What is the Great American Songbook? By Mahnuel Muñoz The Great American Songbook is the most important set of popular songs and jazz standards in North America, developed primarily between the 1920s and 1950s, and whose main destinations were cinema…
The day Sinatra lost his voice…to find a new one We are at the dawn of the 1950s. Frank is going through a delicate professional and even more precarious personal moment. His relationship with Ava Gardner corrodes him, the continuous…
THE VOICE BEGINS TO SOUND IN LAS VEGAS By Mahnuel Muñoz In September 1951, Frank Sinatra took the stage at the Desert Inn Hotel-Casino, in his first performance in the city of Las Vegas, a relationship marked by music and…
“NONE BUT THE BRAVE” (1965) By Mahnuel Muñoz NONE BUT THE BRAVE (1965) John Dryden (1631-1700) was the poet and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England, to the point that that time became known as the Dryden…
“THE ITALIAN SONGBOOK” By Mahnuel Muñoz On February 9, 1967, an internal memo was issued on Reprise Records in relation to a Frank Sinatra project titled “The Italian Songbook.” After recording “Sinatra & Strings“, Frank had asked arranger Don Costa…
“FRANK SINATRA AND TONY MOTTOLA: LONG SUNDAY OF FRIENDSHIP AND MUSIC” By Mahnuel Muñoz Fifty years before performing memorable duets on stages around the world in the 1980s, Frank Sinatra and Tony Mottola were just a pair of ambitious teenage…
The Neguri Jazz Band will offer a tribute concert to Frank Sinatra on March 16, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. in the legendary Sala Galileo Galilei in Madrid. It will be a magnificent recital, with a wonderful team of artists led…
Biography 1915-1934 By Mahnuel Muñoz Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 12, 1915. He was the only child of the Italian-born couple Antonino Martino “Marty” Sinatra and Natalina “Dolly” Garavente. His arrival into the world…
The Judy Garland Show (1962) By Mahnuel Muñoz This historic show aired on CBS on February 25, 1962, and was a kind of reconciliation between the network and Judy Garland after a long and bitter legal dispute over breaches of…
1915- On December 12, Francis Albert Sinatra is born, the only child of the marriage formed by Antonino Martino Sinatra and Natalina Garavente in Hoboken, New Jersey. 1935- As part of the group The Hoboken Four, he wins first prize…
THE WORLD WE KNEW By Mahnuel Muñoz On September 16, 1967, the album “The World We Knew” entered the United States charts, a new attempt by Frank Sinatra to refresh his sound, a desire especially accentuated during the second half…
“Here’s To The Ladies” By Mahnuel Muñoz In March 1977 Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle reunited to record an album that would have been called “Here’s To The Ladies“, a thematic album composed of songs named after women.At a time…
