Listening to this now

[Notes_Norton]

Scythian Suite - Sergei Prokofiev - Claudio Abbado - Chicago Symphony Orchestra

 

 

Edited May 21, 2020 by Notes_Norton

[Notes_Norton]

Amy Winehouse was quite an accomplished jazz singer, and here's proof.

Someone To Watch Over Me - Amy Winehouse

 

 

 

Edited May 21, 2020 by Notes_Norton

[Notes_Norton]

Another....good jazz phrasing  - a little Billie Holiday but definitely not a clone.

Who knew? Until yesterday, not me.

Teach Me Tonight - Amy Winehouse

 

 

Edited May 22, 2020 by Notes_Norton

[Mesh]

A little funk for your soul!!

 

 

 

[craigb]

I'd funk it! ?

[Notes_Norton]

Everybody who plays the B3 owes  debt to Jimmy Smith. He owns the B3 everyone after borrowed it.

Chicago Serenade - Jimmy Smith

Kenny Burrell's solo and comping in the guitar is it's usual very, very nice and Lalo Shifrin's arrangement is good too.

This is cool school jazz.

 

Edited May 22, 2020 by Notes_Norton

[Pragi]

Tribal Tech 1990 - Self Defense

Gary Willis composer & bass

 

[Notes_Norton]

Amusing lyrics in this song

My Attorney Bernie - Dave Frishberg 

And from the gal with the child-like voice, Blossom Dearie

 

Edited May 23, 2020 by Notes_Norton

[Notes_Norton]

Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

The groove reminds me of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On. It's a nice song and a nice video.

 

 

Edited May 24, 2020 by Notes_Norton

[Notes_Norton]

Some songs just need to be played a few times per year.

Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

 

Edited May 25, 2020 by Notes_Norton

[Wibbles]

23 minutes ago, Notes_Norton said:

Some songs just need to be played a few times per year.

... and Ed Sheeran, never. 

[Pragi]

29 minutes ago, Wibbles said:

and Ed Sheeran, never.

Herman Brood & his Wild Romance:Never be clever"" 

 

Edited May 25, 2020 by Pragi

[Pragi]

 

[craigb]

59 minutes ago, Pragi said:

 

I use this language occasionally when I'm taking a shower. ?

(Um, what the heck IS this??? ?)

[Pragi]

26 minutes ago, craigb said:

I use this language occasionally when I'm taking a shower. ?

(Um, what the heck IS this??? ?)

That seems to be a further development  of bavarian yodeling  with Jazz influences.?

I am thinking  Christian  Zehnder and you,of course, are (not only) good musician, don´t you ?(

Edited May 25, 2020 by Pragi

[craigb]

 

My favorite yodeling song. ?

[Notes_Norton]

One of the first saxophone albums I ever bought. I wore out a few LPs and now have it on CD.

The sax improvisations are incredible. It was done live with the orchestra in 2 track stereo, a couple of takes per song, no splicing, no punch ins, and the melodies Stan ad-libbed sound like they were penned with a lot of work. I'm still amazed at his work on this. He has great technical chops, but you don't hear them, you just hear melody.

Note, the first cut, "I'm Late, I'm Late" are both takes played end to end.

Focus - Stan Getz / Eddie Sauter (full album),

 

Edited May 25, 2020 by Notes_Norton

[Notes_Norton]

7 hours ago, Wibbles said:

... and Ed Sheeran, never. 

I haven't heard a lot of him, but I like that one. Perhaps it's the Marvin Gaye groove.

[Wibbles]

44 minutes ago, pwalpwal said:

he gets stuffed down our throats in the uk, like the official mainstream busker

Through constant vigilance, I think I've managed to avoid ever hearing more than a minute of one of his songs.

Occasionally it has involved this:

 

[Notes_Norton]

But  you gotta admit, the female dancer is both beautiful and a great dancer.

I think I can take him in small doses but wouldn't want a steady diet of his music.

I don't listen to the radio much here. We get a few formats:

• Classical, but not the exciting classical I like, but classical to snooze by
• Country, the same top 20 Nashville hits again and again and again and again
• Oldies, basically an advertising station interrupted by short segments of music from the 80s
• Urban, single chord 'songs' with talking instead of melody will bore me after a while
• Latin American, the broadcasting tower is too far away and the reception is so bad I can't listen long enough to know if I like it or not

So I have a digital Walkman with over 10,000 tunes culled from my extensive LP, CD, and purchased downloads collection set up in random play mode plugged into the car's AUX jack.

I got the Sheeran video while doing a Band-in-a-Box entry in an e-disk I'm making for the Hal Leonard update of the "Wedding And Love Fake Book". We turn the songs in the fake books into BiaB backing tracks.

It's a moonlighting part-time money maker than in this COVID isolation is getting more time devoted to it in a month than I usually give it in a year.

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