Mildly disappointed of course that those two Eldar tracks weren’t cause for celebration for the 3 of you. Your various reasons while valid for you personally don’t diminish my enjoyment of him. Easy to get mesmerized by the technical fireworks but I do also hear music in his performance (listen to other tracks on the album) and wonder what more he will bring with further years and increasing maturity.
Worth checking the Wikipedia entry on him. He comes from a very different culture so not surprising he brings an unfamiliar style or interpretive reading to standards (or so I think). There are a few other "covers" on the album that Sweet Georgia and Moanin’ were taken from. Those too (e.g., Nature Boy, Maiden Voyage) sound WAY different...almost unrecognizable, even to me. Because I’m not as grounded in jazz as you more seasoned aficionados, I’m also not married to a particular style or mode of interpretation applied to a given composition. I don’t have expectations. Consequently, this music just sounds very fresh and different to me. NEW even.
Horses for courses, as they say.
Worth checking the Wikipedia entry on him. He comes from a very different culture so not surprising he brings an unfamiliar style or interpretive reading to standards (or so I think). There are a few other "covers" on the album that Sweet Georgia and Moanin’ were taken from. Those too (e.g., Nature Boy, Maiden Voyage) sound WAY different...almost unrecognizable, even to me. Because I’m not as grounded in jazz as you more seasoned aficionados, I’m also not married to a particular style or mode of interpretation applied to a given composition. I don’t have expectations. Consequently, this music just sounds very fresh and different to me. NEW even.
Horses for courses, as they say.