Heard this on the radio and was transfixed: Take Five played by a string quartet.
For comparison, here's Dave Brubeck playing his original version. Four guys in suits and skinny ties, as cool as all get out.
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Pretty nice, what channel was this on? KUT?
I'm wondering if you knew that Brubeck was an adult convert to Catholicism? The story is available here: Brubeck and Catholicism
Christopher,
KMFA, actually, and I was kind of surprised to hear it since that's not their usually style of mid-day classical programming. But I like it. The announcer sent me on a wild goose chase by calling the group "Le Quartet San Francisco", which had me frustrated as I wondered why I could find no mention on iTunes or Amazon of "Le Quartet".
(BTW, the invitation to our schola mass definitely stands, though I had the date wrong. It's Nov. 8 at 11:30.)
Roberto,
I had indeed heard that story, and I've even listened to a clip or two of the mass he wrote. Very fascinating stuff.
Slightly off-topic, but: thanks for all the great Bollywood recommendations. We've been watching trailers on youtube (though they don't always make a lot of sense!) and adding titles to our Netflix queue. We hope to watch some of the dance extravaganzas with our girls -- are most of them appropriate for children?
I'm a jazz nut. That is one thing I will certainly miss when I leave Seattle: KPLU, a jazz radio station.
So, being a jazz nut, I prefer Brubeck's version to the string quartet. The quartet did an admirable job. I've heard other renditions that I enjoy, but Brubeck is the standard, and rightly so.
But even better than Take Five, is Kind of Blue from Miles Davis. It is the essence of jazz, IMHO. :-)
Thanks for the invitation Mrs Darwin, but I work weekends and the only time I can get to a Sunday Mass is very early or late afternoon. Even then, I'm massively sleep-deprived. I wish I could go, I was just looking through my photos of Saint Elizabeth and noticed that it was one of the churches with the doors barred when we visited! All I got was pics of the chapel.
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