The Nearness Of You - Highline
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- “The Nearness of You”, brought to you by Highline. Make sure to get near the people you love this week. 10/10 would recommend huddling for warmth as winter approaches. Also would recommend getting near that like button (for smashing).
Songwriters: Hoagy Carmichael & Ned Washington
Arrangement: Jared Graveley
Audio & video production: Mark Farnum
Cameraman: Scott Redmond
Wardrobe: KENT!
I'm blown away. Lost for words. That song was written the year I was born. Eighty four years later this group makes we want to live another eighty four years when there are groups like this bringing the songs of my youth back to life. God bless you guys and gals.
I absolutely agree. Their voices are like fine-tuned instruments in concert!
Yeah ! Eighty more years, Two more World Wars, another financial crisis, and the climate mess.
I've been involved in acappella for decades, and this is one of the best arrangements I've ever heard -- ever.
Thank You Lord Jesus Christ for music ✝️😭🙏
This is beautiful 🇿🇦
Such exquisite harmony. No accompaniment needed. Why don’t we get to hear more of this! Gorgeous.
Can you believe that talent like this exists and is unknown to the masses? This group should be doing super bowl national anthems.
Well, it's not completely unknown. And, let's face it ... "the masses" generally don't have discerning tastes, which this group definitely requires. That said, it would be good, particularly for the members of the group, if more people were aware of how infinitely good they are.
Wow! Your blended voices are spectacularly accurate and on note! What a complex arrangement, and how beautifully presented!
Hey, cdmjazz. It isn’t often you read about the 4Freshman and the HiLo’s. I just turned 90, so that means I was a jazz a cappella fan way back when. I even sang in a quartet while at Washington University back in the early 50’s in a competition which for years was barber shop renditions. We won it two years running with 4Freshman songs. I have loved jazz for most of my life which means I was listening to the big bands, especially Basie. Love Manhattan Transfer. Now I listen to Pentatonix, Quad and now these guys. A cappella is alive and well!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️👏🏻👏🏻
A cappella !!!! This is the true way to sing a great ballad !!! Fantastic job you guys !!! Wonderful harmony !!!!!
One of my all-time favorite songs - and you do it beautifully! Gorgeous arrangement! So glad to hear vocal jazz doing well in younger lives.
I mean, I've listened to this over and over. It's just ridiculously good. There are so many delectable moments, shadings...Jesus.
I have never heard you guys before. Where have you been? NIce sharp 11 ornamented resolution in the Alto at the end. Very creative writing there and throughout this Hoagy Carmichael classic. Really wonderful tone, balance and blend. Velvety Soprano, solid warm bass, and exceptional/beautiful singing in the inner voices as well. All the elements of a fine vocal jazz group. Keep up the great work! I am a fan. Do you just sing a cappella (I would have no problem with that, the way you sing) or do you also sing with a trio?
I'm delighted by discovering this group. This is a gorgeous rendition of a gorgeous classic. Reminds me of The Manhattan Transfer's Nightingale Sang... but with your own unique talents.
Magnificent.
It does not get any better than this. This is perfection. As good as the King's Singers. Stunning.
You guys are stupendous, a real delight to listen to. Thank you so much for such a delightful presentation !! Out of sight!!!
impressed beyond words (and yet i'll type a few ;p) I feel, frankly, genuinely blessed to have found you. Your music will move people. Move people I hope into (as John Cusack said this fall in a live appearance I attended) giving up the political party of republican or democrat, and just being an active, compassionate member of 'party humanity.' Leave resentment, hate, skepticism, sarcasm, judgement and just be in the moment with our fellow citizens of earth and enjoy this life we've been given. Your music will spread good will, please never give up doing what you do!! It will inspire!
Either my drink of water is too cold or you guys are sending chills up my spine!! Your sounds move me. Thank you for finding each other and playing together.
yesssssssssssssssssss
A magnificent arrangement, exciting and sensitive execution, and technically excellent performance!
I loved you guys!
Jazzy greetings from São Paulo, Brazil :)
I know this comment will probably get buried, but I just wanted to let yall know that you just made my night. I've smiled unlike I have in a long while
Nonstop chills! So great, the intonation is so on point! Such rich harmony, lush!
