Will Friedwald
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Slouching Towards Birdland (Will Friedwald's SubStack)
Will Friedwald's Substack - covering mostly music (primarily jazz and the Great American Songbook) but also theater, film, fiction, comics, Muppets, and other aspects of popular culture.
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Memories of MAD: “If Famous Authors Wrote the Comics”
70 YEARS AGO: Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, & Louis Armstrong—Two Days (and one night) in Los Angeles that shook the jazz world
FLYING HOME! Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller: Fathers of Vocalese?
Extreme Cole Porter, Part 1: “The Banjo (That Man Joe Plays)”
Birthdays: Tony Bennett (the BIG one!) | Louis Armstrong | Kay Starr
Duke Ellington’s 1943 masterpiece BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE: “A Church of his Own.”
Remembering Jackie (as in Mason)
Bonus Mini Post: A few thoughts on July 4, lists in The New York Times, and other pertinent topics.
Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Perry Como, & Gordon Jenkins: “Married She Could Always Get.”
Judy Garland digs Billie, Ella, …and Kate! The METRONOME Interview, 1947
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