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14180369 | Play | Snowfall | 03:00 Tools | |
14180371 | Play | Arab Dance | 04:27 Tools | |
14180370 | Play | Embraceable You | 03:05 Tools | |
14180374 | Play | There's A Small Hotel | 03:20 Tools | |
14180372 | Play | A Sunday Kind Of Love | 03:20 Tools | |
14180373 | Play | Buster's Last Stand | 02:57 Tools | |
14180378 | Play | Anthropology | 03:07 Tools | |
14180375 | Play | Polka Dots and Moonbeams | 03:21 Tools | |
14180376 | Play | Donna Lee | 03:07 Tools | |
14180377 | Play | Early Autumn | 02:52 Tools | |
14180379 | Play | Yardbird Suite | 03:23 Tools | |
14180382 | Play | Autumn Nocturne | 03:13 Tools | |
14180380 | Play | Habanera | 01:53 Tools | |
14180384 | Play | Robbin's Nest | 03:12 Tools | |
14180381 | Play | Where or When | 03:03 Tools | |
14180390 | Play | Robbins' Nest | 03:19 Tools | |
14180422 | Play | Sorta Kinda | 02:16 Tools | |
14180395 | Play | Portrait of a Guinea Farm | 03:18 Tools | |
14180385 | Play | La Paloma | 04:35 Tools | |
14180437 | Play | As Long As I'm Dreaming | 03:52 Tools | |
14180383 | Play | Night and Day | 03:07 Tools | |
14180386 | Play | Cabin In the Sky | 02:10 Tools | |
14180392 | Play | Hungarian Dance No. 5 | 02:43 Tools | |
14180398 | Play | Poor Little Rich Girl | 02:34 Tools | |
14180415 | Play | Sleepy Serenade | 02:53 Tools | |
14180488 | Play | I Get the Blues When It Rains | 02:29 Tools | |
54405040 | Play | Lullaby Of The Rain | 03:20 Tools | |
14180397 | Play | I Knew You When | 03:18 Tools | |
14180400 | Play | Sometimes I'm Happy | 02:37 Tools | |
14180391 | Play | Pop Goes The Weasel | 02:44 Tools | |
14180388 | Play | I've Got a One Track Mind | 03:04 Tools | |
14180487 | Play | When the Lilacs Bloom Again | 03:11 Tools | |
14180408 | Play | Where Has My Little Dog Gone | 02:44 Tools | |
14180407 | Play | Bad Humour Man | 02:34 Tools | |
14180414 | Play | I'm Thrilled | 02:52 Tools | |
14180402 | Play | Under the Willow Tree | 03:05 Tools | |
14180389 | Play | The Doll Dance | 02:55 Tools | |
14180412 | Play | Lover Man | 03:31 Tools | |
14180411 | Play | You Were Meant for Me | 03:11 Tools | |
14180433 | Play | Humoresque | 02:54 Tools | |
14180406 | Play | Moonlight Becomes You | 03:08 Tools | |
14180418 | Play | O Sole Mio | 02:49 Tools | |
14180538 | Play | I May Be Wrong | 02:12 Tools | |
14180403 | Play | Let's Call It a Day | 03:16 Tools | |
14180439 | Play | Lovers in Glass Houses | 03:09 Tools | |
14180396 | Play | I Don't Know Why | 02:58 Tools | |
14180424 | Play | Godchild | 03:12 Tools | |
14180413 | Play | Love Tales | 03:24 Tools | |
14180428 | Play | Stack O'barley | 02:04 Tools | |
14180405 | Play | The Legend of Old California | 03:06 Tools | |
14180399 | Play | All I Need Is You | 03:20 Tools | |
14180401 | Play | Love of My Life | 03:19 Tools | |
14180420 | Play | Do I Worry | 02:37 Tools | |
14180410 | Play | Funiculi, Funicula | 03:15 Tools | |
14180430 | Play | Stack Of Barley | 02:12 Tools | |
14180477 | Play | Just About This Time Last Night | 03:05 Tools | |
14180393 | Play | Adios | 03:11 Tools | |
14180471 | Play | Don't Call It Love | 03:14 Tools | |
14180426 | Play | Traumerei | 02:49 Tools | |
14180463 | Play | 'Deed I Do | 02:57 Tools | |
14180438 | Play | I Remember Mama | 02:57 Tools | |
14180476 | Play | Snowfall Theme | 02:33 Tools | |
14180404 | Play | Jeru | 03:04 Tools | |
54405041 | Play | The Happy Stranger | 03:12 Tools | |
14180458 | Play | Funiculi-Funicula | 03:14 Tools | |
