Composers Sing Their Thing

Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com

I thought we'd do something a little different to start the week. Here are five nifty clips of hip jazz-pop composers playing and singing their own songs [Photo above of Bobby Troup]:

Here's Joe Bushkin with Rosemary Clooney and the Hi-Lo's in 1956 singing Oh Look at Me Now. Dig Rosey's easy-going confidence and beautiful phrasing (and who knew Bushkin could sing this well!)...

Here's Matt Dennis singing Violets for Your Furs on the Rosemary Clooney Show in 1957...

Here's Bobby Troup singing It Happened Once Before in 1956...

Here's Cy Coleman singing The Best Is Yet to Come with Charlie Shavers in 1959...

Here's Antonio Carlos Jobim, with João Donato on piano, singing One Note Samba....

Used with permission by Marc Myers