Comments on: ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO / “Summertime” http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/ a conversation about black music Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: drfeelgoed http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-128 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 05:19:00 -0500 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-128 I just included her version on a new compilation CD 2 weeks ago, it's awesome! And now you post it here as well, excellent, spread the word! I just included her version on a new compilation CD 2 weeks ago, it’s awesome! And now you post it here as well, excellent, spread the word!

]]> by: hristou http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-129 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:20:20 -0500 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-129 You have Morcheeba (live New Pop Festival 1998-10-23) with Summertime? You have Morcheeba (live New Pop Festival 1998-10-23) with Summertime?

]]> by: Stephanie Renee http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-134 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:59:28 -0500 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-134 I love the various versions you've posted here because each has its own unique light (and isn't that the real idea behind interpretation?). Kidjo's version pulses with a spiritual fire, while the Baker/Chestnut collabo is more languid and - dare I say - humid? Makes me wanna fan myself on a front porch and move slowly...too hot to do any real work, but too enticing to stay indoors. Not sweat, but perspiration. Thanks for sharing! I love the various versions you’ve posted here because each has its own unique light (and isn’t that the real idea behind interpretation?).

Kidjo’s version pulses with a spiritual fire, while the Baker/Chestnut collabo is more languid and - dare I say - humid? Makes me wanna fan myself on a front porch and move slowly…too hot to do any real work, but too enticing to stay indoors. Not sweat, but perspiration.

Thanks for sharing!

]]> by: sue ross http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-135 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:11:07 -0500 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-135 Summertime is one of those classics that lends itself to unique interpretations - so much so that you can make a whole cassette tape of different versions by the great song stylists of our time, and of course I did (oops- showing my age, need to burn a CD these days). Must have been hard to choose the ones here today. I listen to the incomparable Sarah Vaughan 'Live in Japan', Ella Fitzgerald on 'Ella in Berlin', Dinah Washington & Clifford Brown, Dakota staton on the Late, Late Show', Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Shirley Horn on 'I remember Miles', Lorez Alexandria, Ernestine Anderson, Lena Horne, even Mahalia Jackson -the list goes on and on. Or John Coltrane's take on his 'My Favorite Things' album, 'Oscar Peterson & Joe Pass', the Uptown String Quartet, Bird, Diz, Louis, Duke, Kenny Burrell. Herbie Hancock or my all time favorite the "Modern Jazz Quartet plays Gershwin's Porgy & Bess", from Milt Jackson's resonant vibes to John Lewis' elegant piano - a truly magical performance. (Though you better try and find a LP or an import - the current CD issued by Collectables is abominably mastered, full of tape hiss and distortion) Thanks for introducing us to Angelique Kidjo's interpretation - I'll add it to my favorites. There are a few other chestnuts that I have made one-song tapes of, that I never tire of listening to: Round Midnight, My Funny Valentine, Misty and my brother's favorite, Willow Weep for Me. Looking forward to your next set of musical memories... Summertime is one of those classics that lends itself to unique interpretations - so much so that you can make a whole cassette tape of different versions by the great song stylists of our time, and of course I did (oops- showing my age, need to burn a CD these days). Must have been hard to choose the ones here today. I listen to the incomparable Sarah Vaughan ‘Live in Japan’, Ella Fitzgerald on ‘Ella in Berlin’, Dinah Washington & Clifford Brown, Dakota staton on the Late, Late Show’, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Shirley Horn on ‘I remember Miles’, Lorez Alexandria, Ernestine Anderson, Lena Horne, even Mahalia Jackson -the list goes on and on. Or John Coltrane’s take on his ‘My Favorite Things’ album, ‘Oscar Peterson & Joe Pass’, the Uptown String Quartet, Bird, Diz, Louis, Duke, Kenny Burrell. Herbie Hancock or my all time favorite the “Modern Jazz Quartet plays Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess”, from Milt Jackson’s resonant vibes to John Lewis’ elegant piano - a truly magical performance. (Though you better try and find a LP or an import - the current CD issued by Collectables is abominably mastered, full of tape hiss and distortion)
Thanks for introducing us to Angelique Kidjo’s interpretation - I’ll add it to my favorites.
There are a few other chestnuts that I have made one-song tapes of, that I never tire of listening to: Round Midnight, My Funny Valentine, Misty and my brother’s favorite, Willow Weep for Me.
Looking forward to your next set of musical memories…

]]> by: Jerry Ward http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-137 Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:32:05 -0500 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-137 Please play all six versions of "Summertime" on the Kitchen Sink this Thursday. Play Kidjo twice, because it is an all-too-short aesthetic gem. Please play all six versions of “Summertime” on the Kitchen Sink this Thursday. Play Kidjo twice, because it is an all-too-short aesthetic gem.

]]> by: Kalamu http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-138 Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:17:57 -0500 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-138 Jerry, will definitely consider that suggestion. My radio show on WWOZ 90.7fm (www.wwoz.org) is the "Kitchen Sink" and is at 10pm (CST) on Thursday nights. Jerry, will definitely consider that suggestion. My radio show on WWOZ 90.7fm (www.wwoz.org) is the "Kitchen Sink" and is at 10pm (CST) on Thursday nights.

]]> by: Rudy http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-142 Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:02:09 -0500 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-142 Cyrus Colter is the man here in B'more for pianists. Unfortunately, I've never seen him except on TV. He does everything that can be done with a piano, and then more. It does not matter what kind of piano it is -- tuned or untuned, old stand up or grand. Cyrus says, Just let me play. He goes on, "I don’t play to put you to sleep . . . You see these ten fingers, I’m going to get the best I can." He treats a piano as if it's his woman and he knows her more intimately than any man before or after he came on the scene. Thanks for the info on Billy Stewart. I did not know what happened to him -- 33, hunh. The man was a musical genius. I did grow up with Billy Stewart, that is, hearing him. I think I might have seen him way back when the Royal Theater on Pennsylvania Avenue were doing three shows on Fridays -- matinee, 8, and midnight. Billy Stewart also did a piece called "I'm a Fat Boy." And when he sang it, you thought what a grand thing it was to be a fat boy. Rudy Cyrus Colter is the man here in B’more for pianists. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen him except on TV. He does everything that can be done with a piano, and then more. It does not matter what kind of piano it is — tuned or untuned, old stand up or grand. Cyrus says, Just let me play. He goes on, “I don’t play to put you to sleep . . . You see these ten fingers, I’m going to get the best I can.” He treats a piano as if it’s his woman and he knows her more intimately than any man before or after he came on the scene.

Thanks for the info on Billy Stewart. I did not know what happened to him — 33, hunh. The man was a musical genius. I did grow up with Billy Stewart, that is, hearing him. I think I might have seen him way back when the Royal Theater on Pennsylvania Avenue were doing three shows on Fridays — matinee, 8, and midnight. Billy Stewart also did a piece called “I’m a Fat Boy.” And when he sang it, you thought what a grand thing it was to be a fat boy.

Rudy

]]> by: hristou http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-143 Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:14:17 -0500 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-143 Thanks for this version Thanks for this version

]]> by: ekere http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-147 Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:36:42 -0500 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-147 Oh, these are some delicious interpretations. Thank you. Oh, these are some delicious interpretations. Thank you.

]]> by: Shawntaye http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-153 Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:45:05 -0500 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2005/08/07/59/#comment-153 I always liked Billy Stewart's version of "Summertime." I always liked Billy Stewart’s version of “Summertime.”

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