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Tonight I get to do just about the coolest thing anyone has ever done. Ever. I get to sing Stormy Weather in a bar/lounge accompanied by an awesome jazz trio.
Tomorrow night I get to sing it at the concert. Every year they do a jazz solo night with the chamber group at the high school where I student teach. The teacher and student teacher get to sing a solo too! And the jazz trio invited a few of us to appear with them tonight during their weekly gig at this place.
FUN! I don't get to wear red sequins, but I do get to wear sparkles. And no. They won't let me [drape myself] on the piano. Or even sit on it.
(edit= Here it is! Stormy Weather Listen to the end if you listen to anything...the first verse is rather crappy on my part.)
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Isn't it great when that sort of opportunity presents itself? I got to lounge on the piano during our school musical and I nearly fainted with delight. I didn't get as cool a song, though... *jealous*
Yay! Sparkles! Have a great time!
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That's awesome. Make sure you growl a little here and there-- it's that kind of song, you know. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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And by the way, Narnia, that sounds like something you need to have pictures of. Ask a friend to come and bring a camera. Posts: 1903 | Registered: Sep 2003
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I love how the aspect of lounge singing is synonymous to draping ones self over a piano. I honestly have no idea why that amuses me so much. My mind thinks of it as some sort of parody but I can't think of why.
Anyway, I can't wait to hear the recording!
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Disclaimer: Listen to it to the end. The beginning stinks on my part. But isn't the jazz combo great?
I contemplate my jazz abilities and realize...they're very few. But I'm learning. I just can't escape the fact that I'm a classically trained singer...I end up not sounding as jazzy as I thought. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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You definitely hit your stride about halfway through. You have a beautiful, pure voice. You'd have to undo some of the work you put into getting that voice - carve in some rough edges - to really do the jazz thing. But the song was beautiful, and the combo was great.
Try smoking a cigarette right before you go onstage. Posts: 26071 | Registered: Oct 2003
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Thanks you guys. (You're totally right Dag. I think I should have done it in a lower key too, don't you? That might have made it a little more....belty.)
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I think you sound great. I like the cigarette idea, though. And the first verst isn't bad -- it's really pretty clean. If anything it's just too straight.
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Thanks you guys for all the compliments, they make me blush.
It was a lot of fun and I hope I can arrange it so my high school kids get a chance to do something like it with this combo. They're called Tall Jazz (www.talljazz.com) and they come in and work with the kids...it's so cool.
(Farmgirl, the pianist is a he. He's an extremely tall, very attractive 40 something that I rather liked....
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Thanks you guys. (You're totally right Dag. I think I should have done it in a lower key too, don't you? That might have made it a little more....belty.)
