Mark Gionfriddo, producer of ‘The Big Broadcast,’ to play swing concert in Northampton

NORTHAMPTON — Every year since 2006, Mark Gionfriddo has been the driving force behind “The Big Broadcast,” a live radio show ...
Jazz

Keely Smith: Keely Sings Sinatra

Keely Smith sounds better than ever. Her comeback has proven that. Surrounded by a lush studio orchestra that includes L.A. big band regulars, the singer creates a lovely tribute to Frank Sinatra. It ...
Variety

Keely Smith

The lightning and storms that filled the Los Angeles night failed to top the energy Keely Smith put forth at Feinstein's. Opening with the raucous and swinging "Let the Good Times Roll," the ...
Jazz

Keely Smith: Keely Swings Basie-style with Strings

Keely Smith sounds as sweet and sprightly as ever. Recorded earlier this year, she interprets classic standards with a Southern California “who’s who” of big band artists in support. Recalling the ...
WRAL

Keely Smith, Torch Singer With a Deadpan Role, Is Dead at 89

Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced singer with a pageboy bob who emerged in the early 1950s as the deadpan half of a Grammy Award-winning lounge act with Louis Prima, the ebullient, frenzied bandleader who ...
NOLA.com

Keely Smith jumps and jives at New Orleans Jazz Fest

I wish I could swing dance. It always looks so cool when people who really know the steps dance to somebody like Keely Smith, as they did in the aisles of the Jazz tent at the Jazz Fest presented by ...
The Desert Sun

History: Sinatra pal Keely Smith defined desert cool

The concept of "cool," invented by jazz musicians, was incarnated in the late 1950s in Las Vegas by Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Smith is widely credited with being the only female member of the ...