The Minnow And The Trout

You Picked Me

Ode To Joy

Animaniacs

One Time

Horace Silver

Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva   in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a jazz pianist and songwriter. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was the island of Maio in Cape Verde. Her mother was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, and is of Irish-African origin. Silver is known for his playing style distinctive humorous and funky and for his pioneering contributions to hard bop composition. Silver was influenced by a wide range of musical styles, including gospel music, African music and Latin American music and sometimes ventured into the soul jazz genre. Silver began his career as a tenor saxophonist, but later switched to piano. His tenor saxophone playing has been heavily influenced by Lester Young and his piano style of Bud Powell. Silver was discovered in the Sundown Club in Hartford, Connecticut in 1950 by saxophonist Stan Getz.Getz was playing at the club with Silver’s trio backing him up. Getz liked Silver’s band and brought them on the road, eventually recording three of Silver’s compositions. It was Getz with whom Silver made his recording debut. He moved to New York City in 1951, where he worked at the jazz club Birdland on Monday nights, when different musicians would come together and informally jam. During that year he met the executives of the label Blue Note while working as a sideman. He eventually signed with them where he remained until 1980. It was in New York that he formed The Jazz Messengers, a co-operatively run group with Art Blakey.

Firework

Fats Waller

Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 to December 15, 1943), born Thomas Wright Waller was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer and cartoonist. He was the youngest of four children of Adaline Locket Waller, wife of the Rev. Edward Martin Waller. Fats Waller began playing the piano when he was six years old and graduated from the organ in the church of his father four years later. At the age of fourteen, played the organ Lincoln Theater in Harlem and in the twelve months he had written his first rag. first piano solos Waller (Muscle Shoals Blues and Blues of Birmingham) were recorded in October 1922 when he was 18. He was a talented pianist and piano teacher by the way, after having been a student and then price colleague and friend of the greatest pianists of the stride, James P. Johnson. Waller was one of the most popular artists of his era, finding critical and commercial success in his native country and in Europe. There was also a prolific composer, and many songs he wrote or co-written are still popular, such as  Honeysuckle Rose, Is not Misbehavin  and  Squeeze Me . Fellow pianist and composer Oscar Levant dubbed Waller the black Horowitz.  Waller composed numerous songs swing novelty in the 1920s and 30s, and sold for relatively small amounts. When the compositions became hits, other songwriters claimed as their own. Many standards are alternative and sometimes controversial attributed to Waller.

El Condor Passa

El RNODC Pasa is a song from the zarzuela El Pasa RNODC by the Peruvian composer Daniel Aloma Robles written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes of Peru. This is probably the most famous song of Peru Peru in the world for a resumption of Simon  Garfunkel in 1970 on their album Bridge Over Troubled Water, known as El Condor Pasa (If I could). Paul Simon used the instrumental version of Los Incas as the basic-track (without permission) and wrote entirely new, unrelated words. Later that year published the Perry Como, a cover of the English version of Simon on his album It’s impossible, while Julie Felix took advantage of the decision of Simon and Garfunkel’s does not publish their version as a UK alone, and had a Top 20 UK hit. Simon  Garfunkel release their version as a single in the U.S. and reached   on the Billboard Pop Singles in the fall of the 1970th Paul (Paul) Simmons.

Tom Adair

Thomas  Tom  Montgomery Adair (15 June 1913-24 May 1988) was an American composer, songwriter and screenwriter. Born in Newton, Kansas, worked at a power company and the Saturday Evening Post, wrote many poems, while songs from the pen in his spare time. In 1941, Dennis Adair met Matt at a club and the duo began writing songs together. Adair and Dennis wrote many songs from Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, and Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra and produced hit  Still Mine? . In 1949, Adair wrote the lyrics for the Broadway production of Fifth Avenue. After meeting with the writer James B. Allardice exposure while working in Ann Sothern in late 1950, the two began to write the television set. The partnership ended when Allardice died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1966. After the death of Allardice, Adair arrested abandoned his career as a screenwriter.