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Kitt Wakeley, Jonathan Estabrooks, Aaron Lazar, David Das, Patrick Conlon, Christina Giacona Impossible Dream is a studio album by American actor and singer Aaron Lazar and includes duets with artists such as Josh Groban , Neil Patrick Harris , Leslie Odom Jr , and Loren Allred , among others.
Kitt has performed his own songs in a one-man show at various venues such as the Bitter End in New York. [41] He is the founder of The Tom Kitt Band, in which he plays piano. The band's first album is Find Me. [42] Kitt also contributed in 2006 to Julia Murney's self-titled debut album, I'm Not Waiting, for which he co-wrote the song Perfect.
Armstrong was born in Los Angeles into a non-musical family. [3] He displayed interest in sciences, languages and mathematics. [4] At the age of 5, and without access to a piano, he taught himself musical composition by reading an abridged encyclopedia. [5]
He also wrote the book, conducted, and played piano. The show had an Off-Broadway Revival in 2013 at Second Stage Theatre, starring Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe, and directed by Brown. [33] In 2014, a film-adaptation was released, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan.
Jordan was born in New York [1] and raised in Brooklyn where he attended Boys High School. [2] An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regular member of Charlie Parker's quintet during 1947–48, which also featured Miles Davis. [3]
Kitt's recording appears on her 1954 album That Bad Eartha. Michel Legrand recorded a jazz trio version of the song for his Paris-themed album of 1960, Legrand Piano . It was also performed by Polish singer Violetta Villas during her Las Vegas shows in the late 1960s.
However, Abels felt that the stand out element in the music is the choral work. Jordan specifically described that he wanted the voices to be in the soundtrack. [10] The first track "Anthem" is a vocal choir rising in volume with the drum beats and chimes, which Abels wanted it to sound like an "evil march". [11]
Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s [1] to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in saxophone and piano playing.