Tag: Jazz
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Everyday I’m Flapping – Charleston goes Party Rockin’
Talking of early jazz, I love this mashup from the ever-talented Oki, very funny…Charleston just goes with anything, doesn’t it? Example, here’s Christina Aguilera with The Charleston from RikkiRok I used on my I Hate Jazz mix (and strangely credited the wrong Rikki mashup…oops!) And the other Charleston mashup I know of isn’t online, it’s…
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Oh no, what’s happened to Soho?
Sadly this fun video by the Correspondents has a more serious side – for a while now the life and mix of people that’s made Soho (in)famous has been fighting a war with corporates, expensive bars, trinket shops and suchlike. We go there less and less…for instance our favourite restaurant Cafe Espana which I’ve been…
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Not news but old mixes reupped
Like When Kate Married Willy *yawn* and Beatles => iTunes *double yawn* this is not exactly new news, but I’ve reupped some of my old mixes onto Mixcloud and Soundcloud (and account 2) and other places. So if you’re bored with the inane Franklin Mint level talk and want something to listen to, here’s my…
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The Miles Davis Octet – Jazz goes 8-bit
8-bit jazz? Sounds like a bad idea? Well give it a go, I think you might be suprised from 0:30 in. It’s all a part of a crazy idea of doing Kind of Blue on 8-bit chips/synths called rather obviously Kind of Bloop. (via boingboing who has moar 8bit that you can shake a squarewave…
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Copying is not theft – wonderful cartoon
How I love Nina Paley – she of Sita Sings the Blues, who has created this animation and song and open-sourced the soundtrack production – leading to this wonderful big-band-style jazz song about copying arranged by Nik Phelps and sung by Connie Champagne. 1 minute of fun and education, can’t say fairer than that *nod*…