I just got Clue from netflix, it had been a while so I figured "why not?"
I watched "Sugar" last night, definitely one of the best/most realistic baseball movies ever made. Although to call it a "baseball movie" is pretty unfair/superficial...definitely good though.
[2] Ick. True. It's not quite as bad as, say Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes vs. Simply Red on If You Don't Know Me By Now, or as ick-inducing as Michael Bolton covering Percy Sledge's When A man Loves A Woman (and winning a Grammy for it, which was the final nail in the coffin for the credibility of the Grammys to me), but there's definitely a noticeable absence of character.
On that note, let me also say Rest in Peace, Teddy Pendergrass... his voice lost so much of that fire that propelled him in the sixties and seventies after the accident that paralyzed him, but his comeback song was memorable and a good lesson to take from any tragedy. I'll do some serious consideration on this in a little while.
[4] Did you know that Michael Bolton and Kenny G recorded together? What a hair-fest! Every jazz fan's nightmare come true...I remember chatting with a very attractive lady who said to me "Oh, I love jazz too, I have several Najee and Kenny G albums"...Needless to say, our relationship never developed from that point on...
[7] Curs? That's harsh, isn't it? I mean I think the Crew Cuts version is kinda iffy, but I wouldn't assume they are bad people in general... unless they did that on purpose! >;)
[5] He also worked with Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince... his first gig was with Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra, then with a funk band before doing credited work.
"With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth I can say that I really can't use at all — as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music."
- Pat Matheny, in response to the release of Kenny G's duet recording of Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World, hah!
I can tolerate Najee to a certain extent, but Kenny G really leaves me cold. It may not really be his fault; he has the chops to be a great musician, but the direction he choose is like grapefruit; it's good for you, but the taste...
[9] Chyll that's awesome, I actually linked to that Pat Metheny article a week or two ago when late-night Bantering with thelarmis!!
As you said, guys like Najee or Kenny G may have chops, but their music is so over-produced and sterile that to describe it as "jazz" is plain wrong...
When I was a kid I had the crewcuts version of Sh-Boom on a 78 rpm and I knew of no other version until 1971 when WCBS-FM played the Chords version on their new oldies format. It took me a while to get used to the Chords version and now I like them both equally. To me the Crewcuts version represents the end of the jazz-swing era in pop music while the chords version looks forward to the new era of Rock and Roll. Each song was from a separate genre but both were good.
Sh-Boom is in Clue, my favorite movie of all time, so I approve of this.
Amazing how swinging the original version is and how bland the vanilla version is.
I just got Clue from netflix, it had been a while so I figured "why not?"
I watched "Sugar" last night, definitely one of the best/most realistic baseball movies ever made. Although to call it a "baseball movie" is pretty unfair/superficial...definitely good though.
[2] Ick. True. It's not quite as bad as, say Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes vs. Simply Red on If You Don't Know Me By Now, or as ick-inducing as Michael Bolton covering Percy Sledge's When A man Loves A Woman (and winning a Grammy for it, which was the final nail in the coffin for the credibility of the Grammys to me), but there's definitely a noticeable absence of character.
On that note, let me also say Rest in Peace, Teddy Pendergrass... his voice lost so much of that fire that propelled him in the sixties and seventies after the accident that paralyzed him, but his comeback song was memorable and a good lesson to take from any tragedy. I'll do some serious consideration on this in a little while.
[4] Did you know that Michael Bolton and Kenny G recorded together? What a hair-fest! Every jazz fan's nightmare come true...I remember chatting with a very attractive lady who said to me "Oh, I love jazz too, I have several Najee and Kenny G albums"...Needless to say, our relationship never developed from that point on...
There was at least one more version of Sha Boom ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSmLO6pmYcI
One of the things that makes Rock'n'Roll is the presence of the bass line. These 2 curs really demonstrate this.
And don't those crew cur guys sound very white?
[7] Curs? That's harsh, isn't it? I mean I think the Crew Cuts version is kinda iffy, but I wouldn't assume they are bad people in general... unless they did that on purpose! >;)
[5] He also worked with Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince... his first gig was with Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra, then with a funk band before doing credited work.
"With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth I can say that I really can't use at all — as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music."
- Pat Matheny, in response to the release of Kenny G's duet recording of Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World, hah!
I can tolerate Najee to a certain extent, but Kenny G really leaves me cold. It may not really be his fault; he has the chops to be a great musician, but the direction he choose is like grapefruit; it's good for you, but the taste...
[9] Chyll that's awesome, I actually linked to that Pat Metheny article a week or two ago when late-night Bantering with thelarmis!!
As you said, guys like Najee or Kenny G may have chops, but their music is so over-produced and sterile that to describe it as "jazz" is plain wrong...
for more on Kenny check this out: http://nicealbumshameaboutthecover.blogspot.com/search/label/never%20enough%20kenny
When I was a kid I had the crewcuts version of Sh-Boom on a 78 rpm and I knew of no other version until 1971 when WCBS-FM played the Chords version on their new oldies format. It took me a while to get used to the Chords version and now I like them both equally. To me the Crewcuts version represents the end of the jazz-swing era in pop music while the chords version looks forward to the new era of Rock and Roll. Each song was from a separate genre but both were good.