Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg.
Musical time travel in the Palace. This episode with entertainer Ted Lewis, who lived up numerous revues and accompanied a beautiful orchestra with his top hat as a comic act.
Then Francisca Deschamps with the Malando Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald with a highlight from the show ‘Pal Joey’ and the Angelo deBarre Quartet with a gypsy swing in the style of the Hot Club de France.
Fred Astaire once said that George Gershwin’s music was ‘meant for the legs’. We will hear Anita O’Day in that kind of dance melody.
Additionally, one of the last remaining lounge singers: Johnny Holiday, Abbey Lincoln with The Riverside Jazz Stars (e.g. Sonny Rollins en Kenny Dorham) and one of the most popular bandleaders from the early years of jazz: Sam Lanin (who made over 1,700 recordings)
And lastly: the Comedian Harmonists, Liesbeth List in a song by Cees Nooteboom, Stan Kenton and Astrud Gilberto.
