![]() KING: It's a big piece of bling, as one would say.ĬHANG: The necklace's chain is made up of 75 gold links and weighs more than half a pound. It's so unheard of, something so exquisite. RACHEL KING: Even in my wildest dreams, I would never have imagined something like this. SHAPIRO: Rachel King is the British Museum's curator of Renaissance Europe, and she says she was in disbelief the first time she saw it in person. She was shaking holding it.ĬHANG: The British Museum announced the discovery of the necklace in late January, and it turns out it's over 500 years old and inscribed with the letters H and K for King Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. But it wasn't until he met with someone from the British Museum that he realized just how important it was.ĬLARKE: When I first handed it to her, her reaction said it all. The 34-year-old cafe owner knew he had found something special. You're excited to see - just the color in gold just changes everything. You know, it's - your adrenaline is through the roof. So he dug in the rain until he was elbow-deep in the ground and pulled out a large gold necklace with a heart-shaped pendant.ĬLARKE: All of a sudden, the weather doesn't matter. SHAPIRO: After hours of turning up scrap metal in a field in Warwickshire, England, Clarke's metal detector beeped again. A friend of mine asked me if we wanted to go out, do a bit of metal detecting in the field, get a bit of fresh air. Bowden joyously chirps You and I babe / We'll be ridin' high babe / Every care is gone / From this moment on.Charlie Clarke had only been metal detecting for six months when he found buried treasure in 2019.ĬHARLIE CLARKE: I just lost a dog, which was a really good companion of mine. The composer/lyricist is the revered Cole Porter - the arranger is Sammy Nestico from the Count Basie era - and the tune is "From This Moment On." Ms. ![]() "Livin' the Canary Life - featuring Bonnie Bowden" is always progressing from the outset, and its finale is perfect. It's ideal when a CD has a beginning, middle and end. The Angel City Big Band does its own thing with the number from percussionist Jack Cook's thunderous opening in an arrangement that often evokes the Woody Herman Band and its sax section playing "Four Brothers." Very fine listening. Rolling Stone Magazine sited Trane's "Giant Steps" as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Lest' The Angel City Big Band be thought of as only honoring the swing tunes of yesteryear, their take on modern jazz great John Coltrane's composition "Giant Steps" is a gas. Bowden spreads her wings on Broadway songwriter Frank Wilhorne's "Til You Come Back To Me." Bassist Dustin Morgan kicks the band into thunderous gear, RW Enoch's tenor sax soars, and in matching the excitement of both, Bowden goes stratospheric at the finish. Bowden again make a great twosome with his lyric on "Cry Me a River." This song has been a tour-de-force for Bowden and in this CD's rendition The Angel City Big Band provides a bluesy arrangement just right for Bowden's rendition of romance gone awry.īroadway gets its just due when Ms. Bowden musically hames the iconic canaries Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Lena Horne and those super talented female big band singers of which she is surely one of the best. Arthur Hamilton's insightful lyric states "a wedding band" would be preferable - but until then, this canary will be " singin' on the band stand, til the band is gone". There's good reason for her to honestly lament in this song's lyric that the grind is enough to make a canary "hate her agent' for booking those one-night stands in the boondocks of Hoboken and Riverdate. ![]() Bowden having toured the world with Sergio Mendes' bossa nova combos, knows the ordeals of travelling from one city to another to perform. ![]() ![]() Cab Calloway, the revered big band leader of the 1940's, coined the term "canary' to mean a female singer in a jazz orchestra singing or "chirping" nightly as she and the band endure the rigors of traversing America. Bowden renders beautifully with up-front-and-personal understanding. High Spirits and wry humor fuel this CD especially in its title song, "Livin' the Canary Life," which Ms. With this CD you can either sit back and finger=pop your enjoyment or kick up your heels and dance to jazz takes on classics like Irving Berlin's "How Deep is the Ocean," Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are" and Duke Ellington's "Do Nothin' Til You Hear From Me." Bowden and her orchestral cohorts are famous for keeping the torch burning for the great dance bands of the 1940's. A singing and swinging delight is songstress Bonnie Bowden's reunion with her pals The Angel City Big Band in their CD "Living the Canary Life." Ms. ![]()
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