14180459 | Play | Happy Stranger | 02:39 Tools | |
14180512 | Play | Love For Love | 02:50 Tools | |
14180447 | Play | Sunday Driving | 02:29 Tools | |
14180394 | Play | Stealin' Apples | 03:12 Tools | |
54405042 | Play | Warsaw Concerto | 02:57 Tools | |
14180474 | Play | At Sundown | 03:04 Tools | |
14180429 | Play | Loch Lomond | 02:57 Tools | |
14180443 | Play | Be Careful It's My Heart | 03:10 Tools | |
87458395 | Play | Mandy is Two | 03:38 Tools | |
14180409 | Play | Over Night | 03:04 Tools | |
14180444 | Play | I Found You In The Rain | 03:26 Tools | |
14180534 | Play | Something To Remember You By | 03:18 Tools | |
14180442 | Play | Jim | 03:38 Tools | |
14180490 | Play | Just Around The Corner | 03:39 Tools | |
54405043 | Play | Puttin' And A Takin' | 02:33 Tools | |
14180425 | Play | I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder | 04:14 Tools | |
14180455 | Play | Sing a Love Song | 03:07 Tools | |
14180441 | Play | To Each His Own | 02:59 Tools | |
14180454 | Play | For Heaven's Sake | 02:57 Tools | |
14180486 | Play | My Old Flame | 03:13 Tools | |
14180451 | Play | Lullabye Of The Rain (Alt Take) | 02:48 Tools | |
14180527 | Play | Butterfly (Papillon) | 03:09 Tools | |
14180502 | Play | Oh You Beautiful Doll | 03:06 Tools | |
14180435 | Play | Elevation | 02:56 Tools | |
54405044 | Play | Sunday Drivin' | 03:07 Tools | |
14180419 | Play | Paradise | 02:49 Tools | |
54405048 | Play | Anthropology 2 | 03:12 Tools | |
14180449 | Play | Alt Wien | 01:43 Tools | |
14180387 | Play | O Sole mio (My Sunshine) | 02:51 Tools | |
14180464 | Play | Five Brothers | 03:06 Tools | |
89412412 | Play | Someone To Watch Over Me | 03:06 Tools | |
54405045 | Play | Walkin' Stick | 02:51 Tools | |
14180457 | Play | The Song Is You | 03:02 Tools | |
14180482 | Play | Arabian Dance | 04:53 Tools | |
14180560 | Play | Donna Lee (Remastered) | 02:28 Tools | |
14180478 | Play | You Do | 03:47 Tools | |
14180553 | Play | I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep | 03:28 Tools | |
14180432 | Play | Orange Blossom Lane | 03:23 Tools | |
54405046 | Play | Snowfall ('41) | 03:28 Tools | |
54405047 | Play | Loch Lomond (John Kirby) | 04:53 Tools | |
14180515 | Play | Hungarian Dance No.5 | 02:28 Tools | |
14180562 | Play | Moments Like This | 03:00 Tools | |
14180480 | Play | Hungarian Dance #5 | 02:39 Tools | |
14180511 | Play | Moonlight Bay | 02:35 Tools | |
14180473 | Play | We're the Couple in the Castle | 03:14 Tools | |
14180453 | Play | Alt Wien (Old Vienna) | 02:40 Tools | |
14180450 | Play | Hang Out the Stars in Indiana | 04:28 Tools | |
14180485 | Play | Moonlight Masquerade | 03:11 Tools | |
14180468 | Play | Miss You | 03:12 Tools | |
14180423 | Play | Concerto for Two | 03:19 Tools | |
14180561 | Play | She'll Always Remember | 03:20 Tools | |
14180445 | Play | Autumn Serenade | 02:19 Tools | |
14180465 | Play | Mambo Nothing | 02:45 Tools | |
14180452 | Play | I Hate You, Darling | 03:12 Tools | |
14180448 | Play | Family Affair | 02:52 Tools | |
54405050 | Play | Rose of the Rio Grande | 02:49 Tools | |
14180525 | Play | Smiles | 02:57 Tools | |
14180516 | Play | Somebody Nobody Loves | 03:05 Tools | |
14180440 | Play | Harbour Lights | 02:41 Tools | |
14180533 | Play | I Said No | 03:01 Tools | |
14180460 | Play | La Paloma (Grey Dove) | 04:33 Tools | |
14180501 | Play | Lullabye Of The Rain | 03:13 Tools | |
14180427 | Play | Baby Mine | 03:23 Tools | |
