https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWKO1ZowmU

This is better

Not usually my kinda thing...but I enjoyed that.

Thanks for posting

A different version of "Someday My Prince Will Come."

This is a club performance, from 2013, uploaded yesterday by Joan Chamorro. It contrasts with the concert performance of 2011, (uploaded by someone else in 2013).

It's evident that Andrea Motis had made considerable strides in the two years in both confidence and ability. Her improvisations in her trumpet solo, are totally different to the earlier performance, as they usually are with musicians with a good "jazz brain." She was still only eighteen at that time.

Good tenor sax solo from Scott Hamilton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qu52nXuEZ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23dW3H9yFSU

Check this out, no dull standards

That appears to be from the same concert as that marvellous rendition of Moody's Mood For Love !

I like a bit of Klezmer.......I live near Regent's Park and they have a Klezmer Festival every year with Jewish bands.........I think it's Jewish and Gypsy

gets very lively !

A couple of new videos from Joan Chamorro.....

Firstly Marc Martin play s a solo 'Body and Soul'........he's coming along nicely as a terrific player but I just don't think it's a very good tune or maybe it's just not a tune I'm familiar with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDolK4Scego

Second........the big band with a jazz version of one of my favourite Ella' songs 'From This Moment On'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvLheXI21lo

this is more like it !..........and a sign of the changing generations as two newish saxophone players take centre stage with a new professional player

A few of the 'regulars' are in the band in the background

Thanks for that I've seen them, but for once I wasn't impressed enough to post about them..
Actually, "Body & Soul," is a great timeless jazz standard, you can play it in 4/4 or 3/4 and it sounds just as good.

It showed Marc Martin's abilities, but for me, far "too many notes,"

There was really only one pianist for me who could get away with that and that was Art Tatum, he could play it in a dozen different ways and put snatches of other tunes in with his improvisations, he was that brilliant. But I couldn't listen to a lot of his recordings in one go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBYt0kdLGr8

Here's a very young Sarah Vaughan, ("Miss Perfect Pitch,") singing the same song as it was supposed to be performed. Such a talent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUCo1kS7SrA

The two young tenor players again showed a lot of ability, playing fast, but again I wasn't impressed with their improvisations.

I did notice Andrea Motis in the brass section and Magali on bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HhRCka_e8g

Excellent It's back

Andrea Motis' younger sister, Carla, given a solo. A welcome change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQuc5EcyhZY

Carla always comes across as such a serious young lady

I get the impression she'd rather be working in an office.......

Yes, she seems very reserved. I think she might feel a bit overshadowed by her sister, who is much more outgoing, but that situation is not uncommon amongst sisters.

Even here, she seemed very self-conscious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9bsqHMNMc

Jazz can have that effect on a person

Some more Chamorro uploads,

A pleasant rendition of Michel Legrande's "Watch What Happens."as a bossa nova, sung by Rita Payes..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu2TjqV8ezA

From the same set.

Moanin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIKhOEV_Gx0

No sign of any Eva Fernandez contributions lately, perhaps she's now left the school and will now only appear occasionally as a guest?

One of my friends introduced me to Jazz (Django Reinhardt) a few years ago. I'm now banned from deciding what dad and I listen to when we go away. He claims it's "too soothing"

I did attend the Django Reinhardt festival in France last year, which I enjoyed. Sadly, won't be going this year for numerous reasons.

This was quite impressive.

A "quartet" with Andrea on soprano and alto and Joan on tenor and baritone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5uq24v3iiI

When sax players "double" on instruments, it's sometimes either soprano and tenor, both Bb instruments, or alto and baritone, which are both Eb instruments, but I guess if you're really proficient, you can play any.

Some of the younger members of the band are continuing to get some exposure

Joan Mar Sauque on trumpet.

Some good solos and a vocal chorus from Magali Datzira.

A relaxed version of "Tenderly."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc9HsXAIdiY

I've not been checking the Chamorro vids regularly but by coincidence I had a look last night and noticed 'What A Little Moonlight Can Do' which is one of my favourite 1930s Billie Holiday tracks (with the Teddy Wilson Orchestra)

This looks like it comes from the same session as the video above with Magali singing

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

I like that new sax player

(more generally in my jazz education I've now moved on from Miles Davis to John Coltrane........my current favourite albums which I listen to pretty much every day are 'Coltrane Ole' and 'Impresssions'

Eva Fernandez was conspicuous by her absence, perhaps there's been a parting of the ways, since she formed her own group.

I was brought up on Davis and Coltrane/Cannonball Adderley. I say that, I was into traditional jazz until I discovered Davis when I was eighteen.
I saw Davis twice, once in London in the sixties and again in Manchester in the eighties.

That is fantastic

A couple of new videos uploaded by Joan Chamorro yesterday, with already 1300 & 1700 hits.

Strings added for a couple of Billie Holiday classics. Very atmospheric in filmed monochrome.

Eva Fernandez listed as on clarinet, as a change from saxophone.


"Lover Man."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y18UwdmPFc

Love Me or Leave Me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USTs1FgN-Mc

Cheers doghouse......

I just found out a couple of days ago that the 'usual' pianist, Ignasi Terraza, has been blind since he was 10

He has his own Trio outside of the Chamorro stable........here's a nice track with a good singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-UFGsGf4z8

Thanks for that. A good version.

I've mentioned that tune before on another thread.

Some funny lyrics in it I mentioned at the time,

"Write to the Browns as soon as you are able.
They came around to call.
I burned a hole in the dining room table.
Nothing else, I guess that's all."

I've got this recording of that tune on a CD by "Mrs Elvis Costello." Must be at least ten years old now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0_U4Vlmybw

A much underrated singer and jazz pianist.

Just to dwell on the subject of the tune "P.S. I love You." (Written by Gordon Jenkins and Johnny Mercer in 1934).

Coincidentally, there was a 2007 rom/com staring Hilary Swank, on TV last night, with the same title,

This version of the song by Nellie McKay was featured, near the end of the film. She played Hilary's sister.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7vfSM4Oh5o

when I first clicked on the link I assumed it was going to be the Beatles tune with the same name which was an early Lennon/McCartney song...........I think it was on the B side of their first single



must admit that I'd never heard of the other song