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57 relations: Al Dubin, Album, AllMusic, Alto saxophone, Baritone saxophone, Bethlehem Records, Billy Strayhorn, Britt Woodman, Cat Anderson, Clarinet, Clark Terry, Cotton Tail, David Raksin, Deep Purple (song), Don George, Double bass, Drum kit, DuBose Heyward, Duke Ellington, Ellington at Newport, George Gershwin, Harry Carney, Harry James, Historically Speaking (Duke Ellington album), Human voice, I Can't Get Started, Indian Summer (Victor Herbert song), Ira Gershwin, Jazz, Jimmy Hamilton, Jimmy Woode, John La Touche (lyricist), Johnny Hodges, Johnny Mercer, Laura (1945 song), Lorenz Hart, Mitchell Parish, My Funny Valentine, Paul Gonsalves, Peter DeRose, Piano, Quentin Jackson, Ray Nance, Richard Rodgers, Russell Procope, Sam Woodyard, Scott Yanow, Summertime (George Gershwin song), Tenor saxophone, Trombone, ... Expand index (7 more) »
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Al Dubin
Alexander Dubin (June 10, 1891 – February 11, 1945) was an American lyricist.
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Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Alto saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments.
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Baritone saxophone
The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass.
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Bethlehem Records
Bethlehem Records was an American jazz independent record label, founded by Gus Wildi in 1953.
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Billy Strayhorn
William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades.
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Britt Woodman
Britt Woodman (June 4, 1920 – October 13, 2000) was an American jazz trombonist.
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Cat Anderson
William Alonzo "Cat" Anderson (September 12, 1916 – April 29, 1981) was an American jazz trumpeter known for his long period as a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra and for his wide range, especially his ability to play in the altissimo register.
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Clarinet
The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.
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Clark Terry
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.
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Cotton Tail
"Cotton Tail" is a 1940 composition by Duke Ellington.
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David Raksin
David Raksin (August 4, 1912 – August 9, 2004) was an American composer who was noted for his work in film and television.
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Deep Purple (song)
"Deep Purple" is a song and the biggest hit written by pianist Peter DeRose, who broadcast between 1923 and 1939 with May Singhi as "The Sweethearts of the Air" on the NBC radio network.
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Don George
Don R. George (August 27, 1909 – 1987) was an American lyricist of popular music.
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Double bass
The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).
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Drum kit
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person.
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DuBose Heyward
Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
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Ellington at Newport
Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and his band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a concert which revitalized Ellington's flagging career.
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George Gershwin
George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres.
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Harry Carney
Harry Howell Carney (April 1, 1910 – October 8, 1974) was a jazz saxophonist and clarinettist who spent over four decades as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
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Harry James
Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946.
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Historically Speaking (Duke Ellington album)
Historically Speaking is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Bethlehem label in 1956. Duke Ellington Presents... and Historically Speaking (Duke Ellington album) are 1956 albums, Bethlehem Records albums and Duke Ellington albums.
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Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling.
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I Can't Get Started
"I Can't Get Started", also known as "I Can't Get Started with You" or "I Can't Get Started (With You)", is a popular song.
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Indian Summer (Victor Herbert song)
"Indian Summer" is an American standard originally written as a piano piece by the prolific composer Victor Herbert.
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Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershovitz; December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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Jimmy Hamilton
Jimmy Hamilton (May 25, 1917 – September 20, 1994) was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, who was a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
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Jimmy Woode
James Bryant Woode (September 23, 1926 – April 23, 2005) was an American jazz bassist.
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John La Touche (lyricist)
John Treville Latouche (La Touche) (November 13, 1914, Baltimore, Maryland – August 7, 1956, Calais, Vermont) was a lyricist and bookwriter in American musical theater.
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Johnny Hodges
Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band.
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Johnny Mercer
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallichs.
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Laura (1945 song)
"Laura" is a 1945 popular song.
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Lorenz Hart
Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was an American lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart.
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Mitchell Parish
Mitchell Parish (born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky; July 10, 1900 – March 31, 1993) was an American lyricist, notably as a writer of songs for stage and screen.
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My Funny Valentine
"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green.
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Paul Gonsalves
Paul Gonsalves (–) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington.
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Peter DeRose
Peter DeRose (or De Rose) (March 10, 1896 – April 23, 1953) was an American composer of jazz and pop music during the era of Tin Pan Alley.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
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Quentin Jackson
Quentin "Butter" Jackson, Oxford University Press, US, 2007 (January 13, 1909 – October 2, 1976) was an American jazz trombonist.
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Ray Nance
Ray Willis Nance (December 10, 1913 – January 28, 1976) was an American jazz trumpeter, violinist and singer.
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Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer who worked primarily in musical theater.
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Russell Procope
Russell Keith Procope (August 11, 1908 – January 21, 1981) was an American clarinetist and alto saxophonist who was a member of the Duke Ellington orchestra.
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Sam Woodyard
Sam Woodyard (January 7, 1925 – September 20, 1988) was an American jazz drummer.
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Scott Yanow
Scott Yanow (born October 4, 1954) is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.
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Summertime (George Gershwin song)
"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.
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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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Trombone
The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.
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Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Universal Recording Corporation
Universal Recording Corporation was a recording studio in Chicago founded by Bill Putnam, Sr. for the purpose of investigating new recording techniques and the development of specialized recording equipment.
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Valve trombone
The valve trombone is a brass instrument in the trombone family that has a set of valves to vary the pitch instead of (or in addition to) a slide.
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Vernon Duke
Vernon Duke (16 January 1969) was a Russian-born American composer and songwriter who also wrote under his birth name, Vladimir Dukelsky.
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Victor Herbert
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training.
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Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
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Willie Cook
Willie Cook (November 11, 1923 – September 22, 2000) was an American jazz trumpeter.
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See also
Bethlehem Records albums
- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry
- A Swinging Introduction to Jimmy Knepper
- All of Me: The Debonair Mr. Hartman
- Another One (Oscar Pettiford album)
- Art Blakey Big Band
- Basically Duke
- Booker Little and Friend
- Carmen McRae (1954 album)
- Clean Head's Back in Town
- Daddy Plays the Horn
- Down Home (Zoot Sims album)
- Duke Ellington Presents...
- Dusty Blue
- East Coasting
- Flamingo (Herbie Mann album)
- Hard Drive (Art Blakey album)
- Herbie Mann Plays
- Historically Speaking (Duke Ellington album)
- Hornful of Soul
- It's a Blue World (Mel Tormé album)
- Joe Roland Quintette
- K + J.J.
- Left Alone (Mal Waldron album)
- Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (album)
- Little Girl Blue (album)
- Love and the Weather
- Love, Gloom, Cash, Love
- Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire
- Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette
- Mel Tormé's California Suite
- Motor City Scene
- Nina Simone and Her Friends
- Oscar Pettiford (album)
- Songs from the Heart (Johnny Hartman album)
- Take the "A" Train (Betty Roché album)
- The Book Cooks
- The Chase Is On
- The Complete Porgy and Bess
- The Herbie Mann–Sam Most Quintet
- The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus
- The Return of Howard McGhee
- Triple Threat (Roland Kirk album)
- Winner's Circle