Dédiée aux cigales Cicadas Brood X.
Tous les 17 ans, les nymphes de la cigale de Brood X creusent un tunnel vers le haut en masse pour émerger de la surface du sol. Les insectes perdent ensuite leurs exosquelettes sur les arbres et autres surfaces, devenant ainsi des adultes. Les cigales matures volent, s’accouplent, pondent des œufs dans des brindilles, puis meurent en quelques semaines. La combinaison de la longue vie souterraine des insectes, de leur émergence quasi simultanée du sol en grand nombre et de leur courte période d’âge adulte permet à la couvée de survivre même à une prédation massive.
Category Archives: Jazz & Music
Alone Together jazz standard cover
I’m working hard on my Jazz playing. Here is a cover of Alone Together, a jazz standard written by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Flying Colors in 1932 by Jean Sargent.
The song soon became a hit, with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra’s 1932 recording (vocal by Frank Luther) being the first to reach the charts. It has become a jazz standard. The first jazz musician to record the song was Artie Shaw in 1939. Though I reckon the version most people know best is the Chet Baker version from 1959.
Alone Together was the August ‘tune of the month’ in the PJG (Play Jazz Group) study group on facebook. This was my submission for the end of the month ‘final project’. Posting a final project gets you feedback from Matt, and from your peers. Another great month of learning! I have thoroughly enjoyed working on this tune. It was one that I didn’t know, and now I love it. I‘ve learnt so much this month about navigating tricky changes. I’ve had such fun with comping. My goal for the past couple of months has been to be more succint, to start and end phrases properley, also to create tension where appropriate. I think I’m getting there, still a way to go though. I played the bass part using Matt’s walking bass line from the weekly excercises. For the comping, I used diatonic moves, some approach chords, and substitutions….and a little ’arrangement’ walking the Fmaj7 down to the Dmaj7 in half steps (bar 11 onwards). I normally play the melody straight for FPs, but this time I decided to add flowers. Soloing wise, bars 9 to 13 became my favourites. Find it Matt Warnock’s Play Jazz Guitar Facebook group here…
https://www.facebook.com/groups/playjazzguitar/
Sidestepping excercise over the B scetion of ‘Alone Together’.
Nobody has asked me how I’m getting on with my Jazz studies! So…..
Sidestepping excercise over the B scetion of ‘Alone Together’ using G, G#, and Am pentatonic. The G# pentatonic is used over the C7 chord making for a very tense sound that releases when you use Am pentatonic over Fmaj7. This excercise is from Jazz tutor Matthew Warnock. You can find it and other excercises relating to this month’s tune of the month Alone Together in his Play Jazz Guitar Facebook group here… https://www.facebook.com/groups/playj… I started studying Jazz guitar with Matt a while ago. He has a way of explaining things that make it easy to understand. I’ve learnt more in the past few months than I have in the past few years! Plus, I’m really enjoying playing, and have never been more in love with the guitar. If you are thinking of getting into jazz guitar, the group is free to join, there is excellent camaraderie amongst the members. It’s a lot of fun. Here is Matt’s website – https://www.mwgcourses.com I’m using a Fender Telecaster straight into a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6. Ableton Live is my DAW. Video from my Ipad.
First gig since Fabruary
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Played my first gig since February. A nice outdoor setting on a summer evening at Chabatz d’entrar in Les Salles Lavauguyon. Just Madame Blanc, and me playing some easy listening tunes.
I Fall In Love Too Easily
Bennetti’s Jazz Blues All Stars featuring Nathalie Pnt. You’re gonna love this.
Feedback…… Oh la la ! Comment j’adore !!!!! Ça m’a envoyé direct en arrière, à une époque que je n’ai pas connu certes, mais j’me voyais assise dans une salle enfumée d’un club de jazz , à écouter une petite brune chanter ses peines de coeur ! J’en veux encore !!! Tu assures ! Bravo….
Oh mais franchement, comment ne pas aimer, ta voix est juste parfaite pour ce titre ! Moi ça m’a emporté direct : c’est beau, ça paraît simple ( et c’est en ça que c’est fort parce qu’on sait bien que c’est tout sauf simple), cette douce mélancolie dans ta voix…..c’est divin ! J’ai écouté 2 fois de suite et je vais la faire écouter autour de moi si tu veux bien…..
