Summer Jazz

When I first started this blog, I promised there would be music. And since then, I've done it... but rarely.

This winter I met an enchanting person who said "Metal is just classical music with distortion and jazz is just blues-done by geniuses!"

Summer has come, and that statement has stuck with me. So today I'm offering three jazz pieces that I've caught myself humming time and again.

My Foolish Heart by Shina Ringo and Soil and P. Sessions completely different from Beware My Foolish Heart by Victor Young. It features those key-defying melodic lines that you usually find in brass, rather than vocals. The daring Ringo makes it sound both familiar and like completely new territory. The music video is also fresh and oh-so-posh!



Summer Goddess is an exuberant romp of a piece, by the same band. One has to embrace the loud, atonal passages to fully enjoy this one, but once I did, I caught myself dancing around my apartment! I was reminded of some of the music I used to come across when I lived in the northern part of the east coast as a kid.



Juan Tizol's Caravan has been featured in films from Whiplash to Chocolat after it's first performance by Duke Elington, but my favorite is a version featured in Ocean's 13 (it also shows up in Ocean's 11, but with a completely different feel.) I like the suspicious-sounding bass-line as well as the sense of tremulous echo placed on the melody. :) Enjoy!



(Yep, just a picture of a house...)

I hope everyone is having a wonderful midsummer, and that this adds to everyone's summer soundtrack. I will be updating from time to time.

Thanks for reading!