The Jazz Standards Quotes

“And the two colleagues are still hanging out together: Van Heusen is buried in the Sinatra family plot in Cathedral City, California.”
― Ted Gioia, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire

“Dizzy Gillespie recorded it with Charlie Parker in an
influential 1945 track (incorporating a much imitated intro—perhaps initially
intended as a parody of Rachmaninoff ’s Prelude in C-Sharp Minor”
― Ted Gioia, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire