Articles

Andy Williams

Howard Andrew Williams (born December 3, 1927 in Wall Lake, Iowa), known as Andy Williams, is an American pop singer and crooner. Andy Williams has recorded 18 Gold and 3 Platinum certified albums. He has performed with Ray Charles, Elton John,...

Read more: Andy Williams

Big Band - origins & history

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the Swing Era from the early 1930s until the late 1940s. A big band typically consists of approximately 12 to 25...

Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 2, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American popular singer, crooner and Academy Award-winning actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multimedia...

Read more: Bing Crosby

Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert "Bobby" Cassotto, May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s. Darin is widely respected for being...

Read more: Bobby Darin

Dean Martin

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti, June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor, and comedian. He was one of the most famous music artists in the 1950s and 1960s. His hit singles included the songs "Memories Are...

Read more: Dean Martin

Engelbert Humperdinck

Engelbert Humperdinck (b. Arnold George Dorsey, May 2, 1936, Madras, India) is a well-known British-American Crooner & pop singer who rose to international fame during the 1960s, after adopting the name of the famous German opera composer as...

Read more: Engelbert Humperdinck

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American jazz-oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra...

Read more: Frank Sinatra

Harry Connick Jr.

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967), is an American singer, pianist, and actor. Connick’s music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early 1950s, funk and blues. ...

Read more: Harry Connick Jr.

La Musique Swing

« - Monsieur Armstrong, qu'est-ce que le swing ? - Madame, si vous avez à le demander, vous ne le saurez jamais ! » — Propos...

Read more: La Musique Swing

Le jazz

Le jazz est un genre de musique né aux États-Unis au début du XXe siècle. Issu du croisement du blues, du ragtime et de la musique européenne, le jazz est considéré comme la première forme...

Read more: Le jazz

Matt Munro

Matt Monro (1 December 1930, Shoreditch, London – 7 February 1985, Ealing) was an English ballad singer of the 1960s and one of the international post-World War II entertainers. Throughout his 30-year career, he filled cabarets, nightclubs,...

Read more: Matt Munro

Mel Torme

Melvin Howard Torme (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, is best known as one of the great male jazz singers. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the...

Read more: Mel Torme

Michael Buble

Michael Steven Buble is a critically acclaimed Grammy-nominated, multiple Juno Award-winning Canadian crooner, big band singer and also actor. While achieving modest chart success in the United States, his 2003 self-titled album has reached the...

Read more: Michael Buble

Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was a popular American jazz singer, songwriter, and pianist. He first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist, then switched his emphasis...

Read more: Nat King Cole

Orchestre de jazz

Un orchestre de jazz ou jazz band est une formation orchestrale de musique jazz. Le jazz est né chez les noirs du sud des États-Unis, vers la fin du XIXe siècle, et s'est répandu dans le monde entier pendant la...

Read more: Orchestre de jazz

Sammy Davis Jr.

Samuel George Davis, Jr., better known as Sammy Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 -May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer. He was a dancer, singer, multi-instrumentalist (playing vibraphone, trumpet, and drums), impressionist, comedian, and actor....

Read more: Sammy Davis Jr.

Stirling Austin, Jewish Function Band

If you are looking to make your Simcha just that little bit different, then you've come to the right place. The Stirling Austin Swing Band are a magnificent all round show band with a fantastic repertoire of Swing, Rat Pack, Soul & Classic Pop...

Stirling Austin, Rat pack Singer

There are few singers who can recreate the style and sound of legendary Rat Pack singers as authentically as Stirling Austin. His smooth voice, immaculate timing and flawless phrasing instantly evokes the sensation of the legendary crooners, and...

Stirling Austin, Sinatra singer

If you are looking for a Sinatra tribute performer who can bring a taste of classic showbiz to your wedding, party or corporate event then you’ve come to the right place. Stirling is one of those unique Sinatra singers who can capture ...

Swing Band - origins and history

Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that developed during the 1920s when people got together and had solidified as a distinctive style by 1935 in the United States. Swing is distinguished primarily by a...

The Rat Pack

The Rat Pack Aux États-Unis, dans les années 1950. Le Rat Pack - littéralement « Club des rats » - réunit quelques-unes des stars les plus populaires du moment : Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr,...

Read more: The Rat Pack

The Rat Pack story

The Rat Pack is the nickname given to a group of popular entertainers most active between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s. Its most famous line-up featured Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, who...

Read more: The Rat Pack story

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on August 3, 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards and jazz who is widely considered to be one of the best singers in any century. After having achieved artistic and...

Read more: Tony Bennett

Wedding Music - interesting information

Wedding music applies to vocal and/or instrumental music performed at wedding rehearsals, rehearsal dinners, wedding ceremonies, and receptions (post-wedding party). In cultures of the Western Hemisphere, it initially provides background ambience...