He returned in 2009 for two back-to-back shows, which mixed classics like Little Red Corvette with rarities and jazz-tinged songs from his back catalogue.
With an easy sensuality, Jones found the seam between pop and jazz, writing songs that sound as if she grew up immersed in the canon and knows how to sing a gentle version of it.
As a result, she was a source of material for a dozen songs composed by jazz greats.
They were animated videos and songs invented by a jazz musician who wanted to help children learn math.
So 50 years ago, you arrived in New York, you've turned the jazz world on its head with songs like "Lonely Woman" and "Congeniality, " and people started paying attention to what you were doing, but it wasn't always positive.
Bernstein mixes well-known pop songs with a lost style of jazz that predates the big band era.
His last CD, Duper Sessions, consisted of a batch of songs played in the style of jazz standards.
After all, many of the key elements that fostered jazz in the beginning were vocal the blues, spirituals and work songs among them.
Yet the sheer creative verve with which Armstrong elevates even silly songs to artistic distinction is a lesson in the spontaneous magic of jazz.
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That is to say, even though they were in a 'rock' or 'pop' bag, my jazz sensibilities and the fine musicians I used for the audio recordings made the songs seem unusual to the Saturday morning cartoon listeners.
Ranging from 1919 to 1994, the set is divided into sections on the blues, church roots, party songs, standard tunes (slow and up-tempo), jazz originals, scat-singing and novelties, though the compiler acknowledges that many of his pieces overlap their pigeonholes.
So although she's best known for her original songwriting, the jazz vocalist and pianist was well-suited to make a record of Cole Porter songs.
The result is a collection of 13 songs that range from bluesy rock to Cajun country to an 11-minute jazz-influenced Spanish suite, with Herbie Hancock on the piano.
According to the Ken Burns documentary Jazz, they would sing, play music and dance, swaying back and forth to the songs of their home countries.
And as a jazz bandleader, his quartets and trios translate his post-idiomatic artistic outlook into spiky, supercharged songs.
Trains, cars and planes have all inspired popular songs, but how did a New York City subway line lead to one of the greatest jazz anthems of all time?
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