well, That's Show Biz, 04-27-2025 4-4 Jazz Appreciation Month

Jazz Appreciation Month

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

4-29-2025

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• Welcome to “well, That’s Show Biz!”. I am your host, Jeremy Freedman, and each week I bring you music from Broadway, Movies, and Entertainers along with some anecdotes, information, and commentary all based on a theme.

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• Today’s show was pre-recorded.

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• April is Jazz Appreciation Month.

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• <Play “All That Jazz”>

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• April is Jazz Appreciation Month and you just heard “All That Jazz” from the musical Chicago.

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• Jazz music has always been a big influence on Broadway musicals since the beginning of the 20th century and often defined the music of Broadway. Many of our Jazz standards came from Broadway musicals. For Jazz Appreciation Month, we are going to highlight just a few of the songs and musicals that based their music on Jazz.

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• Starting off our first set, we have Nick Cordero singing “One of the Great Ones” from A Bronx Tale. It should be noted that Nick Cordero passed away at the age of 41 from COVID-19. The musical Hadestown was influenced by New Orleans style Jazz and it can be heard in the use of instruments in many of the orchestrations of the songs. We are going to hear the song “Wait for Me”. And we will end the set with “Jet Set” from the musical Catch Me If You Can. Here’s “One of the Great Ones” from A Bronx Tale.

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• April is Jazz Appreciation Month and you just heard “One of the Great Ones” from A Bronx Tale, “Wait for Me” from Hadestown, and “Jet Set” from Catch Me If You Can.

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• Before he was a composer, Cy Coleman was a Jazz Pianist who used Jazz to influence his musical scores like Sweet Charity. We are going to hear “You’re Nothing Without Me” from his musical City of Angels.  Then we are going to hear “Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True” from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. We will then close the set with “I Can Cook Too” from Leonard Bernstein’s Jazz influenced musical On The Town. Here’s “You’re Nothing Without Me” from City of Angels.

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• You just heard “You’re Nothing Without Me” from City of Angels, “Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True” from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and “I Can Cook Too” from On The Town as we celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• April is Jazz Appreciation Month so we are listening to songs from Jazz influenced musicals.

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• To start off our third set we have Sammy Davis, Jr. singing “There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York” from George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess. After that we will gear Edie Adams and Rosalind Russell sing “Ohio” from Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town. Then we will hear ”I Want a Hero” from Beggar’s Holiday, a musical based on The Beggar’s Opera with music composed by Duke Ellington. And we will end the set with “Honeysuckle Rose” from Ain’t Misbehavin’, a musical revue of music from composer Fats Waller. Here’s “There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York” from Porgy & Bess.

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• April is Jazz Appreciation Month and you just heard “There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York” from Porgy & Bess, “Ohio” Wonderful Town, ”I Want a Hero” from Beggar’s Holiday, and “Honeysuckle Rose” from Ain’t Misbehavin’.

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• And now for our concluding set for Jazz Appreciation Month we have “Well Did You Evah?” Written by Cole Porter for his 1939 musical,  DuBarry Was a Lady, it was sung by Bing Croaby and Frank Sinatra in the movie High Society. After that we will hear the title song from Five Guys Named Moe. And we will end with Julie Andrews singing “Le Jazz Hot” from Victor/Victoria. Here’s “Well Did You Evah?” from High Society.

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• You just heard “Well Did You Evah?” from High Society, the title song from Five Guys Named Moe, and “Le Jazz Hot” from Victor/Victoria as we conclude today’s show for April, Jazz Appreciation Month.

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• May is National Pet Month, so next week’s show will focus on Animals.

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• Please stay tuned in for “Music At The Movies”, coming up next, hosted by Aiden Peck and I will see you next week. So long.