Sometimes you just need to listen to some Funk.

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[lylejk]

Don’t get me wrong; do enjoy classical music as well, but today, during some dead time at work, I ran across this video.   Enjoyed it much.  Hope you all do so, too.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giYvwLM-JEo

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Well, I enjoy classical music too, but I know there is more to music than Bach, Beethoven and Brahams (a.k.a. “the three big Bs.”)

For example:

Miles Davis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6eZHnIA__A

With John Coltrane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHeOxVwFyOw

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Listened to both performances (at work during dead time) yesterday; fantastic.  

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And this:

Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall, 1938

With the great Gene Krupa on drums and a host of other greats

“Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NigiwMtWE0

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Oh to be 20’s again!! Thanks for sharing! These groups were so tight!!
This old percussionist thanks you

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BBC Proms 2022

Nicola Benedetti Plays Wynton Marsalis

“Superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti takes to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall tonight with a very special Proms premiere performance of a concerto written specially for her by American jazz legend Wynton Marsalis. An electrifying mix of jazz and Scottish folk, it forms the centrepiece of a programme packed with fizz and sparkle. Also featured are Bernstein’s kaleidoscopic Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and a blast of salty ocean air in Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes.

Thomas Søndergård conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Georgia Mann presents, with special guests.”

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Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk

Have some fun with this!

 

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Thanks Alex, yes, that has been a great occasion, as it was when she played his violin concerto (he is also a composer). More here: #2391367 in “Part II – Aren’t these the greatest performances of classical music” (That is not all about classical concert-hall music.)

And since this is about funk, here is some more:

Wynton Marsalis & Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra – Jazz San Javier 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcgKwSsWkzg

● Tracklist:
00:00 – Intro
01:20 – Inner urge
10:31 – Light blue
20:11 – Stuart Davis for the masses
29:45 – The Mooch
38:44 – Vitoria Suite: Mvt. I, Big 12
48:38 – In a mellow tone
54:35 – Wigwam

● Personnel:
Wynton Marsalis – Musical Director & trumpet
Kenny Rampton – trumpet
Marcus Printup – trumpet
Ryan Kisor – trumpet
Walter Blanding Jr. – tenor & soprano sax, clarinet
Sherman Irby – alto sax
Ted Nash – alto & soprano sax, clarinet
Victor Goines – tenor & soprano sax, clarinet
Joe Temperley – baritone & soprano sax, bass clarinet
Vincent Gardner – trombone
Chris Crenshaw – trombone
Elliot Mason – trombone
Dan Nimmer – piano
Carlos Henriquez – bass
Ali Jackson – drums
Carla Cook – vocals

By the way, when one now clicks the link to a YouTube video, sometimes it starts playing right away. Also now there is in all videos a red button with “Subscribe” on it, but either by just opening the video Webpage, or else clicking for it to start as usual on the big white arrow, if it shows up, one can watch and listen anyway.

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SueW wrote:

Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk

Have some fun with this!

 

“Songwriter: Charlie Wilson, Robert Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson, (…)”

Gap Band – I Don’t Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops)

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Actually, the Songwriters are Charlie Wilson, Robert Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Ronnie Wilson, …, Bruno Mars; the Artist is Mark Ronson; and the Song is Uptown Funk.

Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk (Official Video) ft. Bruno Mars

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And how about this?

She is the most notable electric guitar player shredder I have heard in a very long time. Many good ones had come and gone, but since Jimy Hendrix … I don’t know. (She plays with background recorded music, not with Iron Maiden live, etc.)

And with perfect timing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJi8iSpzq9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhKEBTz2N28&list=RDEMdncNTbJB7woaP_imXHgliA&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbmt7IpINBc

And also a mystery, as since 2016, when she had won already the admiration of millions, she went completely off the grid and no one knows or has seen hide or hair or heard of her since.
There is an article in Wikipedia about her, if you wanted to know more.

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OscarCP wrote:

Many good ones had come and gone, but since Jimy Hendrix … I don’t know

Mark Knopfler
Eric Burdon
Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011)..

Come to mind.

J.J. Cale
Eric Clapton

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Hmm …

Alex: “Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011)..
Come to mind.”

Speaking of which:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0c6IfMkac&list=RDEMdncNTbJB7woaP_imXHgliA&index=5

And one more for the road:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rBK0BqL2w&list=RDEMdncNTbJB7woaP_imXHgliA&index=1

(Believe it or not, the notes are there.)

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33 Best Songs With Guitar Solos EVER

70 of the Best Guitar Solos You’ll Ever Hear

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Stanley Clarke & Friends – School Days

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California Funk: Rare Funk 45’s From The Golden State

With 21 slabs of pure, joyous funk complete with huge drums, blistering horn charts, pulsing basslines, stacks of wah-wah fuzz guitars, and enough energy and rhythm to rearrange the stratosphere, this delightful set of rare and independent California funk releases from the late ’60s and early ’70s is as much a nonstop dance party as it is an affirming revelation. It never stops grooving — from the opener, Water Color’s “All Bundled into One,” a release so rare only one copy is known to exist, to the closer, a cover of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” by Mr. Clean & the Soul Inc., this is one powerful document. None of these sides was a national hit, and most didn’t even crack the local airwaves, but it’s not because they lack quality. There is so much to marvel at here, including the above-mentioned tracks as well as Arthur Monday’s thundering and slightly spooky “What Goes Around Comes Around” and the charging horns and percolating guitar of J.G.D. & the New Breed’s “North Richmond Breakaway.” It’s joyous funk as deep as the ocean is blue. You can’t go wrong with this one. — Steve Leggett

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