Jazz Standards Počty standardů v jednotlivých dekádách 20. století ve sledované tisícovce nejvíce nahrávaných: pre-1910 24 1910s 36 1920s 164 1930s 312 1940s 267 1950s 131 1960s 58 1970s 7 1980s 1 32 solitérů v Jazz Standards 0 – 300 011 Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) 1947 Kosma,Joseph Prévert,Jacques/Mercer,Johnny 013 Willow Weep for Me 1932 Ronell,Ann - 014 What's New? 1939 Haggart,Bob Burke,Johnny 016 Sweet Georgia Brown 1925 Bernie-Pinkard-Casey Ben-Maceo-Ken 021 How High the Moon 1940 Lewis,Morgan Hamilton, Nancy 026 Tenderly 1946 Gross,Walter Lawrence,Jack 037 Sweet Lorraine 1928 Burwell,Cliff Parish,Mitchell 041 Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana) 1917 Hanley,James MacDonald,Ballard 056 Misty 1954 Garner,Erroll Burke,Johnny 071 All of Me 1931 Marks,Gerald-Simons,Seymour - 085 Just Friends 1931 Klenner,John Lewis,Sam M. 090 Just You, Just Me 1929 Greer,Jesse Klages,Raymond 109 Avalon 1920 Jolson-DeSylva-Rose Al-Buddy G.-Vincent 115 Nature Boy 1948 Ahbez,Eden - 146 Flamingo 1941 Grouya,Ted Anderson,Edmund 164 My Melancholy Baby 1911 Burnett,Ernie Norton,George A. 174 Limehouse Blues 1922 Braham,Philip Furber,Douglas 176 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 1933 Bassman,George Washington,Ned 196 Poor Butterfly 1916 Hubbell,Raymond Golden,John L. 197 Since I Fell for You 1948 Johnson,Woodrow Wilson - 199 Rose Room 1917 Hickman,Art-Williams,Harry - 225 When You‘re Smiling 1928 Fisher,Mark-Shay,Larry Goodwin,Joe 226 I'm Coming Virginia 1927 Heywood,Donald Cook,Will Marion 227 I Hear a Rhapsody 1940 Fragos-Baker-Gasparre George-Jack-Dick 240 Someday My Prince Will Come 1937 Churchill,Frank E. Morey,Larry 260 Crazy Rhythm 1928 Kahn,Roger Wolfe-Meyer,Joseph Caesar,Irving 261 That's All 1952 Haymes,Bob-Brandt,Alan - 266 As Time Goes By 1931 Hupfeld,Herman - 267 Indian Summer 1919 Herbert,Victor Dubin,Al 273 The Night Has a Thousand Eyes 1948 Brainin,Jerry Bernier,Buddy 288 China Boy 1922 Boutelje,Phil Winfree,Richard A. 294 Besame Mucho 1941 Velazquez,Consuelo Skylar,Sunny A mimo soutěž nejúspěšnější píseň Leonarda Bernsteina: 591 Maria 1957 Bernstein,Leonard Sondheim,Stephen Co je to solitér? Standard, jehož skladatel je v první tisícovce zastoupen pouze jedenkrát. Dejme šanci ještě těm, kteří mají v Top 300 dva standardy – toto jsou ty výše umístěné. 2 standardy téhož autora 034 After You've Gone 1918 Layton,Turner Creamer,Henry 083 Memories of You 1930 Blake,Eubie Razaf,Andy 135 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Mancini,Henry Mercer,Johnny 155 If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight) 1926 Johnson,James P. Creamer,Henry 167 Stairway to the Stars (Park Avenue Fantasy) 1935 Malneck,Matt-Signorelli,Frank Parish,Mitchell 170 God Bless the Child 1941 Herzog,Arthur-Holiday,Billie - 203 Rosetta 1933 Hines,Earl-Woode,Henri - 210 I'll Never Be the Same 1932 Malneck,Matt-Signorelli,Frank Kahn,Gus 211 Django 1955 Lewis,John bez rozšířeného textu 253 Don't Explain 1946 Holiday,Billie-Herzog,Arthur - 255 It's the Talk of the Town 1933 Livingston,Jerry Symes,Marty-Neiburg,Al J 291 Li'l Darlin' 1957 Hefti,Neal - Jazz Standards 14. místo SecondHandSongs 484 verzí roku 1939 hit č. 33 Tom Lord Jazz Discography 783 verzí Stan Kenton ještě v dobách stratosférického Maynarda Fergusona, zde „jen“ s 19 hudebníky https://secondhandsongs.com/submission/204956 May 31, 1951 Clifford Brown, trumpetista normálního rozsahu, ale jaký! Dodnes největší vzor https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/388969 January 18, 1955 Zpěvačka jazzmanů, doprovází skupina…Clifforda Browna – zahraje si sólo https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/40647 December 24, 1954 Klavírista Oscar Peterson doprovází miláčka milionů – Louise Armstronga https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/64399 October 14, 1957 Nenapodobitelná Betty Carter https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/415534 December 6, 1969 Když se setkají dvě z nejoriginálnějších zpěvaček, Carmen McRae & Betty Carter https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/129846 January 30, 1987 Bob Haggart Autographed Signed Photograph HistoryForSale Item 27033 | boom-creators.com Primary Bob Haggart (1914 – 1998) Jazz Standards 16. místo SecondHandSongs 968 verzí roku 1925 hit č. 1 Tom Lord Jazz Discography 1606 verzí Slavná Afroameričanka, Ethel Waters v roce vzniku písně, v neworleánském stylu https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/67614 May 13, 1925 Do ještě vzdálenější