If music be your
food of love,
Read on.
If not, click on the little “x” in the top right corner of
your screen.
As you probably realise I like music.
My tastes in music are diverse including jazz, classical,
rock, R & B, Motown, Funk, Fusion, Folk, C & W and all things in
between.
What I really don’t like is covers of successful music that
try to sound the same as the original adding absolutely nothing new. They are
never as good. Bryan Hyland’s “Sealed with a Kiss” by Jason Donovan being a
prime example.
However, I have nothing against an artist recording other
peoples music in their own style – just think of how many good covers of Bob
Dylan or Lennon & McCartney songs there have been.
In fact one of my favourite popular Cd’s in the last couple
of years is “Long Wave” in which Jeff Lynne fondly pays tribute to the songs
that shaped his love of music as a child.
Enter Post Modern Jukebox, the brain child of Scott Bradlee,
a struggling New York pianist.
In 2013 he began forming
Postmodern Jukebox, a rotating group of 20 to 30 musicians producing covers of
pop songs in the styles of jazz, ragtime, motown and swing, using live instruments and one-take recording.
He posted the videos of his productions
on a youtube channel called ScotBradleeLovesYa,
and to his amazement found that people really enjoyed his ideas.
It now has over 1 million subscribers with
150 million views and Post Modern Jukebox are performing live to audiences across
the US and Europe.
For
me, the idea and the performances are excellent. See what you think.
A lot to listen to but it's well worth it!
Must go – the sun has come out over the Atlantic!
Hey Ho!
