After a day of speaking Spanish, I want to come home and get some English straight infused in me so that I know I'm atleast competent in one language. A while ago, Isaac sent me this video of Dave Brubeck and Al Jarreau doing "Take 5". The band was ofcourse professionally awesome but I was more captivated by the singing. I can't say I fell in love with it right away but it was so different that it made me listen.
So later, or maybe before, I stumbled upon a video of Annie Ross' "Twisted". I looked up Annie Ross and found out the style of singing was called "vocalese". I "obtained" some music from "Lambert, Hendricks and Ross", the vocalese group and I was reading the inside cover of the pamphlet and the music is pretty crazy. And by "crazy" I mean that sometimes it is so busy that it is hard to listen to. I definitely cannot study to it. But some of the songs are put together so well and are really fun to listen to.
So the trio undertook this project of imitating the horns a whole band, choosing Count Basie's Big Band, and Jon Hendricks wrote the lyrics to not only the solos but the ensemble passages as well. It's basically like scatting, which vocalizes solos, but putting words to it. 60 hours of studio time and multi taping led to the completion of this project and Basie's own rhythm section contributed as well. The reason I sort of wrote about this is because I went to a performance at Steamers' cafe and the singer did a vocalese song and it was super swinging.
Annie Ross' "Twisted" w/Count Basie.
2 comments:
beautiful - thanks man
haha vocalese steeze
thanks for the song, it WAS a HUUUGE beast hahaha, it kind of surprises you with when it comes in :) yeah, I split the keyboard with piano and these 2 different ambient sounds (trying to get that hillsong-y sound heh)
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