Tag Archives: Count Basie
August 5, 2016 Tony Bennett and Friends
In keeping with our celebration of Tony Bennett’s 90th birthday this week, I thought we’d kick off the weekend with Tony and some friends singing and swinging!! Here’s a great clip from a Dean Martin Show in the 1960s. I have no idea who this young guy is introducing Tony Bennett and Billy Joel. Hah! Here’s one […]
Tags: Billy Joel, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Joey Heatherton, Michel Legrand, Tony Bennett
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- Posted under Italian Americans, Jazz Artists, Musicians, Singers, The Great American Songbook
January 22, 2016 16 Years of The Sunday Music Festa!!
This coming Sunday, January 24, 2016, I will celebrate 16 years on the air at Jazz (0.1 in Rochester, New York as host of a program called “The Sunday Music Festa.” These days, it’s a weekly party celebrating all the great songwriters, lyricists, arrangers, musicians and vocalists who have made the music of the Great […]
Tags: Carol Burnett, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Eydie Gorme, Frank Sinatra, Gordon MacRae, Harry Warren, Henry Mancini, James Monaco, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve & Eydie, Steve Lawrence
August 21, 2015 The Count of Basie
One William James Basie was born on this day in Red Bank, New Jersey, in the year 1904. He would go on to become one of the greatest, most influential and swinging-ist cats in the history of American Jazz and Swing music. As a young boy (six or seven years of age), I inherited a […]
Tags: "Sinatra at the Sands", "The Atomic Basie", "The Count Meets the Duke", Arthur Prysock, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Freddy Martin, Glenn Miller, Harry James, Jimmy Rushing, Joe Williams, Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr., Sammy Kaye, Sarah Vaughn, Tommy Dorsey, Tony Bennett, Vaughn Monroe, Woody Herman
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- Posted under Classic Television, Jazz Artists, Musicians, Singers
May 1, 2015 Ain’t Got Nothing But the Blues
I’ve been ill for almost 2 weeks now – flu or virus or something. I’m getting better but the progress is frustratingly slow. I mean sloooooooooooooowww. It’s so bad, it’s really starting to get me down. I wanted to post a Musical Friday selection today so the first song I found was “I Ain’t Got […]
Tags: Ben Webster, Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing, Joe Williams, Mr. Five by Five, Roy Eldridge
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March 27, 2015 Frank Sinatra & Count Basie – Nothin’ But the Best.
Okay, “Musical Friday” is never going to get much better than this. I have a love for Frank Sinatra and Count Basie both as separate artists. However, together as a team, my devotion to them makes me want to leap over the moon. I was trying to stockpile some “Sinatra & Company” shows this week […]
Tags: "A Man and His Music", "Sinatra at the Sands", Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, William "Count" Basie
March 19, 2015 St. Joseph’s Day entertainment – a basket full of Joes!
For St. Patrick’s Day, I posted a series of entertaining “Pats” and finished with some Irish themed music. We shall do the same today for St. Joseph and my paesani. As baseball season is less than three weeks away and the following gentleman was one of the most important “Joes” in the history of the […]
Tags: "Come Back to Sorrento", "I Have But One Heart", Bucky Pizzarelli, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Frank Vignola, It Happened In Brooklyn, Jo Stafford, Joe Ascione, Joe Bushkin, Joe DiMaggio, Joe Williams, Julius La Rosa, Kathryn Grayson, Les Brown, Peter Lawford, St. Joseph's Day
December 11, 2013 Swing, man, swing!
This afternoon from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST, I will have a rare weekday shift on the air at Jazz 90.1 FM in Rochester, New York. Rarer still is the fact that my station manager, the inimitable Rob Linton, has told me I can treat the shift as though it were one of my “Sunday […]
Tags: Bill Evans, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Lester Young, Mel Torme, Nat King Cole
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April 6, 2013 Whoopee!!
I don’t usually post static videos of songs but I was just working on my computer and listening to my iTunes library when this song came up. I love Count Basie and I’ve always loved this recording. In fact, I have two other versions of the same song by Basie – all are great. Count […]
Tags: Count Basie
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