Jon Hendricks - Live at Lugano Estival Jazz.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American Music.

Jazz.

United States and Canada.

African Americans.

Local Subjects:

African American Music.

Jazz.

United States and Canada.

African Americans.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (49 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1986.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

When Jon Hendricks played at the Estival Jazz Lugano in 1986, he was 64 years old and already had a great career behind him. Trained at the church on the repertoire of gospels and spirituals, accompanied by Art Tatum (a friend of the family) while still a child, then singer in the orchestra of Jesse Jones, he revolutionized his art by inventing a vocal version of bebop. The vocalese, which consists of improvising by means of words (and not onomatopoeia as in the scat) in the manner of instrumental solos. Major influence of Bobby McFerrin and Al Jarreau, he created in 1980 Hendricks and Company, a formation with which he presents himself at the Swiss festival. Thus, those who accompany him are regulars: Cyrus Chestnut (piano), Clifford Barbaro (drums) and Marcus McLaurine (double bass), as well as his wife Judith, his daughter Aria and Kevin Burke who join him in singing. The repertoire is composed of standards, starting with "In Summer", his cover of "Estate" (1960) by Italian crooner Bruno Martino. Then follow "Bye Bye Blackbird", closer to the version of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, two classics of Monk, "Stardust" popularized by Louis Armstrong, "That's What" by Nat King Cole, finally a sequence of three titles on which the four singers take on the Count Basie Orchestra. In addition to the virtuosity of the performances, the concert releases especially the joy of singing that accompanied Jon Hendricks all his life, until his death in 2017, at the age of 96 years. Eric Delhaye

Notes:

Performed Lugano Estival Jazz

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