Jazz for aficionados

Rok, this is an even greater Gold Mine than the last one we discovered, and I know we're both still enjoying that one. "Mary Lou's" incredible music is coming up short in the sonics department, but her music is so incredible in regard to "Blues and Soul", that it doesn't have to be her playing her music; it's just that powerful. While I mentioned blues and soul, the gal can bop too.

This is an example of her religious music that's so powerful, I vibrate when I look and listen to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1Rkf9LVAk

Enjoy the music.

O-10:

The first clip, Mary Lou's Mass was good. The second clip was flimed with a fixed camera from a long distnace. Not nearly as effective.

However, I must admit that I am not a fan of Modern Dance, esp in the absence of the Librettro. As usual, I am old School. 'Swan Lake' and 'The Nutcracker' are just about the limits of my dance appreciation.

I did notice that Mary Lou made several references to God and religion in Nica's book. Of course a lot of the other players did also. Different era I guess.

I did not get a chance to listen to Mary Lou or anyone else today. My Polks have failed. :( I know, I know, it's impossible to believe. But you can't say Polk is not high-end now. Beautiful product, very expensive, great sound and with a MTBF of about 20 minutes.

I am now waiting on a replacement tweeter, and magnetic grill. back in the lo-fi days, the stuff lasted forever.

I did get a chance to listen to some of' Dinah Jams'. Sounds like a fun disc. I recognized Maynard right away on 'Summertime'. No one else can play that high and that loud.

Dinah is not really a Jazz singer, but she does have a very unique voice. One of her most memorable lines to me, was from a CD with Brook Benton, when she says, as only she can, "one more time Brook". :) Love it.

Will be back in the net tomorrow. Will bring the Lsi15's back out.

Cheers

Rok, you didn't buy "Dinah Jams" for Dinah Washington, you bought it for the musicians backing her, so do not miss one single solitary note.

Rok, I have an affinity for Mary Lou's music that goes beyond anything I have ever experienced; it's a kind of nostalgia thing that goes back to a time before I was even born. Have you ever looked at an old black and white photograph that was so old that it was turning brown, and been drawn into it? I'm drawn into the sound of her piano; on "Willow Weep For" for example, this sounds like music I heard at a time before I could even remember.

on "It Ain't Necessarily So", I've heard this a thousand times by a thousand people; why should Mary Lou's sound so different; it takes me back, way back; so far back that I wasn't even born. Could there be something to reincarnation? Maybe I heard her before I was born in a "speakeasy" in Kansas City when I was somebody else?

Music is so mystifying; I mean how the very same music can have so many different, and unusual effects on different people.


[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4THBVc47ug>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8AOox_prE[/urk]

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4THBVc47ug

Enjoy the music.

O-10:

Both links go to 'Willow'. It was beautiful. Check out some of the comments from musicians. Dare I say it? She was well versed in the N&B's. :)

I tried to listen to my CDs of Williams, but the sound quality was just too awful. They were recorded in 1974 & 1945. The clip you sent had great sound. They did a good job of cleaning it up.

The notes on the clip said she 'tutored' Monk!! Damn! I think if she had been a man, she would have been up there with the best, in the public's consciousness

Send 'necessarily so'. I suspect You didn't hear it in Kansas City. It just sounds so refreshing in this current sea of noise, you think you had to have heard it in a former life.

Thanks for the clips.

Cheers