minulosti nás dostane Original Washboard Band https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/435830 1959 Naše patronka, tetička Ella Fitzgerald https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/185824 July 20, 1966 Zážitky poskytuje obvykle i Mr. Velvet Fog, vlastním jménem Mel Tormé, zde scat songem https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/552187 August 1988 Jedinečné vokální sexteto Take 6 si s písničkou hraje jako kočka s myší https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/476335 released 2008 Nejstarší instrumentální deska je ovšem s orchestrem autora, Bena Bernieho https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/67609 March 19, 1925 Když poctivě stylově po staru, tak od bílých Dukes of Dixieland https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1409265 October 1951 Mistrovství světa v nekonečném proudu nápadů a jejich střelhbité realizaci – Oscar Peterson https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/677287 March 17, 1975 Paris Petersona překoná jedině Peterson se dvěma basisty, Rayem Brownem a Nielsem H. Ø. Pedersenem. Uvěří jen ten, kdo uvidí - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - V I D E O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypd1YGW5Huw Ben Bernie (1891 – 1943) Jazz Standards 21. místo SecondHandSongs 476 verzí roku 1940 hit č. 4 Tom Lord Jazz Discography 860 verzí King of Swing, klarinetista Benny Goodman s orchestrem a zpěvačkou Helen Forrest https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/167358 February 7, 1940 Kytarový experimentátor Les Paul na trikové nahrávce se svojí ženou, Mary Ford https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/61308 released March 1951 Hodně uvolněné uchopení tématu zpívajícím kytaristou Slimem Gaillardem, známým vtipálkem https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/721282 November 1958 O r n i t h o l o g y Vtipná melodická parafráze na harmonickou kostru How High the Moon od Charlieho Parkera, hrají saxofonista Joshua Redman a klavírista Brad Mehldau https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/623192 released 2016 Málokterou píseň natočila Ella Fitzgerald víckrát. Po úvodní volnější sloce přijde double-time a parádní ukázka scat songu, včetně melodické parafráze Charlieho Parkera, Ornithology https://secondhandsongs.com/submission/158169 November 4 – 8, 1953 Tokyo Trochu méně kvalitní video, ovšem od Manhattan Transfer z koncertu https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/106308 November 1983 Významný tenorsaxofonista Sonny Rollins na výletě v Kalifornii https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/360855 October 20 – 22, 1958 Veterán barytonsaxofonu Ronnie Cuber (1941 – 2022) zralý jako dobré víno https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/936172 released November 2019 Návrat domů s krasobruslící Helenou Vondráčkovou na český text Zdeňka Borovce https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1198118 released 1976 Songwriters Hall of Fame - Wikipedia Composer Morgan Lewis - guitar sheet music and tabs Morgan Lewis (1906 – 1968) How High the Moon - Wikipedia Jazz Standards 56. místo SecondHandSongs 740 verzí roku 1954 hit č. 2 Tom Lord Jazz Discography 800 verzí Nejen skladatel, ale hlavně přední jazzový pianista Erroll Garner přichází se svou autorskou verzí https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/46271 July 27, 1954 Jedna z raných orchestrálních podob je od Richarda Haymana, foukačkáře a dirigenta https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/670198 released 1956 Za ryze jazzové provedení lze považovat to od legendárního swingového orchestru Counta Basieho, aranžmá Frank Foster, sólový barytonsaxofon Charlie Fowlkes https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/409215 December 31, 1959 Ještě měkčí zvuk má hollywoodský studiový orchestr pod taktovkou a v aranžmá velkého sběratele cen, Henryho Manciniho (20 trofejí Grammy, 4 Oscary); trombonistou je Dick Nash https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/273325 February 22 – 29, 1960 Prvotřídní jazzovou partu reprezentuje prvních 8 taktů nejmelodičtější tenorsaxofonista Stan Getz, ale leaderem nahrávání byl pístový trombonista Bob Brookmeyer. Oba bílé melodiky podbarvuje Gary Burton na vibrafon a tři špičkoví Afroameričané, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter a Elvin Jones. https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/764036 May 27, 1964 Naprosto unikátní je sólová harfa Afroameričanky