Greetje Kauffeld & The Paul Kuhn Trio – My Shining Hour (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:58 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IN+OUT Records
The centenary of his birth (15.2.2005) has passed unnoticed by many music lovers. It is Harold Arlen’s fate that he is credited as composer for more jazz standards of the Great American Songbook than any other writer, but nevertheless remains unknown to a great deal of his audience. The career of this cantor’s son from Buffalo is unmatched, led him from the bars of his hometown to Harlem’s Cotton Club to the Broadway and finally to Hollywood. This genius of a songwriter created songs for 29 films, “Over The Rainbow” from “The Wizard Of Oz” was just chosen as film song of the century. 35 songs of his work can claim the status of an evergreen. Johnny Mercer once described his sophisticated but at the same time catchy style as unique “fusion of classical Jewish music and negro spirituals”.
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