This jumping swing version of Jingle Bells was originally arranged for the Count Basie Orchestra in 1961. If it doesn’t get you in the holiday mood, well what can I say.
Jingle Bells, performed by Wynton Marsalis and band.
Enjoy, Jack
Author: whskyjack
Sunday Serendipity
Thanksgiving is over, you survived it and black Friday. Today I have some cool vibes so you can maintain your sanity during the coming month.
There is something about midcentury jazz and autumn. They seem to go together. I had something else planned (some guy named Mozart) when You Tube tossed out this number. I added it to my jazz play list. I’m posting the playlist once again, you know, jazz and autumn.
It doesn’t get any better than John Coltrane and Stan Getz on tenor sax. Wynton Kelly their equal on piano, with his extended intro. Paul Chambers is on bass and Jimmy Cobb plays the drums.
Enjoy, Jack
Sunday Serendipity
I ran across this Mozart motet a couple of weeks ago and saved it for later. I don’t usually care for “Operatic” style singing but in this case, I find Ms Richardson’s voice something I can listen to over and over. It is a beautiful way to begin the holiday season.
Enjoy, Jack
Exsultate, jubilate (Exult, rejoice), K. 165, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Suprano soloist, Nola Richardson
Sunday Jazz
Sunday Serendipity
Le Concert Spirituel: Baroque music at the time of Louis XV.
Performed by Jordi Savall & Le Concert des Nations
At the end of the reign of Louis XIV (1722-1774), so-called “private concerts” came into fashion in France. The music no longer took place in churches and palaces but in private homes and gardens in the open air. These “private concerts” had their golden age in France during the reign of Louis XV (1722-1774).
The name Concert Spirituel derives from the fact that the concerts were conceived so that they could be performed during Lent and on other religious holidays of the Catholic Church, a total of some thirty-five days each year, during which all the “profane” activities of the principal musical and theatrical institutions, such as the Paris Opera, the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne, were brought to a standstill.
Enjoy, Jack