Dorothy Ashby, jediné jazzové hráčky na královský nástroj. Jen známý komik Harpo Marx překvapoval svými autodidaktickými kreacemi. V nabídce je ovšem celé její album, skladba Misty začíná v čase 28:00 https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/631513 1984 V malebném aranžmá pro Orchestr Radia a Televize Lublaň nahrál tu podmanivou melodii dávný host brněnského rozhlasového studia, vibrafonista Boško Petrovič https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1411593 April 2002 Z doby nedávné je video mladých jazzmanů z Barcelony pod vedením Joana Chamorra (bass) a nečekaně s dosud neznámou houslistkou jménem Élia Bastida, jinak saxofonistkou orchestru https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/742427 V I D E O released October 5, 2017 Kuriozitou, kterou zahájíme malý výběr vokálních verzí, zůstáváme v téže zeměpisné oblasti a vyslechneme verše v katalánštině pod názvem Tot és gris, jak je zpívá Núria Feliu za doprovodu nevidomého pianisty Tete Montolia https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1441194 November 12, 1965 Když zvláštnosti, neodpustím si českou verzi od Nezmarů, s textem Petra Jánského, a v tempu https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1117695 released 2007 A teď už do země vzniku a za velkými umělkyněmi. Nejdříve Sarah Vaughan https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/114690 July 7, 1958 Její starší kolegyně a rivalka, garantka obou semestrů Ella Fitzgerald https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/217773 February 13, 1960 Svým zpěvem pečetí kvalitu předchozích Frank Sinatra, zvaný The Voice https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/38531 November 21, 1961 V naší zemi nikoli neznámá švédská vokální skupina The Real Group, někdy nazývaná díky svým kvalitám „švédští Manhattan Transfer“ https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/471804 released 1987 Misty: Erroll Garner: Amazon.ca: Music Primary Erroll Garner (1921 – 1977) Misty / Exactly Like You by Erroll Garner Trio (Single, Cool Jazz): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list - Rate Your Music Secondary, 3 of 4 Shellac disc EP vinyl Jazz Standards 115. místo SecondHandSongs 700 verzí roku 1947 hit č. 1 Tom Lord Jazz Discography 498 verzí První nahrávka a hned bomba. První místo po dobu 7 týdnů v hitparádě a prodej více než milionu desek. Interpretem, jemuž autor píseň věnoval, se stal zpívající klavírista Nat King Cole. https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1378 August 22, 1947 Brzy se píseň dostala i do repertoáru Franka Sinatry. V době stávky hudebníků jej mohl doprovázet jedině pěvecký sbor – naprostá rarita v dějinách populární hudby https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1379 April 26, 1948 Do doby stávky spadá i první ženská nahrávka, tedy se sborem místo orchestru: Sarah Vaughan https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/108286 April 8, 1948 Vokální skupina jako byly The King Sisters s doprovodem orchestru, to už byla normální situace https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/530281 V I D E O released 1966 Hybným rytmem překvapil jindy zádumčivý Johnny Hartman, zde s japonskou rytmikou https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/228833 November 25, 1972 Mezi mnohohlasými sbory rozhodně vedou The Singers Unlimited, aranžmá Gene Puerling https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/452293 released 1975 Královna Ella Fitzgerald ve zralém věku a ideálním partnerství s kytaristou Joem Passem https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/68936 February 8, 1976 Natalie Cole, dcera prvního interpreta, nemůže v této minipřehlídce chybět, zde na albu, které získalo 7 cen Grammy https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/46464 released June 11, 1991 Ovšem mým vítězem se už dávno stal největší z jazzových zpěváků, Kurt Elling. Ta gradace! https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/55152 September 14, 1996 Swingující dánský houslista Svend Asmussen (1916-2017!) na jedné z prvních nezpívaných nahrávek https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/449794 August 10, 1948 Génius poválečného jazzu, trumpetista Miles Davis v podivuhodné sestavě: Britt Woodman-trombon, Teddy Charles-vibrafon, Charles Mingus-kontrabas, Elvin Jones-bicí nástroje. Klasika. https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/161224 July 9, 1955 Největší z melodiků mezi tenoráky, Stan Getz, ke všemu s harfou a smyčci