Fine Music - Orchestra, Big Band, Classical and Such

[Tom22]

ok .. here's one I was sharing to my facebook crowd.. trying to show the few hundred friends of mine I don't only log on there once a month to plug Haley...

Some how there is something about Louis Armstrong that touches me and... I'm thinking there is some similary thing I hear when I hear Haley (no its not the rasp... i'm alsot talking about his phrasing with the trumpet and ..... I think there is a world-view they share ...that just comes out in how they juxtapose emotions in a melody..... ok .. not tonight

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here's another trying to show the emotions I like in music....a mix of complete self assurance , yet a tenderness and vulnerabilty ... and a sadness that reality is sometimes in conflict with the ideal... so unfortunate...

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Hey gang what a bout this one???? Nothing digital, here as raw as it gets with Getz and Coltrane

That is definitely classic

I can "dig" the era but as much as I understand where Getz is going it just doesn't put me somewhere comfotable with his studied lack of chord resolves (and that's perhaps exactly the artistic point)

Henry Mancini.. perhaps in a watered down way ... he had some pretty energetic stuff that did resolve chords

...but there was actually (in my mind) some pretty exciting sounds to all sorts of TV theme songs and movies (I dream of Genie... 60's Bond... so many others).

Here is part of the background party score from breakfast at tiffanies



Thats only one of about 5 "party" orchestrations.. most of which were barely heard if at all. (at the end of that clip there is part of another)

Man .. some of the movies were beautiful then too.. the use of light

not necessarily for the music but because she's gorgeous



ok this one is just for the glamor of it and the light filters etc