14180535 | Play | Would You Believe Me? | 03:14 Tools | |
14180494 | Play | Rose O'Day | 03:22 Tools | |
54405049 | Play | Jack, Jack, Jack | 03:20 Tools | |
14180434 | Play | Chattanooga Choo Choo | 03:09 Tools | |
14180523 | Play | Count Me in | 02:49 Tools | |
14180537 | Play | La Paloma 1946 | 05:56 Tools | |
14180489 | Play | Ev'rything I Love | 02:59 Tools | |
14180431 | Play | The Bells Of San Raquel | 03:17 Tools | |
14180446 | Play | Memory Lane | 03:20 Tools | |
14180514 | Play | Puttin' And Takin' | 02:20 Tools | |
14180492 | Play | Träumerei | 02:49 Tools | |
14180557 | Play | Sweet and Lovely | 03:03 Tools | |
14180456 | Play | This Love of Mine | 03:22 Tools | |
14180416 | Play | A Sunday Kind Of Love (With Fran Warren) | 03:24 Tools | |
14180539 | Play | Grieg's Piano Concerto | 03:15 Tools | |
14180466 | Play | Traumerai | 02:23 Tools | |
54405051 | Play | Claude Thornhill-Arab Dance | 02:23 Tools | |
14180462 | Play | On Moonlight Bay | 02:47 Tools | |
54405053 | Play | The Troubadour | 03:58 Tools | |
14180475 | Play | Autumn Nocturn | 02:19 Tools | |
14180472 | Play | Oh You Beutiful Doll | 03:06 Tools | |
54405056 | Play | Ebb Tide | 02:19 Tools | |
14180541 | Play | I'll Pray For You | 02:59 Tools | |
14180552 | Play | Medley: Just You, Just Me / Tea For Two / St. Louis Blues | 03:58 Tools | |
54405052 | Play | Thrivin' on a Riff | 03:58 Tools | |
14180417 | Play | Early Autumn (With Fran Warren) | 02:57 Tools | |
14180481 | Play | Somebody Else Is Taking My Place | 03:18 Tools | |
14180491 | Play | Rock A Bye Bay | 03:25 Tools | |
14180496 | Play | America, I Love You | 03:02 Tools | |
14180536 | Play | Would You Believe Me | 11:06 Tools | |
14180520 | Play | Antropology | 03:00 Tools | |
14180497 | Play | Royal Garden Blues | 02:29 Tools | |
54405054 | Play | Claude Thornhill / Yardbird Suite | 03:24 Tools | |
14180506 | Play | The Things I Love | 03:05 Tools | |
54405055 | Play | Yours Is My Heart Alone | 02:19 Tools | |
14180508 | Play | Introduction | 01:29 Tools | |
14180544 | Play | Stars Fell On Alabama | 02:31 Tools | |
14180469 | Play | Deed I Do | 02:57 Tools | |
14180484 | Play | There's A Small Hotel - Original | 03:21 Tools | |
54405059 | Play | The Troubadour (Pictures At An Exhibition) | 03:21 Tools | |
54405057 | Play | Snowfall (Gil Evans arrangement) | 01:29 Tools | |
77079387 | Play | Medley: Jealous/Swinging Down The Lane/Breezing Along With The Breeze | 02:47 Tools | |
14180549 | Play | Baia | 02:04 Tools | |
87458396 | Play | Loch Lomond (with Maxine Sullivan) | 02:47 Tools | |
14180522 | Play | The Lamp Of Memory | 03:15 Tools | |
54405058 | Play | You Go to My Head | 03:15 Tools | |
14180483 | Play | Ya Lu-Blu | 03:13 Tools | |
54405061 | Play | Stop! You're Breaking My Heart | 11:06 Tools | |
14180513 | Play | April In Paris | 01:46 Tools | |
77079389 | Play | Isn't It Wonderful | 02:47 Tools | |
54405062 | Play | Träumerei (Dreaming) | 11:06 Tools | |
14180547 | Play | Whip-Poor-Will | 02:53 Tools | |
54405067 | Play | If you were the only girl in the world | 03:27 Tools | |
14180509 | Play | Thrivin' On A Riff Take 1 | 01:36 Tools | |
14180510 | Play | Medley Just You, Just Me Tea For Two St. Louis Blues | 11:06 Tools | |
54405060 | Play | Early Autumn - Feat.Fran Warren | 11:06 Tools | |
54405072 | Play | Snowfall (41) | 03:15 Tools | |
54405073 | Play | I'll Get By/That's My Desire | 03:19 Tools | |
89412413 | Play | Snowfall #1 | 03:19 Tools | |
54405063 | Play | La Paloma (Grey Dove) Take 1 | 11:06 Tools | |