https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/449861 March 1960 Baden-Baden Nature Boy jakoby přitahoval všechny tenorsaxofonisty, dalším je Ike Quebec https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/429117 November 26, 1961 Nebo Getzův dávný spoluhráč, Zoot Sims, ten v rytmu tehdy nové bossa-novy https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/950905 November 1962 Ani John Coltrane neodolal ďábelským svodům té nádherné písně https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/142110 February 18, 1965 Až kdesi z kosmu přinesl svůj názor na tento standard tajemný kouzelník Sun Ra https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/449993 October 14, 1977 Jako osvěžení působí novým pohledem na staré dobré téma trombonista John Fedchock se svým sextetem. Melodický trojhlas je nepředvídatelný, ale moc chytný https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1070741 released July 3, 2020 A český příspěvek na závěr? Pavel Bobek zpívá český text Zdeňka Rytíře: Kluk s tváří mou https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1182631 released March 2005 William Pester (1885 – 1963) eden ahbez (1908 – 1995) Nat King Cole: Wie der Obdachlose Eden Ahbez den Hit "Nature Boy" schrieb - DER SPIEGEL Eden Ahbez Photos (2 of 23) | Last.fm https://secondhandsongs.com/picture/183934/original https://secondhandsongs.com/picture/630409/original Capitol versus Columbia Jazz Standards 176. místo SecondHandSongs 399 verzí roku 1933 hit č. 8 Tom Lord Jazz Discography 604 verzí První nahrávka patří orchestru bratří Dorseyů a zpěvačce Jean Bowes, s trombonem Tommyho D. https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/61207 September 24, 1932 Mezi vokálními skupinami té doby se rozhodně neztráceli The Ink Spots https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/61217 October 11, 1939 Ella Fitzgerald v hodně komorním vydání… https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/872266 April 19, 1960 …a s pořádným orchestrálním doprovodem Counta Basieho https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/996009 February 15, 1979 Neodolatelní Four Freshmen, o nějakých 9 let později na československém turné – nezapomínáme https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/107170 July 19, 1960 Velekněz moderního jazzu Thelonious Monk se neobracel zády k tradiční hudbě, sám u klavíru https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/61214 April 12, 1957 Hodně profláknutý popíkář Billy Vaughn a jeho vlezlý mečivý altsaxofon měl taky své vyznavače https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/593508 released 1958 Není altka jako altka. Modernista Lee Konitz to vzal úplně jinak. To je jazz. https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/817438 October 29, 1959 Ještě nesmlouvavější inovátor, basista Charles Mingus u klavíru, perlí a reharmonizuje https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/61215 June 30, 1963 Jeden z největších moderních pianistů Bill Evans s triem (Eddie Gomez-bass, Shelly Manne-bicí) https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/130912 October 4, 1966 A co avantgardisté? I jim se hodí starodávné téma. Ran Blake-klavír, Anthony Braxton-saxofon https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/133074 November 19, 1988 Elegantní pojetí dua Andy LaVerne-klavír a John Abercrombie-kytara (kdysi i v Brně) https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/615227 September 2002 Mladá krev jazzové kytary, Julian Lage https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/916038 released February 2019 George Bassman | ArtistInfo George Bassman age, hometown, biography | Last.fm George Bassman (1914 – 1997) SecondHandSongs 241 verzí roku 1957 hit č. 12 Jazz Standards 591. místo Tom Lord Jazz Discography 147 verzí První představitel Tonyho, Larry Kert (1930-1991) https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1290426 September 29, 1957 Velkolepý zvuk orchestru Stana Kentona s mellofony – 27 hudebníků, Johnny Richards-aranžmá https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/111635 March 15, 1961 Z Kentonova orchestru vyšel i famózní kanadský trumpetový výškař Maynard Ferguson https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1312767 December 1961 Něco pro trpělivé – vláčné pojetí dnes zapomenutého zpěváka Andyho Williamse https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/96713 released 1962 O čtyři roky později přispěl do pokladnice West Side Story i Karel Gott-anglicky. Návrat