Contemplazione

Even though... "Lady Jazz" perhaps rightfully belongs to Ella Fitzgerald! I've only heard a couple of scattered tracks by Etta, which I liked a lot when I listened to them. At Last! I'll make a note of it...

...burbling... I like it. On the other hand, I've been quite "petente"! (a mix between a fart, heavy, and stinky). For your next review, why not on Herbie Hancock ;-)

Perfectly effective in making your concept the Chaplin/Scrooge McDuck parallel! Very interesting note. Too bad about the accents on the numerous "fu" at the end of the review, as well as the StAinway, as others have already pointed out. È bello leggere in koréto italyàno!!

Curious. I own a CD (which I would rate a 4) titled "Nick Gravenites (With Michael Bloomfield)-My Labors & More," part studio and part live, where the live part is indeed recorded at the Fillmore in '69, featuring "It Takes Time." The other tracks you mention do not appear on my CD. But is Gravenites present on all of them? Bloomfield is a great blues guitarist, but "the greatest guitarist of all time"? NO for Diana!

So, given that Paul Anka is an artist of little merit, and clarifying that "singer for ladies" types like Bublé have very little to do with Swing (the jazz of the '30s, with great orchestras and legendary figures like Duke Ellington leading the way), I have some disagreements with your statement: "IF a song is BORN that way, with that arrangement, with that mood, it is right to preserve it like that in the hearts of the people who loved it." I do not agree, not as long as the remake is respectful of the original and aims to preserve and enhance the inherent beauties of the piece itself. One prime example: the covers by Radiohead and Nick Drake performed by the amazing pianist-composer-thinker Brad Mehldau; they explore new territories, develop certain melancholies already inherent in the original material, expand or contract the spaces, but above all, they represent a true CELEBRATION, an ACT OF LOVE towards the originals. In this light, with this approach and with these results, long live the "covers"! As for the sung versions, it's a bit (a fair bit) different, but let it be clear to everyone that Paul Anka is NOT Swing and is NOT Jazz. I haven't heard the record (obviously!), but I'll give it a 1 on trust!!

Now yes!! I really liked this one... and thinking back to the movie reminded me of the atmosphere at the last wedding I attended! Weddings... what trashy scenes. Uxo, are you still mad at me? Your poor Contempla, the boring stick-in-the-mud?

Exactly Muff, good job remembering the collaboration with Mingus! Charlie continually praised him, and in his classic album "Oh Yeah" from '62, Roland plays wonderfully! In addition to the tenor sax and flute, the "manzello," the "sirena" (siren), and the "stritch." Talk about the ordinary...

How ignorant I am... I have NOTHING of him! I will start from this.

Finally, Braschi delivers a performance worthy of the name! Could it have been her husband's presence that compromised her results in the past? A really well-made film, just like the review, "dry, clean, and descriptive"!

The great Roland Kirk, one of the most complete and multifaceted wind players in jazz, a true pioneer for a subsequent wave of multi-instrumentalists. Among other things, his blindness makes his masterful simultaneous control of wind instruments (up to three at once) even more extraordinary. Here he only plays the flute; he intended it to be a concept album, but in my opinion, the results are partially disappointing, especially when compared to the achievements he reached with other wind instruments in his best albums, which are essential to know: "Rip, Rig And Panic" (the CD also includes the LP "Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith") and "A Meeting Of The Times." Two records at a 5, compared to this one which is a 3. Maybe you spent too much time on Jethro Tull...it’s clear it was an "indirect" review! In other words, you couldn’t care less about Roland Kirk, but since Ian Anderson mentioned him, you went to dig up the album and wrote a couple of lines ;)