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Post by TKennedy on Feb 6, 2023 16:25:47 GMT -5
Seeing she won a Grammy in jazz I downloaded her album Linger A While. Wow what voice control, certainly another instrument in the combo.
So far Nostalgia is my fave. Nice tasty guitar playing too.
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Post by Marty on Feb 6, 2023 19:41:44 GMT -5
1. She has her own voice ie: Oh! that's Samara just by hearing her.*
2. Her pitch is great and if she makes a inflection in pitch or timbre it's intentional and you know it.
3. She's not singing as many notes as possible, just the ones needed to create the picture.
*Still pissed of a Queen Latifah for redoing Poetry Man and stealing EVERY phrase from Phoebe Snow like nobody remembers the song.
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Post by TKennedy on Feb 6, 2023 21:20:36 GMT -5
Here’s the guy playing guitar in her combo. www.pasqualegrasso.com/Off her website - “Nostalgia (The Day I Knew)” was the product of a jazz transcription class she took with trumpet master Jon Faddis at SUNY Purchase, in which she took down Fats Navarro’s solo from the original 1947 recording and wrote her own lyrics to that melody — inspired, she quips, by the teen romance novels she was reading. She went through the same process with “I’m Confessin’,” combining that song’s original lyrics with her own, set to Lester Young’s 1952 solo. Especially for a contemporary listener, hearing how seamlessly Samara transforms these instrumental lines into breezy lyrics is astounding.
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Post by millring on Feb 7, 2023 6:12:09 GMT -5
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Post by Village Idiot on Feb 7, 2023 21:32:48 GMT -5
Who is Samara Joy?
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Post by Dub on Feb 8, 2023 0:00:07 GMT -5
Seeing she won a Grammy in jazz I downloaded her album Linger A While. Wow what voice control, certainly another instrument in the combo. So far Nostalgia is my fave. Nice tasty guitar playing too. She’s really wonderful.
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Post by Dub on Feb 8, 2023 0:02:02 GMT -5
Hey, I remember that thread. Thanks for the link.
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Post by John B on Feb 8, 2023 1:59:10 GMT -5
Yes, it was quite the find you made back in August! After listening to a few Grasso solo albums I find I like his playing best when backing a good singer.
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Post by millring on Feb 8, 2023 5:56:08 GMT -5
After listening to a few Grasso solo albums I find I like his playing best when backing a good singer. I was thinking the same thing.
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