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Thread started 01/15/16 7:39pm

CynicKill

JAZZ! What's Good Right Now!

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Reply #1 posted 01/15/16 8:01pm

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Think I'm gonna switch to instrumental jazz for a while...

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #2 posted 01/15/16 8:03pm

JoeBala

A Couple My Favs:

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Reply #3 posted 01/15/16 8:37pm

CynicKill

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Reply #4 posted 01/15/16 8:47pm

JoeBala

Damn you got me started...

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cool biggrin More later...

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Reply #5 posted 01/15/16 8:59pm

CynicKill

I see you're on a vocalist kick right now.

Kat, one of the most unexpected things to come out of American Idol.

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Reply #6 posted 01/15/16 9:04pm

JoeBala

CynicKill said:

I see you're on a vocalist kick right now.

Kat, one of the most unexpected things to come out of American Idol.

Really? I did not know that. Kat is such a kickass vocalist. I found her on youtube while looking for something. smile For Intrumental there is this Jazz/Funk Asain Group I like. I foget their name right now. Be back. Great threa by the way. I added a Spanish jazz vocalist. smile

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Reply #7 posted 01/15/16 9:25pm

JoeBala

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Reply #8 posted 01/16/16 2:50pm

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It's a Good Day! sun flower wave

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Reply #9 posted 01/16/16 9:48pm

CynicKill

First Listen: Kat Edmonson, 'The Big Picture'

Kat Edmonson's new album, The Big Picture, comes out Sept. 30.

Kat Edmonson's new album, The Big Picture, comes out Sept. 30.

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Audio for First Listens is no longer available after the album is released.

A dozen years after Kat Edmonson was very briefly a contestant on American Idol, she still occasionally finds herself fielding questions about the experience from incredulous interviewers. If nothing else, the recurrence of the topic reflects how profoundly incompatible her style of pop expression is with Idol's bias toward blunt-force power balladry. You'll hear no belting from Edmonson; she deals in more intimate, exact gestures.

The Texas-to-Brooklyn transplant once told NPR that she latched on to old black-and-white movies as a child — the kind that featured Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the throes of snappy, song-and-dance romance — and assumed they were realistic portrayals of adulthood. She discovered her naiveté soon enough. But instead of rejecting what she now knew to be tidy fantasy, she cultivated the imagination and skill to fashion her own versions.

Over the course of three albums — 2009's Take To The Sky, 2012's Way Down Low and the new The Big Picture — Edmonson has showcased more and more of her own songwriting, arrangement ideas and flair for breezily evocative performing. On this latest set, which she recorded with accomplished producer Mitchell Froom, she's a savvy student of '60s film soundtracks, jazz-pop stylists and Brill Building songcraft, nodding to her influences at every turn. But her take on those stylized musical languages is so fresh and fluent that the referencing never feels cumbersome.

Edmonson wrote or co-wrote all but one track here, and since the contemporary singer-songwriter gig often carries with it the expectation of autobiographical content, it's tempting to ask where her identity can be found in all this. It's there, all right, in the knotty, knowing relational vignettes she's dreamed up. They're not only as sweet and appealing as classic big-screen scenes; they also steer clear of delusion.

In "You've Said Enough," her character shuts down a philandering cad before he can try and talk his way out of trouble, dancing out of reach to a slinky, syncopated Latin groove. In "Crying," she's resilient enough to release someone eaten up with discontentment. In the pleasing pop ballad "Dark Cloud," she's wryly angling for forgiveness: "They settled it up in heaven / Now I'm just waiting on you."

"The Best" is a declaration of intent to not settle for coasting along, but instead actively strengthen a romantic bond by being good to each other. She's cute about it: "I don't think I could love you more," she sings in her reedy, twinkling vibrato, "but I could love you better, baby." She closes out the jaunty takeoff in cabaret mode, with playful vocal outbursts and jazz scatting.

What Edmonson has done is capture the nuances of human coupling and decoupling, and all the moves in between, with melodic finesse, narrative precision and emotional articulateness in four minutes or less. To put it another way, this isn't head-in-the-clouds stuff, but it sure is dreamy.

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Reply #10 posted 01/18/16 7:39am

JoeBala

Here is the band I'm talking about:

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Reply #11 posted 01/18/16 7:42am

JoeBala

Germanegro said:

It's a Good Day! sun flower wave

Ain't she something? Half Dominican/French. smile

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Reply #12 posted 01/18/16 10:07am

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Reply #13 posted 01/24/16 3:25pm

CynicKill

http://www.npr.org/sectio...g-audience

How A Korean Jazz Festival Found A Huge Young Audience

Danish Afrobeat-inspired band The KutiMangoes pose for photos with the crowd at the Jarasum International Jazz Festival.

Danish Afrobeat-inspired band The KutiMangoes pose for photos with the crowd at the Jarasum International Jazz Festival.

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Reply #14 posted 01/25/16 2:55pm

namepeace

Coming back to this one. I'm a fan of the Bad Plus, Robert Glasper, and some of the work of Marc Cary and Gretchen Parlato.

Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #15 posted 01/29/16 11:50am

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I'm gonna fuck Kat edmonson one day. Yes I know she's gay.

Did Prince ever deny he had sex with his sister? I believe not. So there U have it..
http://prince.org/msg/8/327790?&pg=2
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Reply #16 posted 01/29/16 12:22pm

CynicKill

namepeace said:

Coming back to this one. I'm a fan of the Bad Plus, Robert Glasper, and some of the work of Marc Cary and Gretchen Parlato.

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Reply #17 posted 02/02/16 8:18am

namepeace

CynicKill said:

namepeace said:

Coming back to this one. I'm a fan of the Bad Plus, Robert Glasper, and some of the work of Marc Cary and Gretchen Parlato.

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Great track. I love her covers of "All I Have To Say" and "I Can't Help It" . . .

Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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