Jazz, blues and nostalgia.
The Palace’s glorious musical past. The pre-war, South-American Padilla sisters excelling in despair, the sultry Machito band and smouldering nostalgia by a small Cuban dance orchestra from a century ago. Nightly melancholia by Jo Stafford staring out of the window while smoking a cigarette. Billie Holiday does not sound cheerful either with “Everybody’s laughing”, also featuring sound magician André Popp and Joop Visser with a resigned song (”Every morning, the sun rises”).
Exactly fifty years after Woodstock (“Three days of peace and music”): Melanie, who travelled from the Netherlands to this highlight of the hippie-era. From the hay days of big bands, Helen Humes (the best singing Helen), the exceptionally “smooth” playing band of Hugo Winterhalter, Oscar Peterson, Clark Terry, Peggy Lee.
