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Background. The song was written in 1948 [1] while Carter, Ellis and Frigo were part of The Soft Winds, a group they created after leaving Jimmy Dorsey 's orchestra. The lyrics compare love's progress to a motor trip. Credit for music and lyrics is to Carter, Frigo, and Ellis, based on their mutual agreement when the Soft Winds trio was formed ...
1936. Genre. Jazz. Composer (s) Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington. Lyricist (s) Irving Mills. " Caravan " is an American jazz standard that was composed by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington and first performed by Ellington in 1936. Irving Mills wrote lyrics, but they are rarely sung.
Dazzle camouflage. Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John ...
Miles Ahead is an album by Miles Davis that was released in October 1957 by Columbia Records. [1][2] It was Davis' first collaboration with arranger Gil Evans following the Birth of the Cool sessions. Along with their subsequent collaborations Porgy and Bess (1959) and Sketches of Spain (1960), Miles Ahead is one of the most famous recordings ...
"All That Jazz" is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago. It has music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb , and is the opening song of the musical. The title of the 1979 film , starring Roy Scheider as a character strongly resembling choreographer /stage and film director Bob Fosse , is derived from the song.
Colors is a "word jazz " album by voice-over and recording artist Ken Nordine. The Fuller Paint Company commissioned ten songs for radio advertisements. Because listeners enjoyed the recordings and requested the radio play them again, the project expanded into an album of 34 songs. [1][2] Each track personifies a different color or hue. [3]
Sophie Milman. Sophie Milman (born 1983) [1][2] is a Russian-born Canadian jazz vocalist. After emigrating from Russia in the early 1990s, Milman, who is Jewish, [3][4] spent most of her childhood years in Israel where she listened extensively to jazz. Her family later emigrated to Toronto, Canada. Milman's self-titled debut album was released ...
Swing jazz emerged as a dominant form in American music, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the band leaders. Key figures in developing the "big" jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller, and Artie Shaw.