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In my personal desire to broaden my genre appreciation, I want to challenge everyone to link me to a representative sample of your personal favorite song on YouTube. A song that best defines the genre.

There are no wrong answers.

As Dr Gannon would prescribe; "Have fun, eh?

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I have too many to sort out one as a favorite.

But I'll start you off lightly, here's Monty Alexander, jazz pianist extraordinaire, playing Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" as a jazz piano trio song.

Incidentally, Monty played keyboards in the studio for Bob Marley's original cut of this and many other Wailer's hits.



I play this one in my piano sets, try to do it justice, one of the things I'm always on the lookout for are songs that can be played as jazz that people of a younger generation will be able to recognize, such often serves as a way to interest the uninitiated into the jazz side of music.


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Much appreciated, Mac. That is precisely what I had in mind. Thanks. Perhaps your comment will prime the pump.

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Hi, Don !

I too have a lot of favourites,
so as I have to compress it to
one it would be The Carpenters
for their absolutely stunning
arrangements, singing and naturally
Karen´s voice that IMO so far is
completely unparallelled !
What could be better than Karen
and Richard singing Burt Bacharach,
my favourite composer !:))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUsbmWz1Nio&list=PLBC0848B8B84297DA

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I appreciate that, Dani.

Yes, they were excellent.

What genre would you place them in?

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Mac,

That is just KILLER! I often wondered how that song would sound played in different styles, this answers that question. Ashamed to say I've never heard this one before . . . soooo many great performances and sooooo little time.

Thanks for the post.

Don, I too have tons of favorites (and of course a new one today) and will post some later when I get some down time.

I think you have started a good thread here ma friend.

Later,


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Hi, Don !

Naturally it is difficult to place
such a versatile group as The Carpenters
in any special genré as they did
so many quite different tunes ranging
from country to jazz. If I have to
I would put them in a a genré close to
pop jazz ? ( That is where I would
put Bacharach´s music also)


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I think its safe to categorize The Carpemters' work as Pop.

Pop Music, really "Popular" Music, actually covers a wide range if you take the entire history of it into consideration.

I too, used to marvel at their performances. An entire band with perfect pitch and real musical training and experience in both Classical, Jazz and Pop musics. Wow.

If you listen carefully to the example of them posted, at one point Ken and one other male member do some background vocals, rather quick moving harmony part - and they were so dead on the tempered scale pitch that it sounds like today's Autotune was in use, snatching every note sung to dead on pitch. Only there wasn't any autotune when they were recording. That's just how good they could hear.


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"Blsckbird" -- The Paul McCartney song, with a Jazz Piano interpretation.




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Okay, Don, your song for today comes from the reigning king of jazz Hammond Organ, Joey Defrancesco.

Here we have an outstanding example of Joey's mastery of the technique of "Noodling" on the Hammond, where Melodies are played as block chords with one hand while the other hand plays the walking bassline, said bassline punctuated by stabs with the footpedals, typically happening on a tritone of the root, to simulate the plucking of a string bass.

The art of jazz music consists basically of taking a well known and popular song that has interesting changes, stating the song at the head as the Melody and then proceeding to improvise on that and at the end, repeating the head once more.

Here we see Joey D doing that fantastically with "Speak Softly" theme from The Godfather movie. Many jazz "standards" have historically come from movie and television themes and other songs originally appearing there.

At the bottom of ALL modern western musics is the Blues. I'm not referring to the lyrics of the blues here, I'm not referring to all that "paid yer dues" thang, but to the fundamental music that is played behind the lyrics, in jazz we try to pay tribute to the many developments that blues music (and gospel musics) brought to the continuing development of western music.

Joey D never loses track of that bluesy/gospel aspect, which can turn almost any piece that has appropriately nice changes into a toe-tapper. And that's important, because music without sung lyrics should emulate DANCE.



BTW -- Joey DeFrancesco can not read music. Like those other rare talents, he somehow bypassed that in favor of just absolutely understanding music theory and patterns innately.


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Macster, that is exactly the sort of info that I was hoping to see. Thank you.

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.....And your song for the night (over here), comes from the Hammond
B3 Goddess Barbara Dennerlein !:))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl3lt3tbYas&list=TLMgaldPmcB8_CBGJSCIkQMB0LyDoZt8Qm


Just enjoy this incredibly masterly treatment of that
glorious instrument !:))

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Simply, WOW! Dani. Her pedal work mesmerized me! Our resident B3 player, Mac, will want see her play. Unbelievable! Thank you.

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I've seen her many times, Danny Boy.

Let's meet Barbara's mentor and teacher:

New Jersey, USA born Rhoda Scott, who emigrated to live in Paris. Her father was an AME minister and she gravitated to the organ at an early age. Then she went to music school *grin* . She may be called the mentor of the younger Barbara Dennerlein above.

