Listen to the story of that cool song, and hear it performed by Suzanne Vega:
And then read about Suzanne, and about the song.
As always, thanks for reading, viewing, and listening.
Speaking about awards…
… which I actually don’t like that much, really – because how could you award arts? But in my last post I congratulated Esperanza Spalding, and at the moment it’s the time of the 2020 BAFTA Awards, and that in turn reminded me of a series which I’m currently watching (we’ll have season/episode 2.4 later today), namely “Keeping Faith”, starring Eve Myles (also known from Torchwood and other series).
That series won 3 BAFTA Awards, for best story, best actress, and best music, and each of these is well deserved in my opinion. Listen to Amy Wadge and to Laurence Love Greed in these ones for instance:
The series is fully packed with music of that caliber from start to finish – quite the hit factory. So here’s the honour they received for it in 2018:
I’m glad that I can watch that. Thanks to everyone.
And as always, thanks to you for reading, watching, and listening.
Congratulations, Ms. Spalding!
Found this article today about Esperanza Spalding winning her 4th grammy, this time in the vocal category, for this album release of last October:
And I’ll have to say that this one was well deserved. If you make it through the list of her 19 videos I’m sure you will agree – pieces of art, all of them.
So this one’s for the singers. Needless to say that Ms Spalding is also a killer bass player both on upright as well as on electric bass. In fact she’s teaching both vocals and bass at Berklee…
As always, thanks for reading, and for listening. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Dalek, still in training
Today I tried something new. Played around with a ring modulator on my voice a bit to join ‘bluvation’ (Gerry) on his awesome ‘Dancing with Daleks’ track:
Musicians, until now: just him (all music) and me (words/vocals):
As always, thanks for reading, and for listening. And thanks to Gerry for all the fun 🙂
Update, Monday during my office hours:
Got a first remix from & with Brian on bass, very cool:
That makes three of us by now:
As always, thanks for listening. And now come and join the fun 🙂 If not, and in a Dalek voice: “EXPLAIN!” 😀
Three random takes on ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’
The conductor of the orchestra in which I’m helping out sent me another piece via email – and this time it’s a real fun one as it seems. And with about 100 years of age I guess you might call it ‘oldie but goldie’. If you look up the title on Youtube and select three, it can be as interesting as this:
- Jazz Manouche example:
2. Older, more to the original ‘Foxtrot’ or ‘Charleston’ style:
3. Much slower, but swinging real hard on this Jazz Standard:
As you see, the possibilities on songs like this one are endless – although with my electric bass I can’t of course get anywhere near to what Ray Brown did here…
Really lookin’ forward to playin’ on that one 😀 What a nice idea! 😀
See also: English or German Wikipedia pages about this song.
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Illustrated – Complete
Wow. Just wow. If you have one and a half hours, look at this. It’s Nathaniel Barlam‘s full length animated film of this – which came out when I was just seventeen.
Awesome, both the original album which was recorded in Wales, the band’s tour with one of their concerts which I saw in Düsseldorf, and now Nate’s movie.
Really recommended stuff.
Deer and nutria
Just back from a short trip to Mönchbruch where I took a few photos. Here are two of them:
As always, thanks for reading and viewing.
And today, Zuleikha took my picture
We haven’t done this in a while, so today I asked our talented daughter to take my photo together with my bass. I set up one of the studio strobes and a grey background for this, then borrowed Zuleikha’s piano bench, and we had a bit of fun with my camera. I liked this one, especially after converting it to black & white:
photographer: Zuleikha
A bit of a fake double bass posture, but that was part of the fun 🙂
As always, thanks for reading, and for viewing. And thanks again to our small one for being so kind to take her old dad’s picture again.
Tales of Yore, 2 adds
I played on that awesome track from Rick aka ‘acousticeg’ and also included it into my latest album (see the blog post before/below this one). And since then I received two more adds already, since the piece was still left wide open by us. So here they are, in case you’re interested:
Thank, or rather merci to our friends, these are so nice 🙂 And thanks to you for your interest, and for reading and listening.
Wolf & Gang – VIII
Just published my eighth album with collaborations on Wikiloops:
A click on the cover here will lead you to Flickr, but a click on the text link or on the small cover in the right Widget area will lead you to Wikiloops where you can hear and/or download the album.
Looking forward to the next one already – and I asked Mélanie if she would take my photo for it again.
As always, thanks to my friends world-wide with whom I had the pleasure and the honour to make music. And thanks to you for reading and/or listening and/or downloading the album.