Quartet: + Louis CK

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not if you know the original...>> ^probie:

Sounds closer to 50's doowop than reggae. Or is that just me?

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>> ^oblio70:

13 beats to the bar. I LOVE the improvisations of Desmond. Brubeck can only keep up, tho it's his composition. Great find! Beats the Take Five entry.


paul desmond is credited with writing the tune.
it's in 5/4
meaning 5 quarter note beats per bar

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*quality stuff


Thanks for the quality designation Pete! Mighty kind of you =o)

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This video is seven minutes and twenty five seconds long, and thus erroneously named.

That is all.


HAHAHAHAHA!! Right you ARE! =oD
It does mean we get almost 50% more music than we were promised!


So much for leaving them wanting more! =oD

In reply to this comment by Fantomas:
This video is seven minutes and twenty five seconds long, and thus erroneously named.

That is all.


HAHAHAHAHA!! Right you ARE! =oD

>> ^artician:

This is a really special song to me even though I'm not really an aficionado of jazz. I first heard it in college, and since that time I have come across so many other people in completely different walks of life, geographical locations, and age groups, and they all are just as jazz-inept as I am but know it and love it just as well. It really has the ability to penetrate all sorts of cultures and eras. Very cool.


I'm not much of a Jazz fan either, but I know quality when I see/hear it [at least in MY mind] =o)

you are too kind sir.
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*quality

I'll give him credit for somebody to love, but this wasn't even close.

The quartet was completely off, and for fucks sake, FREDDIE DIDN'T ENUNCIATE!

In terms of a cover, this was decent. In terms of the second coming of Freddie Mercury, nah, not even close.

Maybe it's just because Bohemian Rhapsody is my favouritest queen song of all time that I'm being so critical, but I'm going to go listen to the original now to get this outta my head.

Massiaen was an interesting dude. He wrote one of his most famous pieces while in a Nazi concentration camp. (Quartet for the End of Time - which is beautiful and haunting) He also loved birdsong. He recorded and transcribed birdsong as a hobby and then incorporated them into pieces like the one posted above.

more on Messiaen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen

>> ^sme4r:

"It looks like another bad case of USI.


Well, they're givin me a case of RSI

Oops, my bad, I assumed it would be known that "lyrical hip hop" is a dance style.

Fixed the title.


>> ^raverman:

Here's me expecting someone rapping along to a hip hop tune played by an orchestra.
Silly me... now i know lyrical means without any singing.