Paris jazz sessions, Edouard Pennes

Buco

@djazzy Ha, that's interesting. If I'm getting your point correctly then in a way most recorded material is the same. Because all those nuances you hear on the recording as the result of a close mic'd instrument or a vocal, you wouldn't hear all those nuances by being around the musicians in the studio or wherever else a group might play. To the audience on the streets of Paris, it really makes no difference whether they ditch the mics or not, they'll hear the same thing either way. Only we get treated with this blissful audio. To me, everybody wins.

You know how when bands are making live concert recordings to release as album, the crowd reaction is always mixed in separately between the songs? Maybe ask Edouardo to let in the sound of few sirens, honks, street vendors...after the song is done.

ChrisMartin

FWIW I don't have a problem with them playing this music in the street and then letting us share it with the best possible sound. Bring it on!

djazzy

Process & spectacle aside, they're clearly all great musicians. But this Crossover thing seems like a direction ppl are now going into. Last night, I noticed in my YouTube feed more videos of string sections doing nice accompaniment to the jazz guys -- all from 2022 -- but musically not all that interesting & kinda cringe. Kinda touches a nerve. Then again, I have to say that its not easy to explain my unease since I also know that written out parts for instruments & the "classical" thing can be really great with the GJ genre. The Paris Sessions, for me, just don't quite pull it off. But Duved has done really incredible things with musical arrangements. I also posted a Bach Prelude a while back by Filippo Dall' Asta. And there's more so I know its been done.

djazzy

@Buco and @rangro, I think Glenn Gould had a term for the art & technology of recording music that was distinct from live performance, called it "phonography." Funny term.