Here's something a bit different

Andrea and the Quintet playing with a full symphony orchestra.........'My Favourite Things'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6lAtTStcc


It's different but I'm not really that keen on it..........sounds a bit too middle of the road, cabaret style........not jazzy enoiugh

A new upload from Joan Chamorro.

More Marc Martin.

A well known Antonio Carlos Jobin composition, it's a favourite with jazz musicians.

Translating the Spanish, this is on one of the band's CDs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_gAmn4D3AM


Well, Coltrane recorded it amongst others, it's quite a favourite of jazz musicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTNlFb6Xj6M

Here by Dave Brubeck in 3/4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43T0HdVNOD8

and here by Sarah Vaughan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusavln6Cjw

So many different ways of interpreting it.

I guess you have to put it down to the popularity of the show Sound of Music.

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juy2JciO96A

Is this in an acceptable Doggy style ? or is it fusion or whatever other redundant genre you've decided is unadmittable?

A two man thread and you suggest I start a "Catolonian Fusion Thread" that could be the only thread less popular than this one,

You've just posted another version of, Coltrane's "Giant Steps" which has been recorded by the world and his wife.

The list is endless.

Then there's these

A computer operated mechanical saxophone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjONQNUU8Fg

err.. and another one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEzGHg-JBZU

Then there's the animated sheet music version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kotK9FNEYU

Then the line drawing animations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZRnkBK_0no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPpCtL-3HNg


It's a great tune but not in anyway relative to this thread titled; "Jazz from Catalonia."

What you've posted is "acceptable" on a music board, there's little enough jazz posted at the best of times, but I respectfully suggest you start a separate thread, if you want to talk about other musicians than those of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band.



Hmm..

There's nearly 15,000 hits on this thread so not too unpopular eh?

Sheik of Araby...................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4GSmziW6YU

A good version. Always a "happy" tune.

I remember this more of a "trad" jazz tune. In my teens I saw Mick Mulligan's Jazz Band play this at a concert. At this time his singer was relatively unknown.... George Melly

you're welcome.........although your obsession is getting to be a bit creepy !

Don't think we've posted this one before.......

Some of the usual suspects and some 'new' professional players playing under the name 'The Miles Tribut Band'

electric guitar !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq_Py5RPN4g

and another one from what looks like the same concert.......

So What

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V12yl6M-jY

two electric guitars on this one.........it's a very 'rock' version

I might have posted this one before as I put this comment on the YouTube video five months ago.

"As an ensemble it was quite good, but the "dramatics" of the tenor player didn't impress me. He needs to watch a Coltrane video to know how to conduct himself on stage."

Coltrane was the "personification of cool" on stage. No such flamboyant behaviour, which I thought unnecessary and distracting.
A shame, as his tone was quite reminiscent.

"The real thing."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c

Recently uploaded, but this is obviously not a new recording, probably about two years old or so.

An example of the abilities of the younger members of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBNzDo1j4-0

The first of the year from Joan Chamorro. Marc Martin given some more prominence.

"Alone Together."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XYK9fhqc3c

Andrea Motis "with strings," uploaded by someone, from a Chamorro/Motis CD of a live performance in front of an audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfZP9fe75R4

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

Jazz in Catalonia

A pleasant enough video.

But it's not from Catalonia,

Jarasum is in the middle of the Korean Peninsular, where this performance was staged at the annual jazz festival held there and Dominic Miller is English.

So this has nothing to do with this thread.

As I suggested earlier, why not start a relative thread, instead of trying to hi-jack this one?

All gone a bit quiet on the Joan Chamorro front

I'm not very keen on the recent uploads with orchestras and strings

And I've started a new project for January........I'm giving the Jazz a miss after a few months concentrating on it

I've decided to 'do' Shostakovich and I'm working my way through his symphonies. This was brought on by that documentary a week or so ago on BBC4 about his 7th Symphony written during the Siege of Leningrad

My previous excursions into Classical stopped around Sibelius' time so this is all new to me

Variety is the spice of life !

Come on we're celebrating Jazz, Unless you're a Basque separatist, Why are you bogged down with geography, Is Barcelona not acceptable, which towns and villages should we leave out?

Fair enough, each to their own

This is the latest up-load from Joan Chammoro.

"East of the Sun."

Marc Martin on piano given a solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSio02hj0g0

This song written in 1935 became a "jazz standard" and has been recorded by many well known artists, from Sinatra to Stan Getz.
New artists have recorded it through the decades. The most popular on YouTube, being the most recent. Diana Krall in 2007.

Joan Chamorro seems to have no more recent recordings to upload.
This is from 2013, as were a couple of others posted in the last few days.

Still it was quite a good performance and quite popular, over 800 hits in a day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG7pahSO6V0

Cheers Doghouse......

I had a look a few days ago but couldn't see anything new

This one from two or three years ago with Scott Hamilton and Ignasi on piano is beginning to seem like 'the golden age'

I quite like Marc Martin but haven't really taken to any of the new saxophone players since Scott left

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

Is this allowed?

That was wonderful. Thanks for posting...

More opportunities given to the younger members of this band.

Víctor Carrascosa, trumpet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37S4SY6OMHM


"The usual suspects," taking their turn within their sections.

I didn't go a bundle on Luigi Grasso, guest soloist on alto.

Yes, he's very proficient, but I was I wasn't impressed with his improvisations, too intricate for me, designed to show off his dexterity.

I'm more of the "less is more" faction. If you let this video run, it led (it did for me) into "Jeep's Blues," with Eva Fernandes and Dick Oates on alto, both with what I consider better tones and not so "busy," particularly Eva,