Reprise publishes ‘Ring-a-Ding-Ding!’ by (uptempo swinger) Frank Sinatra (1961)
Frank Sinatra's 'Ring-a-Ding-Ding!' is an album featuring only uptempo swing numbers and released in March 1961 by Reprise.
Browsing Tag
A Fine Romance
Ella Fitzgerald records for Verve ‘Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook’ with…
'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook' is a studio album recorded on January 5-7, 1963, with an orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle and released the same year by Verve.
Dave Brubeck records ‘Brubeck Time’ with his Quartet featuring Paul Desmond (1954)
Dave Brubeck Quartet's 'Brubeck Time' is an album recorded on October 12–14 and November 10, 1954.
Billie Holiday records ‘Music For Torching’ with Harry Sweets Edison, Benny Carter,…
Billie Holiday's 'Music For Torching' is a studio album recorded on August 23 & 25, 1955 and released In October 1955 By Clef.
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong record ‘Ella and Louis Again’ for Verve (1957)
'Ella and Louis Again' by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong is a studio (sequel to their 1956 'Ella and Louis') album recorded on July 23 & 31 and August 13, 1957 In 1957 and released the same year by Verve.
We remember Lena Horne. ‘A Star Was Horne’
This day (May 9, 2010), in New York City, New York, died Lena Mary Calhoun Horne a.k.a Lena Horne, an American singer and civil rights activist.