Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
Not quite the Andrews Sisters, but a fun cover anyways.
With the Puppini Sisters, directed by Laurie J Proud
h/t Miss Cellania
A bonus for your new year. I’ve been an unabashed ABBA fan since forever. One of my first 45s, back in the day, was ABBA’s Waterloo (b-side was Honey, Honey, as I recall). In all my fandom, however, I’d forgotten this holiday tune.
As an incredibly popular international band they were a huge success, as people they were pretty normal. The ups and downs of the personal relationships and dynamics among the band members were sometimes painfully laid out in their lyrics. Winner Takes It All was one such song and this is another.
The year is 1980 and though the touch stone of the song is one of hope, it’s more of a “persevere out of the ashes” sort of song, possibly wrung out the collapse of one pair’s marriage (Björn and Agnetha) and the impending collapse of the other two’s marriage (Benny and Anni-Frid).
Even so, I have to say that sometimes perseverance is all that’ll get you through. Never discount it.
The best of the season for whatever you celebrate (or not).
Animated by Paul Rayment with music by Sergei Prokofiev.
Directed By Elliot Dear at Blinkink.
Take the A Train (written by Billy Strayhorn) with his quartet:
As a bonus (a rogue within a rogue. a rogue inception, as it were), here is a recording of Mr Brubeck with Wynton Marsalis at the Newport Jazz Festival playing Blues for Newport.
Mr Marsalis is another one of my favorite jazz men as he is a student of his art. It’s musicians like him that will pass along the pieces Mr Brubeck added to jazz to the next generation of jazz musicians.
Your (semi-regular) Friday rogue video(s) are breaking from animation today to continue a celebration of Dave Brubeck’s work. While we’ll miss the man, the footprints he left on jazz won’t allow us to forget him too soon at all. Thankfully, in my opinion.
This is a 1964 performance of Koto Song from his 1964 album Jazz Impressions of Japan. Mr Brubeck is joined by the ubiquitous saxaphonist Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright on bass, and Joe Morello on drums.
I just read of Dave Brubeck‘s passing today. He was 91 years old.
Tomorrow, his 92nd birthday, was to have been marked by a concert in Waterbury, Connecticut. It will still go on, but as a tribute and, undoubtedly, a celebration of a jazz icon. You see, Mr Brubeck not only brought a lot to jazz, but he brought jazz to a lot of people. He played with jazz, and had so much fun with it that we could do nothing except enjoy it. Dave Brubeck changed jazz and changed the way we listened to it.
Two years ago tomorrow, when he turned 90, I posted a short bio of his college days and slide into jazz as well as a video of Take Five (with his long-time sax-man paul desmond). Please check it out. The Chicago Tribune has a nice write-up as well.
Mr Brubeck most famously played around with time signatures and here is a great example:
First track from the best Dave Brubeck album Time Out. The name comes from the 9/8 Turkish rhythms as 2+2+2+3 and 3+3+3 which are played consecutively in this piece.
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