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...scatting with Dizzy Gillespie. But it was her collaboration in the '50s with producer/manager Norman Granz on a benchmark series of "songbook" albums that gave Fitzgerald the musical regentship that never passed from her. "Norman felt that I should do other things," she remembered, "so he produced the Cole Porter Songbook with me. It was a turning point in my life...
...infrequently, she has the conspicuous gift that marks many an up-and-comer: the knack for rising to an occasion. She first drew note last summer at the Montreal Jazz Festival, where, using the tug of her bluesy, mahogany-grained voice, she parlayed a handful of jaunty Nat King Cole Trio tunes into a set of languid, open-hearted meditations with unexpected emotional impact. Accompanying herself on piano, she also showed that she knows how to swing--pounding out driving, rock-solid rhythms with her trio; when she soloed, she created patterns of brilliant, light-fingered notes that evoked Cole...
...early '90s she made two slow-selling albums. But buoyed by the buzz from her live shows, her newest album, Only for You--a set of her Cole interpretations--has leaped into the Top 10 on the jazz charts. Next month she performs at New York City's Algonquin Hotel, the Carnegie Hall of jazz lounges. Krall is on her way to proving, as Benny Carter said in affirming the Carnegie Hall audience's praise that night, that no one will forget that "she can play...
Interestingly, Raines, Nebel and Cole-Chu held a "boys' weekend" together at Raines' country home in Pennsylvania that coincided with the weekend of Raines' nomination announcement...
...N.B.C." answer, and in the face of a historic turnabout, the National Broadcasting Co. happens to be using said answer to defend its just-announced fall season. NBC, the network that broadcast the pioneering Cosby Show in the '80s, the network that carried the Nat King Cole Show in the 1950s when virtually no advertisers were willing to sponsor a variety show hosted by a black man, will not have a single minority-themed series in its fall lineup. A fluke? Don Ohlmeyer, president of NBC West Coast, says the simple fact is none of the ethnic shows they...