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~ Big Big Event: BMJB, "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart"
Views: 2715 |  |  |  |  | The Boilermaker Jazz Band's version of "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart" as performed in the Glen Echo Spanish Ballroom during the Big Big Event, June 16, 2007. This song features the vocals of Jennie Luvv. TheBig Big Event is a weekend of nightly dances, ...More workshops, and late-night dances hosted by The Jam Cellar. The Jam Cellar is a world-reknowned weekly swing dance party held in a posh, turn of the century mansion in Northwest Washington, DC on Tuesday nights. The Jam Cellar offers class series in Lindy Hop and other swing dances for all levels of dancers taught by some of the best instructors in the world. For more information about The Jam Cellar visit www.thejamcellar.com Every Tuesday night! You will like it! |
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~ Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Hinton Battle
Views: 5632 |  |  |  |  | Tony Award-winner Hinton Battle and Paula Kelly sing a medley of Duke Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" and "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" from "Sophisticated Ladies." Hinton has won three Tony's for "Best Featured Actor in a Musical" and has ...More held many leading Broadway, film and television roles. Kelly has performed as a soloist in major modern dance companies such as Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey. She has also appeared in many films and television shows. 0:00 Battle: Don't Get Around Much Anymore 0:29 Kelly: I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart 0:54 Battle: Don't Get Around Much Anymore 1:07 Battle and Kelly: counterpoint duet 1:43 Battle: Don't Get Around Much Anymore 1:48 Kelly: I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart 2:00 Duet: I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart "Sophisticated Ladies" was nominated for eight Tony Awards in 1981, winning two. This performance is an excerpt from the 1981 DVD "Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies," available for purchase at www.kultur.com (We are not affiliated in any way with kultur.com.) Many more great videos from "Sophisticated Ladies" are available from our website at http |
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~ 2003: A year in the life of artist Eugene J. Martin. Part I.
Views: 1454 |  |  |  |  | www.artnet.com . This is Part I of a 4-part series showing abstract paintings (acrylics on canvas) created by visual artist Eugene James Martin in 2003 in Lafayette, Louisiana (LA). Video clip montage by Suzanne Fredericq. en.wikipedia.org "I let a song g ...More o out of my heart", Music by Duke Ellington, Henry Nemo, Henry Mills, John Redmond. Solos by Harry Carney (bass clarinet), Lawrence Brown (trombone), Joya Sherill (vocals), and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. "I'm beginning to see the light", Music by Don George, Duke Ellington, Harry James, Johnny Hodges. Joya Sherill (vocals) and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Duke Ellington. The Best of the Complete RCA Victor mid-forties recordings (1944-1946). New York. www.amazon.com The collective Duke Ellington Orchestra: Taft Jordan, Rex Stewart, Shelton Hemphill, Cat Anderson, Francis Williams, "Shorty" Baker (trumpet); Ray Nance (trumpet, violin); Claude Jones, Lawrence Brown, Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Wilbur DeParis (trombone); Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet); Otto Hardwick, Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Al Sears (tenor saxophone); Harry Carney (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet); Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn (piano); Freddie Guy (guitar); ALvin "Junior" Raglin, Sid Weiss, Al Lucas, Oscar Pettiford (bass); Sonny Greer, Sid Catlett (drums). |
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~ 78rpm press: I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart - Duke Ellington and his Orch., 1938 - Brunswick 8108
Views: 3156 |  |  |  |  | Like gazing at a bright moon through a light dusting of clouds - seeing faint halos, wishing for the feel and reaching for a touch..... Duke on Brunswick in the late 1930's is about as close to that feeling as you can get with music. Aural sentiment. Here ...More 's to at least 3 minutes of sleepy smiles for you. :) |
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~ Duke Ellington - Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Dolby Stereo Sound - Wind Ensemble NSYO
Views: 801 |  |  |  |  | Duke Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" played by the NSYO Wind Ensemble conducted by Tim Ferrier. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" is a jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Bob Russell. The arrangement played here is by Ralph ...More Ford. The tune was originally titled "Never No Lament" and was first recorded by Ellington in 1940 as a big band instrumental. Russell's lyrics and the new title were added in 1942. Two different recordings of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", one by The Ink Spots and the other by Ellington's own band, reached #1 on the R&B charts in 1943. Both were top ten pop records, along with a version by Glen Gray. The Duke Ellington version reached number eight on the pop chart. Duke Ellington's top 30 hit recordings include: 1927 "East St. Louis Toodle-oo" 1928 "Black and Tan Fantasy" "Creole Love Call" "Doin' the New Low Down" "Diga Diga Doo" "The Mooche" 1930 "Three Little Words" "Ring Dem Bells" 1931 "Blue Again" "Mood Indigo" "Rockin' In Rhythm" "Creole Rhapsody Parts 1 & 2" "Limehouse Blues" 1932 "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" "Creole Rhapsody"(new version) "Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland)" "Moon Over Dixie" "Blue Ramble" 1933 "Drop Me Off At Harlem" "Sophisticated Lady" "Stormy Weather" "I'm Satisfied" "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" 1934 "Daybreak Express" "#@!&tails For Two" "Moon Glow" "Solitude" "Saddest Tale" 1935 "Merry Go Round" "In a Sentimental Mood" "Accent On Youth" "Cotton" 1936 "Isn't ... |
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