I really enjoy the Big Band/Swing era. Yeah I know WWII, but the music is just so cool. And I am a Glenn Miller fan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs#noexternalembed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs#noexternalembed)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJE-onnw2gM# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJE-onnw2gM#)
Glenn Miller may have been one of the most missed of all the casualties of that war. That being said, I'm still a big fan of Benny Goodman and Claude Thornhill too.
Just for you, Tekla.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rifhroClGI# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rifhroClGI#)
People ask me what the best live thing I've ever heard and I don't even have to think, it's Sing, Sing, Sing (with a Swing) from the January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall. Benny, Harry James and Jess Stacy were pronominal, but Gene Kruppa gave a lesson in playing drums that night that no one has touched yet.
You mean...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2Obko# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2Obko#)
;D
Yeah, that song, but the live version, from that show, the 12:02 minute version. It's on a Sony release I think.
A friend of mine played Clarinet. Benny Goodman was his hero
He also played all kinds of big band, swing, jazz and dixieland stuff. Last I heard from him he was giggin' in Hawaii
That doesn't seem to compute. Big Band and Hawaii. The lucky bum. ;D
Big Band music is world wide. If you get hooked into the circuit, your gonna travel
I also remember him often playing "In The Mood" - Glen Miller rather often
Of course, if the is a demand then you go where the gig is. It just I never really thought about Big Band and the island. But then again there was Pearl Harbor. So I guess I never really thought about it.
Does he play in a hotel?
The only trouble with running a big band is that they are big, and a gig is a gig, and the money stays pretty constant - so in the end that just kinda less for everyone. Still, you do get to play real music, which is something most of the people I work with can't say.
Quote from: tekla on January 19, 2010, 11:13:52 PM
The only trouble with running a big band is that they are big, and a gig is a gig, and the money stays pretty constant - so in the end that just kinda less for everyone. Still, you do get to play real music, which is something most of the people I work with can't say.
Hm... kinda sounds like fun. Maybe I should dust off the sax, hehe. Inches of dust by now I'm sure =/.
There is just some thing so universal about the Big Band sound. Something so up lifting. People know when Janet cleans because it is up load. ;D
Yeah, it's kind of funny people come over to see me and the first time they somehow expect me to have this huge rock collection, when in reality I don't. Mostly I have lots of classical string trios, quartets and lots of cool jazz (1955-1965 or so) Really can't listen to enough Miles and 'Trane. But I have a bunch of Big Band. I love the Goodman live, its just the awesome sauce, and I have a huge spot in my heart for April in Paris, by Count Basie, perhaps the last really great big band record (recorded in '55 and '56), but a decade or so this guy found all these old V-discs that Miller recorded with the Army Air Force Band during the war, one is a 3 disc set called The Secret Broadcasts, the other The Lost Recordings. Check them out.
I will. It would be nice to heard something that would sort of be new.
It will sound very new. Not only did he have an all star band, he also had something he always wanted but could never aford, a sting section. And, there are lots of classic Miller tracks, but there is a lot of popular stuff to, stuff you've never heard him perform.
Here is a listing of both
http://www.parabrisas.com/m_millerg2.php (http://www.parabrisas.com/m_millerg2.php)
http://www.parabrisas.com/m_millerg3.php (http://www.parabrisas.com/m_millerg3.php)
I have to try and find them. Thank You Kat.
Yeah, I do what I can, but those are pretty awesome, so its easy to recommenced them.
I became involved in other things for a few years and unfortunately lost contact with my friend
When I got back into music I was hanging out with various rock bands and playing guitar and singing
Oh, I started out on trombone in Jr High. that's how I met my clarinet friend
Plus he lived across the street
I suppose it makes me kind of shallow but my favorite BB music is actually in the movie Xanadu
there was something about the way they worked this together that I thought was outstanding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9GdyGD5e4#noexternalembed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9GdyGD5e4#noexternalembed)
and this is just classic, IMO, even if it was from a cheesy movie instead of the 40's...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vsfpw3qKKc&feature=related# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vsfpw3qKKc&feature=related#)
Yes it was an tremendously flawed film but it's amazing how many really wonderful moments there are within that pile of mistakes...
But like I said - aficionados will consider this a pretty shallow interest in the genre...
Rightly so.
I've been listening this morning to an old cassette tape of Dave Grusin and a band of all stars including Russell Ferante, Dave Weckle, Ernie Watts and many others.
Randi
This is about the best big band on the circuit today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWcN5YxuYc# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWcN5YxuYc#)
They are amassing. I think I might have heard them before.
Janet a happy girl
I've always liked Brian Setzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9QeCEYhdhQ# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9QeCEYhdhQ#)
I've always liked Brian Setzer
Really, how can you not? He's funny, good and got that rockin' beat down pat.
Saw the Stray Cats when the first came out in a 250 person club. You knew they were going to be big because they played that way right from the start.
Yes Brian is good. I saw them last year with the Pretenders and ZZTop but they didn't have the other musicians-it was just the 3 of them.
I have a ww2 flight sim that has alot of that period music in it. Glenn Miller is on of my favs too.
Randi
Yeah, I caught the Stray Cats down in Hollywierd years ago...and yeah they lit the place up
Not only could Setzer shred the guitar...but sing too? Everyone was in awe
Yeah, I have some great guitar porn from last month when he did his Xmas show at our place. And I also got the real true story about what happened to the original Stray Cats Gretsch (that was as much a part of the Stray Cats as he was) he used. Seems that at the end of the show a couple of years back, when he was doing that standard rock god deal of throwing the guitar offstage to the tech he was standing on the cord. It went up, made it about halfway to the tech, when the cord ran out and it came instantly crashing to the ground and the neck snapped. He's never tossed a guitar since.