I've been searching U-tube for some beautiful music. Yes, I wanted to listen to beautiful music because of the incident written below. And found this chorus. There are lots of sentiments for me in this song, Stardust. I started out to learn clarinet.
I was in love with Benny Goodman. It was mid 50es, as I started to go to junior high. This is one hell of the difficult tune to improvise and cannot be played without the verse. That makes harder to improvise. The initial 16 bars are so closely attached to the melody and it make you feel bad to neglect them. The reason may be that the melody line has been constructed so tightly and that makes us normal person difficult to improvise.
That makes me wonder if there's any piano player who dare to challenge its improvisation. So I've wondered around with the keyword "Stardust". La,la, la....
I've found a few.
Dave Brubeck duet it with Paul. The first passage of verse is intriguing. I see his face quite young. There is no discography though, I guess it could be before 1960. The sound of Desmond is so mellow but young, don't you think? Yeah, he does funny vibration around 4:50. Right, he is playing clarinet. This is the first I ever heard him with clarinet.
So, I needed something beautiful:
I stumbled over a road block and hit my right shoulder and knee plus got my left elbow skinned. Oh, I skinned a bit under the right eye as well. Right, to be exact I falled to the ground with my bicycle. It should have passed over 20 years since I tumbled over the ground last time. I feel like losing strength. I wonder if I have to accept that I am an old man. Those things made me sad.
This is the beautiful recording of Benny Goodman playing Stardust
Jun 22, 2011
Two powerful singers from 70es
Every once in a while, I feel the urge that I should let you know how the Japanese popular songs are. To do that, I sure will try to compare some technicality of it with jazz. If I say the popular, don't forget that I'm an old man. The Jazz is still one of the popular songs for me. So, the popular song can't be one of those anime songs that have been around with those cyber-creatures nonsenses.
During 1970es, well, allow me to repeat that I was young and full of hope to take over the corporation that my father established, or the blood and sweat and tears of his creation. There were, or should I say, are two ladies in this world who was singing with such powerful breathing and beautiful lyrics. Yes I can broaden the limits of each definition so that the area for jazz has been widened to include Ms. Streisand.
One was Ms. Barbara Streisand, singing "Where we were" and Ms. Sayuri Ishikawa, singing "Tsugaru Kaikyo Fuyu-geshiki", meaning "The impression of Tsugaru Channel in Winter". The song is classified as one of the best Enka, Enka is the designation to this kind of music.
Tsugaru Channel in Winter
It may require a little explanation what this means. Tsugaru Channel is the northern most Channel running in between the Honshu Island and the Hokkaido Island. The point is that the Channel is used as the symbol of depressing loneliness in the dark cold winter.
The lyric may be in contrast each other. But both are quite sentimental. Barbara tells you her memory with someone, Sayuri tells her own depressing thinking and what she sees in her mind while traveling back to her homeland. It is nice to listen to good music and nice singers sing beautiful songs regardless of its category. That is the beauty of the art, right?
I cry over those Japanese Enkas, for the songs are too fit to my sentiment. I just cannot stop tearing. I don't know what it is. It may be the regret that I have over my past, or mere sentiment to the people I lost contact with, some may have been dead now...
Let me hear what you say on this Japaense song that have been marketed specifically in Japan
During 1970es, well, allow me to repeat that I was young and full of hope to take over the corporation that my father established, or the blood and sweat and tears of his creation. There were, or should I say, are two ladies in this world who was singing with such powerful breathing and beautiful lyrics. Yes I can broaden the limits of each definition so that the area for jazz has been widened to include Ms. Streisand.
One was Ms. Barbara Streisand, singing "Where we were" and Ms. Sayuri Ishikawa, singing "Tsugaru Kaikyo Fuyu-geshiki", meaning "The impression of Tsugaru Channel in Winter". The song is classified as one of the best Enka, Enka is the designation to this kind of music.
Tsugaru Channel in Winter
It may require a little explanation what this means. Tsugaru Channel is the northern most Channel running in between the Honshu Island and the Hokkaido Island. The point is that the Channel is used as the symbol of depressing loneliness in the dark cold winter.
The lyric may be in contrast each other. But both are quite sentimental. Barbara tells you her memory with someone, Sayuri tells her own depressing thinking and what she sees in her mind while traveling back to her homeland. It is nice to listen to good music and nice singers sing beautiful songs regardless of its category. That is the beauty of the art, right?
I cry over those Japanese Enkas, for the songs are too fit to my sentiment. I just cannot stop tearing. I don't know what it is. It may be the regret that I have over my past, or mere sentiment to the people I lost contact with, some may have been dead now...
Let me hear what you say on this Japaense song that have been marketed specifically in Japan
Jun 12, 2011
Maid dance with Take Five
We were at the College Jazz Band Contest. It was 1962 or 63, It's 45 years ago. So anyone under 45 hadn't existed at that time. Now you know how old I am. We played "So what" and relaxed as being the audience when one of the other contestants started to play "Take Five".
We knew pretty well that the improvisation of it was quite tough. Yes, the rhythm is 5/4. You count five for a bar, which is tough. If you try to keep beat you'll lose the melody line of your improvisation. It may be OK for 5-6 bars but eventually you'll give in to the four beat.
They started out all right. There was this alt sax player whose sound was pretty close to that of Paul Desmond. He stayed with 5/4 for the first chorus. A few bars later he started to play four beat. Rhythm section failed to keep time within next few bars. We all laughed out loud.
I've found this video interesting. First of all that is the amine. secondly girls dancing wear maid uniform. How does that connect to each other? Well, you must be one of the anime fun or you don't know the maid cafe in Tokyo.
It has started 4-5 years and been fad since then. Those cafes are the spot you must visit or you won't be qualified as one of the anime fun. They say "Welcome home, Master" as you walk into the cafe. Hey, you like that!
No, they don't serve alcohol, No, they don't sit next to you. They may allow to take picture with you. They may entertain you with some performance of their own.
In essence you can enjoy seeing and talking with them but no sexual matter involved.
I put up this video for its strange combination of 21st century and 1960es or 1950es for that matter. Enjoy! Let me know if you like it.
We knew pretty well that the improvisation of it was quite tough. Yes, the rhythm is 5/4. You count five for a bar, which is tough. If you try to keep beat you'll lose the melody line of your improvisation. It may be OK for 5-6 bars but eventually you'll give in to the four beat.
They started out all right. There was this alt sax player whose sound was pretty close to that of Paul Desmond. He stayed with 5/4 for the first chorus. A few bars later he started to play four beat. Rhythm section failed to keep time within next few bars. We all laughed out loud.
I've found this video interesting. First of all that is the amine. secondly girls dancing wear maid uniform. How does that connect to each other? Well, you must be one of the anime fun or you don't know the maid cafe in Tokyo.
It has started 4-5 years and been fad since then. Those cafes are the spot you must visit or you won't be qualified as one of the anime fun. They say "Welcome home, Master" as you walk into the cafe. Hey, you like that!
No, they don't serve alcohol, No, they don't sit next to you. They may allow to take picture with you. They may entertain you with some performance of their own.
In essence you can enjoy seeing and talking with them but no sexual matter involved.
I put up this video for its strange combination of 21st century and 1960es or 1950es for that matter. Enjoy! Let me know if you like it.
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