Je viens d’écouter j’adore tellement ? ça me fait penser au chanteuse qui chantais dans les piano bar dans les années 50-60″ Et tu sais à quel point j’aime ses années…
J’adore, aaah du Jazz ! Magnifique timbre de voix, en fait, tu sais tout faire!…
j’adore ?ambiance de ouf. Ouhla pas facile, mais là c’est réussi quoi, tu fermes les yeux tu vois la scène, les rideaux rouges, la fumée, haha c’est énorme…
Steve Bennett · I Fall In Love Too Easily – Bennetti’s Jazz Blues All Stars featuring Nathalie Pnt
Bennetti’s Jazz Blues Club April 30th
Were are still confined here in France, so here is a collection of tunes from our members. Revisiting some old live performances, but also some fresh new recordings that I am sure you will enjoy.
Also, as it’s International Jazz Day…. Un grand merci à Clara Jaeger du magazine Kaizen de nous avoir donné une mention ….. ?
Big thanks to Clara Jaeger from Kaizen magazine for giving us a mention.
Bennetti’s Jazz Blues Club March 2020
With all bars and restaurants closed, and travel banned for non essential purposes there was no way Bennetti’s Jazz Blues Club could go ahead in March. Instead we put out our first ever online broadcast. This featured music from members only. You can listen to it here….
Music from Norrie Snakebite Burnnett, Tim Bragg, Andy Berry, Ann Ellam, Rod Millgate, Madame Blanc, and Steve and Ev’ from Highland Hotclub.
Bill Frissell says…..
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I was fortunate enough to attend a workshop with Bill Frisell last night. He had his trio that is touring Australia and it was a small group attending a couple of hours with him.
I was front row and it was amazing to see such a player up close..
He answered a lot of technical questions but in the end it was clear he works with emotions and feelings on songs rather than just technique. A few good takeaways I thought might benefit those here were:
- Search for the melody in everything including chords and solos. Really get inside the melody…that is what draws him to music. And then search for as many versions of it as you can regardless of musical style..
- Don’t be frightened to keep it simple as long as it’s beautiful,,,search for the beauty in music no matter what the song is..
- Don’t be frightened to make errors and try things.Find people who will work with you. He used the example of his band supporting an error to make music rather than drawing attention to it.
- Don’t judge your limitations but rather work on building them. But also realise they may be part of what develops your style as you work around them.
Don’t compare but work towards building your music towards your own personality, and how you hear things regardless of outside influences. This is why he covers surf, guitar instrumentals, pop/rock and country/bluegrass in his repertoire…because he used his jazz chops to reach the music that means something to him.
This was backed up by him talking about hearing the Bonanza theme that day, and trying to playing but not having the chops and speed to actually match the original. So he played it the way he could make music of it at their sound check that day and they worked up a version of it. He then demonstrated what eh was talking about showing us what he couldn’t do and then did a fantastic version with the band that really was so great to listen to.
That was fun hearing Bonanza and some country music at a jazz college…:-) - What was interesting was he uses a lot of memories and associations with the music, hence playing pop and movies themes etc because he said he feels emotion when playing them from memories and experiences…and this is what he is thinking about all the time when he plays. The beauty and emotion…
As someone who gets stuck in the nuts and bolts I thought it was a great reminder of what music is about…
That suggestion of learning the basics of tune,and searching for the melody and beauty within a tune, will teach you the tune more deeply, and stay with you, really was an eye opener…I am struggling at the moment with where to start on tunes and not wanting to just rote learn things so this was a challenging reminder…I feel at the moment like I need a system and learning path laying everything out to understand it and that was raised by some students.He said it’s the mystery of it all that should lead us to grow…there is no one way to learn and play music…..it was a very different workshop to anything I have attended before..
Name that Tune! :-)
Been having a bit of fun doing some jazzy recording. See if you recognise this…careful though, it’s an ear worm and you’ll end up humming it all day. Answers in the comments please. 🙂
The end of a Jazz n Blues era!
A HUGE THANK YOU! To everyone that came along to the Soleil Couchant yesterday for the final Jazz n Blues session. It was great, just great! I loved every moment. Here is a copy of the souvenir poster that I gave out….I wanted to share some of the moments from the last 5 years. I want to thank everyone who was ever a been a part of it whether as a musician, or a supporter. Thank You! THANK YOU! MERCI! DANKE JE!
Here are the photographs of the day from ace photographer Ian Wilson.
