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Tom Waits 07.12.2019 22:06-24:00 Uhr ======Musikredaktion Und Moderation: Andreas Müller-Crepon Late Night Jazz: Schon 70!? Tom Waits 07.12.2019 22:06-24:00 Uhr =============================================================================================== Musikredaktion und Moderation: Andreas Müller-Crepon Seine Stimme ist unverwechselbar - schon als er noch als Singer-Songwriter in der Nachfolge von Frank Sinatra operierte, war die Vorliebe für rauhe Töne und schräge Stoffe mit Händen zu greifen. Vom jazzigen Lounge-Stil hat er sich zum urwüchsigen Rockmusiker gemausert, um sich dann aber handkehrum dem Musiktheater mit Avantgarde-Einschlag zuzuwenden. Ganz zu schweigen von herzergreifenden Country- und Soul-Episoden. Einer der vielseitigsten, sperrigsten und einflussreichsten Musiker zwischen allen Stilen hat Geburtstag - wir feiern bis Mitternacht mit einer Auslese seiner Stücke. Titel: Komponist Interpreten Label CD-Titel I WISH I WAS IN NEW Tom Waits JERRY YESTER Asylum 1976 Small Change ORLEANS GET BEHIND THE MULE Tom Waits Tom Waits Anti Epita 1999 Tom Waits: Mule variations JESUS Lou Reed David Sanborn Elektra 1991 Another hand LITTLE BOY BLUE Tom Waits HOLLY COLE Metro Blue 1995 Temptation SHORE LEAVE Tom Waits Tom Waits Island Twin Tom Waits: Rain dogs / Swordfishtrombones UNDERGROUND Tom Waits Island Reco Swordfishtrombones JOCKEY FULL OF Tom Waits Ulf Wakenius Act + Vision Voyage BOURBON DOROTHY Mac Rebennack Dr. John Deomon 1981 Dr. John plays Mac Rebennack EGGS AND SAUSAGE Tom Waits Tom Waits Asylum 1975 Nighthawks At The Diner ROCKIN' CHAIR Tom Waits Tom Waits Bizarre 1971 Tom Waits: The Early Years ROCKIN' CHAIR Hoagy Carmichael Hoagy Carmichael Pacific Jazz 1956 Hoagy Sings Camichael Lazy River Hoagy Carmichael Hoagy Carmichael Pacific Jazz 1956 Hoagy Sings Camichael Georgia Lee Tom Waits Tom Waits Anti, Epita 1998 Tom Waits: Mule variations TRAMPLED ROSE Tom Waits Carolina Chocolate Drops Nonesuch Carolina Chocolate Drops: Geniune negro jig HARLEM NOCTURNE Earle Hagen Lounge Lizards EG 1980 The Lounge Lizards (CD 1/01: Incident on South Street). THE BLACK RIDER Tom Waits Tom Waits Island Reco 1993 Tom Waits: The black rider NOVEMBER Iiro Rantala Iiro Rantala Act Music 2018 My Finnish Calendar THE BLACK RIDER Tom Waits Greg Cohen Island Reco 1993 Tom Waits: The black rider YOU CAN NEVER HOLD Tom Waits RANDI TYTINGVAG Act Music 2014 Randi Tytingvåg, Erlend Aasland, BACK SPRING Dag S. Vagle: Three TEMPTATION Tom Waits Diana Krall Verve 2004 The Girl in the Other Room BLUE VALENTINES Tom Waits Vera Kappeler Trio Eigenprod. - CHRISTMAS CARD FROM Tom Waits Rebekka Bakken Emarcy 2014 Little Drop Of Poison A HOOKER THE HEART OF Tom Waits Tom Waits Asylum 1974 Tom Waits: Asylum Years SATURDAY NIGHT JERSEY GIRL Tom Waits CORINNE BAILEY RAE Dualtone 2019 Come On Up To The House. Women Sing Waits I NEVER TALK TO Tom Waits Tom Waits Asylum Tom Waits: Asylum Years STRANGERS COME ON UP TO THE Tom Waits Sarah Jarosz Sugar Hill Sarah Jarosz: Song up in her head HOUSE WALK AWAY Tom Waits Tom Waits Columbia 1995 Dead Man Walking AUTUMN LEAVES Joseph Kosma JULIAN ADDERLEY Blue Note 1958 Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' CANNONBALL else .
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