another vinyl another artist-

Actually I wonder if his music ever was to find on a CD. Maybe when you look under Jazz in your store. 

He is not so well known, but was in his time one of the best singers in Jazz/ Swing and went on to populare Hollywood music. Very much alike Frank Sinatra. And most people who knew both would not have said that one has been better then the other. As far as I know.
He was inspiring, someone with a passion and who knew to entertain.

When he made this vinyl he was just 30 years old but already has been in the show business about 25 years. 

So, no wonder he sounds very good and smooth. His songs like cremé and chocolade are pure enjoyment, thought most of them ar slow songs on this album as it was quite popular to have music to just listen to at home. 

Mel Tormé and his -It's a blue world- album is worth listening and gets never boring. No it is not a sad love song album or just an album with songs of depression and -all is hopeless- feelings. Not at all. It's quite positive, romantic and he interprets the songs with such a warm voice and deep feeling, you can't deny it makes you dream. Although this music is not that popular anymore these days, I will say you should try it no matter what, and let those songs sink into you. 

Yes, most of the songs are called classic and some are maybe still known these days.

12 songs, that's not bad, isn't it? Perfect for an afternoon with tea or coffee or even a glass wine. And you will wonder why he is so unknown, but I guess it's the way it is. Some become the big stars, others are just good singers and artist and you know what.... no matter what.... enjoy them!

LOVE & LIGHT

The Epic- music

We all like to discover new music and see if it was or is worth our time and to listen to.

Going through the stores and catching the covers and hoping this might be something good.

The thrill of searching for something special. The joy if you found music you like from the first moment and even more if it is not one song.

The thrill to just buy something without knowing if it is really that good and to see your hopes fulfill. 

This music I am now writing about for you is Jazz.

Jazz is not everyones cup of tea, but this is not the usual Jazz.

It's not that unerving easy listening music and not classic Jazz alone, or even called so. It's not techno Jazz or modern Jazz, even thougt many have no idea what modern Jazz is. It's like with those modern art/ paintings. It is actually old art now but was modern that time when it came out.

The Epic is from Kamasi Washington. Actually it came out last year in May but this work is one of those albums who need time to climb up and be heard.

One reason is for sure that it is not a simple CD or LP- no, there are three of them! In one package.

You get already now the idea that this could mean it is something good to try.

And indeed this work of art is very much worth your time.

To the background. Kamasi got the inspiration from a story of a book about a warrior who stands and protects the gate until someone comes to take his place. The fight is to win or die.

Epic story and so is this music.

It starts smood and relaxed but getting deeper and using the classic elements of Jazz.

Then later like the story the music turns up, gets harder and more colorful. A mix of Jazz, Funk and Swing comes alonge and makes you fly deeper into the ocean of this story of music.

Then it gets lighter, softer again to cherish the wind being low before the storm comes, and like in an opera, the chorus of singers start to impress and take you with a big hand to leave you somwhere where soul is to be heard and then you land after the explosion of feelings soft with your feets and it is like waking up from a dream.

Sounds unbelievable, but The Epic is as the name suggest.

The music has a story, has a message and its way.

It is indeed and outstanding Jazz work of art.

Something I can absolutely recommend.

So enjoy this peace of art. 

LOVE & LIGHT

MY Marilyn

On August the 5. this year, Marilyn Monroe will be death exact since 50 years.

A very long time and still we see her films, love her pics and talk about her.

The way she died is still a mystery and it doesn't really matter why she dies, but after the last books about her which came out, it seems to be bad luck, an accident like, cos two of her doctors gave her medicine which seemed to have killed her, but anyway... we maybe never knew the hole truth and like i said, it does not really matter now...

I always liked this very special woman. And over the years, the more I got to know about her, the more I love her and what she's done. She really was and is a star, and not only that.... she was much more.... Some people called her a dumb blonde. Still there are some who think she is or better was a stupid girl/ woman. That is for sure untrue... after all the things I have read about her and what she had said... she must have been a smart woman.

Well we all know that she was known for her delay. Mrs. Monroe was late but not out of maliciousness. She once said that she is not to have for drill and discipline. She saw herself as a man, refused to be treated as a machine. She was very nervous and had very high expectations of her own performance. That's why she was often late.

But she was in my eyes an actress, a very good one, a comedienne and had that special gift to shine in every film she was in.

Her voice was special, that was because she acted with her voice because her true speaking voice was not so nice and special. Now we can really call it the Marilyn voice.... it is so special, that no one really can cover.

And the way she moved her mouth and smiled is so special, that you try and try but never come as near as you wish to the way she did it. It seems like a miracle.

And her songs.... she had some very good... sure her soul was not big but she knew how to spell, how to make a song so you want to listen to on and on...

After all she is best known for her acting in front of cameras, she was maybe the only one who knew best to play with to flirt with that medium. Even Madonna, who likes the camera a lot too, does not reach that kind of being in front of a camera.

That was maybe after all learning a gift too.... Oh she was very strict with the selection of images, almost out of her critical uncertainty.

What I like about her is, she never spoke ill of others. She did not care much for money and fame. Most of the money was donated, and she herself had only a comparatively small house. Nevertheless, she had many envious and bloodsuckers too around her and she knew this very well but for a long time she did not know how to get through this and how to deal best with them. Last but not least, the studios made it very difficult to her.

Nevertheless, it was very progressive, likely to be aware of it without realizing it. Ahead of her time. She demanded higher salaries for women, made herself independent with her own production company. Ensured that the actors were not only bound to a studio. Made sure that she could say a word in the publishing rights.

She was always just a Sexsymbol for the studios, never really had the chance to get a role which was bound just to acting. That must have been very difficult for her. But she was more down to earth than many believe... not only did she spend her money and time for children, animals or plants like trees.... She was also very often in the clubs and thought that all people are equal... and so on day she said to a manager of a club for white people, that he has to let Ella Fitzgerald play in his club. If he does, she will be there every night and she was and Ella never had to play in little clubs again and so began the rise of many black Jazz artists and other musicians.

What a smart woman and that was in a time black and white people lived still (in most parts of the USA) separate.

So I think it's very right when a "David Klein Quintet" plays Songs of Marilyn... ...a Jazz album you will like... and of course most of her films are still very much to recommended.

And a new picture book about her has also just appeared, I would definitely call this book as one of the best I've ever seen. The name is Marilyn Monroe- Metamorphosses-Transformations (Marilyn Monroe/ Metamorphosen / Verwandlungen- erschienen im Schiermer Mosel Verlag).

This book not only shows pictures, it also contains the last interview with M.M. and sentences she herself said once or other told about her. Many of the pics you will see the first time and some of them you will know well. It is such a pleasure to go through this book and you once again realize why she is still so popular and lovable.

LOVE & LIGHT