One of my favorite posts on the GMC is titled The Curious Case Of Moonglow , and it explores how "Moonglow" - a fine song in its own right - somehow got attached to the theme from the 1955 film Picnic , and became a best-selling record. In fact, the resulting two-song medley was so popular that it became the unofficial standard, in many cases showing up even when the song title just shows "Moonglow." But on today's Fantastic Foursome, we're getting back to basics and featuring the original "Moonglow," a song [...]

Art Tatum - Lullaby Of The Leaves Recorded on Thursday, February 22nd, 1940. Hall Of The Mountain King quote at 1:36.
Notes @ YouTube: The only documentary portrait of the greatest jazz pianist ever. Includes rare photographs, interviews, and more. Art Tatum: The Art of Jazz Piano is still the only documentary portrait of the greatest jazz pianist ever. Using photographs and some rare footage of Tatum and his contemporaries, the film reconstructs his genius. Included are interviews with musicians who played with him or who were influenced strongly by him: Guitarists Tiny Grimes & Les Paul, and pianists Marian McPartland, Hank Jones, Dick Hyman and George Shearing. Their reminiscences and demonstrations underline Tatum's status as the "musician's [...]

. Loving tenderness abounds for all from the darkest to the most eminent one beyond the stars, - Hildegard of Bingen . " Afternoon Easter 2012 " 01. Anouar Brahem - Eté andalous Le Voyage De Sahar (ECM, 2006) 02. Art Tatum - Lover Body and Soul (A Jazz Hour With, 1996) 03. Sarah Vaughan - Easy [...]

Happy New Year from Mp3 Medication!…and Art Tatum. Listen to this as you sway your champagne-filled body into 2012. mp3: Art Tatum- Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
New technology captures Oscar Peterson's performances as if he were still alive and playing.

What's up kids? I've got a doozy for you all today: a 1.7-hour playlist of songs about space. Why? Just for kicks, and because it gives me an excuse to post this link: www.spacetelescope.org/images/ archive/top100/ Which, if the URL doesn't make it obvious, is a collection of the 100 "best" space telescope pictures, and, I gotta say, there's some great ones, for sure. But anyways, about the music! 18 songs from a wide variety of genres and time periods, all with titles and/or subject matter relating to space. The ILS [...]

MOVEMENT I (“INTERROGATION”) MOVEMENT II (“LOSS”) Anthony Davis You Have the Right to Remain Silent! Unreleased : 2007 Perspectives Ensemble featuring JD Parran and Earl Howard. VICISSITUDES (FOR MEL) Jason Robinson and Anthony Davis Cerulean Landscape Clean Feed : 2010 JR, sax; AD, piano. [...]

It ain't every day that a guy's favorite team wins the championship in glorious, tradition-rich college football. And if that guy's favorite team is the Alabama Crimson Tide ... his alma mater, no less ... then perhaps a musical celebration is in order. So, in honor of my beloved Tide and their 14-0 run to Waterford crystal , I've put together a 40-minute playlist of songs dedicated to Alabama. You get some twang, some folk, a little jazz, and of course we rock the house. A couple choices are Crimson Tide specific, others [...]

We played outside in our snowsuits, and then the sitter turned on the engine and the heat. We sat near the vents, drinking hot chocolate from a thermos lid. The windows were frosted from our breathing. Out there in the snow, where we couldn’t see, my parents glided along, still married to each other. My mother was younger than I am now. They wore wool pants and sweaters and hats, and it was only from a distance that their progress looked effortless and unimpeded. Up close, the gliding through fresh snow made them sweat, and my father’s glasses [...]
JAZZ FIENDS REJOICE! Don Schlitten’s legendary jazz label Xanadu re-launched on January 19th with a new release from the Peter Bernstein Trio and five re-mastered versions of notable past records, now available digitally for the first time. As the first new release in several years, Peter Bernstein Trio’s set Monk boasts the legendary session player himself, [...]

FROM THE ARCHIVES: ELECTION DAY SPECTACULAR Dock Boggs: Country Blues John Coltrane: Afro-Blue Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun Mickey Newbury: An American Trilogy Art Tatum: Elegie
1932 Classic Jazz composition of Duke Ellington & Irving Mills... and some versions I found. La clásica pieza de jazz de 1932 compuesta por Duke Ellington e Irving Mills.... y varias de sus versiones. MP3s: Al Jarreau - Sophisticated Lady Amel Larrieux - Sophisticated Lady Art Tatum - Sophisticated Lady Billie Holiday - Sophisticated Lady Caetano Veloso [...]

Art Tatum steps elegantly into 'A Foggy Day,' followed by the sour-sweet alto of Bennie Carter. From the album 'Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume One,' a classic track. Carter is magisterial, imperious even, one of the great saxophonists in jazz, yet one perhaps overshadowed by Bird and Johnny Hodges on alto, perhaps because of his long time spent in the studios as an in-demand arranger. The evidence for his real standing speaks out in the theme statements and solos... Good overview of his astoundingly long career here... Tatum still causes critical splits, with some not [...]
ALABAMA BOOGIE John Lee Federal : 1951 Available on: Rural Blues vol. 1 1934-1956 Document : 1995 [Buy It] ALABAMA MAN Earl Scott Chascamp c. 1960 (?) Available on: Nashville Rockabilly Stomper Time : 2004 [Buy It] THE STORY OF ALABAMA BOUND Jelly Roll Morton c. 1938 Available on: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings Rounder : 2005 [Buy It] The great state [...]

The Beatles: The Sheik Of Araby [1962] Art Tatum: The Sheik Of Araby [1937] This chestnut was written in 1921, with lyrics by Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler and music by Ted Snyder. (Ted Snyder is the man who gave Irving Berlin his start in show business, hiring Irving as a song plugger in 1909. Now that's old school.) The song was popularized by Eddie Cantor, who performed it in the 1922 Schubert stage show Make It Snappy . It was a hit before your mother was born. [...]
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Art Tatum: Elegie [1940] from a theme by Jules Massenet Speaking of great Arthurs... If you've never heard this before, you're in for a treat. Something extremely awesome happens at the 2:10 mark, to wit: five centuries of American history roll backwards in time at light speed. taken from this CD recorded on February 22, 1940, in sunny Los Angeles, California
Art Tatum -- What Is This Thing Called Love? (August 1, 1955) A leisurely stroll down Vibraphone Lane. I can't help picturing this in a Woody Allen film, one of his light comedies, accompanied by a tracking shot with Allen and his love interest walking through Central Park. [ The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 3 ] Art Tatum -- What Is This Thing Called Love? (September 7, 1955) This time Tatum and his group have eight minutes to play a ten minute song; [...]
6 Cardinal Colors: Purple Larry Clinton, Deep Purple. Art Tatum, Deep Purple. The Clientele, The Violet Hour. Sebadoh, Violet Execution. The Kooks, Indigo Lights. Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dance of the Lilac Fairy. Prince, Purple Rain. Stina Nordenstam, Purple Rain. Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze. Scott Joplin, Heliotrope Bouquet. Eva Taylor, Jeannine I Dream of Lilac Time. Jeff Buckley, Lilac Wine