Jazz for aficionados
Of course, when you have a voice like Annie Lennox, you can sing just about anything, from any genre, and its fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EjoH4ib7c and live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jru9k-TPP8Y |
And speaking of pianists... Monk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdVGMkVC-x8 And the Duke with Yvonne Lanauze, Vocals. Her real name is Eve Duke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrt79lROIaA |
I think we are sometimes mixing apples and oranges, as they say... As far as I am concern, I would not give my self a liberty to judge something that I am not properly educated of. Meaning, as much as I like and listen music and as much as I can recognise 'great' performing I could not explain in so many correct terms whay some particular performance is 'great' or 'good'. (for 'bad' ones is easier,it seems) I may say that I like it. (or not) For rest and for more, I tend to leave it to professionals... Than again, for some performances, I am completely certain, that if looked from 'technical' point of view, they are incomplete, to say at least, but sometimes or often, some of them give me chills. For instance, Chet Baker. He is not Placido Domingo nor even Dean Martin, but his singing is very dear to me. As for A.Lenox or E.Elias, they are great, but never either of them even remotly gave me the feeling such as I had while listening to Nina Simone Just wanted to say that 'confrontation' with 'better' examples to some of our choices is not the right path, imho. My first thought, when I see something interested posted is to post another gem, that perhaps the original poster might like and does not have. For the ones that I dont like, I stay politely silent or even try to give it one more shot,(if its in genre that I like) out of respect or with a thought that I could perhaps discover some new angle to look at it. Spewing your bile across people you've never met is lousy way to talk about jazz, no matter how fun it may seems. Its a kind of folklor here, but I should hate if it gets out of hands. So, you have been warned... https://youtu.be/suY06PVK_bI |
No, still not, forgive me, will try my best to do it on Monday. Yes, Das Boot is a great movie....have only few movies on dvd, never thought of collecting them, perhaps because I always try to see some that I have not seen yet...and yet, I buy books, aldo it takes much more time to read the book again, than to see the film. Hm, thats a interesting thought now... |
