Jazz for aficionados
Claude Thornhill was writing and playing music in the 30's and 40's that would be hip today .This song , "Snowflakes " was written and arranged in 1940 by him and him alone . He had things like a 6 clarinet choir, Danny Polo was lead and fabulous . https://youtu.be/VnKNiKmFpo8 |
Great clips. Thanks! That “Night And Day” is simply amazing. And I can understand the appreciation of Sullivan given what I know about your appreciation of Bennett. The common thread, as I hear it, is the sense of a kind of humility in the singing....the music is always greater than the performer’s ego. The playing of the musicians accompanying is fantastic. |
Those were the Thornhill gang . The music is their ego . Danny Polo getting after it , he could swing your house down or play your baby a lullaby !https://youtu.be/XM1xmxeEBvI?list=RDXM1xmxeEBvI Danny comes in late , as usual with his band but ................ Easy Danny starts but ...............https://youtu.be/SWZZXbJ4RQ8 |
Here are a couple of offbeat but in my opinion great jazz discs, made of of unusual duo's. * The first, which from a search of threads appears not to have appeared here yet is a SACD/CD called "Superbass 2". It is a sequel to any earlier 2006 release entitled "Superbass". It is a trio consisting of three bassists - Ray Brown, Christian McBride, and John Clayton. On two tracks they are aided by a bit, but just a bit, of percussion. The album covers standards and some really neat originals, which cover the gamut from ballads to swinging tour-de'forces. Sound boring? It's not .... try it. Telarc SACD 63483. * The second is an album featuring saxophonist Houston Person and bassist Ron Carter. They have played together off and on for years, and cover everything from standards to a couple of originals. As much as Superbass swings, these two are modern cool .... but extremely musical. Houston is a superb solist and Ron Carter an accomplished bassist, and they clearly are on the same musical wavelinks. HighNote HCD 7315, If you want a break from the usual, give these two a whirl! |
mary jo aside from jazz I read military history books. The partisans and "bandits" as they were also called drew many reprisals for their activities in the Balkans and around the city of Trieste. The infamous Odilo Globočnik took charge of the Balkans area in 1943 and he and his men were ruthless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odilo_Globočnik |
