“Night Train” is a twelve-bar blues instrumental standard first recorded by Jimmy Forrest in 1951. “Night Train” has a long and complicated history. The piece’s opening rff was first recorded in 1940 by a small group led by Duke Ellington sideman Johnny Hodges, under the title “That’s the Blues, Old Man”. Ellington used the same […]
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor is an English singer and songwriter. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the indie rock band Theaudience. The band released four singles, including the UK Top 40 hits “I Know Enough (I Don’t Get Enough)” and “A Pessimist is Never Disappointed”, and one self-titled album […]
Laurie Johnson
Laurie Johnson, who died in January 2024, was an English composer and bandleader who wrote scores for dozens of film and television series. He studied at the Royal College of Music, where his tutors included Herbery Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He spent four years in the Coldstream Guards (playing French horn) before moving to […]
Susanne Sundfør
Susanne Aartun Sundfør is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer. Born and raised in Haugesund. In 2006, she joined Norwegian band Madrugada on tour, performing their song “Lift Me”, a duet the band originally recorded in the studio with singer Ane Brun. In November 2006 she released her debut single “Walls”, which would climb to […]
Tavares
Tavares (also known as The Tavares Brothers) is an American R&B, funk and soul music group composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers. They started performing in 1959 as Chubby and the Turnpikes when the youngest brother was nine years old. Future Aerosmoth drummer Joey Kramer appeared as the drummer with the group in a later […]
Boum
“Boum!” (similar to “boom” in English) is a popular 1938 song by the French singer/songwriter Charles Trenet which won him the Grand Prix Du Disque. It was one of several songs that Trenet wrote for the film La Route enchantée, for which he also wrote the screenplay and played the leading role. The film was […]
Life On Mars?
“Life on Mars?” is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie, first released on his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Bowie wrote the song as a parody of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”. “Life on Mars?” was recorded in August 1971 at Trident Studios in London, and was co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott. Bowie’s backing […]
Fascinating Rhythm
“Fascinating Rhythm” is a popular song written by George Gershwin in 1924 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was first introduced by Cliff Edwards, Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire in the Broadway musical ‘Lady Be Good’. The Astaires also recorded the song in April 1926, in London with George Gershwin on the piano. The song […]
Alice Phoebe Lou
Alice Phoebe Lou is a South African singer-songwriter based in Berlin. Lou spent her childhood in Kommetjie on west coast of the Cape Penninsula in South Africa. She took piano and guitar lessons as a child. When she was 14 years old she was fond of trance music and started to take photographs from concerts, […]
Kashmir
“Kashmir” is a song by the English band Led Zeppelin. Included on their sixth album Physical Graffiti (1975), it was written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant with contributions from John Bonham over a period of three years with lyrics dating to 1973. The song became a concert staple, performed by the band at almost […]