Saturday, July 23, 2022

Bob McHugh - Uptown

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:43
Size: 111,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:45) 1. You Don't Know What Love Is
(4:29) 2. Gone with the Wind
(4:47) 3. Remembering Norman
(4:15) 4. I Remember You
(4:54) 5. Like Someone in Love
(5:33) 6. Willow Weep for Me
(2:59) 7. Steamboat Rag
(3:42) 8. Uptown
(4:36) 9. Guilty
(3:49) 10. It's You or No One
(3:48) 11. Remembering You

Bob McHugh born Robert Ernest McHugh jazz pianist,composer and educator. He has recorded for Outstanding Records, Alliance Records, Perception Records and Lunge Music. He has performed with Ray Mantilla, Ron Naspo, Andrew Cyrille and Joe Morello. Bob was the favorite artist on Sky Jazz , and Anima Jazz in Pisa, Italy . He has made guest appearances on local New York radio stations. McHugh performed at the Stony Hill Inn in Hackensack, New Jersey from . He was the Commissioned composer for NJMTA state piano competition, . The National Federation of Music Clubs has included his original compositions as 'required compositions' for National Festivals . His compostions are on the required list for NYSSMA state festivals . He has won an ASCAP grant every year since 1989, and is currently featured on ASCAP's Jazz Podcast #4. McHugh's music is published by Manduca Music Publications, and Voice of the Rockies.

McHugh has performed at The Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ, the Newark Museum, the New York Public Library and Lincoln Center. In 1985, Bob's recording of his original composition "Uptown" was added to the BBC's playlist. He was a featured performer in the documentary "The Art Of Worship" filmed at Riverside Church in New York City. He composed music for a television presentation of "The International Black Arts Festival"https://www.last.fm/music/Bob+McHugh/+wiki .

Uptown

Frank Sinatra - The 100th Birthday Swing Album

Album: The 100th Birthday Swing Album Part I
Styles: Vocal
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 123:19
Size: 286,0 MB
Art: Front

(2:11) 1. I've Got The World On A String
(2:37) 2. You And The Night And The Music
(3:15) 3. The Lady Is A Tramp
(2:54) 4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
(2:11) 5. All Of Me
(1:58) 6. When You're Smiling
(2:57) 7. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
(2:13) 8. Taking A Chance On Love
(2:51) 9. Young At Heart
(3:43) 10. I've Got You Under My Skin
(2:00) 11. Almost Like Being In Love
(1:58) 12. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(3:01) 13. From Here To Eternity
(2:16) 14. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
(2:58) 15. (Love Is) The Tender Trap
(2:42) 16. A Foggy Day
(3:40) 17. Night And Day
(3:00) 18. You Make Me Feel So Young
(2:33) 19. Yes Indeed!
(2:06) 20. When I Take My Sugar To Tea
(2:41) 21. Ol' Mac Donald
(2:48) 22. Nice 'N' Easy
(2:39) 23. River Stay Away From My Door
(3:53) 24. It's Nice To Go Traveling
(2:56) 25. Begin The Beguine
(2:27) 26. Get Happy
(2:33) 27. I've Heard That Song Before
(2:49) 28. South Of The Border
(2:40) 29. Bye Bye Baby
(3:02) 30. Melody Of Love
(3:05) 31. Three Coins In The Fountain
(2:57) 32. I'm Walking Behind You
(3:14) 33. Autumn In New York
(2:42) 34. Walking In The Sunshine
(3:13) 35. Meet Me At The Copa
(2:28) 36. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
(3:02) 37. Learnin' The Blues
(2:24) 38. Jeepers Creepers
(2:35) 39. You Do Something To Me
(2:49) 40. Zing! Went the Strings Of My Heart
(2:40) 41. Lover
(2:38) 42. Day By Day
(2:34) 43. I Thought About You
(2:28) 44. Sunday
(2:39) 45. Love And Marriage

