I got up at 10.30 this morning and now at 1.30 am, I’m ready to hit the frog. I decided to listen to jazz when I got up this morning and before I left I listened to The Best Of Miles (which is ridiculous as there are over 100 Best Ofs), mainly because it was the first album on my jazz playlist. I didn’t actually get to Stan Getz and Mose Allison which I noticed were also on there but later I did discover King Pleasure. This from Wikipedia: “King Pleasure (March 24, 1922 – March 21, 1982) was an American jazz vocalist and an early master of vocalese, where a singer sings words to a well-known instrumental solo.”
My education continued with vocalese classic Moody’s Mood For Love (1952) which also starred the legend Blossom Dearie. Check it out.
Music Of The Daze
The musical musings in this post are an excerpt from my daily blog, TO WHERE I AM NOW, featured on my main website. Read the full blog post here.
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