Nostalgia is in the air.
The music of the late jazz legend Dave Brubeck recently was featured in concerts in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
A musical tribute to the swing bands of the 1940s is coming to town.
And tunes associated with Nat King Cole, a popular balladeer and jazz artist in the mid-20th century, will be presented at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 7 at the Bosque Center.
That concert will have a quartet with vocalist-pianist John Proulx, guitarist Michael Anthony, drummer Cal Haines and bassist Colin Deuble.
“My grandfather was a jazz guitarist so I grew up listening to a lot of Nat King Cole music. I heard a lot of Cole recordings as a child – ‘Straighten Up and Fly Right,’ ‘Paper Moon,’ ‘Mona Lisa,’ ” Proulx said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. “…This music is part of my history.”
He said an example of the resurgence of nostalgia is a new television show that’s set in Las Vegas, Nev., and spotlights the Rat Pack. The Rat Pack, which included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., appeared together on stage and in film.
And, with current popular singers Diana Krall and Michael Bublé still singing standards from that era, Proulx said, “it’s opening doors for lesser-known artists like myself to do this kind of music.”
Nat King Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Birmingham, Ala., in 1919. In the late 1930s, he played piano as the leader of a jazz trio in Southern California. Boosting his career were appearances on radio shows.
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