The Great American Songbook is an ambitious documentary that chronicles 100 years of American popular song through film clips and photographs. It stretches from minstrel shows to Elvis, but features most prominently the "Golden Age" songwriters of the 1930s through the 1950s–Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers with both Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein, and others.
The Great American GROOVE Book/familiar all time favorites performed by brilliant trumpet player and big band Produced and arranged by Tim Ouimette, an amazing composer and arranger who has worked with the likes of Ray Charles and Ben E. King. Since her start in the Harry James Band in 1982, Louise has been performing with some of the greatest entertainers in the world… she is a seasoned jazz veteran with great chops and she brings in a great band, including…
Whether it be show and filmmusic or classic crooner's ballads, America has produced many of the world's finest songwriters. Legendary names such as Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Henry Mancini have become synonymous with timeless melodies, and this album gives you 22 bona fide classics, performed by the 101 Strings, an orchestra of the highest technical skill with the finest musicians in Europe. To enjoy this journey through some truly great American compositions.