MUSIC- What are we listening to?

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In Reply To: flower's post @ Oct 16 2012, 03:25 PM

There is a private recording of Duke Ellington playing one night in Brisbane whilst on route to Japan.....story goes The Duke bumps into John Coltrane at Darwin airport John on route back to USA from Japan....hmmmm or was in some Japanese airport.....

I use to speak to a trumpet player that played with The Duke a guy called Forrest Buchtel.....geee did he have many stories to tell during tenure with Duke and other greats during those smokey filled days of Jazz

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In Reply To: continuum's post @ Oct 15 2012, 10:56 PM

Count Basie was the 'Pop music' of its time......the difference is not many pop artists of today can read music...no wonder they still call it 'pop"

Hear Hear, we can all understand "THUMP THUMP", I'd have all cars transmitting crap like that crushed!

Back to CB---most of the musos were using sheet music, even though they would have played these numbers time and time again, the MC told us they carry about 150 tunes with them on tour.

Concert had a great write up in todays West Australian. --utube ---one oclock jump

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In Reply To: flower's post @ Oct 15 2012, 03:27 PM

Count Basie was the 'Pop music' of its time......the difference is not many pop artists of today can read music...no wonder they still call it 'pop" .
On a serious note Richard Cook & Brian Morton authors of the Penguin guide to Jazz give a few C Basie recordings the 5 star accolade....from memory the early Decca recordings is one 5 michelin hatter........ that rests in my 7K+/- cd collection.....

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In Reply To: balance's post @ Oct 13 2012, 07:29 PM

Hi balance, saw Burlinson as well just recently--not bad.

Just got back from "town", which involves at least a 650KM round trip + bed. Don't really know how to describe the Count Basie band of today, save to say it is composed of many who were there decades ago, apart from age related absences the band is exactly as I remembered it in 1962 in the Albert Hall, London, with the great man himself as singer, todays singer certainly no Frank Sinatra but a superb female gospel/swing type singer who gave full throttle to her set pieces.

It goes without saying that this is the music of a long gone age of heroes, given that it was in its heyday just after WW2, since I can vaguely recall the Battle of Britain and DDay, its little wonder that the sound and swing bought back many memories for a packed house of very ageing swingers last night who experienced those very different times first hand. This concert was very polished and ultra professional as one would expect.

This was the first time CB has been to Australia for 40 years, due simply as explained to us, to the sheer cost and logistics involved given their potential audience is dwindling in numbers, but it was great to see so many "youngsters" in last nights audience.

Unless a sponsor can be found, it seems doubtfull if they will be back, since as an experiment this tour of Australia was crammed into just over 8 days, eg the band flew out of Sydney early yesterday morning, played for Perth last night and departed Australia 2am this morning, marvellous effort for so many very near "retirement" age musos.

Wouldn't have missed it for the world, together with the appearance of Burt Bacharach plus 70 musicians two months ago make for really great melodic/swing sound memories of times long since gone, musically regretfully.

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In Reply To: BobE's post @ Oct 14 2012, 08:38 PM

Mark KNOPFLER new double album ''PRIVATEERING''

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This afternoon I listened to jack johnson,joss stone & norah jones.....so relaxing!

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In Reply To: continuum's post @ Oct 13 2012, 09:00 PM

Wish I had an art teacher like that.
I'm obsessively playing Gould playing Bach as usual.

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In Reply To: continuum's post @ Oct 13 2012, 09:00 PM

No I haven't. Folk was the big thing back then. David has done well for himself over the years.

What I did see a few weeks ago was Tom Burlinson doing his frank Sinatra show with a very slick band. He is quite engaging and he does Sinatra very well. There's a few youtube clips of him but the sound does not do his voice justice.

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Urszula Dudziak, "Papaya"
http://music.yahoo.com/urszula-dudziak/

more on youtube, e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYpjfkNXq3U...feature=related

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Hey Balance ....have you been listening to "Life on Mars " by David Jones no less ? my art teacher took me after school to see David Jones at Bromley Tavern pub (she studied art with David in Beckenham,Kent ).....geeee few years latter from folk to a superstar David Bowie emerged....Ziggy played banjo...