Mark Pentleton

After yesterday’s Come fly with me and the talk of Frank Sinatra’s 1957 album of exotic songs, I thought I’d play another travel-related theme today, and it’s one of the most-requested songs from when I used to play in hotels. New York, New York was written in 1977 by John Kander and Frank Ebb and [...]

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I know that at some point someone asked me to play this song, but unfortunately I can’t remember who! Norah Jones sang this 1999 Jesse Harris song on her 2002 album Come away with me. I think it’s a really nice chilled jazz piece and I have to say I really enjoy playing this song!
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I like to think that I’m keeping things as varied as possible here on 365songs – in the past few days we’ve had TV Themes, Opera, Disney, 80s Power Ballad and today I’m returning to what is probably my favourite type of music to play with Gershwin’s They can’t take that away from me. It [...]

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After several days of extremely cold weather it seems that this morning is much milder and the sun was shining as I walked down the street in my home town on the way to meeting my parents for a coffee. I thought I’d play this classic jazz standard from 1930 as today’s piece. I hope [...]

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A birthday performance for me today! I’ve been saving this song for a special day as it’s always been one of my favourite songs to play. It was first released in 1938 so it’s quite appropriate as I turn 38 today! It also featured in An American in Paris. I recorded it this evening after [...]

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Today’s song is the Duke Ellington classic Don’t Get Around Much Anymore. The last time I played this song was around 1am in the bar at the Crowne Plaza in Glasgow following the first day of the Scottish Learning Festival and I was joined by Derek Robertson from LTS who sang the song to the [...]

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