Al Bowlly - Guilty The audible crackle that clothes "Guilty", and its restless fizzling layering of grime, is to music what the wash of black and white is to photography. It's a quality fraught with permission to undermine any need for introduction of scene, instead offering in its place a time and location and specificity all through presence alone. Bowlly's voice is entirely triumphant, playing out stretched notes which build upon and caress vocal landscapes; those hovering above sprite piano fits, churning wisdom with every uttered word, and soaring with claims [...]
The story of Blue Moon — its transition from a movie song that was rewritten several times to jazz song and then pop hit — was told in The Originals Vol. 40 , which included the first version, The Bad In Every Man, sung on film by Shirley Ross. This collection of 38 versions covers all manner of approaches. There are the early jazz interpretations, most of them with vocals (though Gene Krupa, Django Reinhardt and in 1944 the Cozy Cole Allstars do it instrumentally). Then it became something of a torchsong number in the hands of [...]
war das musikjahr 2010 so ereignislos oder hab ich einfach nur nix mitgekriegt? meine top 3 alben des jahres 2010: 3. good shoes - no hope, no future das zweite album der good shoes, nicht so über-brilliant wie das erste aber immer noch sehr gut, unprätentiös, eingängig, nachdenklich, ehrlich. mehr braucht man nicht für gute musik. anspieltipp: under control 2. klaxons - surfing the void [...]
To aid the Valentine's Day scramble of many lovers to find the right song to express their sincere love, here is the second lot of songs about being in blissful, requited love. Amd if none of these and none of the first part's songs do the trick, try the two mixes linked to at the end of this post. As promised, next week we'll do break-ups. * * * Elton John - Seasons (1971).mp3 Written [...]
Long a fan of Wiley , it's no surprise that his latest venture, a "cover me, sampling" song with many influential beats behind it, was prone to end up on my pages. Let's look back at 1997 first. White Town sampled jazz singer Al Bowlly's 1930's trumpet line in his song My Woman , for their own updatedly-late-90's jam, Your Woman . Now, over thirteen years later, Wiley has jumped on [...]
Louis Armstrong - Jeepers Creepers (from The Majestic Years ) Al Bowlly - It's Great To Be In Love (from The Al Bowlly Story ) Though I'm generally not one for beaches and sunsets and the great outdoors and all that, it is a realm lush with metaphorical possibilities for describing that woozy internal feeling we call love. So, on days like today when it's treacherously cold [...]
Saturday morning brought the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. In 1918, that time brought Armistice, the end of World War I. The conflict was known at the time as "The War to End All Wars," a nice piece of savage irony. It was also called the Great War; later, they called its successor the Good War. So, if the wars decrease in quality as we go along, where are we now? There were many notable bands in the Thirties, but lots of people have a great affection for [...]
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