Why this tune? Tunes on Tuesday returns to the jazz standard repertoire this week with “Yesterdays,” written by Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta. That show also included the classic “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.” Before the end of the decade the song was adopted by swing and jazz musicians,Continue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Yesterdays”
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Tunes on Tuesday: I’m Old Fashioned
Why this tune? “I’m Old Fashioned” is a lovely song by the American song masters Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer, which they wrote for a 1942 film “You Were Never Lovelier.” It’s been a regular feature on my set lists for years – Barbara Papendorp and I include it in almost every show, and I’veContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: I’m Old Fashioned”