Jazz for aficionados
0-10, I agree about Wardell Gray’s ballad playing. Beautiful player who like Coleman Hawkins was a transitional player who bridged swing and bebop. To my ears he sounded pretty credible in a bebop setting, but he was still mostly rooted in the swing tradition and sounded most at home there. Shades of Lester Young. You may like this: https://youtu.be/d4l2KDVMjXU |
The clip was not meant as a good example of “Fever”We got it fro, but wanted to emphasize our Fever version. (Mine is that one from the Elvis, the king. But even though that’s not the point here, it doesn’t hurt to mention.) Bernadette is such an actor. Her acting abilities serves her singing well. The way she moves, compensates what she wanted to say through words/voice only. Her performance is quite opposite to the one’s from Norah that I posted. It is interesting for me to see how much body language a stage singer uses as opposed to the purely voice interpretation (if such barely exists). How much of the body interpretation should be there to be sent out to the audience and how much of the share goes to voice interpretation only? Where is the balance? I guess this one is unanswerable and can be taken nearly as rhetorical question. |
nsp, interesting post on Little Willie John. I just became a teenager about the time rock and roll emerged in popularity. I remember John but strangely not that song in his original version. However in my defense, during the ’50s there were still regional hits, not just a single national Top Twenty. Anyway, that one reminded me of this which was a personal favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kIswurDJt4 It was a few years later before I developed a serious interest in jazz. But R&R relates to R&B which relates to jazz so there were connections. |
This recording is all Tabackin songs. Can only find this track off the recording on youtube, but there is some great blowing on this record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egbntk-QxJs |
