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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: RE: Paul - my wife agrees with you. . . posted by Analog Scott on August 22, 2012 at 21:55:44:
...even if I'm being too generous in doing so. She doesn't swing. So what?. The Kronos Quartet did some interesting things with Bill Evans and Monk, even though they felt the need of bringing in a jazz bass player to contribute that rhythmic je ne sais quoi which they couldn't provide. They still held their own in the music and mangled the original rhythm in some fascinating ways. But Yuja Wang's rhythmic drive, if you want to call it that, is just silly, and on a purely technical level, very weak. CfL drew me into a discussion of the merits of her interpretation as jazz when he said that "the 'silly rhythm' came from Tatum's original - Yuja didn't change a thing". She changed a great deal and replaced the jazz sensibility in Tatum's original with a sing-song, little-girl rendition that had very little to recommend it besides its dime store virtuosity. While I can imagine an interpretation that was commanding, breathtaking or enchanting, in which the element of swing is totally absent, Yuja brought the celebratory glee of a pajama party to the music. This, oddly, didn't appeal to me.
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Follow Ups
- I'm perfectly willing to accept Yuja's interpretation on its own terms... - Paul_A 06:30:38 08/23/12 (4)
- RE: I'm perfectly willing to accept Yuja's interpretation on its own terms... - Analog Scott 09:13:58 08/23/12 (2)
- What can I say? - Paul_A 10:42:41 08/23/12 (1)
- RE: What can I say? - josh358 14:45:24 08/23/12 (0)
- In that case, we just don't agree about what we're hearing - it happens [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 08:03:46 08/23/12 (0)
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