Random musings and general banter.

[Battiola73]

Nelson Riddle's arrangements of Sinatra songs are brilliant. My favourite is I've Got You Under My Skin, the way it gets louder and builds up to the brass section going crazy! I've heard current big bands play that arrangement and it's amazing hearing it live. I also like Billy May's arrangement on Come Fly With Me

I hadn't realised that Wee Small Hours was arranged by Nelson Riddle, its not the style I associate him with.

I like a lot of stuff from that era. Ella Fitzgerald (my favourite), Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Sarah Vaughan. Haven't listened to Sinatra for a while, I need to rectify that.

Ella Fitzgerald is my all time favourite female singer. Especially love the Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks albums. I do like most Jazz but not keen on contemporary jazz. Sarah Vaughn & Lena Horne I also like. Male singers same as you. Another favourite is Cab Calloway. My dad was always singing Minnie the Moocher and I think his music was used in the Betty Boop cartoons.

I streamed the Tony Bennett Duets albums with various artists and the one singer who surprised me was Lady Gaga. Also got the other full albums of just the two of them. Mind you not overkeen on her pop stuff.

 

[Battiola73]

Mum’s Ella album. Played to buggery, it was.

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Great album and so is the Irving Berlin one. Love Russian Lullaby.

 

[Battiola73]

Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, she played until the bacon fried. Such beautiful arrangements.

That’s the song I’ve set my Alexa alarm to every morning.

 

[Jazzydrury]

I’m going to Mygate this Christmas

 

[Craftalot]

Mum’s Ella album. Played to buggery, it was.

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Oh, I absolutely love that album.

That’s the song I’ve set my Alexa alarm to every morning.

oh, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye. Her diction and pitch on that song is perfect - classic Ella. It's also a masterclass in repeated notes not going flat. She and Sarah Vaughan are really in a class of their own.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Personally I like Steps and S Club when I was younger

IW is a bit of a Tragedy and it would be a Dream Come True if the channel got any better, and when Pedro is on, you wonder if his act will be a Deeper Shade of Blue, or will he dance 5678 with the cane

 

[Jazzydrury]

What a speaker

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Good or bad, Jazzy? I’ve only just tuned in and seen it.

On first glance, it looks quite reasonable! What have I said…What have I said…

Have a Huawei Sound X myself.

 

[galesgal57]

Good or bad, Jazzy? I’ve only just tuned in and seen it.

On first glance, it looks quite reasonable! What have I said…What have I said…

Have a Huawei Sound X myself.

The Bluetooth device is ready to pair. Did I detect a Japanese/Chinese accent?

 

[Jazzydrury]

Looking at it again, Its a bit big

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Sounds well dodgy and distorted full blast. Never cut corners with audio equipment if you can help it. It's both a false economy, and a major disappointment if you want to listen to your music in the best possible form.

Dress up cheap unbranded Chinese tat all you like...You wouldn't give it house room, Mick.

 

[Jazzydrury]

How did they manage to wangle those Dyson Headphones other week

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Hopefully not the same place as the Molton Brown stock.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

The whole thing looks so out of date and lacking in any decent physical structure. No, not Mason - the speaker. Cheap looking plastic control panel with a 1975 Commodore calculator red digital display. One lousy cheap plastic Bluetooth speaker with a lousy free gift pair of headphones incorporated into the price of the lousy speaker. I believe not a word any of them say.




lol

 

[Battiola73]

That has to be the ugliest Bluetooth speaker I’ve ever seen. It looks as if they’ve got a load of old ghetto blasters and reformulated into a speaker.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

What the hell is he talking about with that abject perfume BS?

Another and better use for that Bluetooth speaker…

your skin

 

[Muttley]

Ella Fitzgerald is my all time favourite female singer. Especially love the Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks albums. I do like most Jazz but not keen on contemporary jazz. Sarah Vaughn & Lena Horne I also like. Male singers same as you. Another favourite is Cab Calloway. My dad was always singing Minnie the Moocher and I think his music was used in the Betty Boop cartoons.

I streamed the Tony Bennett Duets albums with various artists and the one singer who surprised me was Lady Gaga. Also got the other full albums of just the two of them. Mind you not overkeen on her pop stuff.

We have pretty identical taste in music!

The Bluetooth device is ready to pair. Did I detect a Japanese/Chinese accent?

Got mine off Amazon, was only about £30. Very small but reviews were good (I know you can't always trust them) but it has a very powerful sound. Brand name of Anker, I'd never heard of them.

 

[galesgal57]

Got mine off Amazon, was only about £30. Very small but reviews were good (I know you can't always trust them) but it has a very powerful sound. Brand name of Anker, I'd never heard of them.

Hubby bought me a Bose Sound link mini, and it just wouldn't pair with my headphones or turntable, so we sold it.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Personally I use AirPods Pro

 

[HughTwo]

Got mine off Amazon, was only about £30. Very small but reviews were good (I know you can't always trust them) but it has a very powerful sound. Brand name of Anker, I'd never heard of them.

Of-the-Masons - he's an Anker, and he 'feels' music.

One Christmas Eve I broke down in the snow - I would not like to you - fortunately, I had an 'eye youth removal device in the car.
When I was rescued the next day, not only I was freezing, not only was I hungry and not only shivering, but my laughter lines had faded so much - happy days.