What are you listening to, right now................
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Early 90s mainstream rock
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Watched a documentary on Ella Fitzgerald a couple of nights ago and started to listen to some of her stuff.
Holy crap. What a voice and what a singer.
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@voodoo said in What are you listening to, right now................:
> Was shooting some hoops with the kids at a park and a bloke comes down with a speaker and puts this on, cool track:Did a couple of guys who were up to no good start making trouble in your neighbourhood ?
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Top drawer Ferning boys
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@Victor-Meldrew one of the purest voices ever and the best virtuoso of scat there is.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Watched a documentary on Ella Fitzgerald a couple of nights ago and started to listen to some of her stuff.
Holy crap. What a voice and what a singer.
I watched that too.
Ella had an incredible range and was naturally pitch perfect.
I grew up listening to her records as my parents were big fans, even went to a show Of hers in the 60s in Detroit and still have the tickets. -
@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew one of the purest voices ever and the best virtuoso of scat there is.
Not an era I've listened much to....yet.
Been recommended to listen to Sarah Vaughan and Peggy Lee by a friend who's seriously into jazz. From what I've heard/read both very different singers, but way up there in the stratosphere with Ella.
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@Victor-Meldrew add Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington and Nina Simone and you have all the bases covered. Although they all covered multiple genres.
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew add Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington and Nina Simone and you have all the bases covered. Although they all covered multiple genres.
Thanks for that.
Downloaded Peggy Lee's "Black Coffee" album today as a start. Simply sublime.
Next week I'll check out the Divine One...
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Watched a documentary on Ella Fitzgerald a couple of nights ago and started to listen to some of her stuff.
Holy crap. What a voice and what a singer.
I watched that too.
Ella had an incredible range and was naturally pitch perfect.
I grew up listening to her records as my parents were big fans, even went to a show Of hers in the 60s in Detroit and still have the tickets.That was quite a trip in those days!
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@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew one of the purest voices ever and the best virtuoso of scat there is.
Not an era I've listened much to....yet.
Been recommended to listen to Sarah Vaughan and Peggy Lee by a friend who's seriously into jazz. From what I've heard/read both very different singers, but way up there in the stratosphere with Ella.
Don't forget this lady:
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@pakman said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Victor-Meldrew said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Watched a documentary on Ella Fitzgerald a couple of nights ago and started to listen to some of her stuff.
Holy crap. What a voice and what a singer.
I watched that too.
Ella had an incredible range and was naturally pitch perfect.
I grew up listening to her records as my parents were big fans, even went to a show Of hers in the 60s in Detroit and still have the tickets.That was quite a trip in those days!
It would have been but they used to live there.
Dad was seconded to GM on a sabbatical to learn the latest stuff (he was a design engineer) and bring back to his work in NZ. They actually got married over there and used to live in Flint. Their old house in now a run down slum.
They had a lot of black friends and shared a love of jazz/swing, going to shows like Ellington, Basie, Jonah Jones and Armstrong
It probably was what drew me to listening to soul music as I always had a soft spot for horns. When , as a teen, I listened to Dexys “Searching for the young soul rebels” it had me tracing back the Northern Soul inspiration and went from there. -
A few random songs cropped up whilst doing the housework this afternoon, what a pleasure, love hearing songs you haven't heard in a long time..
(actually one of my all time fave songs)Vibes got high!
