Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg.
Digging for treasures in music history. Midnight atmospheres with Miles Davis (‘When lights are low’), and with Perry Como. One of his last big hits, lightly based on a composition by Brahms, with the motivation of catching a falling star.
Then, saving from obscurity, that other cool trumpet player: Tony Fruscella.
Willie Nelson, Roger Miller & Ray Price singing with slight melancholy about their old friendship.
The exquisitely sculpted Fran Warren, who could sing so seductively.
From Dutch soil, Fay Claassen with her album ‘Red, hot & blue’, and from 50 years before, Louis Davids with the partly English ‘Waarom zou ik niet?’ (‘Why wouldn’t I?’)
From about the same period, the New York Orchestra from boxer/drummer Bernie Cummins with ‘Dust’.
From the Oscar-category the very rich year 1944, with lots of nostalgia due to the war. Aside from some obviously nominated songs from Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers, Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots, also Bing Crosby together with the winner – which, though loved, is actually a children’s song.
As bonus, the reprise of the song that should have won, ‘Long ago and far away’, from the obscure but remarkable Bev Kelly.
And then this: Anita O’Day (‘Georgia on my mind’), Joe Loss’s orchestra (‘I’ll walk alone’), the ‘godfather of the Cajun music Harry Choates, with ‘The old Ice Man’.
