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Tag: Frank Sinatra
Vinyl is back! Each month on “Vinyl Watch,” we list some of the most noteworthy…
Frank Sinatra Enterprises and UMe unveiled a new collection of landmark tracks by one of…
The following is a guest post by Ellie McKinsey, staff writer for Know Your Instrument. …
Seth MacFarlane became one of the youngest executive producers in television history when Fox premiered…
Seth MacFarlane became one of the youngest executive producers in television history when Fox premiered…
Tony DeSare is a pianist and composer who brings a fresh perspective on the Great…
Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life” is well known as a harmonically intricate and melodic masterpiece. Jazz…
This is the opening cut from Sinatra’s timeless 1966 live album ‘Sinatra at the Sands,’ featuring the Count Basie Orchestra and arrangements by a then up-and-coming arranger named Quincy Jones.
Bandleader Tommy Dorsey was born on this day (November 19), in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, in 1905.…
Composer/arranger Nelson Riddle and Frank Sinatra are featured in today’s Song of the Day, singing…
It’s amazing that we’ve made it this far into the month of September without posting…
Monty Alexander’s new album, Wareika Hill: RastaMonk Vibrations, will be released August 23 on MACD…
A new face has emerged atop the JazzWeek Radio Chart, while a familiar figure reclaimed the top spot of the Billboard Jazz Chart. On both charts, quiet rumblings could be felt in the bottom half of the Top 10.
In this episode, JAZZIZ Backstage Pass host Brian Zimmerman sits down with Tierney Sutton, an…
Hal Blaine, who died Monday, March 11, at age 90, was often cited as “the…
In the ’60s, as new subgenres like free-jazz, hard-bop, modal jazz and fusion began to flourish stateside, over in Brazil, a group of chic, melody-minded composers were engaged in their own jazz experiment.
This is the opening cut from Sinatra’s timeless 1966 live album ‘Sinatra at the Sands,’ featuring the Count Basie Orchestra and arrangements by a then up-and-coming arranger named Quincy Jones.
Frank Sinatra Jr. will celebrate the life and times of his father with a concert…
By Matt Micucci The official exhibit of the Frank Sinatra centennial, titled “Sinatra: An…