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Satchmo Jazz Club: 34 Stamboliiski Blvd, Sofia, Bulgaria / Cell Phone Reservations: +359 88 827 74 09 Located in the center of Sofia where you can enjoy jazz with your friends while having a bottle of good old Bulgarian red wine. The service is good and there are different bands playing on weekends until 1:00am.
From Broadway To 52nd Street
The Most Happy Fella opened at the Imperial Theatre on May 3, 1956 with Jo Sullivan, Robert Wede and Art Lund in the starring roles performing music composed by Frank Loesser. The musical ran for 676 performances and rendered unto jazz the classic tune Joey, Joey, Joey.
The Story: Rosabella comes to Napa Valley to marry the handsome young man who sent her his picture and proposed by mail. Certain that she has found someone to really love her, she soon discovers that Joe is just a hired hand and the man who proposed is Tony, an aging Italian vintner. He sent Joe’s picture fearing that one of himself would have disheartened her. The shock sends Rosabella into Joe’s arms. Eventually she realizes that Tony is an honorable, loving man. When he offers to accept not only her but the baby she is now pregnant with, she comes to love him.
Broadway History: Off-Broadway shows, performers, and creative staff are eligible for awards from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Obie Award (presented since 1956 by The Village Voice), the Lucille Lortel Award (created in 1985 by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers), and the Drama League Award. Although Off-Broadway shows are not eligible for TonyAwards, an exception was made in 1956 (before the rules were changed), when Lotte Lenya won for “Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical”, for the Off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera.
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Era Jazzu: Strzelecka 37, 62-050, Mosina, Poland / Telephone: ++48061-8132566. Fax: ++48061-8132566. / Contact: Dioni Piatkowski.
Era Jazzu is a nationwide series of concerts, a prestige club and gala jazz event with an annual spring festival edition attended by the greatest stars of contemporary jazz as well as a broad presentation of the most interesting jazz and trends. And not only concerts by the most prominent artists of the genre but also by a large representation of music enthusiasts.
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My Fair Lady opened the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15, 1956, running for a record 2,717 performances and making it the 7th musical to enter the roster of blockbuster musicals and to date the longest running on Broadway. The musical starred Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews and Robert Coote performing the compositions of Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Leowe who gave the world I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face, Show Me, On The Street Where You Live, I Could Have Danced All Night and Wouldn’t It Be Loverly.
The Story: When Professor Henry Higgins, from perfect British class snobbishness hears the low born waif bray of flower girl Eliza Doolittle, he places a wager with his colleague Colonel Pickering that by giving her lessons in speech and class, he can pass her off to society. Unwittingly, through all their ups and downs in the learning process, the caterpillar evolves into a beautiful butterfly and Henry falls in love. Fighting his heart every step of the way and frustrating a now society lady Eliza, who has also fallen for him. Finally Henry succumbs to his heart and they find peace in their world.
Jazz History: Outside of the United States the beginnings of a distinct European style of jazz emerged in France with the Quintette du Hot Club de France, which began in 1934. Belgian guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt popularized gypsy jazz, a mix of 1930s American swing, French dance hall “musette” and Eastern European folk with a languid, seductive feel. The main instruments are steel stringed guitar, violin and double bass. Solos pass from one player to another as the guitar and bass play the role of the rhythm section. Some music researchers hold that it was Philadelphia’s Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti who pioneered the guitar-violin partnership typical of the genre,which was brought to France after they had been heard live or on Okeh Records in the late 1920s.
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Rex Hotel: 194 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ontario, Canada / Telephone: (416) 598-2475 “Where jazz musicians come to hear jazz.”
From humble beginnings in the late ’80s, The Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Bar has grown into a musical mecca presenting 19 shows per week. The bar has been at the forefront of Toronto’s thriving local jazz scene. The casual atmosphere, eclectic mix of retro-chic decor, and an exciting variety of draught beer combine to make The Rex feel like a second home.