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1 week ago |
willfriedwald.substack.com | Will Friedwald
continued from part 1A few years ago, my friend Katharine Kaplan - wife of the formidable Harvey Kaplan (“Psychoanalyst and Psychologist in Private Practice”) - informed me that the two of them were living immediately downstairs from Charles and Barbara Strouse. This was the instigation for a series of events that the Kaplans threw in honor of the Strouses, and to which I had the pleasure of being invited.
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2 weeks ago |
willfriedwald.substack.com | Will Friedwald
A few years ago, my friend Katharine Kaplan - wife of the formidable Harvey Kaplan (“Psychoanalyst and Psychologist in Private Practice”) - informed me that the two of them were living immediately downstairs from Charles and Barbara Strouse. This was the instigation for a series of events that the Kaplans threw in honor of the Strouses, and to which I had the pleasure of being invited.
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2 weeks ago |
willfriedwald.substack.com | Will Friedwald
Before we go any further, just to refresh everyone’s memory, here again is the original cast performance, by Tani Seitz (listed as “Toni Seitz” in wiki) on the original cast album for The Nervous Set. A mini-mystery: the wiki entry on this show contradicts itself in that it refers to the show both as a Broadway musical and an Off-Broadway musical.
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3 weeks ago |
willfriedwald.substack.com | Will Friedwald
I have a few more ELLA FITZGERALD postings to get into, but I thought I would take a detour for this week’s Substack for three reasons:1 - There’s a great new CD out by Ryan Truesdell and the Gil Evans Project - Shades of Sound (Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2) which they are launching at Birdland (I hope to be there on Tuesday - oh wow that’s tonight!) I am also writing a full-length review of this excellent new release for the Wall Street Journal.
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1 month ago |
willfriedwald.substack.com | Will Friedwald
Pop! Goes The Ella - Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Great Hits of Today(SSS #144 2025-03-19)download: <or> play online:Ella Fitzgerald had a fascinating relationship with Broadway: she had come up during a curious age in which white popular singers, especially Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, frequently were assigned to record new show tunes - including virtually all the major new Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Loewe productions - but Black artists, not so much.
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