As a long-time fan of the Freshmen, the HiLos, Singers Unlimited and New York Voices, I am truly impressed! Your intonation and handling of close voicings is impeccable and the diction is marvelous. Hoping to hear more from you.
That last chord resolution was amazing! Thank you for your artistry.
Agree
Add Anita Kerr to the list. Beautiful, guys.
Goose Bumps!!!!!! That was AWESOME!!!!! I.m a big band buff and Love groups of "The Moderates" and others!!! Your close harmonies is spot on!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!
Wonderful voices! 🎶🎼🎵🌟💯🌟💯🌟💯💎💎💎💎💎😉🙏🇧🇷
Love this! This was my wife’s and my wedding song 30 years ago. We just celebrated our anniversary and I recorded it for her as a surprise...me and piano accompaniment. Your version is stunning. I absolutely loved it. Thank you for posting it and having such heavenly voices that perfectly blend together. Bravo!!
This is the most amazing arrangement!!! And beautifully executed!
So I think the very definition of creativity is taking something that everyone has access to (in this case a voice and four friends) and with the application of talent, commitment and time… turn something so mundane into something so magical and astounding. My God you guys are wonderful, off to see if I can find more stuff from Highline! Hoagy would be proud.
Well, THIS... is fairly sublime !
It's hardly the "elevator music" of jazz. It's the Schubert, Beethoven, and Ella Fitzgerald of jazz. It's the very essence of jazz, the very essence of music. Whether it's jazz or not jazz, however you want to categorize it, it's world-class magnificent!
Hope this channel can grow up fast
OK, I will admit nothing thrills me more than great acapella, but this group and this song just blows me away. Tears to my eyes and chills up and down my spine. I’m apparently a bit late to the party here, but glad I found the door as I searched out inspiration for my own keyboard arrangement for a vocalist accompaniment. Amazing performance from incredible talent that spills forth from this group.
This song has always been a favorite of mine and I’ve heard many artist’s rendition of this over the years but this is by far in a unique class of its own. The vocal arrangement is first class. If I may I would just like you to consider an idea I have for that climatic tag ending you do so flawlessly well. At 3:47 when you guys sustain the word “night”, I think it would have an even more dramatic effect if the female lead singer “waits” a little and render “the nearness of you” rubato style instead of coming in too early. Other than that, Mr Hoagy Carmichael must smiling from ear to ear after listening to you guys perform this classic, historic and beautiful song. Keep up your magnificent work! ☮️🙏🎵🌺
I'm shook by the voicings on that last verse. This is incredible guys!
Unbelievable...
For real though. Heart skipped a beat.
I am shocked... Dang! That was inspiring! You guys nailed it! Thank you for sharing this beautiful art with us. 👏🤩
It sucks that I can't like this video more than once!! I want to like it every time I replay it 😭😭🙆🏽♀️❤
That was sublime! You are the next generation Manhattan Transfer! Can't wait to hear more of your music!
How was this recorded? You got an amazing sound, and it looks like it's outdoors! If you're lipsyncing to a studio take, I definitely couldn't tell!! One mic altogether or one each? I'm scratching my head wondering hwo you got it that perfect in what looks like outdoors!! TIA 💕
Yes I thought the same. Sounds like a studio recording
Recorded in studio the mimed for this video. Kinda like MTV has done it forever. Rarely are the video and audio source the same anymore.
Awesome! Especially the high parts in the end! I'm so glad that I found this....
WOW ! You have it ALL !....Blend, Intonation, Dynamics...& killer arrangement ! You are one of the BEST vocal groups I've ever heard !
Damnn this is underrated! You guys nailed it!
This group is absolutely wonderful to listen to. Great harmony!!
Beautiful harmony, beautiful song......check out the Roomates version of this song, they too do a great job.
Beautiful song😅😅😅😅😅
This group is SERIOUSLY good.
@Gary Schneider: Yes, it is!
Just...wow.
SUPERB. We need more of your beautiful vocals!!!
