Jazz, blues and nostalgia.
Much obscurity in this episode, like the once famous harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler. Or Hubert Mathieu Wynandts Schwarts – who had a career as jazz accordeonist in America in the fifties, under the name of Mat Mathews, but when he returned to the Netherlands his career silently came to an end. And singer Matt Monro, who started as a Sinatra imitator, and who was so adept in this that he received compliments from The Voice himself. But when he was not imitating he was a sublime vocalist as well, whose career never could do justice to his talents, this was in part thanks to the alcohol. We also have some nice swing by Woody Herman, parts of a CD on which old American jiddish radio stations come to life, John Coltrane, Eddie Condon, Red Allen, Helen Merrill and Pee Wee Russell.
