Category: videos

… here are some exceptional ones, Eliane and her husband Marc:

Enjoy…

This morning, TeeGee opened an inspiration play list with “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” from Jeff Beck:

And while chatting a bit about Tal Wilkenfeld (the great bass player you see there playing with Jeff), I wrote that until now I only knew the version from Joni Mitchell, who also had one of the great bass players joining her, Jaco Pastorius:

And while Joni’s complete LP “Mingus” is of course a tribute to Charles Mingus who wrote the song, his version and composition is a tribute to Lester Young who wore that pork pie hat – see the German and English Wikipedia pages about the song (yes it has these! And the German one even has a bit of bass score on it!). So here is Charles’ original song. from his album “Mingus Ah Um”:

So there you have it. A great song from a great bass player, covered by other great bass players. The original is two years younger than me.

And, as some say about Jaco, he did some great work with Joni – maybe the best. If you want to learn from a living player, check out Tal – she’s also great!

And goodbye, pork pie hat – thanks for your work as well!

Hope you enjoyed it.

Look what popped up during my lunch break:

I’m speechless. Except, wow…

Joan Chamorro keeps amazing me. Every day I find something new in my Youtube views, and everything I see and hear coming from this man and/or his school and pupils is so good.

For today I think it can’t get any better than this – and it’s not only Rita and Andrea who shine here, I also love Ignasi’s piano solo, and everyone else:

Seems that this is from a CD called “Lua Amarela” – which might be awesome if it’s all on this level. Brava y bravo signorinas y señores!

Update: Almost forgot, here’s what I’ve found yesterday evening. So good that I had to play it again for Zuleikha, and I also commented on it:

What I wrote was: “Quite simply a world class band!” – and Joan gave me a thumbs up for this remark 🙂 And to Zuleikha I said: “Wish I could play that bass as good as Magalí does” 🙂

Thanks for watching / reading / listening, as always.

And also read a dossier by Eva Vila about the Sant Andreu Jazz Band.

Just received and watched “A Film About Kids and Music“, and was blown away by it. Again. I have written about that music school and Joan Chamorro before, here and here. But just listen to this lovely tune from Sidney Bechet which you also might know from Woody Allen’s film “Midnight in Paris” – and listen to Alba who was nine or ten when she played this:

I really really recommend that film, if you buy only one this year it should be this one. Especially if you have kids.

You won’t believe the story about this piece of music, and you’ll also see Alba’s little sister Elsa who was six when the movie was made. This is just unbelievably good.

A must see.

Wow – what a nice version. Never heard of them before, so many thanks to Gijs aka Fivestringer for mentioning them on the ‘loops 🙂

Enjoy…

This is so beautiful…

I have her first CD which is as old as our daughter, my brother Willi has her second one. And this is from her latest album ‘Anthem’ from 2018. Like so many good artists, I’ve never seen her live – but here’s more if you like. That was her 2012 in Switzerland, and the band is also awesome.

One of the real good voices of our age and time if you ask me.

That’s a comment from chickinpickin1 on a video I just saw. And the next comment under it says: “Andrea Motis can sing and play. Like a Boss.” – which is also true. There’s some incredible talent out there; have a look and listen to it yourself:

More of that stuff on Joan Chamorrow’s channel on Youtube (to which I’m subscribed since a few days). Incredible what that man does…

Thanks for watching.

Look at this live interpretation of Jobim’s “Triste”:

This is the Sant Andreu Jazz Band from Barcelona, Spain, and its founder/leader/director Joan Chamorro plays the double bass in this piece (I think he also plays the saxophone). Here’s the preview of a feature film about his music school, which doesn’t seem to be available at the moment (so I put it on my Amazon list):

On the band’s own blog you can see more videos, and also their touring schedule. I would definitely visit a nearby concert should they ever give one.

Of course they play mostly standards. But wow. Just wow. And bravo Joan and colleagues, this is a fabulous concept which I also will show to our local school here (partly I did already).

Here’s another one – these kids (and their teachers) are simply too good to be missed:

Thanks for reading, and for watching.

Like she says: musiciens exceptionelles – this is simply a gift to mankind… so merci beaucoup, and 감사합니다

That was in Paris in 2015. If you want to hear her from last year, here she is with another band in Montreal, 2017:

Enjoy…