Lyle Lovett plays the Blues!
Tom Flower
Is there anyone out there familiar with Lyle Lovett's CD
"Lyle Lovett and His Large Band"? For all of you more
knowledgeable about blues than I, could you please tell
me if there are any other modern artists that play the same
style of blues? I qualify as a neophyte to the blues thing
so I don't know if calling this music "the blues" is
accurate. Does anyone else have any opinions on this CD
which I think is his best?
His style seems to be more of a "jazz" or a "big band"
style of playing the blues (ie. Basie) through is use of
horns as opposed to the artists which emphasize guitar
(ie. Buddy Guy, SRV).
Nonetheless, his style seems unique. (at least to me)
Thanks,
Tom Flower -> flo...@rtsg.mot.com
Greg Makepeace
covering Cliffod Brown's _Blues Walk_, doing straight country, gospel, folkie
acoustic, etc.
His blues does tend to lean towards the bigger band, jump blues style because
of the instrumentation of his "Large Band" which includes a horn section,
backup singers, even a cello!
Lyle's music is sort of an amalgamam or various American ethnic styles;
a true musical melting pot, though he does tend to do a blues tune, then a
country, then a gospel, then a folk, etc., instead of mixing it all in the
same bowl...;-)
Gregg
Michael Eskandarian, 2140
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> Is there anyone out there familiar with Lyle Lovett's CD
> "Lyle Lovett and His Large Band"? For all of you more
> knowledgeable about blues than I, could you please tell
> me if there are any other modern artists that play the same
> style of blues?
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Michael
Thomas Ford Brown
In article <2f7853$t...@delphinium.cig.mot.com> flo...@coyote.cig.mot.com (Tom Flower) writes:
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> Is there anyone out there familiar with Lyle Lovett's CD
> "Lyle Lovett and His Large Band"? For all of you more
> knowledgeable about blues than I, could you please tell
> me if there are any other modern artists that play the same
> style of blues? I qualify as a neophyte to the blues thing
> so I don't know if calling this music "the blues" is
> accurate. Does anyone else have any opinions on this CD
You might like Joe Williams' recording with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis
big band. It was recorded in the mid-Sixties, but I think it was
recently re-released. It's a great, swinging album.
Ernie Andrews has recorded with the Capp/Pierce Juggernaut.
This is somewhat more recent big-band jazz-blues.
Both of these guys have a lot more voice than Lyle Lovett.
I can't think of anybody else like him at the moment.
Thomas Ford Brown
In article <1993Dec22.1...@iplmail.orl.mmc.com> eska...@orl.mmc.com writes:
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>A while ago (years) Joe Jackson put out an album called "Jumpin' Jive" which is a collection of some of the most popular Big Band tunes. It's great! Some of the songs were composed by Louis Jordan a very long time ago. If you like this stuff I suggest you see the Broadway play "Five guys named Moe" if you get the opportunity. It features the songs of Jordan. I saw it in London and it was here in Orlando recently. "A MUST See!!!"
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No, no, no--forget the cheezy Broadway ripoff--go to the
record store and buy the original Louis Jordan recordings.
Great party music.
Andrew Homzy
A few years ago I saw a Grammy award show on television. The jazz segment
was awful - embarrasing. I recall some of the artists included Ella and
Dizzy - anyone else remember this? Then Lyle Lovett came on. I had never
heard of him. Lovett out-swang and out-sang all of the jazz folks - and the
tonal balance of his peformance was excellent.
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Andrew Homzy
Music Department
Concordia University, Montreal