..I've come back to this post many times over the years. It's just one of the evergreens of YT music, at least as far as I'm concerned. Thanks for posting...
Jim, these changes are characteristic of Ms. Lee's artistry throughout her far to short career. Perhaps you are totally unfamiliar with jazz interpretations of standards, Ms. Lee's approach to the libertto is at one with her flexible approach to meter, melody and harmony. If you want it sung straight, stick to the official broadway production recordings, but it is difficult to figure any sense in which her approach is anything less then an aesthetic masterpiece!
I'm with misstree bird. "Nice creativity" is so condescending when Stark is more interested in a PerFeckt reading of Sondheim rather than the integrity of the singer's approach. Lee's familiarity with the song, its message, and music itself far exceeds his quibbles.
Leave it to Europe to keep a videotape of something this cool & obscure. In the US, we keep almost nothing artistic. 99% of all great jazz performances on videotape TV in the US were erased so quickly it would make your head spin. Overseas these performances are treasured, but not here.
Ran captures the essence of the piece, interpreting the intent of the composer and filtering it through his unique improvisational style to make a new work of art. Ms. Lee just sings the melody with little interpretation, which is perhaps how Ran wanted it. But then I wish she would have been more accurate to the original melody, such as going up for the last note, instead of down.
I love that Jeanne sings the melody more or less straight, and Ran’s accompaniment is WILD
A gem! Wonderful.
..I've come back to this post many times over the years. It's just one of the evergreens of YT music, at least as far as I'm concerned. Thanks for posting...
Very original, especially that pantomimed version of the second half.
drum & bass at the start? Apart from that - this beautiful lady's voice is a JOY. Thank you x
incredible. thanks for posting this.
there is something in her voice .. that really makes me crazy :-) I love it!
YES
What a beautiful, mysterious, beguiling chemistry they had.
Thank you very much!
precioso !!!!!!!!!
GOLD
WOW!
Kool...twice
yeah
My goodness.
cool!
Jim, these changes are characteristic of Ms. Lee's artistry throughout her far to short career. Perhaps you are totally unfamiliar with jazz interpretations of standards, Ms. Lee's approach to the libertto is at one with her flexible approach to meter, melody and harmony. If you want it sung straight, stick to the official broadway production recordings, but it is difficult to figure any sense in which her approach is anything less then an aesthetic masterpiece!
If you know Ran Blake's work, this performance is no less informed by his iconoclastic approach.
This feline's vocal rhythms get me off better than my shrooms.
I'm with misstree bird. "Nice creativity" is so condescending when Stark is more interested in a PerFeckt reading of Sondheim rather than the integrity of the singer's approach. Lee's familiarity with the song, its message, and music itself far exceeds his quibbles.
12 tone music lives here. OK.
... danke für den hinweis gunter ...
No audio on the second tune?
The second tune is just a repeat of the 1st one, and it wasn't there originally so don't know how it got there.
Leave it to Europe to keep a videotape of something this cool & obscure. In the US, we keep almost nothing artistic. 99% of all great jazz performances on videotape TV in the US were erased so quickly it would make your head spin. Overseas these performances are treasured, but not here.
Ran captures the essence of the piece, interpreting the intent of the composer and filtering it through his unique improvisational style to make a new work of art. Ms. Lee just sings the melody with little interpretation, which is perhaps how Ran wanted it. But then I wish she would have been more accurate to the original melody, such as going up for the last note, instead of down.
So let me see, you want more interpretation ,and then you chide her for not being accurate to the original melody, which do you really want?!