The “Black and White Rag” is a 1908 ragtime composition by George Botsford. The song was recorded widely for both the phonograph and player piano, and was the third ragtime composition to sell over one million copies of sheet music. The song was first recorded in 1909, as performed by the Victor orchestra for a […]
Yoyomi
Park Yun-a better known as Yoyomi is a South Korean trot singer-songwriter and actress. Park was born in October 1994, in Cheongju, South Korea. She is a graduate of Cheongju Girls’ High School. As a child, she became interested in trot music (a genre of Korean popular music known for its use of repetitive rhythm […]
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
“They Can’t Take That Away from Me” is a 1937 popular song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film Shall We Dance and gained huge success. The song is performed by Astaire on the lonely foggy deck of a ferry from New […]
The Galop
The word Galop has the usual significance in the most rapid pace of a horse and the word Gallopade referring to a similar movement in dancing, Gallopade is really the correct term. The term Galop came from the Waltz-like turning of the dance, which also has a version called a “Galop-waltz” in 3/4 time. The […]
I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan
I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan” is a popular song published in 1929, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz. It originally was a summer camp song titled “I Love to Lie Awake in Bed,” with Schwartz’s music set to lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Both young men worked at Brant […]
Sh-Boom
“Sh-Boom” (“Life Could Be a Dream“) is an early doo-wop song by the R&B vocal group The Chords. It was written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae, and William Edwards, members of The Chords, and published in 1954. It is sometimes considered the first doo-wop or rock ‘n’ roll record to […]
Willie King
Willie King was an American blues guitarist and singer, known for shunning fame and playing at a local bar in Mississippi. King was born in Prairie Point, a community in Noxubee County, Mississippi near the Alabama border. Prior to recording, he worked as a sharecropper, moonshine maker and travelling salesman; just a few of his […]
Descartes a Kant
Equal parts Punk, Metal, Pop, Shoegaze and Cabaret, the critically-acclaimed underground sextet, Descartes a Kant (Guadalajara, Mexico) have made a real name for themselves as an otherworldly, unpredictable theatrical live act. So much so that even the Wall Street Journal chimed to say that “trying to describe their music is to do it a disservice. […]
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly (born Grace Chung) is an American jazz musician, composer, and arranger. Kelly has produced and released recordings of her own, scored soundtracks, and tours with her band. She briefly played clarinet and classical piano before finding her voice on the saxophone. Kelly stated, “Saxophone reminds me of the human voice. And I always […]
Hiromi
Hiromi Uehara, known professionally as Hiromi, is a Japanese jazz composer and pianist. She is known for her virtuosic technique, energetic live performances and blending of musical genres such as stride, post-bop, progressive rock, classical and fusion in her compositions. Uehara was born in Hamamatsu, Japan. She started learning piano at the age of six […]