Both ladies use the Hammond pedals for their walking basslines, rather than the Jimmy Smith style of LH walking while foot "plucks" ala Joey D.

The fast footwork usually indicates an organist who studied the Cathedral Organ classical first, then moved on into the world of jazz.

Here's Rhoda Scott back in '73:




And here is one of the organ summits where both Rhoda and Barbara have at it together:



Rhoda, unlike many of us, never turned her back on her classical organ work either, she simply added the jazz genre to her accomplishments.

Here is Rhoda playing the well known Bach Tocatta in D minor:




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Awesome all, Mac! Another WOW performance by both ladies.

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Now, Don !

Let me take you to my own genré
which is barbershop !
I´ll think you´ll enjoy this
live performance by the world
champion chorus Ambassadors
of Harmony ! Quite a performance
and arrangement ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kPzNIGnH5o

And here is another barbershop world champion chorus Westminster Chorus
performing "Bridge Over Troubled Water" a fantastic arrangement
and a fantastic chorus too !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24tClvoCpBE

As the ol´Irishman you are you might like their performance of Danny Boy also, a pity that the sound quality is not always what these performers would deserve, but that is Utube !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpqzmK_mn0w

PS: I am myself a 14 year member of Nashville-based
Barbershop Harmony Society and I sing barbershop
on a weekly base. In barbershop the tenor
sings the high notes ( enhances the overtones the other
voices produce) lead= the melody line is mostly
under the tenor, the bass sings mostly roots and fifths
and the baritone fills in with all the chromatics
that the other voices don´t !:))

To "ring" or lock a chord in barbershop so that
you start hearing overtones is more than an addictive
experience and it is easy to understand that people
get hooked on this pure american art form !:))

Cheers
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Excellent stuff, Dani. Thanks for the link.

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I love well sung Barbershop vocalizations.

Over on this side of the pond we don't tend to think of large choruses as being "barbershop" however, that descriptor is reserved for smaller ensembles, quartets, as in the famous Barbershop Quartet, as well as maybe up to six singers at most in some instances.

The Inernational Barbershop Quartet competition is a great way to enjoy the acts of many of the best.

Here are the 2012 champions, The Ringmasters:



"Stormfront" - the 2010 champions, sounded like this in compettition:



Injecting humor into the act is becoming more and more a part of Barbershop, here's Acoustix performing a crowd pleaser Medley of Television Theme Songs:



Nothing is safe from the assault of the modern Barbershop Quartet, here we find the High Fidelity Quartet has gone full Trekkie mode:



If you liked part 1 above, here is Part 2 of that performance:



Those who view their music listening on the myopic side of things probably don't realize that when major studios and labels send a young act out to obtain some vocal coaching, the teachers often assign them some Barbershop. Nothing gets the close harmonies practice needed to belt out in perfected intonation than this genre does.

Want your band to have killer vocals, well worth the time spent working out one single Barbershop tune and getting to the point where you can belt it out. -- And, you can add it to your show repertoire and yield amazing audience responses.

Another aside, Band in a Box has been spotted in use among the best of Barbershop Arrangers, using nothing more exotic than the BB's built in MIDI harmonies to automatically assign the parts to a single Melody line.

My all out favorite Barbershop Quartet is FRED:




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Hi, guys !

Official Barbershop builds on competition and has
done so almost from the start of SPEBSQSA = The
Society for Preservation and Encouragement Of Barbershop
Quartet Singing in America ! I won´t go into any more
detail, but I only note that SPEBSQSA (nowadays BHS)
was founded in 1938 ! Before that Bshop had been sung
as far as we know from around 1850 or so. In the beginning
everything was more or less improvisation, someone coming up
with a tune and the other guys harmonizing to the melody.
Written arrangements came into the picture much later.
BHS even has an affiliated organisation called AHSOW (Ancient and Harmonious Society Of Woodshedders) if I remebered the word right ?
This is for the purists that like to woodshed as they did back in time !

The winner of the first quartet competition was Bartlesville Barflies
back in 1939 and the Chorus competitions started as early as
1954 (with an invitational competition in 1953) ! Every barbershopper
knows the basics regarding history. We know that everything started
with quartets and that was in fact really very long ago. Today,
most quartets are offsprings from choruses and the guys ususally sing
in choruses. F.i. Ambassadors of Harmony has 2 in fact three
barbershop world champion quartets: Gas House Gang (not active)
Crossroads and Vocal Spectrum. If you follow AOH:s rendition of
"Higher" on Utube you can see (and hear Crossroads on the left seen from you, and Vocal Spectrum on the right ! I have met many of these guys and I am proud to say I have got to sing with them also (what a treat)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br_0rTrOYHo

For those who want to probe deeper into this wonderful artform I can
recommend a visit to our homepage:

http://barbershop.org/home.html

Guys ! I am proud to be a barbershopper, be sure of that !:))


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That's some good stuff, Dani.

Excalibur!


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