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3 days ago · "Over the Rainbow", also known as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg. It was written for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which it was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and became Garland's signature song.
4 days ago · Bruce Harris - Beginnings (Posi-Tone) For his debut as a leader, Bronx-born trumpeter Bruce Harris comes charging out of the gate with a rippling riff that leads into the briskly swinging “Ask Questions.” Once in and out of the no-frills arrangement, Harris takes off on his solo, a smartly assembled set of speedy phrases, quick.
5 days ago · Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance; she became based in the UK after 1938.
4 days ago · “Gotta Have Me Go with You,” from “A Star is Born,” underscores how Ms. Kazan, no less than Garland, Horne, and Ms. Streisand, all enjoyed a particular affinity for the songs of Harold Arlen.
3 days ago · Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
3 days ago · The Blues Show features a carefully curated mix of Blues music from the 1920s to the present, ranging from the best-known to the most obscure, peppered with a healthy dose of new releases.
3 days ago · A detective has branded internet troll David Brown's behaviour "unacceptable" after he was jailed for tormenting the family of a teenage hit-and-run victim.
