This reminds me of a (possibly apocryphal) story about the early days of machine translation. Researchers would feed a short passage of text in English into their latest translation programs and let the program translate the passage into some other language--say, Russian, or Mandarin--and then they'd translate the translated passage back into English. This let them compare what went in with what came out. So the story goes that one day someone fed into the machine the phrase, "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" and what came back was "The wine is good, but the meat is spoiled." --- I've been listening a lot to Claudio Fasoli's album, Welcome, from the Kenny Wheeler Black Saint/Soul Note box lately. The second track, "Invisible Sound," has a melody that has ear-wormed its way into my head and I find myself humming or whistling it constantly. Welcome is by far my favorite album from this box. Recommended. Cheers!
Thanks for that! Never heard that before. Super. Neatly fits my two musical loves together, jazz and metal.
Yesternow, thanks for that. I think that might be the first time I've heard Mike Patton sing "traditionally." I know his work mainly from his incredible solo album, Adult Themes for Voice and Microphone, surely one of the most bracing, over-the-top avant-garde vocal albums of all time, yet also somehow quite funny. Here's a short track to give you a taste--you might want to turn the volume down a notch or hold the headphones slightly away from your ears for this! So anyway, needless to say, I was expecting something quite different when I clicked the Fantomas video you posted. Cheers!
So, I dont have much love for strings ( except when accompanied by a singer ) but this one is one I like. Another is Clifford Brown w strings. I dont listen to this much but tonight we had the big thanksgiving dinner at our place and my father in law doesn’t have the best hearing so i thought this would be perfect set on low volume. Turns out the table chatter drowned out everything (all the strings) except Clifford. During the meal its as if I had Clifford playing solo just for me. It was really interesting to hear him stripped down. Just wonderful.
Melba Liston is not well known today but she went to the same high school as Dexter Gordon and had a varied career, playing with Dexter, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and others. This was her only leader date and the arrangements are good and everybody plays well on it.
Discovery reissue DS-829 I Get A Boot Out Of You" Marty Paich Big Band original Warner Bros. Cat# 14349) - Engineer: Dave Ellsworth
Discovery CD DSCD-962 Marty Pain " Moaning' " A combination of the LP above with another Warner Bros. LP reissued on Discovery " The Broadway Bit"
Original Pacific Jazz LP PJ - 58 , reissued by Liberty Reecords LLJ 70044 "Bossa Nova Jazz Samba" / Bud Shank & Clare Fisher - Engineer: Richard Bock
Started with some Herbie (Sound System, Perfect Machine), but now playing Michel Sanchez - Hiéroglyphes
Marty Paich is probably on a thousand records, but there is rarely a picture of him. A good rule of thumb - if an album is arranged by Marty Paich, whether vocal or instrumental, it is almost certainly excellent. If it is by a vocalist, it is likely one of that singer's very best albums.
He also arranged a Spirit's song on the album The Family That Plays Together. Great Californian rock band with jazzy influences.
