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pinball1970
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I thought the Roberta Flak was the original but it was this.
I have a weakness for sopranos, preferably coloraturo soprano.pinball1970 said:Anyway, OLJ you love her even more than Lemmy!
I had to look that up, I thought you meant contralto! I know you do not like Miley Sirus but she actually displays some coloraturo features in that performance. Trills, range tone... Surprising.fresh_42 said:I have a weakness for sopranos, preferably coloraturo soprano.
Hornbein said:Turn Your Love Around (George Benson) I remember George from before he started to sing.
Stella by Starlight was from the 40s and is one of the most played jazz standards, most of which are Tim pan alley tunes of the 20s -40ssymbolipoint said:@BWV, you gave a video example of Stella By Starlight, as being of Jazz, but my senses tell me that the example given is something other than Jazz - but what category, I am not sure. Your example seems like nice smooth mostly unexcited music; the kind of music that one would have expected as filler music played in a movie theatre in the 1960's and 1970's just a few minutes before the featured movie was to be started.
Many of today's jazz standards were originally famous popular tunes. This made it easier for the audience to relate to. Heck, John Coltrane and Miles Davis played Disney tunes. Now the originals are forgotten while the jazz versions live on. Very common also was to write a new melody over the chords of a popular tune. All this went out of style with modern jazz. However Japanese jazzers still often play the popular tunes of today. Not coincidentally jazz is a lot more popular in Japan than in the USA.symbolipoint said:@BWV, you gave a video example of Stella By Starlight, as being of Jazz, but my senses tell me that the example given is something other than Jazz - but what category, I am not sure. Your example seems like nice smooth mostly unexcited music; the kind of music that one would have expected as filler music played in a movie theatre in the 1960's and 1970's just a few minutes before the featured movie was to be started.
A beautiful and dramatic piece that well deserves its immortality. The European style is now no longer popular but remains preserved in "classical" music. There's a reason people have gone to so much trouble to keep it going. It's called love.symbolipoint said:@BWV, you gave a video example of Stella By Starlight, as being of Jazz, but my senses tell me that the example given is something other than Jazz - but what category, I am not sure. Your example seems like nice smooth mostly unexcited music; the kind of music that one would have expected as filler music played in a movie theatre in the 1960's and 1970's just a few minutes before the featured movie was to be started.
I don't worry about genres. Either I like something or I don't.symbolipoint said:Hornbein and BWV,
I am not too knowledgeable about Jazz, although I have heard some. Some forms or types I do not know how to recognize. Some pieces, I might miscategorize as something else.
When someone says Jazz it has connotations to it but really it is like saying "classical"symbolipoint said:@BWV, you gave a video example of Stella By Starlight, as being of Jazz, but my senses tell me that the example given is something other than Jazz - but what category, I am not sure. Your example seems like nice smooth mostly unexcited music; the kind of music that one would have expected as filler music played in a movie theatre in the 1960's and 1970's just a few minutes before the featured movie was to be started.
pinball1970 said:Speaking of jazz....
Hornbein said:
Josephine Alexandra -- Sweet Child of Mine
Hornbein said:Y'all seem to be searching for a definition of jazz. This is as close as I can come. Count Basie Big Band with Arthur Prysock.
I used to hang out in the Usenet jazz guitar group. It included some famous players. They were a very tough audience, extremely critical. Jazz guitarists have a hard life. I claimed this was the ultimate in swing and defied them all to exceed it. No one even tried.
The band said the key to their swing was Freddy Green, the almost inaudible guitar player.
Hornbein said:White people can make great jazz too.
But swing like Basie? Nah...
Clint Eastwood was asked if he intended to learn to play sax like Charlie Parker. Clint replied, "a man's got to know his limitations."
Ok, it is no cover, but after all these discussions about Jazz, I have to post it:pinball1970 said:When someone says Jazz it has connotations to it but really it is like saying "classical"
There is a world of difference between Stravinsky and Mozart. They both use an orchest
pinball1970 said:Speaking of jazz....
The thing with this song is that 'tongue in cheek' does not cover it and yet it's great! The arrangement, the clever change of the rhythm and chords.Ibix said:It's good, but I find myself distracted trying to work out if the lead singer is convincing CGI or a real person with enough hairspray to sink a battleship.