Three Tune Tuesday: Travel Season Jazz
Although as an African American I rest very firmly in the legacy of jazz beginning with my ancestors in the United States, I recognize the contribution of musicians around the world to the art -- so we are going to get around the world for travel season!
From the Hot Club of France in 1939 ... then as now, the world wonders if another world war is ahead ... but not anywhere around here ... what worry could there be as this classic jazz plays and all worry floats away, live, with Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli and their group!
Now you know you have traveled somewhere new on a five-beat mambo -- the great Tito Puente is your guide!
Back through the portal of America to Africa -- from five to ten, also -- enjoy the African Jazz Pioneers closing out this week's selections with this celebratory yet mellow take that reminds us of the sounds that set jazz, blues and gospel apart -- we can hear those fully "blue" notes as scale steps on the "shout" that are true quarter-tones in a land where quarter-tones were never a problem!
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@deeanndmathews The first melody spoke to me. I found the French version of an era that I never knew but the song I had already heard. At first I thought it was Edith Piaf who sang it but I couldn't find it. I found this singer from this distant era.
That is a well-known melody ... I did not know the name before today ... thanks also for this version! When people think of Paris in this country, this is the common tune!
Indeed at that time he sang while rolling the [r] this way of speaking remained widespread in the countryside of certain regions of central and eastern France. And only very old people