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BojazZ – Listen Paganini

bjazz — Sat, 05 May 2012 08:09:58 +0000

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BojazZ – Listen Paganini

BojazZ – Listen Paganini (by Sam Coslow)

Cette chanson dont le titre est « If You Can’t Sing It, You’ll Have to Swing It », s’entend pour la 1ère fois dans le film « Rhythm on the Range » en 1936 .
La même année, Ella Fitzgerald l’interprète sur disque en improvisant de nouveaux breaks (il y en a 7).
La version live de 1961, techniquement très aboutie, est devenue une référence, un morceau d’école.
Nous y rendons hommage dans le clip « Listen Paganini ».

BojazZ présente un répertoire de chansons venant d’Afrique, Amérique, Europe et Orient.
Chaque chanson est un nouveau tableau, un nouvel arrangement, où la musique est celle du jazz de ses origines à aujourd’hui.

BojazZ est un groupe de musique Pop&Jazz, qui reprend des chansons de pop, blues, soul, jazz, compose de nouvelles chansons, en anglais et français, sur des rythmes afro, latin ,swing, rock, accompagné par les danses de sa remarquable chanteuse. Et réciproquement!

Les compositions sont de Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Léo Ferré, Claude Nougaro, Cyndi Lauper, Burt Bacharach, George Gershwin, Serge Gainsbourg, Charles Aznavour, Charlie Christian, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Etta James, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, … Mais pas que!

L’orchestre se compose de Charlotte Canales (chant), Andrew Sudibasilp (guitare), Gabriel Rigaud (percussions), Bernard Baldous (contrebasse). Guest Stars : Clara Martin del Campo (violon), Manu Beer (orgue), Frank Nicolas (trompette)
voir article Mr. Paganini by Sam Coslow

Double bass & Cinema & Contrebasse

bjazz — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:35:17 +0000

W.C. Fields in « The Barber Shop » (1933)

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Sawed Bass from « Hellzapoppin’ » (1941)

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Alfred Hitchkock & the double bass in « Strangers On A Train » (1951)

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String Bass Images

bjazz — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:11:57 +0000

Acoustic Upright Double Bass, Contrebasse, Contrabajo, Contrabasso, Baixo

Rock’n'Bass

Bass Jazz

From Montpellier, France

Folklore

Contrebasse Solo … jusqu’à l’agacement!

Classique

Cinema

Insolite

Around the World

Around the Bass

Art

Bizarre!

Royal Wedding (1950) by Stanley Donen with Fred Astaire & Jane Powell

bjazz — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:00:11 +0000

Royal Wedding (MGM) (Public Domain) is a 1951 Hollywood musical comedy film known for Fred Astaire’s dance performance on a ceiling and with a coat rack.
The story is set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
Starring Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill and Keenan Wynn.
Music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.
The film was directed by Stanley Donen. It was his second film and the first film he directed by himself.

Astaire and Powell play a brother and sister song and dance duo, echoing the real-life theatrical relationship of Fred and Adele Astaire. Powell, who was not first choice for the role, surprised her colleagues with her all-round ability. She falls for Lawford, who plays an English aristocrat – mirroring Adele Astaire’s romance and eventual marriage to Lord Charles Cavendish, son of the Duke of Devonshire.

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SONGS :

« TOO LATE NOW »
Music by Burton Lane, Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Sung by Jane Powell

« EV’RY NIGHT AT SEVEN »
Music by Burton Lane, Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Sung by Fred Astaire and chorus, Danced by Fred Astaire and Jane Powell

« SUNDAY JUMPS »
Music by Burton Lane
Danced by Fred Astaire

« OPEN YOUR EYES »
Music by Burton Lane, Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Sung by Jane Powell, Danced by Jane Powell and Fred Astaire

« THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE »
Music by Burton Lane, Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Sung by Jane Powell

