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20 10/12
06:25

Shirley Horn ( Pianist And Singer)

Tags: Basin Street Blues, Estate, Fever, How Insensitive, Once I Loved, Our Love Is Here To Stay, Shirley Horn, Song I Love You In A Place, This Can'T Be Love, Wynton Marsalis

This day (October 20, 2005), in Washington, D.C., died Shirley Horn, an American jazz singer and pianist who collaborated with many jazz greats including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, Ron Carter, Carmen McRae, Wynton Marsalis and others.

CREDITS

Image : Shirley Horn Photo by Joel Hawtof

Video : Shirley Horn Trio – Our Love Is Here To Stay (2002) . Shirley Horn & Trio – How Insensitive (1999) . Shirley Horn – Fever (1998) . Shirley Horn – Once I Loved (1994) . Shirley Horn Trio – Estate (1990) . Shirley Horn And Wynton Marsalis – Basin Street Blues . Shirley Horn Holland – This Can’T Be Love / Song I Love You In A Place (1981) .

06 07/12
06:53

King Louis – Louis Armstrong (What a Wonderful World)

Tags: Basin Street Blues, Billie Holiday, Blue Yodel No 9, Dinah, Dizzy Gillespie, Hello Dolly, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong, Mack The Knife, Someday, The Blues Are Brewin, Umbrella Man

This day (July 6, 1971), in Corona, Queens, , died Louis Armstrong, an American jazz trumpeter and singer who comes to prominence in the 1920s as an “inventive” cornet and trumpet playe and a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music’s focus from collective improvisation to solo performance.

CREDITS

Image : Louis Armstrong Photo by National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Video : Louis Armstrong – Hello Dolly . Louis Armstrong & Johnny Cash – Blue Yodel No 9 (1970) . Louis Armstrong – Basin Street Blues (1964) . Louis Armstrong – Someday (1962) . Dizzy Gillespie & Louis Armstrong – Umbrella Man . Louis Armstrong & The All Stars – Mack The Knife (1959) . Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong – The Blues Are Brewin . Louis Armstrong – Dinah (1933) .