Jazz for aficionados
To my hears Billy Taylor put out the best piano-violin piece I know about . https://youtu.be/yLDragmGnFY P.S . THIS IS A FANTASTIC CLIP than anyone will LEARN FROM !! |
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Today’s Listen: Louis Armstrong -- LOUIS ARMSTRONG PLAYS W.C. HANDY plays on SACD players only. Excellent booklet with history of each tune, and some wonderful photos of W.C. Handy. I think ’yellow dog’ refers to a rail line. It’s in several blues songs. Velma Middleton -- vocals st louis blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7bSkCQhkM yellow dog blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZmYBXVJlPc hesitating blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu6AiLULr3o loveless love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUDyhNf6uRs beale street blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTVaLAvKg_E Cheers Don't like this, get outta Jazz, and stay out!!! |
Rok, Canada has X billion $ of Pfizer, Moderna, Astra Zeneca and is looking at Johnson & Johnson . No Chinese. Will get theirs few days after US starting with about 1/8 as much , same as their population compared to us. Anything can happen, but hard to see them united with US . Canadians are quite patriotic but not very nationalistic . Cheers |
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Sweet - 1957, Ben Webster's "Soulville" with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis. Webster's tone: always thick, sometimes husky, sometimes raunchy. I could go on & on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZhmuUhcn9k |
Canada and Vaccine: We will have to wait and see. They put their money on the Chinese vaccine, thereby being late to the queue for the American vaccine. As usual, they want to be treated as part of this country when it suits them. I see a merger between the two countries in the future. The only sensible thing to do. The General is an impressive officer. Looked and talked like he worked in the Pentagon. :) Cheers |
Rok, IBM has warned that every aspect of logistic movement of vaccines is hacked down to a tee by world best hackers . Canada was also smart enough to move everything with military and will start right after Christmas. In charge is a MajGen who was NATO boss in Iraq.Heard him on CBC saying he will commence dry-runs next week on land , air and sea. Sounded like a sharp Gen. to me. If you see Gus, tell him I would not move a small fridge without at least 28 troops . |
Alex, I do indeed. The greatest! Awesome pic. Thanks. Schubert, left handed AND upside down. Her way without a doubt. Wonderful feeling in her playing, Loved the Webster/Peterson, Keegiam. Thanks. Rok, I’m embarrassed to say that I had never heard that Mingus record. Thanks. “For Harry Carney”: Amazing. Love them musical quotes (George Adams)! Any takers? As 0-10 says, genius. |
Today's Listen: Charles Mingus -- CHANGES TWO with / same as before black bats and poles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH7IFAIwmj8 orange was the color of her dress, then silk blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rL-Zz0pm90 for harry carney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmp2PYbKGw Great stuff. As 'modern' as Jazz should be. Cheers |
Mary_jo, the subject of our conversation was the title of the song "If I should Find You Again", and my interpretation of the title, and your reaction is to my interpretation of that title.It's mathematically accurate. :--) |
Now , this is a lady who REALLY knows how she wants to play her guitar !https://youtu.be/SKQG-JGyn7U?t=3 Mother Cotten was a North Carolina girl and wrote the Iconic picking standard " Freight Train". . To go through he life would take all day , IMO she was at the National Treasure level. She wrote this at 11 and sings this at 90 . I think her voice is beautiful . https://youtu.be/g8UN_6AUgCw?t=1 |
My guess is that you may like this photo, Frogman https://www.nighthawknyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MDQ-Newport-66-7PNH.jpg |
Graciously
posted by frogman on the new "prodigies" thread (which is flopping), and
well worth sharing with you all here so it doesn't just vanish into the cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-wglNPGzrQ&feature=youtu.be Also found this stage performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXZqYFDFgT8 |
While exploring "Autumn Leaves," couldn't pass up sharing this Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson gig from '72: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5IaMdhVBFo |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE88Q15AprM It's not my fault that I couldn't forget her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkBOXMRIud4 That's what she told me many years ago, and sometime I still see the shadow of her smile. |