54405064 | Play | Moonlight Cocktail | 11:06 Tools | |
54405065 | Play | Medley That's My Desire Beware My Heart Stella By Starl | 11:06 Tools | |
89412414 | Play | Puttin' And Talkin' | 11:06 Tools | |
77079386 | Play | People Like You | 03:15 Tools | |
54405066 | Play | Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? | 11:06 Tools | |
14180555 | Play | Thrivin' On A Riff Take 2 | 03:05 Tools | |
14180519 | Play | For Heaven's Sakes | 03:27 Tools | |
54405078 | Play | Breezin' Along (With the Breeze) | 02:47 Tools | |
54405068 | Play | Summer is gone | 03:27 Tools | |
54405079 | Play | Begin The Beguine | 02:47 Tools | |
54405069 | Play | I'll See You in My Dreams | 01:46 Tools | |
54405070 | Play | Deep Purple | 01:46 Tools | |
89412415 | Play | Plka dots and moonbeams | 01:46 Tools | |
14180524 | Play | Medley: Jealous / Swinging Down the Lane / Breezing Along With the Breeze | 03:13 Tools | |
54405071 | Play | Alt Wien - Old Vienna | 03:15 Tools | |
89412416 | Play | Rose O' Day | 03:15 Tools | |
89412417 | Play | Hungarian Dance Number Five | 03:15 Tools | |
89412418 | Play | Snowfall (1941) | 03:15 Tools | |
87458397 | Play | You're Not So Easy To Forget | 02:47 Tools | |
89412419 | Play | Medley | 02:47 Tools | |
89412420 | Play | La Cinquantaine | 02:47 Tools | |
77079390 | Play | Coquette | 02:47 Tools | |
77079388 | Play | Hungarian Dance 5 | 02:47 Tools | |
54405081 | Play | Gone with the Wind | 02:47 Tools | |
54405083 | Play | Spanish Dance | 02:47 Tools | |
54405082 | Play | You Wore a Tulip | 02:47 Tools | |
54405074 | Play | Harbor Lights | 03:13 Tools | |
14180542 | Play | Johnson Rag | 02:47 Tools | |
87458398 | Play | Ev'rything I Love (Let's Face It 1941) | 02:47 Tools | |
89412421 | Play | So Would I | 02:47 Tools | |
54405075 | Play | Mambo Nothin | 02:47 Tools | |
89412422 | Play | Medley: I'll Get By / That's My Desire / Stella by Starlight | 02:47 Tools | |
54405076 | Play | Don't Save Your Love | 02:47 Tools | |
89412423 | Play | Lodge Podge | 02:47 Tools | |
87458399 | Play | Tonight We Love | 02:47 Tools | |
54405080 | Play | Pussy Footin' | 02:47 Tools | |
54405084 | Play | Lover Man (oh, Where Can You B | 02:04 Tools |
Claude Thornhill (Terre Haute, Indiana, August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965, Caldwell, New Jersey) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He composed the jazz and pop standards "Snowfall" and "I Wish I Had You", the last recorded by Billie Holliday. As a youth, he was recognized as an extraordinary talent and formed a traveling duo with Danny Polo, a musical prodigy on the clarinet and trumpet from nearby Clinton, Indiana. As a student at Garfield High School in Terre Haute, he played with several theater bands. Thornhill entered the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at age 16. That same year he and clarinetist Artie Shaw started their careers at the Golden Pheasant in Cleveland, Ohio with the Austin Wiley Orchestra. Thornhill and Shaw went to New York together in 1931. Claude went to the West Coast in the late 1930s with the Bob Hope Radio Show, and arranged for Judy Garland in Babes in Arms. In 1935, he played on sessions for Glenn Miller's first recordings under his own name, as Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. He played on Glenn Miller's composition "Solo Hop," which was released on Columbia Records. After playing for Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Ray