Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

It's all very trad here. Rattle off anything is less likely than hammer it out, you know what I mean?


I'm no Ella.:o I didn't used to be half bad though. . Dh heard me before he met me. ( we worked 'together' on a track but recorded separately for a third party ). I recorded first and dh said ' I need to meet her' and the third party arranged it. When dh saw me the first time he told the other person he was going to marry me....he'd heard me, he'd seen me.....he was sold.:o.

He is only human after all.

If they're going to give it that sort of treatment you might be better off with some Acker Bilk

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Gil Scott Heron is brilliant although perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about jazz. The Bottle is probably his great classic, Lady Day and John Coltraine is perhaps my favourite. Whitey on the Moon is probably a bit political for most social gatherings ("I can't pay my doctor's bill with Whitey on the moon").

Anyway, there's some food for thought.

I love, love, love The Bottle, and Love Supreme. Whitey on the Moon is a bit too heavy for me.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm no Ella.:o I didn't used to be half bad though. . Dh heard me before he met me. ( we worked 'together' on a track but recorded separately for a third party ). I recorded first and dh said ' I need to meet her' and the third party arranged it. When dh saw me the first time he told the other person he was going to marry me....he'd heard me, he'd seen me.....he was sold.:o.

What's your singing voice like lir?

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

He is only human after all.

If they're going to give it that sort of treatment you might be better off with some Acker Bilk

That's the sort of temperature ATM, but what we are hoping to ...well, not move away from, but hopefully aim towards an extra night of the festival in future years. We need to this year get the older ones talking in the hope they bring their grown up kids next year. Longer term, we would like a 'children's' set too.

There is room for everyone. But the thing is while the trad does well for this demographic...their numbers fade. I am the youngest on the committee. For this by over twenty years. It's a not for profit thing which we are keen to support however, if this doesn't thrive in the five year plan by year four we will probably look at something for profit either at the same venue or in our summer field. (That brings all the licensing back to me though, and on a year like last year we all know that won't work).

Edit: we have a lot of friends pushing for the 'for profit route'. We could manage a couple of years of a small two day thing comfortably, but it would rather be sticking to fingers up at the not for profit thing locally. It would also be a matter of timing. E,g, a particular American artist who is keen...we would need to wait till they were booked at something else Europe. It's been UK for a couple of years, so that booking window might close. We'd also have to seriously and classless
Y push our own address books for audiencetoo, which I detest. Geographically, for press coverage etc we really would need to I think, as we would have to at least break even first year. Believe it or not this sort of thing is much easier in London!

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

I love, love, love The Bottle, and Love Supreme. Whitey on the Moon is a bit too heavy for me.

It's the patterns the words make that are as good as anything with Gil IMHO. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is brilliant for that.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

What's your singing voice like lir?

Note...this has taken ages because I put the dogs out mid post)


IMO too sweet. I used to be quite rangey which is handy, but limits the 'sex' in the voice. It's also a bit weaker now. (Shrug). I don't use it anymore, and of all the instruments voice needs to me used and exercised as its literally reliant on muscle. I am, by force of necessity in the past, relatively flexible in style, but am 'restricted' my a sweet sound. It's the only time I don't hate that goitre, when it chucks a bit of rasp in the mix. Sadly, its not an element I feel comfortable with, it feel unnatural and rather than work with it as long as I can I have sort of given up. I sing along (badly) to the radio and I sing in bed (its an odd habit). I know dh wanted to get a studio in place to record some stuff he has written while I can make a decent job of it, but don't see it happening. All we really need is a mac nowadays, the sound recording possibilities with one are really quite astounding, but we would also need heating, and space for instruments etc in the right rooms in the house. And time.

(Longer term, that wall by the garden we sat in? Part of that will be a studio for dh)

I was classically trained (though recorded more in something that couldn't have been more different) i also used to record a lot of stuff for writers which is actually my favourite job of all the jobs in that industry I have ever done. I went off performing big style in my teens. Only really did it again in twenties to ring the changes from other things in my life then and for the social life.

Truly I am uncomfortable singing true jazz. Big band would feel safer to me. I like a less...ad hoc structure to feel safe, or recording equipment and chance to get rid of failed experimentation. . I will scat a little with dh though, and a very few other trusted friends who I know I feel comfortable laughing at myself with. In general though I like to know where I am going, (dh would argue here and say if you don't know where you are going then your years of playing behind you are wasted. In my work, structure was comfort, and in some of my work sound linked with movement, so the structure had to be right, or the choreography was wrong...mistakes were never opportunities, and my training was less enlightened and more....inhibiting for my constitution I think.

Ok, that as longer than I meant.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh and another musician play an amazingly brilliant crazy in love. .

And here I am imaginin you shakin yo booty

Perhaps hard liquor and 100 B&H hedge a day could help your sweet voice sound a bit more Amy Winehouse?

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

And here I am imaginin you shakin you booty

Perhaps hard liquuor and 100 B&H hedge a day could help your sweet voice sound a bit more Amy Winehouse?

Yeah, with the same end as Amy probably.

I was content with my voice, it served me well. It's ok not to have everything you want in it if it makes you money. . It is/ was my sound, which is what is really important to most musicians. Ultimately with my first instrument I wanted this badly but didn't get it, and my second instrument never ha a hope ( had to play two, it was the rules) but just like Amy sounded like Amy, Ella sounded like Ella and billy, billy whose voice wasn't technically great, far from it, but whose sound nevertheless was, your own sound is what you want really, for better or worse!

Edit: fwiw always too busy roaring with laughter and glee when dh playing crazy in love to shake my booty, but has always been a big hit with audiences.....he used to use it in a sort of mix, people aren't expecting it, so they looked a bit wrong footed, then laughs, happy, booty shaking.

Tbh.....no idea ' what gets the kids dancing' nowadays.

michaels

Gotta sleep now, was preping a presentation for company meeting till 1 AM this AM, meeting all day (in the Grove, not bad) and so far not too much coughing from the kids tonight but more to come no doubt. Tomorrow starts with funeral for mother of DDs classmates so not that much to look forward too then back to 'proper' work after a break that seems all to short.

DKs have so much energy and are so noisy when school is on hols: wii, outside, singing, fighting and often all at once - it is great they are so lively but oh for a bit of peace and quiet.

zagubov

Louis Armstrong's All the Time in the World was used in an ad back in '94.
It was the first song I heard when I came home from the birth of my first child, DD!
My uncle (the one who took me to TOTP back in '71) was a session musician who met and worked with Burt Bacharach.

Is Rhapsody in Blue jazz or ....what? I can listen to St Germaine's "Rose Rouge" etc. and a few other albums but living where Nikkster is now kind of immunised me against jazz.
It was in every pub on top of which they held festivals like it might be banned tomorrow! Fat chance.:eek:

Cujo's Fat !!! Joint and the rest of his Adventures in Foam album are really good.
David Benoit - Linus and Lucy is recognisable by everybody I think