Fantástico,no hay nada mas hermoso wue la voz humana,este grupo te sube al cielo.
Clear and Crisp, great acupella with Harmony!
Can’t get enough of your unreal harmony.You are the best of all!
Lovely! Too beautiful for words!
Absolutely wonderful rendition of this great song.
Wow. Very good! I have a Master's in Music and find it so refreshing to discover incredible music and musicians like this!
Boring? This rendition is PERFECTION!!! Bravi tutti e cinque!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Utterly beautiful. So exact. Thank you so much.
Chills 😭 is there sheet music available? I’d love to sing this
I shared this with a few groups of mine. This is def my top favorite chart I've heard this year. I doubt it will be beat.3:40 ... straight shook.
Jesus that was gorgeous.
Господи!!! Это какая то сказка! Какая гармония! Сколько труда! Бравооо ребята!!!🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
beautiful harmonies, arrangement, substitutions and especially movement within the chords... Thank You
Absolutely awsome!! Thank you
Wow beatifully shocking! Inpressive
If you can listen to this song all the way through without shedding a tear, you are literally a psychopath.
I swear I haven’t cried this hard since my grandpa died, and I’m a grown man.
Just gorgeous. Great song to start with, in an incisive arrangement, and done with precision by five superb singers.
You guys are awesome!
change is the only constant...Plz God..grant these guyz an exemption..
I'm in tears !!!! Makes me think of All of my grand parents!!!
Absolutely the best…!!
Congratulations..🎯
Wow. Just stumbled across this. Wonderfully tight, creative harmonies.
優しいハーモニーが大好きです🌼🌷
何度も聴いています。
this is one of the best vocal arrangements that exists!
I wholeheartedly agree!
Love the use of cluster chords, and the occasional flatted 7th. What really strikes me, though is the complete understanding of the song.
This arrangement crushes. Well done!
It brings back memories of my old vocal group back in the late fifties and early sixties. We were singing Freshmen and Hilos songs when all are friends were into Do Wop. Maybe that's why we never made it. We were behind the times, or maybe we were too far ahead...who knows. Keep doing what you're doing. It's so beautiful. Love the arrangement. Hoagy would be proud.
Sublime and powerful!
You people are from Heaven
It is wonderful.
perfection. so original and yet so classical
Glorious.
Nobody does harmony like our American cousins. That's for sure.
This is just so lovely. Wonderful rendition of this luminous tune.
Another level .. Wow !
now my favorite vocal ensemble group
Is there someone I can find the arrangement! Huge fans X
shaz Glad you like it! Shoot an email to highlinevocaljazz@gmail.com for an arrangement
One of my favorite songs. Thank you! 💖💖💖
Sounds like music from the 50s and 60s. Nostalgic. Please keep it up.
The arrangement and tonality initially reminded me of of Swingle Singers...which was both pleasant and impressive...but then, around 3:35, you jumped into Real Group territory, even sliding (literally) into Gas House Gang chord power. It may have taken a bit to build steam, but by the end, I had chills...and that ain't easy with a music snob like me. Well done!
P.S. It's also wonderful to see how you keep looking around at each other...engaging and staying connected in the moment...which helps to keep timing and expression tight!
Wow! What an amazing arrangement and recording!
Magnificent! Made me applaud in front of my screen😊
You guys are EVERYTHING.....
Love this rendition
divine, magic
I found my Quintet.... Mozart would be Proud
melt
A delight to the ears
Can’t get enough of you!Simply fantastic!
So beautiful❤
in italia , invece, grazie alla nostra abissale ignoranza musicale ( amadeus , grazie) abbiamo un duo chiamati ricchi e poveri , che intonano canzoncelle ( mamma ma mamma maria ma mamma mia ... liberaci...) e che chiedono 60.000 euro per una serata. raffaele
Wonderful. The slow tempo really allows us to hear and appreciate the complexity of your harmonies. I love this material and I have arrangements ready to go. What I can't find are singers who can actually pull it off. You guys have that in spades and the arranging is beautifully done. Who is the arranger or do you share it around?
This is beautiful .. I loved it!
LOVE THIS!!!
Absolutely world class.