Very nice exchange of ideas and clips of the different versions of the beautiful tune “The Autumn Leaves”. Thanks to all for your thoughts and contributions. Great versions of the tune. As points of interest which may put the song in a more complete context: Usually attributed to the American song writer Johnny Mercer whose songs feature prominently in the Great American Songbook, Mercer only wrote the English lyrics to the song. The song was written by the Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma with lyrics (in French) by collaborator Jacques Prevert for the film “Les Portes de la Nuit” (Gates of the Night, 1945). Speaking of song titles and their meaning: the original title of the song was “Les Feuilles Mortes”. The title translates to “The Dead Leaves”. To me, a subtle but interesting distinction in the feeling (meaning) that this title suggests compared to the English title. This feeling, IMO, is reinforced by the feeling conveyed in this scene from the film. This was the first time that the tune is heard in the film. Not exactly light and joyful: https://youtu.be/L1XJWNewsbA First commercial recording of the song (with the seldom heard introduction): https://youtu.be/mGWv8lTTcTY Of course, there are many different ways to interpret a song and Marija points out how Yenee reimagines the original feeling of the tune, but I think there is value in understanding the composer’s original intent; if not necessarily always having to honor it. Speaking of technical matters (the uninterested can stop reading 😡): aside from being a great melody, the main reason that the song became so popular with Jazz players is that the harmonic chord progression of the song is a series of what is called a “II V I”. Notice the distinctive movement of the first four notes of the melody and how often that motif of four notes is repeated in the song. Every time that those four notes are heard, the underlying harmonic movement is a II V I. That sequence is the “meat and potatoes” of harmony in Jazz and just plain fun to improvise over. It is like flour, yeast and water to a baker; it all starts there. |
Frogman, sorry, due to the time difference, I was in bed already... Re Yenne...Funny, while I was listening and posting I remember thinking 'is this really jazz' because the way she played it.....and yes. with your words, when looking to her again, I would agree.... Re Kessel, for me, he played it kind of ’too hard’ (is it my expectation that prevents me in hearing it in another context, I could not say) but I prefer version of Joe Pass more, of all posted here. Two different versions by Art Pepper https://youtu.be/Kwlcgkhuxv4 https://youtu.be/RK4WlatYV38 Here is one with Chet and Paul Desmond...not my favourite, they are ’too busy’ to me.... https://youtu.be/Gsz3mrnIBd0 Schubert, ’hands’ of a piano player... https://youtu.be/mADxQjfxL54 |
And I like Yenne. Not because everyone else is disliking her (ok not completely but in a way) but because I see her differently. I see her entire process of creating that piece, I see her and HER connection to the music and it is beautiful. Her style of playing is joyfull, listeners do not imagine autumn theme to be joyfull. The nature that was just a while ago, full of colours and abundant with light, looks now like there is no life in it. That has to be sad. Yenne ignores that and brings to us her vision of fall where leaves are endlessly falling, swirling and dancing as if the end will never come. Thank you Yenne. |
Mary_jo, fortunately, or unfortunately whichever the case may be, no one can ever change history.Nope, you were right, titles do have meanings. It is just that I chose not to "suffer" that long by living too deep in the past. It's just not worth it. Life is not that long. Past is by definition, past. In spite of the good suffering song. ;--) p.s. I killed romance again, I know. Is there a song on such theme? :--) |
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Same great interplay. I was always a Phillip Catherine fan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBlIe6peh2g |
My remark was not for correcting your post but only to express my perception... And perfection is not mechanical.... Listen the difference between Kenneth Wheeler that is a great artist and not mechanical at all producing for example one of the best jazz album of the decade ; " a widow at the window".... Nothing mechanical in this perfection... But if you listen Chet after that you will be confronted to the MYSTERY of the controlled living imperfection. like an acrobat walking miraculousaly in a tight rope and moving your heart.... Kenneth Wheeler is one of my favorite artist by the way... Chet is only in a league of his own.... If you like classical piano compare the controlled living imperfection in his playing of the pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi to almost any other "perfect" pianist, there will be no match... Some artist live simply on a league of their own... Thanks for your appreciation and my best to you.... |