Noble, Glenn Miller, and Billie Holiday, and arranging "Loch Lomond" and "Annie Laurie" for Maxine Sullivan, in 1939 he founded his Claude Thornhill Orchestra. Danny Polo was his lead clarinet player. Although the Thornhill band was originally a sophisticated dance band, it became known for its many superior jazz musicians and for Thornhill's and Gil Evans' innovative arrangements; its "Portrait of a Guinea Farm" has become a classic jazz recording. The band played without vibrato so that the timbres of the instruments could be better appreciated, and Thornhill encouraged the musicians to develop cool-sounding tones. The band was popular with both musicians and the public; the Miles Davis Nonet was modeled in part on Thornhill's cool sound and use of unconventional instrumentation. The band's most successful records were "Snowfall," "A Sunday Kind of Love" and "Love for Love." His most famous recording, "Snowfall," was released in 1941 as Columbia 36268. He released the song also as a V-Disc recording, as V-Disc 271A1. Playing at the Paramount Theater in New York for $10,000 a week in 1942, Thornhill dropped everything to enlist in the US Navy to support the war effort. As chief musician, he played shows across the Pacific Theater with Jackie Cooper as his drummer and Dennis Day as his vocalist. In 1946, he was discharged from the Navy. Then in April, he reformed his ensemble. He kept his same stylistic lines, but added some Bop lines to it. He got his old members of Danny Polo, Gerry Mulligan, and Barry Galbraith back together, but also added new members like Red Rodney, Lee Konitz, Joe Shulman and Bill Barber. Barber was a tuba player, who was considered as a "soft brass" player rather than a bass as to not interfere with (Joe) Shulman on the bass. Their creative and immaculately clean and delicate interpretation of Evans’s arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie’s fast bop theme "Anthropology" (1947) provides a particularly noteworthy example of Thornhill’s style, which influenced Miles Davis’s recordings in 1949 for Capitol and many musicians who followed . In the mid 1950s, Thornhill was briefly Tony Bennett's musical director. He offered his big band library to Gerry Mulligan when Gerry formed the Concert Jazz Band, but Gerry regretfully declined the gift, since his instrumentation was different. A large portion of his extensive library of music is currently held by Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. After his discharge from the Navy he continued to perform with his orchestra until his death of a heart attack at 1:30 a.m., July 2, 1965, at his home in Caldwell, New Jersey. Claude was booked at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey, at the time, the engagement was kept in his honor with his music director in his place. He was survived by his wife, actress Ruth Thornhill, and his mother, Maude Thornhill (81 at the time), of Terre Haute, Indiana, still active at the time conducting choirs. Claude Thornhill's compositions included the standard "Snowfall", "I Wish I Had You", recorded by Billie Holiday and Fats Waller, "Let's Go", "Shore Road", "Portrait Of A Guinea Farm", "Lodge Podge", "Rustle Of Spring", "It's Time For Us To Part", "It Was A Lover And His Lass", "The Little Red Man", "Memory Of An Island", and "Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" In 1984, Claude Thornhill was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.