'Danny Boy' gets the blues...

Subject: 'Danny Boy' gets the blues...
From: MartinRyan
Date: 15 Nov 15 - 09:31 AM

For an interesting take on the old chestnut (or should that be "old arbutus"?) -

Click here

Regards

Subject: RE: 'Danny Boy' gets the blues...
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Nov 15 - 04:48 AM

Jazz men have always been somewhat eclectic - I was sat in with a German Trad band in Moenchen Gladbach back in the day - Banoist said "You will know this one - its an English Folk Song" and we played a lovely slow stomp version of Brahms Cradle Song !

Subject: RE: 'Danny Boy' gets the blues...
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Nov 15 - 05:15 AM

thanks

Subject: RE: 'Danny Boy' gets the blues...
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Nov 15 - 09:49 AM

That was the most ludicrously awesome thing I've seen in YEARS!!

Subject: RE: 'Danny Boy' gets the blues...
From: Joe_F
Date: 16 Nov 15 - 05:55 PM

Unfortunately, my browser couldn't make it to the end, but all the same, God bless America!

About 60 years ago, I browsed thru a German songbook with songs from all over the world. Not only were the words translated, but the tunes had been Germanized. "Oh, Susannah" became a waltz, and "Vive la Compangnie" a vigorous march.

A curious thing about Brahms's Cradle Song is that in American it is universally known as "Brahms' Lullaby" and so everybody knows it is by Brahms. In Germany (so a German once told me) it is known (of course) as Wiegenlied, and almost nobody knows it is by Brahms!

Subject: RE: 'Danny Boy' gets the blues...
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 17 Nov 15 - 08:59 AM

Dear Me! Sounds vaguely like Danny Boy only with built in fart sounds

Subject: RE: 'Danny Boy' gets the blues...
From: MartinRyan
Date: 17 Nov 15 - 10:32 AM

A Shout Band from the Universal House of Prayer church/sect. At one stage there's a few spoken words which at first I couldn't make out - seems to refer to "Daddy Grace", founder of the sect. Tine is definitely "Danny Boy"...


Any of our American friends come across the genre before?

Regards

p.s. I agree about the tuba. Apart from all that, as I commented elsewhere, some of them look a little more s(h)aved than others!

Subject: RE: 'Danny Boy' gets the blues...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 17 Nov 15 - 11:17 AM

Thanks for the link, Martin. I had never heard of the United House of Prayer and its trombone groups before.

That performance is what I would call "jazz standard." There's innovation and there are blue notes, but the entire thing is musical - no overblowing the helpless instrument, no gurgling of phlegm. Nice!