Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg.
Musical time traveling. Featuring: delicate blues singer Lil Green, with what should’ve been her big success, but became Peggy Lee’s.
Frank Sinatra, unusual jazzy at Red Norvo, on the hassle he faced with Kipling’s estate when he recorded ‘On the Road to Mandalay’.
We’ll also focus on recently deceased crooner Steve Lawrence, with and without Eydie Gormé,
An early Cleo Laine and John Dankworth (‘You’re blasé’),
John Marshall and Rob Agerbeek’s trio (‘I’m old fashioned’),
Sublime big band-swing by Jimmie Lunceford and his ‘Trained Seals’.
From other musical realms:
World Champion Whistler Geert Chatrou with Ocobar (‘Einz, zwei, drei, vierteltakt’),
J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers’ yodeling charms (‘Yodelin’ mountaineer’)
Mexican melancholic singer Pedro Vargas,
As well as: Charles Trenet, Jules de Corte,
Chet Baker, Shirley Horn.
