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Jaydo’s Jazz Café: 6, Rue Pradier, Geneva, Switzerland / +41 (0)22 738 97 42 / Ernie Odoom has spent a number of years “dreaming” of a new venue in Geneva where musicians could hone their skills to perfection – every day of the week – leading to the creation of world class artistic projects. His dream would benefit music lovers and put Geneva on the map as a happening place for creative music.
Well, at last it’s here! Come and check out “The Early Sessions” where top quality live music takes place every day in the heart of the city, especially for the early bird. Food and drink available.Tuesdays through Saturdays – 5pm till 10pm.
From Broadway To 52nd Street
Mr. Wonderful opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 22, 1956 and ran for 383 performances. Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener and George David Weiss composed the music and lyrics for the musical from which emerged Too Close For Comfort to become a jazz standard.
The Story: Written specifically to showcase the talents of Sammy Davis Jr. the thin plot, focusing on entertainer Charlie Welch’s show business struggles, primarily served as a springboard for an extended version of Davis’s Las Vegas nightclub act. The cast was comprised of Sammy Davis Sr., Will Mastin, Jack Carter, Chita Rivera, Malcolm Lee Beggs and Marilyn Cooper.
Jazz History: The 1930s belonged to popular swing big bands, in which some virtuoso soloists became as famous as the bandleaders. Key figures in developing the “big” jazz band included bandleaders and arrangers Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw.
Swing was also dance music. It was broadcast on the radio ‘live’ nightly across America for many years especially by Hines and his Grand Terrace Cafe Orchestra broadcasting coast-to-coast from Chicago, well placed for ‘live’ time-zones. Although it was a collective sound, swing also offered individual musicians a chance to ‘solo’ and improvise melodic, thematic solos, which could at times be very complex and important music.
Over time, social strictures regarding racial segregation began to relax in America: white bandleaders began to recruit black musicians and black arrangers.
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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.