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Old 11-29-2011, 09:17 AM   #41 (permalink)
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This one is really beautiful as well.
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Old 11-29-2011, 03:00 PM   #42 (permalink)
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"Summertime" is just not a song that's ever really done it for me, and despite loving a lot of jazz generally speaking, all the jazz versions of it that I'm familiar with (Billie Holliday, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker) are pretty dull to my ears. I had never heard the Janis Joplin version until reading this thread but that didn't really do it for me either.
I'm surprised you hadn't heard the Janis version. I remember hearing that song all of my life, fascinated by her bizarre rasp. In fact, I think I myself thought she wrote Summertime for a while.
As for the jazz part, I don't love most of the versions. And even though I'm not much of a fan of Ella Fitzgerald, my next favorite Summertime version after Billie's is probably the Ella/Louis Armstrong version, mostly for Armstrong's part.
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Old 11-29-2011, 05:15 PM   #43 (permalink)
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I think the thing that really sells the Big Brother version to me is the guitar, which sounds strange considering you have Janis in the forefront belting out a tune almost to within an inch of her life.
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Old 11-29-2011, 05:36 PM   #44 (permalink)
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How could I not see that posting.
I was playing that song in the car this afternoon and I thought "got to post that one". It's very summery indeed. I love the drama that's always in Bradley's voice, somehow. I love his voice anyhow, probably one of my favourite voices, ever. And I love the arrangement. It's got all sorts of little things added to a brilliant groove but it somehow manages to keep grooving. It's epic. I love sublime and I love that version of summertime.
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