Jazz for aficionados

Hi guys,

Billy the Kid aka Alex, told me that you had asked for me. Frogman and pryso, that was very kind of you.

I haven’t ran away but had some private issues that kept me occupied quite well so I needed to focus on that. However, I didn’t forget you, you surely had hiccups (yes, that was from me), ’cause I was lurking you whenever I catched some free time. Great songs you all post + you give these songs your personal touch just by the way you posting them here. Quite enjoyable to read and listen, I’ll say.

Yesterday, my friend told me that she had a dream about me having a small and cozy hotel in the center of New York. So, since she dreamed about this, this must have been the truth - tonight we are having special guests in our hotel club and of course, you are all invited. : ) Dress Code, back to 50’s...so give us your best and do not forget to shine your shoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sYdUGoIqUM

Sinatra and Louis Armstrong Birth of the Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd_JDrnBMMA

Louie and the Moon River

"Two drifters, off to see the world
There’s such a lot of world to see
We’re after the same rainbow’s end, waitin’ ’round the bend
My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me ..."

mary_jo, if you didn't go back reading posts prior to the time you joined us then you missed by background with Satchmo.

He was my dad's favorite musician so I heard lots of him while growing up.  By my teenage years I was into R&R and failed to appreciate all that Armstrong meant.  Even as I evolved into a jazz fan I considered his music to be too "old fashioned" to be worthwhile.  It took me a few decades but eventually I realized what a huge talent he was and what he meant to the foundations of modern jazz.

Let me offer one I consider to be a classic.  I have it in a 78 album dad played.  Teagarden was tops too -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQm-2N-TW24

Yes, good to see you back mary_ jo.

And, yes, a few hiccups. I think they have stopped; for now. “Hipo”, “hiccup” in Spanish. Interesting how both words can be onomatopoeia in two different languages while still sounding similar and with similar rhythm. Great Louie/Sinatra clip; no hiccups there. Same language from both singers, but two different rhythm feels. Fascinating how at 1:13 when Louie starts to sing the tempo of the music seems to slow down. It doesn’t really, but Louis’ singing is so relaxed and “in the pocket” compared to Sinatra who sings slightly ahead of the beat of the band that things seem to slow down. On the dance floor and according to the Urban Dictionary that would be a classic case of “WMRD”; and Sinatra had it less than most 😊. Thanks for the great clips.

pryso, you have no idea what memories that Jeff Beck clip brings back; some better to keep private. He was still using a pick back then. What an amazing and expressive player he is.

bluesy41, great stuff. Like Jeff Beck, another amazing player who did things on his intrument that shouldn’t be possible. How is it possible to slide from one note to another on a B3? It isn’t, but Jimmy Smith somehow can create that illusion. And what a great feel-good sense of swing. Love it.

jkittlesen, one of my very favorite records. How sad for a player like this to be gone at age 25! Another favorite from that great record:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oQvsXgfEdo0