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Have you HEARD those harmonies? That's one voice, baby!
that's my story and I'm sticking to it.😎😁
pas encore, j'erre toujours.
I apologize for the confusion around my original post. Whe I said "non-gypsy jazz artists" I meant musical artists that are known for playing styles of music other than gypsy jazz. That's why I started the conversation with Grant Green, Hank Mobley & The Carter Family. Being a Django forum, I assumed we all love him, as well as many of the other greats in the genre. But I wanted to dig deeper into other less obvious artists that have had an impact on members of this forum. Either way, I've really been enjoying the responses here. In fact, I've started methodically exploring the artists (and links) to learn more about the musicians that have been posted here. Keep them coming, this is interesting & fun.
Debussy… yeah, what a genius… what an imagination…who had ever dreamed of such unworldly sounds?
He was a big influence on many early jazz giants including Ellington, Bix, and especially Venuti and Lang… their lovely tune “Doin’ Things” includes sections directly lifted from “Maiden with the Flaxen Hair”.
I wonder if Django was a Debussy fan? He is said to have loved classical music.
Will
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Thanks Will. I had no idea.
pas encore, j'erre toujours.
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
yeah, I smiled when I saw pral16 give Anat Cohen and Marcello Gonsalves a mention, they both feature separately in the videos I posted- they are tremendous musicians.
I saw Mariza (with, iirc, Luis Guerreiro and Angelo Freire) more than a decade ago in Glasgow, though I didn't really get into fado until a visit to southern Portugal, where it's heard everywhere. I came home and bought a couple of Guitarras Portuguesas- maybe the instrument does need it's own thread here, although it's not very "Django". It's certainly tricky to learn, although my Portuguese language skills are improving, which helps, as there's almost no tutorials available in English and no-one local teaching/playing it. I think I'm the only guy in Scotland who owns one ;-)
We were in Lisbon's sun-dappled flea market, the "Feira da Ladra" when I heard CD stallholders playing Brazilian songs I knew with a spellbinding voice - it turns out Antonio (Tom) Carlos Jobim's son Paulo (guitar) and grandson Daniel (piano) had, on hearing her voice, reformed Tom's old backing group "Banda Nova" specifically to feature Carminho singing many of Tom's famous compositions- a high honour, indeed.
The resultant album is immensely beautiful, imho, - judge for yourselves:
Django was a “Debussy fan”.
youtube.com/user/TheTeddyDupont
Wow, that's remarkable, thanks Will. I'll never have an ounce of that ability to tease out the heart of something and let it burble it through some other musical spirit to make something new. It's something I marvel at. I'm really good at some things, but this isn't one of them. I'll be happy to play good accompaniment and replicate note for note certain songs.
Very cool.
pas encore, j'erre toujours.
He covered Reverie more than once
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