domů. https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/733911 released 1966 Secondary, 2 of 27 Leonard Bernstein | American composer and conductor | Britannica Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) eden ahbez Nat “King” Cole introduced this unusual tune, based on a Yiddish song “Schwieg Mein Hertz” (Be Still My Heart), in 1948, when it leaped to number one in the charts for 18 weeks: * Nat “King” Cole (1948, vocal, #1) * Frank Sinatra (1948, vocal, #7) * Sarah Vaughan (1948, vocal, #9) * Dick Haymes (1948, vocal, #11) George Alexander Aberle (April 15, 1908 – March 4, 1995), known as eden ahbez, was an American songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s to 1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential in the hippie movement. He was known to friends simply as ahbe. Ahbez composed the song "Nature Boy", which became a No. 1 hit for eight weeks in 1948 for Nat "King" Cole. Living a bucolic life from at least the 1940s, he traveled in sandals and wore shoulder-length hair and beard, and white robes. He camped out below the first L in the Hollywood Sign above Los Angeles and studied Oriental mysticism. He slept outdoors with his family and ate vegetables, fruit, and nuts. He claimed to live on three dollars per week. Ahbez was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish father and a Scottish-English mother, and spent his early years in the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, which branched off from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. (and his 12 siblings!) He then traveled in an Orphan Train and was adopted, in 1917, by a family in Chanute, Kansas, and raised under the name George McGrew. During the 1930s, McGrew lived in Kansas City, where he performed as a pianist and dance band leader. In 1941, he arrived in Los Angeles and began playing piano in the Eutropheon, a small health food store and raw food restaurant on Laurel Canyon Boulevard. The cafe was owned by John and Vera Richter, who followed a Naturmensch and Lebensreform philosophy influenced by the Wandervogel movement in Germany. He was a vegetarian. He recalled once telling a policeman: "I look crazy but I'm not. And the funny thing is that other people don't look crazy but they are." Their followers, known as "Nature Boys" and who included "Gypsy Boots" (né Robert Bootzin), wore long hair and beards and ate only raw fruits and vegetables. During this period, he adopted the name "eden ahbez", choosing to spell his name with lower-case letters, claiming that only the words God and Infinity were worthy of capitalization. Some time in 1947, he married Anna Jacobson a month after they met; the couple had a son, Tatha Om Ahbez, on October 9, 1948. n 1947, ahbez approached Nat "King" Cole's manager backstage at the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles and handed him the music for his song, "Nature Boy". Cole began playing the song for live audiences to much acclaim, but needed to track down its author before releasing his recording of it. Publicity material for Cole's single instead makes the claim that Johnny Mercer recommended ahbez to Cole on behalf of Capitol Records. Jack Patton, in turn, is said to have advised ahbez to bring "Nature Boy" to Capitol after befriending him at the restaurant where ahbez worked. Ahbez was discovered living under the Hollywood Sign and became the focus of a media frenzy when Cole's version of "Nature Boy" shot to No. 1 on the Billboard charts and remained there for eight consecutive weeks during the summer of 1948. In early 1948, RKO Radio Pictures paid ahbez $10,000 for the rights to "Nature Boy" to use as the theme song for their film The Boy with Green Hair, and he was credited as the song's composer on the film's opening titles. Ahbez was covered simultaneously in Life, Time, and Newsweek magazines. Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan later released versions of the song. Ahbez faced legal action from a Yiddish music composer, Herman Yablokoff, who claimed that the melody to "Nature Boy" came from one of his songs, "Shvayg mayn harts" ("Be Still My Heart"). Ahbez claimed to have "heard the tune in the mist of the California mountains". However, legal proceedings resulted in a payment to Yablokoff of $25,000 in an out-of-court settlement. Ahbez continued to supply Cole with songs, including "Land of Love (Come My Love and Live with Me)", which was also covered by Doris Day and The Ink Spots. In 1949, he gave Burl Ives the idea to cover Stan Jones' "Ghost Riders in the Sky" after