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.