Music from days gone by.
Bobby Darin (‘As long as I’m singing’),
Esther Phillips (‘Let there be love’),
Dutch maestro of the button accordion, Johnny Meijer (‘I want to be happy’),
Billie Holiday (‘Mean to me’),
Cabaret sensation Marijke Boon, who parodies the ‘smartlap’ genre,
Edith Piaf on the blue skies of Paris, infatuated with the island of Saint-Louis but occasionally moody,
Miles Davis in his cool phase (‘The Surrey with the fringe on top’),
The Clark Sisters (‘I’ve got my love to keep me warm’),
Annette Hanshaw, known as ‘The Personality Girl’, who abruptly ended her magnificent career in the thirties. Hanshaw’s beautiful song (‘If I had a talking picture of you’) and as she often did, concluding with a ‘That’s all!’,
From the Wild West: The Sons of the Pioneers (‘Blue Prairie’) and the Pee Wee King (‘Western Limited’),
‘Breda-Amster hybrid’ Joop van der Marel (‘Waar is m’n hoed, waar is m’n jas?’),
Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans (‘Waltz for Debby),
Gianmaria Testa, railroad stationmaster turned singer often likened to Paolo Conte,
Patsy Cline (‘Fingerprints’),
And extraverted pianist Marta David and her spouse.
