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Comin' Home Baby. from the album Comin' Home Baby! " Comin' Home Baby " is a song originally written as an instrumental by Ben Tucker and first recorded by the Dave Bailey Quintet in 1961, and shortly thereafter by Herbie Mann. Lyrics were added by Bob Dorough, and the vocal version became a US Top 40 hit for American jazz singer Mel Tormé in ...
Ella Mae Morse in 1944. Ella Mae Morse (September 12, 1924 – October 16, 1999) [1] was an American singer of popular music whose 1940s and 1950s recordings mixing jazz, blues, and country styles influenced the development of rock and roll. Her 1942 recording of "Cow-Cow Boogie" with Freddie Slack and His Orchestra gave Capitol Records its ...
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) [ 1 ] was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz ". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as " Soweto Blues " and " Bring Him Back Home ".
1980–present. Labels. Mercury Records. Website. juniorgiscombe.co.uk. Norman Washington "Junior" Giscombe (born 6 June 1957) [1] is an English singer-songwriter often known as Junior who was one of the first British R&B artists to be successful in the United States. He is best known for his 1982 hit single, "Mama Used to Say".
Ella Swings Lightly is a 1958 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with the Marty Paich Dek-tette. Ella also worked with Marty Paich on her 1967 album Whisper Not . The album features a typical selection of jazz standards from this era, songs from musicals like Frank Loesser 's If I Were a Bell , and a famous jazz ...
Higgins's songwriting grew out of a desire to express her emotions when she was at school, and her lyrics describe her feelings about her own life and relationships. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] The piano was the first instrument she learned to play, and she continues to use it as well as digital pianos , including a Roland RD-300SX, RD-700 and KR-15.
The Comet Is Coming was a London-based band that incorporated elements of jazz, electronica, funk and psychedelic rock. The band originally recorded for The Leaf Label , on which their debut EP Prophecy was released, on limited edition 12" vinyl , on 13 November 2015, with the full-length album Channel the Spirits following on 1 April 2016.
"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.