Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg. A treasure hunt in the history of music.
With delicate blues singer Lil Green, with what should have been her big success, but was snatched away by Peggy Lee.
Frank Sinatra, uncommonly jazzy with Red Norvo, and recounting the trouble he had with Kipling’s heirs when he recorded ‘On the Road to Mandalay’.
Further: Attention for crooner Steve Lawrence. With and without Eydie Gormé,
An early Cleo Laine with John Dankworth (‘You’re blasé’),
John Marshall and the trio of Rob Agerbeek (‘I’m old fashioned’),
Sublime big band-swing by Jimmie Lunceford with his ‘trained seals’.
From other musical regions:
World champion in art flute Geert Chatrou with Ocobar (‘Einz, zwei, drei, vierteltakt’),
Yodel charm by J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers (‘Yodelin’ mountaineer’)
The Mexican melancholy singer Pedro Vargas,
And also: Charles Trenet, Jules de Corte,
Chet Baker, Shirley Horn.
