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An Evening with Lena Horne

Index An Evening with Lena Horne

An Evening with Lena Horne is a 1994 live album by Lena Horne. [1]

50 relations: Akira Tana, Album, AllMusic, Alto saxophone, Baritone saxophone, Barney Bigard, Being Myself (Lena Horne album), Billy Strayhorn, Blue Note Records, Bob Russell (songwriter), Charles Aznavour, Clarence Williams (musician), Cole Porter, Count Basie Orchestra, Do Nothing till You Hear from Me, Double bass, Drum kit, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Flugelhorn, Flute, Frankie Laine, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Guitar, Harold Arlen, Herbert Kretzmer, Hier encore, I've Got the World on a String, Irving Mills, Johnny Williams (saxophonist), Just One of Those Things (song), Lena Horne, Lorenz Hart, Mel Wanzo, Michael Cuscuna, Michel Legrand, Mike Renzi, Mood Indigo, Norman Gimbel, Richard Rodgers, Singing, Stephen Sondheim, Ted Koehler, Tenor saxophone, The Lady Is a Tramp, Trombone, Vocal jazz, We'll Be Together Again, We'll Be Together Again (album), 38th Annual Grammy Awards.

Akira Tana

Akira Tana (born March 14, 1952, San Jose, California) is an American jazz drummer.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846.

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Baritone saxophone

The baritone saxophone or "bari sax" is one of the largest members of the saxophone family, only being smaller than the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones.

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Barney Bigard

Albany Leon "Barney" Bigard (March 3, 1906 – June 27, 1980) was an American jazz clarinetist known for his 15-year tenure with Duke Ellington.

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Being Myself (Lena Horne album)

Being Myself is a 1998 studio album by Lena Horne, and was the final original studio album released during her lifetime.

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Billy Strayhorn

William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington, lasting nearly three decades.

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Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records.

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Bob Russell (songwriter)

Sidney Keith "Bob" Russell (April 25, 1914 – February 1970) was an American songwriter (mainly lyricist) born in Passaic, New Jersey.

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Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour (born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրեան; 22 May 1924) is a French, later naturalised Armenian, singer, lyricist, actor, public activist and diplomat.

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Clarence Williams (musician)

Clarence Williams (October 6, 1898 or October 8, 1893 – November 6, 1965) was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher.

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Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.

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Count Basie Orchestra

The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16 to 18 piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936.

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Do Nothing till You Hear from Me

"Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (also written as "Do Nothin' Til You Hear From Me") is a song with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Bob Russell.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Fats Waller

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

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Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn (—also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German, wing horn, or flank horn) is a brass instrument pitched in B which resembles a trumpet, but has a wider, conical bore.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Frankie Laine

Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an Italian American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005.

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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album

The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works (songs or albums) in the vocal jazz music genre.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide.

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Herbert Kretzmer

Herbert Kretzmer, OBE (born 5 October 1925) is a South African-born English journalist and lyricist.

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Hier encore

"Hier Encore", whose original French title translates as "Only Yesterday", is a song written by Charles Aznavour and released in September 1964.

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I've Got the World on a String

"I've Got The World on a String" is a 1932 popular jazz song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler.

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Irving Mills

Irving Harold Mills (né Isadore Minsky; 16 January 1894 in Odessa, Ukraine – 21 April 1985 in Palm Springs, California) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter.

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Johnny Williams (saxophonist)

John C. "Johnny" Williams (October 31, 1936, Orangeburg, South Carolina - October 3, 1998) was an American saxophonist, active in jazz, blues and soul idioms.

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Just One of Those Things (song)

"Just One of Those Things" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1935 musical Jubilee.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Lorenz Hart

Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist and librettist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart.

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Mel Wanzo

Melvin "Mel" Wanzo, also known as Melvin Wahid Muhammad (November 22, 1930, Cleveland - September 9, 2005, Detroit) was an American jazz trombonist.

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Michael Cuscuna

Michael Cuscuna (born September 20, 1949, In Stamford, Connecticut) is an American jazz record producer and writer.

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Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand (born 24 February 1932) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist.

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Mike Renzi

Michael E. Renzi (known as "Mike Renzi", born April 28, 1946 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American composer, music director, pianist and jazz musician.

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Mood Indigo

"Mood Indigo" (1930) is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.

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Norman Gimbel

Norman Gimbel (born November 16, 1927) is an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes whose writing career includes such titles as "Sway", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", "Meditation", and "I Will Wait for You", along with an Oscar for "It Goes Like It Goes" - from the film Norma Rae.

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Richard Rodgers

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music, with over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, leaving a legacy as one of the most significant composers of 20th century American music.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.

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Ted Koehler

Ted L. Koehler (July 14, 1894 – January 17, 1973) was an American lyricist.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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The Lady Is a Tramp

"The Lady Is a Tramp" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Vocal jazz

Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of instruments.

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We'll Be Together Again

"We'll Be Together Again" is a 1945 popular song composed by Carl T. Fischer, with lyrics by Frankie Laine.

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We'll Be Together Again (album)

We'll Be Together Again is a 1994 album by Lena Horne.

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38th Annual Grammy Awards

The 38th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1996, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Evening_with_Lena_Horne

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