What are you listening to (plus reviews)

[Jazzaferri]

Bob Reynolds has been catching my attention of late. Particularly like the stuff he is doing with Snarky Puppy and his latest album "Quartet"

 

[Ivan]

Bob Reynolds has been catching my attention of late. Particularly like the stuff he is doing with Snarky Puppy and his latest album "Quartet"

Heard him place with Snarky puppy last year

He was ace

 

[Jeanette]

We saw Bob at BOTW this year, great evening

Jx

 

[Andrew Sanders]

Guitar and alto at their best

 

[Jazzaferri]

Jeff Coffin is another fave of mine. His work with Bela Fleck was genre defying and isnpiriational. HE is now with the Dave Matthews Band and has his own bands as well.

 

[dooce]

I saw the Alina Bzhezhinska quartet last week in Coventry, with the estimable Tony Kofi on sop and tenor. Not many jazz quartets are lead by a Ukranian harpist - playing a lot of Coltrane, mostly Alice but some John as well. Fabulous evening and have been listening to the CD, "Inspiration" ever since. Highly recommended

 

[s.mundi]

I'm listen to Besame Mucho, because I'm going to sing it (per special request). I don't speak Spanish, but I'm going to sing it in Spanish.

 

[Jeanette]

I'm listen to Besame Mucho, because I'm going to sing it (per special request). I don't speak Spanish, but I'm going to sing it in Spanish.

Listen here December TOTM: BESAME MUCHO

Jx

 

[Riversider]

+1 for Bob Reynolds, and his new album"Quartet" — especially see the live concert in a studio in Cologne at

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=FmELxApshLE
.

 

[aldevis]

I'm listen to Besame Mucho, because I'm going to sing it (per special request). I don't speak Spanish, but I'm going to sing it in Spanish.

I don't recommend this version:

View: https://youtu.be/FjursdqfUhM

 

[Jules]

I'm listen to Besame Mucho, because I'm going to sing it (per special request). I don't speak Spanish, but I'm going to sing it in Spanish.

Wow- singing n a language you don't understand... brave. I remember meeting a Mexican busker in Barcelona who had learnt a set of Bob Dylan songs entirely phonetically .. fascinating to listen to... in that he perfectly sang exactly what Dylan sang- not what the words actually are.... "The answer my fren ezz blowin eena weeen"

 

[s.mundi]

Wow- singing n a language you don't understand... brave. I remember meeting a Mexican busker in Barcelona who had learnt a set of Bob Dylan songs entirely phonetically .. fascinating to listen to... in that he perfectly sang exactly what Dylan sang- not what the words actually are.... "The answer my fren ezz blowin eena weeen"

My 80 year old father is dying from lymphatic cancer and asked me to learn/sing three songs:
La Vie En Rose - In the style of Mr. Armstrong
Besame Muncho
and
A Closer Walk With Thee-- In the style of Patsy Cline....

View: https://youtu.be/rzmkZG3pDLE

The even the old man DOESN'T want to hear me play the saxophone.

 

[Targa]

Wow- singing n a language you don't understand... brave.

Not really, have you never sung 'On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at'?

 

[aldevis]

Besame Muncho

Is that some sort of a chewing kiss?

Wow- singing n a language you don't understand...

Does anyone believe that they were understanding the lyrics?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ

 

[Jules]

Does anyone believe that they were understanding the lyrics?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ

I've heard some odd conspiracy about the FBI believing this particular song had hidden messages in it... for those who could decipher them!!

 

[altissimo]

I've heard some odd conspiracy about the FBI believing this particular song had hidden messages in it... for those who could decipher them!!

FACT CHECK: Are the Lyrics to 'Louie, Louie' Obscene?
"In retrospect, it’s easy to identify the aspects of the Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” that made the “filthy lyrics” myth even a tiny bit plausible. The pidgin English narration of the lyrics was unusual enough, and comprehension difficulties were compounded on the Kingsmen’s recording by several factors:
- Lead singer Jack Ely had strained his voice participating in a marathon 90-minute “Louie Louie” jam the night before the session.
- Ely was singing with braces on his teeth.
- The boom microphone in the studio was reportedly fixed way too high for Ely, requiring him to stand on tiptoe and sing up into the mike: “We were initially just going to record the song as an instrumental, and at the last minute I decided I’d sing it. All of this in a 10-by-10 room with one microphone. I’m standing on my tippy toes yelling into the microphone: Louie Louie! Louie Louie! We gotta go!'”
- What the band thought was a rehearsal run-through turned out to be their one and only take of the song."

 

[Andrew Sanders]

Not really, have you never sung 'On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at'?

Wotchit puss.

 

[Targa]

Wotchit puss.

I've been awaiting your response for several hours.

 

[Andrew Sanders]

Sorry I was on the moor with Mary Jane.

 

[Targa]

Sorry I was on the moor with Mary Jane.

The young lady or ........?