tue 24 sep 2019 10:00 hrs
Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg.
A jazzy Palace; ‘Atomic Basie’, a record bursting with fireworks by Count Basie (‘Moten Swing’); hurricane-force saxophone play by Earl Bostic (‘Cherokee’) and vocal violence by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Also, brilliant, eccentric and entirely forgotten pianist Evalyn Tyner, Billie Holiday (‘Day in, Day out’), alto player Lee Konitz (’The nearness of you’), Anita O’Day (‘All of you’), South American temperament by Noro Morales and his band (‘Mambo Retozon’). Dizzy Gillespie in a classic scene (’Silhouette’), Lena Horne, trumpetist and leader of the band Bobby Sherwood, Frank Sinatra, Vic Damone.