Album: The 100th Birthday Swing Album Part II
Time: 120:06
Size: 278,7 MB

(2:44) 1. Anything Goes
(2:41) 2. Don't Be That Way
(3:31) 3. Mood Indigo
(3:00) 4. I'll Be Around
(3:23) 5. Sentimental Journey
(2:10) 6. Let's Fall In Love
(2:12) 7. A Fine Romance
(3:20) 8. Come Fly With Me
(2:43) 9. Pennies From Heaven
(2:49) 10. I Can Read Between The Lines
(2:06) 11. Be Careful, It's My Heart
(2:14) 12. I Never Knew
(2:57) 13. September In The Rain
(2:32) 14. Have You Met Miss Jones
(3:39) 15. Granada
(1:50) 16. Falling In Love With Love
(2:10) 17. It's A Wonderful World
(4:07) 18. That Old Black Magic
(2:17) 19. It's Only A Paper Moon
(1:57) 20. Don't Take Your Love From Me
(1:46) 21. S'posin
(2:45) 22. Ring-A-Ding Ding
(2:53) 23. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
(2:14) 24. Always
(2:49) 25. Blue Moon
(3:09) 26. Don't Cry Joe
(2:47) 27. Last Dance
(2:19) 28. American Beauty Rose
(3:20) 29. Moonlight On The Ganges
(3:26) 30. In The Still Of The Night
(2:07) 31. Paper Doll
(2:41) 32. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
(1:29) 33. Should I
(3:03) 34. Brazil
(2:23) 35. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
(4:11) 36. You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Loves You
(2:52) 37. The Coffee Song (They've Got An Awful Lot Of Coffee In Brazil)
(2:00) 38. My Blue Heaven
(2:43) 39. The Song Is You
(2:59) 40. Let's Face The Music And Dance
(2:00) 41. It All Depends On You
(2:06) 42. The Curse Of An Aching Heart
(2:24) 43. You'd Be So Easy To Love
(2:37) 44. Stars Fell On Alabama
(2:21) 45. I Concentrate On You

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide.

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "bobby soxers". He released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatra's professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best known residency performers as part of The Rat Pack. His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), Come Fly with Me (1958), Only the Lonely (1958) and Nice 'n' Easy (1960).

Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own record label, Reprise Records, and released a string of successful albums. In 1965, he recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and released the tracks "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way". After releasing Sinatra at the Sands, recorded at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Vegas with frequent collaborator Count Basie in early 1966, the following year he recorded one of his most famous collaborations with Tom Jobim, the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was followed by 1968's collaboration with Duke Ellington. Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later and recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and reached success in 1980 with "New York, New York". Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until a short time before his death in 1998.

Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), and received critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He appeared in various musicals such as On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), High Society (1956), and Pal Joey (1957), winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he became associated with playing detectives, including the title character in Tony Rome (1967). Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Sinatra was also heavily involved with politics from the mid-1940s, and actively campaigned for presidents such as Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, though before Kennedy's death Sinatra's alleged Mafia connections led to his being snubbed.

While Sinatra never formally learned how to read music, he had an impressive understanding of it, and he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. A perfectionist, renowned for his dress sense and performing presence, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes". Sinatra led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He went on to marry Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After his death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him "the greatest singer of the 20th century", and he continues to be seen as an iconic figure.

Sinatra died with his wife at his side at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, aged 82, after a heart attack. Sinatra had ill health during the last few years of his life, and was frequently hospitalized for heart and breathing problems, high blood pressure, pneumonia and bladder cancer. He was further diagnosed as having dementia. He had made no public appearances following a heart attack in February 1997. Sinatra's wife encouraged him to "fight" while attempts were made to stabilize him, and his final words were, "I'm losing." Sinatra's daughter, Tina, later wrote that she and her sister, Nancy, had not been notified of their father's final hospitalization, and it was her belief that "the omission was deliberate. Barbara would be the grieving widow alone at her husband's side." The night after Sinatra's death, the lights on the Empire State Building in New York City were turned blue, the lights at the Las Vegas Strip were dimmed in his honor, and the casinos stopped spinning for a minute.

Sinatra's funeral was held at the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, California, on May 20, 1998, with 400 mourners in attendance and thousands of fans outside. Gregory Peck, Tony Bennett, and Sinatra's son, Frank Jr., addressed the mourners, who included many notable people from film and entertainment. Sinatra was buried in a blue business suit with mementos from family members cherry-flavored Life Savers, Tootsie Rolls, a bottle of Jack Daniel's, a pack of Camel cigarettes, a Zippo lighter, stuffed toys, a dog biscuit, and a roll of dimes that he always carried next to his parents in section B-8 of Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.

His close friends Jilly Rizzo and Jimmy Van Heusen are buried nearby. The words "The Best Is Yet to Come", plus "Beloved Husband & Father" are imprinted on Sinatra's grave marker. Significant increases in recording sales worldwide were reported by Billboard in the month of his death.https://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Sinatra/+wiki

The 100th Birthday Swing Album Part I

The 100th Birthday Swing Album Par II