana. In the early 1920s he met and played with the legendary cornetist

Bix Beiderbecke
cornet1903 - 1931

Johnny Mercer
composer / conductor1909 - 1976
"The Nearness of You" is another famous Carmichael ballad beloved by jazz musicians, along with "I Get Along Without You Very Well," "Body and Soul" and "In The Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"
Featued artists include

Nancy Wilson
vocals1937 - 2018

Harry Allen
saxophoneb.1966

Gretchen Parlato
vocals
Stan Getz
saxophone, tenor1927 - 1991

Kurt Elling
vocalsb.1967

Johnny Hodges
saxophone, alto1907 - 1970

Frank Sinatra
vocals1915 - 1998
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