Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg.
Musical time-traveling. Kind of coincidentally all recordings from 1957: Carl Perkins, not a rocker but a jazz pianist, with guitarist Jim Hall in an Ellington-composition, Nina Simone, the lp-version of her big success ‘My baby just cares for me’. Also from that year: a beautiful version of ‘Mr. Wonderful’ by Corry Brokken – whom we will give some extra attention to.
Frank Sinatra with the beautiful P.S. of a love letter.
Clark Terry (‘Daylight Express’), trumpetist Roy Eldridge in ‘When I grow too old to dream’, and with Milt Jackson in his bossa-debut: ‘Recado bossa nova’.
Additionally:
Hank Williams with a song he didn’t want to record but that turned out to be a great hit (‘Half as much’), and once again actor Robert Mitchum as a singer, the Kingston Trio, Peggy Lee, Percy Faith and Freddy Martin ‘jazzes up’ the ‘Sabre Dance’.
