Will Friedwald
Arts Feature Writer and Columnist at The Wall Street Journal
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nysun.com | Will Friedwald
Barb Jungr With Simon Wallace‘Hallelujah on Desolation Row: The Songs Of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen’Kristalyn RecordsWhile I don’t frequently acknowledge that “Hallelujah” is not my favorite song by Leonard Cohen — such an opinion can get me into a lot of trouble with my more ascetic colleagues — I do freely admit that it’s a masterpiece.
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flipboard.com | Will Friedwald
2 days agoThe interior of Jeff Bridges’s garage, in Santa Barbara, California, has the ramshackle ease of an extravagant dorm room: a tiger-print rug, a potter’s wheel, guitars, a rogue toothbrush, taped-up printouts of ideas he finds provocative or perhaps grounding (“Enlightenment is a communal …
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willfriedwald.substack.com | Will Friedwald
One thing, out of many, that Judith Tick - latest and greatest biographer of Ella Fitzgerald - and I agree on is that Fitzgerald deserves more credit for her repertoire choices. We also agree that it was her two major producers - first Milt Gabler, and then, to a much greater extent, Norman Granz - who deserve credit for the Ella Fitzgerald songbook series.
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willfriedwald.substack.com | Will Friedwald
Here’s a 150-year-old lick that appears prominently in the “quote library” of both Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald - and, more recently, inspired by both of them, Diana Krall. “Horses” is a 1926 novelty song recorded by the New York-based hot dance orchestra, George Olsen and his Music. The song is credited to Byron Gay (lyrics), who wrote a number of novelty tunes (“The Vamp,” “Four or Five Times”) and Richard Whiting (music) who wrote a lot of everything.
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nysun.com | Will Friedwald
‘The Real Ambassadors’Sony Music Legacy‘The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966’Mosaic Records‘The Real Ambassadors: Armstrong and Brubeck’Jazz at Lincoln CenterStreaming Through April 12It was about 1958 that one of the foremost pianists/composers/bandleaders on the contemporary music scene, Dave Brubeck, and his wife, the poet and lyricist Iola Brubeck, had the idea of creating a Broadway musical about the jazz experience.
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it is now post time. looking forward to tonight's CLIP JOINT LIVE STREAM session with one of my favorite writers (and guys), DAVID HAJDU! @davidhajdu_ https://t.co/1vMwTl8p7x
At CLIP JOINT LIVE STREAM tonight, An evening with my favorite NEW YORKER writer - not to mention songwriter and raconteur - ADAM GOPNIK! (Who also gave me the number one blurb for the back cover of my new book, STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF NAT KING COLE.) https://t.co/nFI6tJE7gr
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