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Thinking more about this thread many of my most moving musical moments have been experienced while attending musicals in the theater. There is something magical when ~2000 play goers simultaneously rise in applause when a solo artist or the cast sing that special song. So many familiar songs owe their popularity to the musical theater.
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A video popped up on Instagram today showing Glen Campbell singing Wichita Lineman, released 52 years ago this week. One of, if not my favorite song of all time. It is an emotional song to me, and makes no sense to me why.
My favorite version is on a Jimmy Webb release from around 2010, featuring Billy Joel and Jerry Douglas. Billy Joel hasn’t sounded that good in a long, long time.
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Yep, that’s what came up on Instagram. It’s amazing how much has changed in the entertainment field in 50 years. You would think in an age where we see fewer and fewer scripted shows, that variety shows like would have some resurgence. It looks like prime time game shows are making a comeback. I’m sure they are inexpensive to produce as well.
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I enjoy various genres of music. This piece from Amarathe moved me this morning. I have not seen the video before.
Amaranthe is a Swedish heavy metal band originally known as Avalanche. The band is notable for having three lead vocalists: Elize Ryd, Henrik Englund Wilhelmsson, and Nils Molin, each presenting a different vocal style. Amaranthe - Amaranthine https://youtu.be/D8lV1To-_fU |
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As with many of Duke Ellington compositions the idea originated with one of his musicians. In the case of Caravan it was trombonist Juan Tizol.
Ellington is quoted in "Stuart Nicholson Reminiscing in Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ellington (book) as saying, "that's one of those things Tizol came up with". "See, it wasn't in tempo, he stood and played it sort of ad lib. He played it, the first ten bars, we took it and worked out the rest of it." "Caravan" is an American jazz standard that was composed by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington and first performed by Ellington in 1936. Irving Mills wrote lyrics, but they are rarely sung. The exotic sound of "Caravan" interested exotica musicians; Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, and Gordon Jenkins all covered it. Woody Allen used the song in two of his films, Alice and Sweet and Lowdown. Steven Soderbergh used the Lyman version in his 2001 film Ocean's Eleven. The song appears often in the 2014 film Whiplash as an important plot element. The Mills Brothers recorded an a cappella version in which they imitated instruments with their voices. Johnny Mathis recorded the song in 1956. More than 350 versions have been recorded." https://youtu.be/cAeEhTD1xhU |
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Of all the musicians who populated the "trombone" sections of professional big bands back in the "swing" era, not many played the "Valve Trombone".
Having come from Puerto Rico, where many municipalities offered musical instruction, Juan Tizol was one of the few. A bit of trivia... "Tizol first arrived in New York in 1917, but returned home, overwhelmed by the size of the city. In 1920, however, he and some friends stowed away on a British steamer and identified themselves as crew members when they got off on Ellis Island. By that time Tizol had gambled away all his money and lost even his trombone. By the end of the year, though, he joined the pit band at the legendary Howard Theater in the Washington area known as Black Broadway. Duke Ellington played piano regularly at the Howard Theater before he formed his own band, and so came to know Tizol’s musicianship. Ellington’s first band, formed in 1923, had no trombonist. He quickly hired a succession of trombonists, but like most bands of the time, had only one. After 1926, it was Tricky Sam Nanton." Tizol and Ellington story continues here... https://music.allpurposeguru.com/201...ve-trombonist/ Last edited by PHC1; 11-09-2020 at 02:25 PM. |
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