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Lunacy What The Hell Are You Listening To?
- Thread starter EveryDayAmnesiac
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Planck
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Ditto on the love of afro-cuban music, I love all rhythmically complex music.
Oye Como Va is a 3 2 clave rhythm. Also call the clave (confusing because the sticks a also clave) and son clave. There are many other variations. It is found in music genres from all over the world. Scholars say it originated in Africa and is at least 5000 years old. How fuckin cool is that, a rhythm that has captivated musical imagination for 5000 years. Hey Bo Diddley. 12tone called it the worlds most important rhythm.
Learn African Rhythms for any instrument: Kevin Nathaniel - It’s All About Rhythm
In this video renowned Afro-Roots musician Kevin Nathaniel takes us through three essential clave rhythms and how to play them.
Baron23
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I had the honor of seeing Ella at Wolftrap. She was at the end of her career and a bit frail....but man, she could still sing.
Her and Sarah Vaughn.
Her is a quiet song from Sarah.....wow, voice of an angel. Ella may have been the queen of scat, but I think Sarah is the queen of the sweet voice. See what you think
Baron23
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The scene showed in the vid of the post above is Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell dancing to Begin the Beguine from Broadway Melody of 1940.
Here is the whole dance to the original music.
There is a bit of an introductory scene in this clip from the movie. I have attempted to start it when Astaire and Powell come out but if that didn't work, just go to 59 second point and start there.
Little known fact is that Astaire did not very much with Powell and went on to dance with other ladies (Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse and others) because....well, he was intimidated by Powell's dancing. He said “Eleanor Powell, one of our greatest talents, is a bit too powerful for me,” he said. “I love Eleanor Powell, but she dances like a man." Really, she was the only one who could meet or even out dance Astaire. In some lists of best tap dancers ever, she is often ranked higher than Astaire or Gene Kelly ( https://dancespirit.com/best-tap-dancers )
This is an interesting write up about Powell, the reaction of her insecure male co-stars (incl Astaire), and how this killed her movie career.
newrepublic.com
Keep in mind, Astaire was a brilliant artist....but Powell did it in heels and the torture devices that was ladies under garments at the time. IMO, Powell wins by a landslide! haha
Also, there is part of this dance where the music stops and they keep dancing. My hearing isn't that good but all I hear is one dancer. They were THAT syncopated and in time with each other. See if you can hear two dancers or only one.
To me, this is one of the greatest tap dance scenes ever recorded. Its brutally hard work with a great deal of effort made to look like there is no effort at all.
I just love this stuff.
Here is the whole dance to the original music.
There is a bit of an introductory scene in this clip from the movie. I have attempted to start it when Astaire and Powell come out but if that didn't work, just go to 59 second point and start there.
Little known fact is that Astaire did not very much with Powell and went on to dance with other ladies (Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse and others) because....well, he was intimidated by Powell's dancing. He said “Eleanor Powell, one of our greatest talents, is a bit too powerful for me,” he said. “I love Eleanor Powell, but she dances like a man." Really, she was the only one who could meet or even out dance Astaire. In some lists of best tap dancers ever, she is often ranked higher than Astaire or Gene Kelly ( https://dancespirit.com/best-tap-dancers )
This is an interesting write up about Powell, the reaction of her insecure male co-stars (incl Astaire), and how this killed her movie career.
Remembering Eleanor Powell, the Dancer Too Good for Fred Astaire
Eleanor Powell, the magnificently talented movie-musical performer of the mid-twentieth century, was too good for Hollywood. I don’t mean too virtuous; I mean too virtuosic—too masterful at her specialty, tap dancing, for the powers of the studio system, including its powerful male stars, to...
newrepublic.com
Keep in mind, Astaire was a brilliant artist....but Powell did it in heels and the torture devices that was ladies under garments at the time. IMO, Powell wins by a landslide! haha
Also, there is part of this dance where the music stops and they keep dancing. My hearing isn't that good but all I hear is one dancer. They were THAT syncopated and in time with each other. See if you can hear two dancers or only one.
To me, this is one of the greatest tap dance scenes ever recorded. Its brutally hard work with a great deal of effort made to look like there is no effort at all.
I just love this stuff.
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Baron23
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love delta blues...used to be a radio show on Sat mornings in D.C. on WPFW Pacifica Radio called "The 'Bama Hour" with this old fella from...well, yeah...Alabama. And that's all he did was play delta blues....stuff you never even heard and that never made it off of vinyl. And old vinyl at that.
This is a tune from Scorsese's The Last Waltz which was The Band's last concert. This particular song is a Sonny Boy Williams number (he's dead a long time now) done principally by Paul Butterfield and Levon Helms and called Mystery Train.
As a side note, Butterfield's lead guitar in his band was Michael Bloomfield who was an extraordinary guitar player, a heroin junky who OD and died from it, and a Bar Mitzvah boy like myself. Little known fact....lots of us Jews playing the blues! Yeah, that rhymes. haha e.g Peter Green (from the original Fleetwood Mac), Michael Bloomfield (already mentioned), Harvey Mandel )Canned Heat), Al Kooper (fucking been everywhere and played with everybody incl a recording he produced called Super Session that is not to be overlooked) , Barry Goldberg (The Electric Flag, Steve Miller Band), and Bob Margolin (watch the Last Waltz and Muddy Waters guitar player was Bob the Jew haha).
I hope you enjoy it.
Baron23
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My favorite act in that movie. I was never a particular Joni Mitchell fan but I think her singing and ability to tell a story in that act is just superb. I find myself looking at her mouth closely trying to understand how she makes all the transitions and tones. Just a wonderful act.
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