English words by Marc Blitzstein, original German words by Bert Brecht, music by Kurt Weill / arr. Rich DeRosa. Jazz Ensemble Conductor Score. Swing! At a tempo around 120 BPM, this wonderful swing tune will be very a great choice for young players. Arra
In its passage to the US, something happened to “Mack the Knife”: where the German-language original has a dirge-like quality, in the US it became the jaunty tale of a roguish gangster. It was Louis Armstrong who pushed “Mack the Knife” into the jazz repertoire in 1955, having ...
And so it was that two pillars of German leftist theatre, both deceased, hooked up posthumously with a young rock'n'roller barely out of his teens and took amoritat- a murder ballad - to Number One on the Billboard pop charts. Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife" was not just a hit reco...