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Hace 2 días · My Fair Lady, recorded by “Shelly Manne & His Friends,” was released in 1956 by Contemporary Records. Shelly Manne and his Friends bassist Leroy Vinnegar and the once and future classical pianist André Previn had recorded a trio album before this one (Shelly Manne and Friends) but My Fair Lady was the first and biggest-selling of the jazz ...
Hace 1 día · Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
5 de may. de 2024 · Shelly Manne’s Quintet was recorded extensively at San Francisco’s Black Hawk club for three nights in 1959. Although not the most significant group that the drummer led, this edition (with trumpeter Joe Gordon, tenor saxophonist Richie Kamuca, pianist Victor Feldman, and bassist Monty Budwig) was certainly capable of playing high-quality bebop.
24 de may. de 2024 · My Fair Lady, now getting a very fine production at Ontario’s Shaw Festival, is the Golden Age musical most rewarding to revisit in a new production every decade or so. This is owing, in part ...
Hace 3 días · In my June 2023 review of the Craft Recordings / Contemporary Records reissue of West Side Story, the 1959 album by André Previn and His Pals, I wrote: “I’m already anticipating the Craft Recordings reissue of Manne’s My Fair Lady this fall.”
14 de may. de 2024 · The “Balcony Scene” is a pivotal moment in the musical “West Side Story,” where the characters Tony and Maria express their forbidden love. Set against the backdrop of a longstanding feud between two street gangs, Tony, a former member of the Jets, and Maria, the sister of the Sharks’ leader Bernardo, find solace and connection in each other.
Hace 4 días · The Shaw Festival does it with its loverly ‘My Fair Lady’. A pair of luminous central performances from Tom Rooney and Kristi Frank highlight this exquisite new production of the Lerner and ...
