Slouching Towards Birdland (Will Friedwald's SubStack)
Will Friedwald, Elizabeth Zimmer, MuchoMusic from Dan FortuneWill Friedwald's Substack - covering mostly music (primarily jazz and the Great American Songbook) but also theater, film, fiction, comics, Muppets, and other aspects of popular culture.
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Duke Ellington’s 1943 masterpiece BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE: “A Church of his Own.”
In March of 1988, the American Jazz Orchestra, which had been formed by Gary Giddins and Roberta Swann two years earlier, presented a rare performance of Duke Ellington’s elusive masterpiece, the 1943 Black, Brown and Beige.
I was very ple...
Remembering Jackie (as in Mason)
For many years I have had four close friends who all live within a few blocks of each other in midtown: the filmmaker and director Jim Burns, the producer Scott Perrin, the New York living legend, Bill Boggs, and the amazing piano colossus,...
Bonus Mini Post: A few thoughts on July 4, lists in The New York Times, and other pertinent topics.
This started as a Substack note, but I started writing and before too long, I realized it was way too long for that. So, here it is. I rushed this out somewhat faster than the usual post, I want people to read it while Independence Day 2026...
Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Perry Como, & Gordon Jenkins: “Married She Could Always Get.”
“Married I Can Always Get”
Music and Lyric by Gordon Jenkins
Introduced by Beverly Mahr Jenkins on the 1956 Capitol album, Gordon Jenkins Complete Manhattan Tower
Introduced on live television by Helen O’Connell, on Saturday Spectacul...
Judy Garland digs Billie, Ella, …and Kate! The METRONOME Interview, 1947
Yes! I made it just under the wire. I wanted to get in a Judy Garland story before the end of this month, because, as everyone knows, June is the perfect time to celebrate Garland the great, who was born on the 10th in 1922 and died on the...
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