General Chat

Ah, sax. My very first ever internet amour ... the ex-poetry professor retired to Cape Fear on the US southeast coast, playing sax in a big band ...

He wasn't at all what he sounds like, though. All his kids were in the US military, dare I say with just a hint of disapproval without it leading to another witchhunt.

But oh how I swooned for a few weeks, until he decided he was too old for me and wasn't interested in a real life kinda woman anyhow ...

Music is not me, and yet musicians seem to follow me around.

Sylvia - anybody - want a sample of No.2's work? It's called blues, and I detest blues, but it's not da DA da da blues, it's finger-picked guitar and sometimes lively sometimes melancholy tunes.

Oh I do apologise. Jumps on the apology bandwagon with agility and finesse. It must be me. My fault your thread was deleted, should have known the minority couldn't stomach talk about dignitaries other than their own.

I think you are fated to be a right royal dignitary in your own right, Janey. Queen (or princess should you prefer) of the Delete Threads.

Diana Krall. Let me see . Canadian born jazz singer. Michael Connelly uses her music in his books. I think with either the characters Terry McCaleb (deceased) or Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch. Downright boring stuff so far as I can hear, but then the only jazz orientated "tune" I have ever liked was Brubeck's Take Five!!

Yes I am at work. Looking like I am flat out typing!!

I'd love a sample of No 2's work ..... some blues I really like, other I don't.


now sax ....... I really love sax


My first ever exposure to jazz was in the 1950s UK ................ Humphrey Lyttleton, then Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine (as it was hedalined in those days!).

Midnight jazz concerts in Essex!

Jazz in the park at Kew in 1989 I think it was.

Beautiful summers evening and lovely fireworks for after picnic dessert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGfQaYnBP5Y

"Rufus and Martha Wainwright star in a tribute to McGarrigle Sisters for CBC Canada."

Rufus plays Kate and Martha plays Anna. Or vice versa. I never had a clue which was which. ;)

Not a lot on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb2x9uZVPek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcbIjfLYxOY
"Gentle Annie"

Cleo Laine and husband, too! I saw them in concert once, somewhere ... it certainly wasn't in the 50s though!

Jazz in the park -- I have to try to actually get to the local jazz in the park event this summer. So much of it is just stuff being passed off as jazz these days, though ...

Yes, AuntyS: "boring" is about the single best adjective for our Diana Krall. ;)

HI
BUTTING IN
MY COUSIN LIVES NEXT DOOR
LOVES JAZZ..
QUITE LIKE SOME,
BUT HES GOT TWO IRRIATING HABITS
IN THE SUMMER HE PLAYS HIS CD'S IN THE GARDEN
AND GOES INDOORS AND BECAUSE HE SHUTS
THE DOOR HE CANT HERE THE MUSIC SO COMES BACK AN

INSTEAD OF TAKING IT INDOORS HE TURNES IT UP
FULL VOLUME
2ND
WHEN HE PLAYS IT ALL NIGHT,THE WALLS VIBRATE
GIVE ME TEENAGERS ANYDAY TO A 84 YEAR OLD

Dizzi!

Are you saying people who like jazz are old??

;)

NO JUST HES A PAIN IN THE ***
TEENAGES I CAN HANDLE BUT HIM AHHHHHHHHHHHH

roflol!


Dizzi ...... could you give him an extra cd player???

Didiya get yer mp3, Syl? I haven't seen any swooning yet. ;)

I have one of the Bruce Cockburn live track in the other thread too, should you need more incentive to swoon.

Sorry, had to go and start the supper cooking


Thanks Janey, the blues arrived but haven't had time to play it yet!

Martha Wainwright!!

Snow Patrol, Eyes Open, track 8. Set the Fire to the Third Bar.

What's all this brouhaha??

I have no idea what those words mean. ;)

I don't know anything much about Martah Wainwright either, just heard her a bit on CBC radio in the early days when she did live things.

Rufus is a bit of a precocious pain ...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddR6xhNly2o

Snow Patrol
Featuring Martha Wainwright
Set The Fire to The Third Bar
Onscreen Lyrics

better, live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLz6vI4qzeU

Some viewers appear to find the gesticulating distracting ... ;)

Here's a treat.

Back when I actually used to read Sartre ... not just his cookbook ... one book, probably La Nausée, had a recurring reference to a song and its lyrics:

Some of these days
You're gonna miss me baby

I'd never heard it (I was very young) and had no idea what it was supposed to sound like, so I made up my own tune and hummed it to myself when the lyrics appeared.

Then I found the real song. I think I like my tune better. ;) But here she is, Sophie Tucker, recorded in 1911!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V164YjqoFCw


I'm actually also a big fan of early Bing Crosby ... Oh! Maybe I did subconsciously know what that song was! His version sounds much like mine. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgzR4jINXF8

and someone there suggests that it was taken from the Cab Calloway version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PP4ijTG080

Happy music!

Now why I like Snow Patrol. And yes I have seen them in concert, twice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP5j_Q9CZ3w

I don't know if I've done it correct but this is the recording that drew my attention to them. And after that How to be Dead, and Chocolate and then they turned commercial and became famous.

By the way the vid clip is garbage but no hand gestures. And they do take a bit of getting used to.

You lot would like my late father's 78 rpm record collection. Yep I have about 200 recordings from the late 30s to the early 50s. Lots of different music including big band stuff. Haven't looked at them for ages. I know my favourite though. Rina Petty singing J'attendre.

So ... I have one bid for the hand and heart of No.2, whose singing and picking melts the heart of every girl for miles around.

Sigh, he didn't want me, so somebody else may as well have him ...........

Stop gossiping JC and send me some blues please,I need them to cheer me up.