I've probably done 4 versions of this mix privately, ever since seeing Paper Moon a couple years back. I like it as a weekend driving soundtrack, but I just used it last night as background for a game night gathering. There's something fantastic about the upbeat mood of swing jazz that takes me back to car rides with my grandfather, and generally puts me in a good mood. The music is light, yet very powerful; there's a good reason that filmmakers use it to evoke emotions in their audience. If you're looking for a [...]
There are only 7 days to go until the Olympics things here in London are getting a bit crazy. The locals seem to be finally getting excited about it. In typically British fashion their excitement is shown by you know, making fun of the games. I love that British sense of humor! This mixtape did not come together easily but I think it works. If you enjoy these mixtapes it would nice to hear from you. Tell me what sucks, what's good, how the weather is, you know that kind of thing. [...]
Here's a beautiful collection of Jazz songs stolen from Best Of Collections, songs I heard in Ken Burns' Jazz, and jazz standards that I've always had in my head whether or not I knew it. It's an excellent mix of beautiful vocal songs and compelling instrumentals. Enjoy. 01 Ella Fitzgerald - A Tisket, A Tasket 02 Count Basie & His Orchestra - Oh, Lady Be Good 03 Billie Holiday - My Solitude 04 Noble Sissle and His Orchestra featuring Sidney Bechet - Dear Old Southland 05 Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - They Can't [...]
Sidney Bechet - Si Tu Vois Ma Mere There’s a whimsicality in Woody Allen's fondling and measuring of life’s curiosities and it doesn’t quite sit with the claim to himself be the room’s gloom. Reality, however, assumes it must sit quite agreeably, probably in a cross-legged gesture, otherwise where would the movies go? There would be no resulting art to speak of nor cured curiosity to honour dead cats. We’ll call it cognitive dissonance or maybe we’ll call it just getting along, but Allen has stared the banality of it all square in the [...]
[ mix cover image by Patrick Tsai ] June 2011 Mix 01 Intro 02 Low - Starfire 03 Manganese Madness - Dame 04 Otis Harris - You'll Like My Loving 05 Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi 06 Versus - Blade Of Grass 07 Heartbeat Hotel - Windowsill 1 08 Eternal Summers - Prisoner [...]
Photography by purpleplaid "Jazz is like a great void, it waits patiently until a brave musician takes control of space and time." - Chris Griffin Hello all you cool cats out there! I’ve been off doing some adventuring (more so than usual) and found myself in the Big Apple last weekend. It was my first trip to NYC and maybe there is some magnificent pull that city has on all its visitors, or maybe it was just my experiences but something about that city makes me feel [...]
Sidney Bechet ( official tribute wiki AMG ) was a master clarinetist and saxophonist, though today you'll only hear him on the clarinet. I don't upload a lot of instrumental versions of Stag, since I'm more interested in the lyrical changes between versions than the musical ones. But this is a nice mellow take on the song, featuring one Art Hodes on piano. The discography on that tribute site tells us it was recorded in New York City in February of 1946. At the risk of repeating myself, my wedding is soon, [...]
Filed under: Around the World What a playlist! Some African folk songs mixed with the African-American R&B of Otis Redding , Aretha Franklin and James Brown . Sidney Bechet and Bollywood. Santana's 'Samba Pa Ti' and a South African lullaby. And it all works together perfectly. It would be tough to find a better mix on any hour of even the most eclectic radio or club DJ set. But it's on 'Oyo,' the upcoming album from Angélique Kidjo -- due for release [...]
Those who have read my stuff before (all three of you) will remember that I was once quite a clarinetist. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that I played at being a clarinetist, but that was enough to find myself drawn to some of the greats. You know, the guys who could actually play well. I definitely dug Benny Goodman, and once wrote a piece about how he and I shared a lot of characteristics (even if those didn't include talent and skill). Artie Shaw, Woody Herman and a few others also attracted [...]
bohren & der club of gore still am tresen 2008 sidney bechet song of songs 1947 (française version) La voiture qui me précède est bleue. Celle qui me suit, rouge. Je suis en gris. Le feu rouge se trouve quelques mètres plus haut. Avant, il y a le rond-point. A cette heure-ci, c'est lui [...]
Verano Meatballs, Are You Ready For the Summer? War, Summer. The Woods, Love Me Again This Summer. The Beach Boys, Your Summer Dream. Bob Dylan, In the Summertime. Les Paul and Mary Ford, In the Good Old Summertime. Al Green, Summertime. Sidney Bechet, Summertime. Roy Richards and the Soul Vendors, Summertime. Gene Vincent, Summertime. Antonio Vivaldi, L'Estate: Presto. Astor Piazzolla, Verano
While Kip heroically tries to stop the World Zionist Conspiracy, let's take a trip to jazz age Harlem. Hey, what's that smell? SENDIN' THE VIPERS The Mezz Mezzrow Orchestra RCA/Bluebird: 1934 Available on: Rhapsodies in Black , Dope & Glory , et al Say hello to serial convert Mezz Mezzrow. Russian Jew by birth, he converted to black music at 15, which he discovered, of course, in prison. (It "hit me like a millennium would hit a philosopher," said Mezz.) Black music was just a gateway drug. Under [...]
6 Cardinal Colors: Blue George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue. Henry "Red" Allen, (Trouble Ends) Out Where the Blue Begins. Langston Hughes, Too Blue. Louis Armstrong, Blue Again. Bessie Smith, Blue Blue. Men At Work, Blue For You. The Savoy Orpheans, The Blue Room. Jimmy Rowles, Serenade in Blue. Clifford Hayes, Blue Guitar Stomp. Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Blue Bonnet Rag. Sidney Bechet, Blue
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