overhearing Jones recording his own version of the song. He worked closely with jazz musician Herb Jeffries, and, in 1954, the pair collaborated on an album, The Singing Prophet, which included the only recording of Ahbez's four-part "Nature Boy Suite". The album was later reissued as Echoes of Eternity on Jeffries' United National label. In the mid 1950s, he wrote songs for Eartha Kitt, Frankie Laine, and others, as well as writing some rock-and-roll novelty songs. In 1957, his song "Lonely Island" was recorded by Sam Cooke, becoming the second and final Ahbez composition to hit the Top 40. In 1959, he began recording instrumental music, which combined his signature somber tones with exotic arrangements and (according to the record sleeve) "primitive rhythms". He often performed bongo, flute, and poetry gigs at beat coffeehouses in the Los Angeles area. In 1960, he recorded his only solo LP, Eden's Island, for Del-Fi Records. This mixed beatnik poetry with exotica arrangements. Ahbez promoted the album through a coast-to-coast walking tour making personal appearances, but it sold poorly. During the 1960s, ahbez released five singles. Grace Slick's band, the Great Society, recorded a version of "Nature Boy" in 1966 and ahbez was photographed in the studio with Brian Wilson during a session for the Smile album in early 1967. Later that year, British singer Donovan sought out ahbez in Palm Springs, and the two wanderers shared a reportedly "near-telepathic" conversation. In the 1970s, Big Star's Alex Chilton recorded a version of "Nature Boy" with the photographer William Eggleston on piano. The song was finally released as a bonus track on the 1992 Rykodisc re-release of the album Third/Sister Lovers. Personal life His wife Anna (née Annette Jacobson; October 16, 1915 – August 9, 1963) died, aged 47, of leukemia, and his son Zoma (né Tatha Om Ahbez), drowned in 1971 at age 22. In 1974, ahbez was reported to be living in the Los Angeles suburb of Sunland, and he owned a record label named Sunland Records, for which he was recording under the name "Eden Abba". From the late 1980s until his death, ahbez worked closely with Joe Romersa, an engineer/drummer in Los Angeles. The master tapes, photos, and final works of ahbez are in Romersa's possession. Death Ahbez died on March 4, 1995, of injuries sustained in a car accident, at the age of 86. Another album, Echoes from Nature Boy, was released posthumously. Real name George Alexander Aberle Born April 15, 1908 Died March 4, 1995 Songwriter and performer active from the 1940s into the 1960s. Ahbez spent his early years in a Brooklyn orphanage and was adopted in 1917, moving to Kansas and growing up under the name George McGrew. Ahbez was an inspiration to the California hippie movement as since at least the 1940s, Ahbez had shoulder length hair and a beard, dressed unconventionally and lived outdoors. ``Ahbez's most famous song was "Nature Boy" over which Herman Yablokoff sued, claiming an infringement of his song called "Schweig Mein Hartz" ("Be Still My Heart"), written and published in 1935. The suit was settled with Yablokoff receiving $25,000 and waiving rights to Nature Boy. Bob Haggart - Robert Sherwood Haggart (March 13, 1914 – December 2, 1998) was an American dixieland jazz double bass player, composer, and arranger. Although he is associated with dixieland, he was one of the finest rhythm bassists of the Swing Era. In 1935, Haggart became a member of the Bob Crosby Band. He arranged and composed "Big Noise from Winnetka", "My Inspiration", "What's New?", and "South Rampart Street Parade". He remained with the band until it dissolved in 1942, then began working as session musician, with much of his time spent at Decca Records. He recorded with Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Ella Fitzgerald; his arrangements can be heard on Fitzgerald's album Lullabies of Birdland. Haggart also starred in several commercials for L&M cigarettes on the radio program "Gunsmoke", including the March 4, 1956 episode, "The Hunter". He and Yank Lawson formed the Lawson-Haggart Band, and they also led the World's Greatest Jazz Band from 1968 until 1978. He appeared at jazz festivals until his death on December 2, 1998 in Venice, Florida. Benjamin Anzelwitz, known professionally as Ben Bernie (May 30, 1891 – October 23, 1943), was an American jazz violinist, bandleader, and radio personality, often introduced as "The Old Maestro". He was noted for his showmanship and memorable bits of snappy dialogue, being part of the first generation