Tag: Jazz in july
Jazz in July: Guys and Dolls Play the Greater Loesser
Sometimes hot, sometimes cool, always engaging.
Jazz in July: Benny, Basie and Bucky
Charlap’s own quote about Benny and Basie applies to his own men: they swung with grace and intensity.
Jazz in July – Hoagy Carmichael: Stardust
“One of the most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented” of the pop songwriters in the first half of the 20th century (wrote composer Alec Wilder) was Indiana-born Howard Hoagland Carmichael – famed as “Hoagy.”
