Christine Doing Standards

[aleuzzi]

Okay, here's a fantasy: Christine winds up doing another solo album comprised entirely of standards, accompanied by acoustic instruments.

What standards would you imagine her singing?

Here's a handful I can think of:

Don't Take Your Love from Me
Willow Weep for Me
If You Got to Make a Fool of Somebody...


Let's have fun and think of more.

[Gailh]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Okay, here's a fantasy: Christine winds up doing another solo album comprised entirely of standards, accompanied by acoustic instruments.

What standards would you imagine her singing?

Here's a handful I can think of:

Don't Take Your Love from Me
Willow Weep for Me
If You Got to Make a Fool of Somebody...


Let's have fun and think of more.

I would love to hear her singing some really old standards such as "I get along without you very well" or "Cry Me a river"

Gail

[jbrownsjr]

Not too far off topic....

I would like her to do more blues....

but as for the thread...

Summertime
Comes Love
Misty
Songbird
Solitude


just a few

[nicepace]

My only wish for this album is that the "acoustic instruments" would consist almost entirely of Christine's own piano.

How does a song qualify to be a "standard"? Doesn't that have to be a really old song (pre rock 'n' roll era)?

[Gailh]

Originally Posted by nicepace

My only wish for this album is that the "acoustic instruments" would consist almost entirely of Christine's own piano.

that would be good. Actually I would like to hear her just playing the piano.

I absolutely love the instrumental only version of Songbird.

We know she "ploughs through" some Mozart very now and then. I for one would love to hear it

Gail

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Gailh

that would be good. Actually I would like to hear her just playing the piano.

I absolutely love the instrumental only version of Songbird.

We know she "ploughs through" some Mozart very now and then. I for one would love to hear it

Gail

do you have the instrumental of songbird?? i've never heard it... would love too

[David]

Originally Posted by Gailh

We know she "ploughs through" some Mozart very now and then. I for one would love to hear it

Mozart? My hunch is she does the first page or two of the C major piano sonata & then stops -- the typical student thing.

I'd like to hear Chris record:

Stranger in Paradise
BaÃ*a
How Little We Know (the Carmichael song)
Old Cape Cod
Yesterdays
Twilight on the Trail

Don't laugh at my Twilight choice. In fact, I think Chris would be more interesting on folk revival songs than on pop standards -- stuff like Turtle Dove. She stylizes her vocal more in the English folk song way than in the jazz or big band way.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by David

Mozart? My hunch is she does the first page or two of the C major piano sonata & then stops -- the typical student thing.

I'd like to hear Chris record:

Stranger in Paradise
BaÃ*a
How Little We Know (the Carmichael song)
Old Cape Cod
Yesterdays
Twilight on the Trail

Don't laugh at my Twilight choice. In fact, I think Chris would be more interesting on folk revival songs than on pop standards -- stuff like Turtle Dove. She stylizes her vocal more in the English folk song way than in the jazz or big band way.

there was an interview where she said she liked to sight read to keep her chops up and said she plow through mozart ... i'm pretty sure i heard that too

and btw... i do bach's minuet in Gmajor Animato thank you very much (well one of them).. and a musette occasionally... (did i spell all that correctly?)

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Not too far off topic....

I would like her to do more blues....

but as for the thread...

Summertime
Comes Love
Misty
Songbird
Solitude


just a few

Oh man, her singing Solitude would be perfect!

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by David

Mozart? My hunch is she does the first page or two of the C major piano sonata & then stops -- the typical student thing.

I'd like to hear Chris record:

Stranger in Paradise
BaÃ*a
How Little We Know (the Carmichael song)
Old Cape Cod
Yesterdays
Twilight on the Trail

Don't laugh at my Twilight choice. In fact, I think Chris would be more interesting on folk revival songs than on pop standards -- stuff like Turtle Dove. She stylizes her vocal more in the English folk song way than in the jazz or big band way.

Chris is probably a competent classical pianist--no more, no less. She possesses the right amount of chops for blues and rock. But given that she only studied seriously into her early teens, she is probably not exceptional (nor below par) with the classical repertoire.

I agree that Christine can and does adhere quite well to the folk song genre. But I think she could probably do some amazing work with the American songbook.

[David]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Chris is probably a competent classical pianist--no more, no less. She possesses the right amount of chops for blues and rock. But given that she only studied seriously into her early teens, she is probably not exceptional (nor below par) with the classical repertoire.

Yeah, about. She'd be intermediate from the neighborhood pedagogy point of view (where the majority of people who have been playing all their lives fall), but from the relative heights of, say, music institutes or university level, she'd be amateur. (Incidentally, she has wisely admitted to all this herself.)

What she brings to her pop & blues-rock isn't enormous technical facility but the stamp of idiosyncratic personal style.

Still, it never hurts -- as she would undoubtedly agree -- to practice sight-reading your classical music!

[Gailh]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

do you have the instrumental of songbird?? i've never heard it... would love too

http://download.yousendit.com/DBB90EFF28B4C323

Take that and party!

Gail

[nicepace]

Originally Posted by David

.

I'd like to hear Chris record:

Old Cape Cod

"Old Cape Cod"! I would love it, since I live on Cape Cod.

<offtopic> Did you know that Patti Page had never been to Cape Cod when she recorded the song? </offtopic>

Nobody's answered my query about the definition of a standard. Anybody?

[David]

Originally Posted by nicepace

"Old Cape Cod"! I would love it, since I live on Cape Cod.

You lucky devil, you. I bet I would love Cape Cod.

Did you know that Patti Page had never been to Cape Cod when she recorded the song?

No, I didn't! I'll be damn!

Nobody's answered my query about the definition of a standard. Anybody?

A standard is a song that, over time & through exposure -- sinking in slowly but surely into the miasma of popular culture -- has achieved recognition in & of itself, apart from its initial performance & recording. The upshot is that the standard continues to be sung & recorded by many people, & used in multivarious ways. Its actual popularity (in terms of the market) may wax & wane through the years, but it has by then firmly been embedded into our collective psyche.

All this occurs, incidentally, independently of the intrinsic merits (or lack thereof) of the song -- which is generally true of all popular phenomena in the art-commerce continuum.

Would you agree or disagree?

[macfan 57]

Originally Posted by Gailh

http://download.yousendit.com/DBB90EFF28B4C323

Take that and party!

Gail

That's beautiful! I'd love to hear an instrumental album from Chris, just her on piano. I never knew this even existed. Thanks, Gail.