Topic: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips

[Pan]

An attempt to bring the Blues into the western classical sound universe. Not entirely successfully but interesting nonetheless. Know of any other examples?

I've always liked the French "impressionists", and how and where they took the western harmony at the time. They were influenced by the jazz music of the time also. Here's a killer version of the 2nd movement of Ravel's violin sonata for violin and piano, subtitled "blues", by a very charming japanese lady.



I don't consider the music to be "blues" in the least sense of the word, but I do think it represents a more successful example of the cross influence of jazz and blues music of the time, to the classical music scene. Let's remember that monsieur Ravel didn't exactly have the Weenie Juke at his disposal...

On a more serious (?) note, it is interesting that the American jazz musicians, like Miles Davis, took in their turn interest in the music and theories of the European impressionists.
Then again, I've always thought that the term "world music" is rather silly, but what do I know; maybe Charlie Patton was an extraterrestial?

Cheers

Pan

[frankie]

I suppose it's "Art".

And the Blues is what, pray tell? An accident?

No...  Blues is like....  good art.

what has been heard cannot be UN heard.

[frankie]

Here's one with particularly horrible string parts.

There is very little about this that is not horrible.

In approximately 2 of its 6 minute running time, it effectively sapped my will to live.

[Mr.OMuck]

It's interesting, the degree to which this whole enterprise seems to fail so spectacularly. I suppose the less you know about Blues the more acceptable the inclusion of these disembodied tropes might be. Jazz is omnipresent in twentieth century classical music but since its origins are partially formed by classical or classically derived music its not surprising that its more amenable to being mined by classical composers. Ravel, Stravinsky, Gershwin (blecch!) and of course Duke Ellington come to mind as artists working around this issue. None of the music I've heard by these composers, and while I've heard a lot I've certainly not heard it all, manages to bring the essential quality of the Blues into orchestral or chamber music form successfully in my opinion. Spirituals and hymns fare better. Ives' inclusion of Shall we gather by the River and Dvorak's original melody based on a spiritual in his New World Symphony and given lyrics for use as the theme song in the film "The Snake Pit" are two examples that work well.
The search for Gamelon and Sitar Blues is next.

[blueshome]

I suppose it's "Art".

And the Blues is what, pray tell? An accident?

No...  Blues is like....  good art.

what has been heard cannot be UN heard.

Well said sir!

There's "art" and then there's "Art", but that's for another time and place, that stuff is so terrible it doesn't bear further attention. You are indeed the devil O'muck, destroying some of our brain cells and faith in the human spirit with that stuff.
 

[lindy]

Two versions of a song from Black American gospel tradition:





Lindy

[Mike Brosnan]

[eric]

There is very little about this that is not horrible.

Indeed.

[Neal Cassady]

here's three songs done by Jesse Graves in 1972.
these are rip's of a copy of the vinyl that i own - it's a pretty unheard private-pressed album
was wondering if anyone else has come across these two great sides of wax?

"Pickaxe Special" (trad.)


"Lining Track" (Lead Belly)




lots of other great traditionals and choice covers by MJH, Skip James, Rev. Gary, Son House, Bukka
wanna eventually get the whole thing up on there -

[Prof Scratchy]

[Mr.OMuck]

Whadaya think about this? Mike Bloomfield doing Spike Driver Blues

[Mr.OMuck]

Are youtube videos no longer self embedding?

[Slack]

Weird -- you must not have the magic touch.

[Parlor Picker]

I can see the video in Slack's posting, but there is just a link in O'Muck's.

Maybe O'Muck and I have Mickey Mouse computers...

[Pan]

I can see the video in Slack's posting, but there is just a link in O'Muck's.

Maybe O'Muck and I have Mickey Mouse computers...

This seemed to happen also on prof. Scratchy's post on the previous page, so maybe there's more to it?

I definitely have a Mickey Mouse computer, so just to test things, here is Hesitation Blues by Jelly Roll Morton (sorry if this has been posted before):



Cheers

Pan