Music production and licensing for broadcast video and filmmaker industries. Composers and songwriters create new original music to score independent film and video productions. >>read more
VH1.com presents complete artist information on Frank Sinatra, including news, bio, message boards, song clips and more.
Frank Sinatra was arguably the most important popular music figure of the 20th century, his only real rivals for the title being
Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles. In a professional... >>read more
Ella Fitzgerald, the first lady of Jazz, was one of popular music's finest
vocal talents.
From her many recordings, if you were to pick a couple of exemplary pieces then the Verve recordings from the 50s must figure strongly. By the time she had been recording for Norman Granz's label for a couple of years Ella had reached the peak... >>read more
All About Jazz: Johnny Hartman: The voice That Is: (by Bret Arenson):
The lush baritone voice of Johnny Hartman enriched many big bands in the Forties and Fifties including Dizzy Gillespie's and Erol Garner's. But in the sixties he recorded many fine albums as leader and with all-star small groups. Although not as popular as some of his... >>read more
Tuxedo Junction is a jazz and big band web site featuring articles, photos, and music spotlighting Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Count Basie and others. This is a Windows Media Player, SureStream web site. You'll want to visit it often! >>read more
Australian Cotton Club Orchestra: 12-piece bigband based in Melbourne, Australia and specialising in early jazz, swing and those unforgettable songs of the 1930s and 40s.
The Australian Cotton Club Orchestra beautifully recreates
the feel of this wonderful music. It sounds crisp and alive."
The Esquires: Performing the great swing music of the Big Band era in the Southern California area for over 40 years. Please check our website to learn more about this unique group and our teaching program.
"The Esquire story is amazing, but it happened. In 1958, four fourteen year old teenagers asked me to help them form a... >>read more
Close your eyes, dip your hand into this treasure chest, and play any of the 462 tracks contained within: you are guaranteed to hear something magnificent. It may be a stunning composition, an innovative arrangement, or an astonishing improvisational passage, but the brilliance is there.It is... >>read more
Duke Ellington
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Many regard Duke Ellington as the most important figure to emerge from the U.S. jazz scene in the twentieth century, although Ellington himself might have quibbled with the description, as he was reluctant to describe his work as anything more specific than "music". The... >>read more