of "stars" of American popular music, alongside other artists such as Paul Whiteman (a fellow violinist and bandleader), Ted Lewis and Al Jolson. Bernie was born Bernard Anzelevitz (another source says Benjamin Anzelevitz) in Bayonne, New Jersey. He attended Columbia University and the New York College of Music. By the age of 15 he was teaching violin, but this experience apparently diminished his interest in the violin for a time. Bernie performed in vaudeville, appearing with Charles Klass as The Fiddle Up Boys in 1912 and with Phil Baker as Baker and Bernie, but he met with little success until 1922 when he joined his first orchestra. Later, he had his own band, The Lads, seen in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound short, Ben Bernie and All the Lads (1924–25), featuring pianist Oscar Levant. He toured with Maurice Chevalier in Europe. William Morgan "Buddy" Lewis, Jr. (26 December 1906 – 8 December 1968) was a writer of jazz songs, some of which were also recorded in the pop music genre. Lewis was born in Rockville, Connecticut and died in New York City. He wrote songs and Broadway theatre scores with lyricist Nancy Hamilton including "How High the Moon" and "The Old Soft Shoe". Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first recorded in 1956 with Mitch Miller and his orchestra, and played a prominent part in the 1971 motion picture Play Misty for Me. Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso". Garner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Boulevard. His live album Concert by the Sea first released in 1955, sold more than 1 million copies by 1958, and Yanow's opinion on the album is that it "made such a strong impression that Garner was considered immortal from then on." Garner was born, along with twin brother Ernest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 15, 1921, the youngest of six children. He attended George Westinghouse High School (as did fellow pianists Billy Strayhorn and Ahmad Jamal). Interviews with his family, music teachers, other musicians, and a detailed family tree can be found in Erroll Garner: The Most Happy Piano by James M. Doran. Garner began playing piano at the age of three. His elder siblings were taught piano by a "Miss Bowman." From an early age, Erroll would sit down and play anything she had demonstrated, "just like Miss Bowman", his eldest sister Martha said. Garner was self-taught and remained an "ear player" all his life, never learning to read music. At age 7, he began appearing on the radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh with a group named the Candy Kids. By age 11, he was playing on the Allegheny riverboats. In 1937 he joined local saxophonist Leroy Brown. He played locally in the shadow of Linton Garner, his older brother, also a pianist. Garner moved to New York City in 1944. He briefly worked with the bassist Slam Stewart, and although not a bebop musician per se, in 1947 played with Charlie Parker on the "Cool Blues" session. Although his admission to the Pittsburgh music union initially was refused because of his inability to read music, the union relented in 1956 and made him an honorary member. Garner is credited with a superb musical memory. After attending a concert by Russian classical pianist Emil Gilels, Garner returned to his apartment and was able to play a large portion of the performed music by memory. eden ahbez George Bassman (February 7, 1914 – June 26, 1997) was an American composer and arranger. Born in New York City to a Ukrainian- and Lithuanian-Jewish émigré couple, Bassman was later raised in Boston and began studying music at the Boston Conservatory while still a boy. He studied orchestration and composition formally, but in his teens he left home against his father's wishes to play piano in an itinerant jazz group, and subsequently worked as an arranger for Fletcher Henderson in New York. Through that gig, he became part of the burgeoning swing/big band scene and was soon writing songs as well. Bassman peaked in that career when he and Ned Washington wrote "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" for the bandleader Tommy Dorsey. Bassman also worked in radio as an arranger for Andre Kostelanetz, and made the move to Hollywood in the mid 1930s. Among his earliest film jobs was orchestrating the Gershwin songs in the Fred Astaire movie A Damsel in Distress at RKO. He later went to work at MGM, where he composed music for the Marx Brothers vehicles A Day at the Races, Go West, and The Big Store, as well as writing