Music Monday - The Gramercy Five

Things are sort of dull around the Music Monday composing room, so for the next few weeks the cracked editorial staff has decided on a new feature for the day:

The artwork of David Stone Martin on record covers.

One exciting work of art (called Illustration by some) will be presented here each week until they run out. Each is a scan from the editor's personal library and the original copyrights apply.

They are presented here for admiration and educational purposes only.

Here is a romantic, even sensous, water color and pen sketch buy our feature artist: David Stone Martin.

This is LP volume #4 of a group of recordings famously know as the "LAST" recordings of Artie Shaw. They are not rare. They have been re-released several times.

But they apparently really are Shaw's last known recordings before he abruptly abandoned the clarinet entirely.

Today in 1910, Artie Shaw was born.

The personnel on these recordings:

Artie Shaw, Clarinet
Hank Jones, Piano
Joe Puma, Guitar
Tommy Potter, Bass
Irv Kluger, Drums

The recordings on this disk are
Stop and Go Mambo
Love of My Life
The Pied Piper Theme
Dancing In The Dark
That Old Feeling
Someone to Watch Over Me.
Besame Mucho

The Profile (more than you really wanted to know)is HERE.

Lost Gallery The rescue mission for battered and abused orphan photographs.

Still the most popular page on this blog. The Subway Collection