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One World is the nineteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver.Released in June 1986, this was Denver's final studio album for RCA Records.The singles released from this album were "Along For The Ride ('56 T-Bird)" and "Let Us Begin (What Are We Making Weapons For)/"Flying For Me."
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
Harlequin is the eighth studio album by singer-songwriter Lady Gaga, released on September 27, 2024, through Interscope Records.Referred to as "LG6.5" it serves as a companion album to the 2024 American musical thriller film Joker: Folie à Deux, [a] in which she portrays the DC character Harley Quinn.
He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and grew up in Texas in a family of musicians. [3]His grandfather, Rule Oliver, trombonist, for 50 years was a junior high school band director in Arkansas; his father, Rule Curtis Beasley, music educator, in 1963 won 1st prize in Composition at the Southeastern Composers League in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; his mother, Lida Beasley, brass instrumentalist, was a ...
"I've Got the World on a String" is a 1932 popular jazz song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It was written for the twenty-first edition of the Cotton Club series which opened on October 23, 1932, the first of the Cotton Club Parades.
In his book Visions of Jazz, Gary Giddins summarized the reception of the album as follows: The critical response ranged from 'frequently ponderous', with Jackson asked to execute 'some fairly mechanical ideas' (Martin Williams), to 'the Modern Jazz Quartet's greatest single achievement, the peak to which all their preceding work together leads' with 'some of the most astonishing passages ...
The Wonderful World of Jazz. The Wonderful World of Jazz. Studio album by. John Lewis. Released. 1961. Recorded. July 29 and September 8 & 9, 1960. NYC.
Jon Hendricks. John Carl Hendricks (September 16, 1921 – November 22, 2017), known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists, such as the big-band arrangements of Duke ...