Ocean Grove, NJ. Eileen’s garden. Delicious regurgitated sunflower seeds. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
CHAKA KHAN: “Lullaby” of Birdland” From the album We All Love Ella–Celebrating the First Lady of Song
April 6, 2018 by Blogfinger
Ocean Grove, NJ. Eileen’s garden. Delicious regurgitated sunflower seeds. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
CHAKA KHAN: “Lullaby” of Birdland” From the album We All Love Ella–Celebrating the First Lady of Song
Birdland, a famous jazz club in New York, was named for Charlie “Bird” Parker who was the opening act when Birdland began in 1949. They were on Broadway and 52nd Street for 15 years before moving uptown. Count Basie and his band made that their NY headquarters.
My friends and I from the jazz band at Rutherford High School (NJ) would go there to hear the best jazz musicians on Earth. We could sit in a sort of bull pen, off to the side, and sip non alcoholic beverages while being about 10 feet from the bandstand. I recall seeing Zoot Sims and Al Cohn, the trombone duo, perform
“Lullaby of Birdland,” a jazz classic, was written by pianist George Shearing and the lyricist George David Weiss. Weiss also wrote “the Lion Sleeps Tonight” and “What a Wonderful World.” He presented a songwriter’s award at the Friar’s Club to Stephen Goldfinger of Ocean Grove.