Hoagy Carmichael

Q&A: Jason Schwartzman continues 'Bored to Death,' excitedly

2010-10-31 16:34:58

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Christmas in Harlem as seen by Kanye West and Louis Armstrong

2010-12-24 16:34:06

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BMI 2010 Awards: John Fogerty, Taylor Swift, RedOne honored at annual songwriters ceremony

2010-05-19 16:34:51

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Album review: Allison Miller's 'Boom Tic Boom'

2010-03-23 16:35:07

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Another side of Mercer

2007-09-18 00:00:00

Johnny Mercer is one of the most celebrated lyricists in American pop music, and it's no wonder when you consider just a fraction of his more than 1,000 songs: "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "You Must Have Been a...

'All You Need Is Love' finally arrives in U.S.

2008-07-03 00:00:00

British documentary maker Tony Palmer called his 17-hour TV series exploring the origins of American popular music “All You Need Is Love,” because John Lennon told him it would make a great title. But in the three decades since he made it, it'...

INKED! Throwback 'Song Reader' is required reading

2013-01-31 22:54:00

Aside from marching bands, movie scores and classical charts, sheet music is an unknown quantity to most popular and modern music fans, an anachronism of a bygone era. It seems like somewhere around the late 1950s and early ’60s, the era of Sun...

A healthy dose of jazz

2012-12-10 12:07:00

Some might see an odd destiny — if not exactly Jerry Garcia’s “long strange trip” — in the formation of the 3-year-old Jazz Docs band. Its five members form a sort of Venn diagram — with Ellicott City dentist Hank...

Howard Fishman Explores Worlds of Music, But He Keeps Pointing Back to New Orleans

2012-11-27 09:05:00

Howard Fishman Dec. 1. The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook, (860) 510-0453, katharinehepburntheater.org � The singer/songwriter and bandleader Howard Fishman is an energetic omnivore of Americana and beyond. Fishman has...

Ukulele Advocate: Four by Four

2012-11-04 11:02:00

My friend Dan is learning to play the ukulele. His preferred instrument for the past several decades also has four strings, but is of a much different scope—the stand-up bass. Dan and I have played together on a few occasions, generally at church...

Orbert Davis, Chicago Jazz Philharmonic swing into a new season

2012-10-18 11:20:00

No other orchestra in America looks, sounds or acts quite like Orbert Davis' Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. For though various bands play Third Stream repertoire — a term that loosely refers to jazz-meets-classical fare — the CJP immerses...

NSU faculty to perform annual recital

2012-09-19 21:45:00

��The Northern State University Department of Music faculty will present its annual recital at 7:30 Sept. 20, at the Johnson Fine Arts Center. � More than a dozen faculty members will perform. �“The event is one of the music department’s...

Hoagy Carmichael (Photo courtesy of Dave Parker, flickr.com)

2013-03-20 08:01:00

I might catch crap for not ranking his highest selling album higher than 9th but despite its popularity I think there are better albums. Released in 1978, Stardust features Willie doing an entire album of standards written by cats like Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and Hoagy Carmichael.

2012-04-30 11:05:00