Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg. A treasure hunt in the history of music.
This time: Dutch women’s Jazz band Alice in Dixieland with ‘Choochoocheboogie’, a prelude to summer with Chris Connor (‘Summertime’), and Oscar Peterson with his tribute to Nat King Cole.
Also a small tribute to octogenarian Herman van Veen, a wry childhood memory about feeding ducks by Hans Dorrestijn (‘Eendjes voeren’), and Nelson Riddle with a composition from the show ‘Oklahoma’.
Further: pianist Erroll Garner (‘Play, piano, play’), Buddy DeFranco with, among others, Barney Kessel and Jimmy Rowles (‘’s Wonderful’), gospel by Elvis Presley (‘Working on the Building’) and a jail song by Peggy Lee.
From the Oscar-category the song Dmitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington wrote for the Western ‘High Noon’.
Next, some attention for ‘Singin’ in the rain’.
And then this: Mexican ‘nightingale’ Pedro Vargas, Mel Tormé, Rod McKuen, Esther Phillips, Tex Ritter, and Valaida Snow.