or arranging music for such musicals as Lady Be Good and Cabin in the Sky. He also worked on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz (for which he orchestrated the background music used in the tornado scene, poppy-field scene and many of the Emerald City sequences), Babes in Arms, and For Me and My Gal. During his work at MGM, he returned to RKO to supervise the adaptation of the Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart musical Too Many Girls to the big screen. He also worked on dramas, including Vincente Minnelli's The Clock and Tay Garnett's The Postman Always Rings Twice. Leonard Bernstein (25. srpna 1918, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA – 14. října 1990, New York) byl americký dirigent, hudební skladatel, klavírista, pedagog, hudební popularizátor a televizní hvězda. Patřil mezi nejvýznamnější dirigenty své doby a byl také prvním americkým dirigentem, který získal mezinárodní uznání. Podle hudebního kritika Donala Henahana byl „jedním z nejzáhadněji talentovaných a nejúspěšnějších hudebníků v americké historii“. Bernstein byl prvním v Americe narozeným dirigentem, který vedl americký orchestr. Byl hudebním ředitelem Newyorské filharmonie, dirigoval přední světové orchestry a vytvořil významné dědictví zvukových a obrazových záznamů. Byl také klíčovou postavou v moderním oživení hudby Gustava Mahlera, skladatele, o jehož hudbu se nejvíce zajímal. Jako zručný klavírista často dirigoval klavírní koncerty od klaviatury. Narodil se jako Louis Bernstein v Lawrence ve státě Massachusetts do rodiny ukrajinských Židů původem z města Rovno. Nebyl příbuzný filmového skladatele Elmera Bernsteina, ale byli přáteli a dokonce sdíleli určitou fyzickou podobnost. Jako malý chlapec bral lekce na piano a navštěvoval Posádkovou a Bostonskou latinskou školu. Na Harvardově univerzitě studoval s Walterem Pistonem, Edwardem Burlingame-Hillem a A. Tillmanem Merrittem a mnoha dalšími. Absolvoval studium hudebních oborů na Harvardu (1939), poté studoval hru na klavír, dirigování a orchestraci na Curtisově institutu ve Filadelfii (1942), kde byl nejnadanějším žákem Fritze Reinera. V roce 1940 studoval pod vedením dirigenta Sergeje Kusevického v Tanglewoodu, berkshisrském letním středisku Bostonského symfonického orchestru, posléze se stal Kusevického asistentem. Dne 14. listopadu 1943 „zaskočil“ za nemocného Bruna Waltera u Newyorské filharmonie, kde působil od září 1943 jako asistent. Tento záskok odstartoval jeho profesionální kariéru. V letech 1945-1947 byl hudebním ředitelem Newyorského Symfonického orchestru. Po smrti Sergeje Kusevického v roce 1951 se stal na mnoho let vedoucím třídy dirigování v Tanglewoodu. Na počátku roku 1947 Bernstein přijal pozvání Palestinského orchestru a přijel do Jeruzaléma v tehdejší britské mandátní Palestině (dnešní Izrael), aby dirigoval několik koncertů. Muzikál West Side Story (česky též: Příběh ze západní čtvrti) autorů Leonarda Bernsteina (hudba), Stephena Sondheima (text), Arthura Laurentse (libreto), koncepce a režie Jerome Robbins, inspirovaný Shakespearovým příběhem Romea a Julie, se od roku 1957 hraje na jevištích celého světa. Divadelní inscenace West Side Story měla světovou premiéru 26. září 1957 ve Winter Garden Theater na Broadwayi v New Yorku. West Side Story je považována za jeden z vrcholů ve svém žánru. Dominantními složkami tohoto, na svou dobu převratně, moderního muzikálu jsou dynamika, rychlost, rytmičnost – hudba, tanec, pohyb, zvuky, dialogy, kamera. Je znám též díky zlidovělým melodiím jako jsou Somewhere, Maria, Tonight či America. Českou premiéru měl v roce 1970 v Národním divadle v Brně, krátce poté ji uvedlo i Hudební divadlo v Karlíně. Přes pokročilé politické tání byla předmětem „dozoru“ („skryté“ a/nebo „dobrovolné“ cenzury), překlad byl bedlivě upravován ve snaze úředníků zamezit šíření amerického způsobu života, z propagačních materiálů musely být odstraněny rusko-finské hvězdy (sice pěticípé, ale stříbrné a tak ideologicky „podezřelé“) těsně před vyvěšením plakátů po celé Praze (plakáty musely být znovu vytištěny). Od roku 1989 se hrál v Městském divadle Brno. Režie se ujal Stanislav Moša. S tímto zpracováním slavilo Městské divadlo Brno mnoho úspěchů i na jevištích v Německu, Rakousku, Itálii či Belgii.[1] Nyní je uváděno na Soudobé hudební scéně Městského divadla Brno. V hlavních rolích září brněnské muzikálové hvězdy Petr Gazdík, Alena Antalová, Markéta Sedláčková, Roman Vojtek (ten byl za roli Tonyho nominován v roce 1997 na prestižní Cenu Thálie), Petra Jungmanová, Igor Ondříček.