Girl Of My Dreams, Ike Quebec (1945) An accomplished dancer and pianist, Ike Quebec switched to tenor sax as his primary instrument in his early 20s, and quickly earned a reputation as a promising player. His recording career started in 1940, with Count Basie’s Barons of Rhythm.
The Sloopy Girl.
The real Sloopy.
Greg on X (sound up).
Frog flops [via Bunkerville].
First date / fast food survey.
The Hog Killin’ [via Feral Irishman].
Deathcalator [via Memo Of The Air].
“What would you say to the Pilgrims?”
How to move a gemsbok without getting killed.
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Man-o-MAN but there is much to comment on and learn about in those links.
Stressed for time or I would, but the first (Ike Quebec) is a good start.
That era, the end of WWII, was also the end of a style of studio music and Quebec’s interpretation of Girl of my Dreams is a good example.
Technology brought an end to frequency limitations and dynamic compression of the older days; with the improvements in fidelity came a stark reduction in imagination and a dilution of the soul so easily found in the various mixes of musicians from the mid-thirties to around 1946. We can listen today to small groups and large orchestras from the early times and our romantic brains fill in the missing pieces – we do the same thing with black and white film and still photos. The missing pieces are provided for us in later tech and it just isn’t the same. Newer period work supplies us with greater-than-original quality, and that, too, is missing soul.
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Count Basie gets a lot of credit for the transformation of 1920s and ’30s jazz into the big band jump / swing of the 1940s. He launched the careers of many great talents (including Ike Quebec). They took his work and built upon it well into the 1960s. There are faint echoes of Basie in rock and roll as well – first with the saxophone breaks of R&B, then to the (often insufferable) freestyle guitar solos of later years.
There are a lot of pros to modern technology, but “missing soul” is a good description of one of the cons. 78 rpm recordings SHOULD have the background hiss.
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That water baby is kinda creepo.
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sooo creepy
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