« YOU’RE ALL THE WORLD TO ME »
Music by Burton Lane, Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
from « I Want to Be a Minstrel Man » in Kid Millions (1934)
Sung and Danced (on walls & ceiling) by Fred Astaire

« I LEFT MY HAT IN HAITI »
Music by Burton Lane, Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Sung by Fred Astaire, Danced by Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, chorus

« WHAT A LOVELY DAY FOR A WEDDING »
Music by Burton Lane, Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Sung by Keenan Wynn and chorus

« HOW COULD YOU BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAID I LOVED YOU WHEN YOU KNOW I’VE BEEN A LIAR ALL MY LIFE »
Music by Burton Lane, Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Sung and Danced by Jane Powell and Fred Astaire

Maurice Béjart, Ballet, Le Sacre du Printemps, Stravinsky

bjazz — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:00:16 +0000

Maurice Béjart, chorégraphe (1er janvier 1927, † 22 novembre 2007)

Extract from « The Rite of Spring » by Igor Stravinsky.
2005 Ballet by choregrapher Maurice Bejart, with dancers Kateryna Shalkina and Julien Favreau.
Gilles Amado is film director.

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Louis Armstrong & his Band in « High Society »

bjazz — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:01:54 +0000

High Society (1956) Beginning & End with Louis Armstrong & his Band
MGM presents, a Sol C. Siegel production,
starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra,
in High Society (1956),
co-starring Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer,
with Margalo Gillmore, Lydia Reed,
and Louis Armstrong and his band, with Edmond Hall (clarinet), James Young (trombone), Billy Kyle (pianist playing guitar), Arvell Shaw (bass), Barrett Deems (drums),
screen play by John Patrick,
based on a play by Philip Barry,
music & lyrics by Cole Porter,
music supervised by Johnny Green & Saul Chaplin,
musical numbers staged by Charles Walters,
orchestrations by Conrad Salinger & Nelson Riddle,
director of photography, Paul C. Vogel, A.S.C.,
directed by Charles Walters.
This is the Beginning and the End of the story.

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Louis Armstrong Hall Of Fame

From New Orleans to Chicago with Louis Armstrong

Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Band

bjazz — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:53:27 +0000

Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Band – Old Man Blues – from Check and Double Check by Melville Brown (1930)
Member of the Cotton Club Orchestra :
Cootie Williams, Arthur Whetsol, Freddie Jenkins, Joe ‘Tricky Sam’ Nanton, Juan Tizol, Johnny Hodges, Barney Bigard, Harry Carney, Fred Guy, Wellman Braud, Sonny Greer.

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Duke Ellington Musician Hall Of Fame

Duke Ellington (1899/1974) We Love You Madly

Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson Tap Dancing

bjazz — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:36:44 +0000

Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson (Tap Dancing) – Linda Brown – Stormy Weather (1943)
Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson (Tap Dancing) & The Tramp Band – Linda Brown (Alvis Cowens), with Lena Horne, dancer Bill « Bojangles » Robinson, drummer Zutty Singleton, bassist Slam Stewart, Trumpeter Benny Carter…
in « Stormy Weather » (1943) by Andrew L. Stone, for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

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Rhythm & Blues Revue (1955) full movie

bjazz — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:08:03 +0000

Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955) by Joseph Kohn, Ben Frye, and Studio Films Inc. (public domain).
Musical variety show filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City, featuring a cast of popular African-American performers:
Willie Bryant, Freddie Robinson, Lionel Hampton, Faye Adams, Bill Bailey, Herb Jeffries, Freddy & Flo, Amos Milburn, The Larks, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Joe Turner, Delta Rhythm Boys, Martha Davis, Little Buck, Nat King Cole, Mantan Moreland & Nipsy Russell, Cab Calloway, Ruth Brown…

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McLintock (1963) by Andrew V. McLaglen, with John Wayne & Maureen O’Hara (full movie)

bjazz — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:55:34 +0000

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