Jacob Collier - Close to you

Bir gün canlı dinlemek isteyeceğiniz yeteneklerden. Hani harika çocuk da denilen türden İngiliz kardeşimiz Jacob Collier. Aslında jazz pianisti ama çalamadığı bir enstrüman yok sanırım. Kendisinin Chicago'daki Lincoln Hall'da sergilediği efsane Close to you performansı da afiyetlerinize sunulur. Bu arada çocuk 1994 doğumlu, hadi ağlayalım! :) Bence kendisi çağımızın, milenyumun gördüğü göreceği en önemli yeteneklerden... Afiyet olsun!

He is one of the ones you'd die to listen live someday. This english brother Jacob Collier is from child prodigy species. He is actually a jazz pianist but there's no instrument he can't play I guess. His Close to you performance from Lincoln Hall in Chicago is served to your pleasure... By the way he is born in 1994, yes let's cry! :) I believe he is one of the most important talents of our era and the millenium... Enjoy!

A song is born - with several jazz legends in it

Jazz'ın efsanelerinin de içinde yer aldığı 1948 yapımı "A song is born" adlı filmden müthiş ama müthiş bir sahne efendim. İnsanlar jazz'ı nasıl sevmez anlamaya çalışıyorum. Herkesin kendi çapında özgürleştiği ve bireyselleştiği ama bütünün hala ağaç-orman kafasında olduğu bir nimet yahu! Bence zamana en uygun müziklerden ama zamansız da... Filmde kendi karakterini kendisi canlandıran bazı efsaneler şöyle; Tommy Dorsey Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell...
Afiyet olsun...

A marvelous but really marvelous scene from 1948 made movie "A song is born" with some off the greatest jazz legends in it. I still try to figure out why people dislike jazz. It's a music where all musicians liberalize on their own and individualize but the whole picture is still like a tree-forest binary, it's kind of a gift! I guess it's the most suitable music with our time and timeless too... Some of the jazz legends starring as theirselves are; Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell...
Enjoy...

Snarky Puppy - Lingus (We like it here)

Temelleri Texas'ta atılan NewYork'lu jazz-funk-world-soul-pop :) kolektifi Snarky Puppy, her biri kendini aşmış 40 kadar müzisyenden oluşuyor. 2004 yılında basçı, besteci ve yapımcı Michael League tarafından kurulmuş. Jazz ve funk'ı füzyonlayan bu arkadaşlar birkaç kez Grammy kazanmakla birlikte world, soul, pop da harman ediyorlar. Eleştirilmişler ama NewYork Times gazetesi Snarky Puppy için "Onları olmadıkları birşey için yargılamaktansa oldukları gibi kabul edin" diye yazmış.

Afiyet olsun.

Texas born but NewYork based juzz-funk-world-soul-pop :) collective Snarky Puppy is composed of 40 very talented musicians who got over theirselves. Founded in 2004 by bassist, composer and producer Michael League, the band won a couple of Grammy Awards and blends also world-soul and pop into their music. They are strictly criticized by the 'dinosaurs' of traditional jazz and funk world. But NewYork Times wrote for Snarky Puppy as follows: "take them for what they are, rather than judge them for what they're not."

Enjoy.

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit, Summertime, Am I Blue?

Billie Holiday, 40'lı yılların blues efsanesi, kelimenin tam anlamıyla zor dediğimiz hayatlardan birini yaşamış, ırkçılığın -özellikle siyahi amerikalara karşı - sınırlarını aştığı yıllarda protest şarkılar söyleme cesaretini göstermiş, adını caz tarihine kazımış ve 44 yaşında sirozdan ölmüştür. İlk şarkı Strange Fruit gelmiş geçmiş en anti-ırkçı şarkılardan biri olarak bilinir. 2. şarkı bir blues klasiği - summertime. Yaza veda ederken ironik olacak biraz :) ve son olarak "am I blue" Billie Holiday'in en sevdiğim parçalarından...Pazartesi için belki biraz sakin ama değerli melodiler bunlar. Beğenmeniz umuduyla, iyi haftalar.

the blues legend of the 40ies, Billie Holiday had a literally bad bad life, lived in the times as the racism has its highest season in american society against the african-americans. She had the courage to sing anti-racist protest songs, had her name written with golden letters in the jazz history and died from cirrhosis with the age of 44. The first song Strange Fruit is known as the most anti-racist song ever. Summertime is a blues classic and covered by all legends - Summertime. Will be ironic during these "goodbye summer" days. and lastly "am I blue?" is my favorite Billie Holiday song :) These are all a bit silent but well important melodies for a Monday. Hope you'll like it, and have a nice week.


Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the popular trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter cry




Am I blue
am I blue
ain't these tears, in
these eyes telling
you
How can you ask me
"am I blue"
why, wouldn't you be too
if each plan
with your man
done fell through

There was a time
when I was his only one
but now I'm
the sad and lonely one...lonely

Was I gay
untill today
now he's gone, and
we're through
Am I blue