Who besides Prince has built up such a durable pop songbook in the past three decades?
We wouldn't say that it has to be from the American Songbook or Broadway.
Dr. Billy Taylor, Hank Jones and Barry Harris spin their original solo takes on the holiday songbook.
You can turn on TV and watch people overcook shrimp or brag about their house cats or mangle the Great American Songbook.
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Newman recently joined NPR's Bob Edwards in Studio 4A to talk about his long career and his new CD, The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1.
Mr. Person was giving a master class, and after hearing Mr. Alterman play some of the American songbook classics, the older jazzman had found someone to mentor.
The "songbook" albums in which Ella Fitzgerald recorded her interpretations of the collected works of such classic songwriters as Harold Arlen, George Gershwin and Johnny Mercer were Granz's idea.
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One US newspaper described it as embracing "everything from country-tinged ditties to Black Sabbath-style fuzzbuckets with the Paul McCartney songbook tossed in to throw the dogs off the scent".
Though his songbook continued to increase in size and complexity, and his circle of collaborators included many of New York's most talented young jazz musicians, he enjoyed little commercial success.
At the same time, the New Jersey native consorts with the jam-band scene, and the songs he covers on his new album, Me Not Me, are not a part of the classic American songbook.
On Susan Werner's newest CD, her sixth, the singer-songwriter moves distinctively away from folk and toward the jazzy American songbook style recently embraced by artists such as Rod Stewart and Norah Jones.
She obsessed over the Gershwin songbook.
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Obama finished his whirlwind of meetings with tea at Buckingham Palace with the British monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, where, according to media reports, the president gave the queen a fully loaded, engraved iPod and a rare, signed songbook from American composer Richard Rodgers.
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