"Birth of the Cool" is an album that collects the twelve sides recorded by the Miles Davis nonet (featuring Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz and others) for Capitol Records in 1949 and 1950. The music is considered seminal. This blog is dedicated to that spirit -- keeping things "cool" by blog birthing. If you've got somethin' cool to share, blow on.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
New audio production–“Ear Worms”
My new audio production is complete. You can hear it right here!
Interesting sh*t Willy. Song for My Father and Tammy are unbidden earworms I share with you. I understand where both come from for me. I fell in love with Debbie Reynolds in that movie when I was a kid, and Horace, forget about it. You got me thinking, so here's some of mine. The most persistent one for me is So What from Kinda Blue, another is It Was a Very Good Year by Sinatra. If I had to pick the piece of those tunes that recurs the most consistently it would be Paul Chambers' introduction to the So What theme and then Miles coming in, and for the Sinatra it would be the bridge, which might surprise you. Another recurrent one is that twirly down the scale bit in The Animals When I Was Young. And of course those triplet trills of Ahmad Jamal's at the beginning of his version of Surrey With the Fringe on the Top, which I still play that way to this day. Plenty more but those are the most frequent.
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Interesting sh*t Willy. Song for My Father and Tammy are unbidden earworms I share with you. I understand where both come from for me. I fell in love with Debbie Reynolds in that movie when I was a kid, and Horace, forget about it. You got me thinking, so here's some of mine. The most persistent one for me is So What from Kinda Blue, another is It Was a Very Good Year by Sinatra. If I had to pick the piece of those tunes that recurs the most consistently it would be Paul Chambers' introduction to the So What theme and then Miles coming in, and for the Sinatra it would be the bridge, which might surprise you. Another recurrent one is that twirly down the scale bit in The Animals When I Was Young. And of course those triplet trills of Ahmad Jamal's at the beginning of his version of Surrey With the Fringe on the Top, which I still play that way to this day. Plenty more but those are the most frequent.
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