Jazz goddesses
- carlos21490
- Jul 20, 2014
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 29, 2024
I woke up this morning craving some jazz, so I let Music [a streaming service by Microsoft that was discontinued in 2017] create a playlist based on Ella Fitzgerald. There they were: all the “diosas del jazz”: For the Parnassus, Ella’s I love Paris, Billie Holiday with The Very Thought of You, a perennial take on Sarah Vaughan on Gershwin’s Summertime, Peggy Lee with Fever, Julie London’s Blue Moon and My funny Valentine… and they kept going... all the classics! There were some comparatively new stars too, like Diana Krall (that, against the marketing efforts to sell her music as a sexy product, is above all an excellent singer and pianist). I was in Jazz Heaven. Then, I remembered some time ago watching on Youtube a live performance of Marisa Monte’s mean-tempered version of Cry me a River. It was still there, as part of a concert by the spectacular master of guitar Raphael Rabello:
Watching it, I wandered to other versions of that great song that I first knew about years ago from Krall’s rendition recorded live in Paris. This one is on YouTube too, produced in a way that took me to the front row of that concert:
From there, I jumped to the original version by Julie London, back in the mid-fifties. I found a video recorded ten years later as a testimony to her singing perfection:
With that, I satisfied my hunger for today. This body of mine can’t ask or resist more.
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