Post by teejay on Dec 16, 2018 11:03:52 GMT -6
Most music fields seem to be dead nowadays. Most certainly fusion doesn’t have the vibrancy it once had. Blues has lost all its major figures. Jazz is in survival mode.
As for popular music, I can remember in 1962 when I first heard Motown. I was blown away, but 5 years later, in the UK at least, we were saying that it all sounded a bit samey and we moved on. So in 1979 we had “Rappers Delight” by the Sugar Hill Gang and in 1982 we had “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash. Great stuff, but nearly 40 years later rap/hip-hop is still cutting edge? Seriously?
Anyhow the British Vintage scene is one small corner of music that is pretty vibrant at present. Si Cranstoun is the new “Geno Washington”. I went to a hotel dance in Kent recently where the tickets had completely sold out months in advance. The Vintage DJ’s are the successors of the Northern Soul DJs. There is a distinctly British version of Vintage music... “Shakin Mother” by Champion Jack Dupree, ‘Revival Day’ by Lavern Baker, “Mama he Treats your Daughter Mean” by Ruth Brown, “The Wallflower” by Etta James plus more obvious classics such as “Sing, Sing, Sing” by Benny Goodman.
Interspersed with the selected old tunes are others which you eventually realise are not from way back when but from the last few years. These are Modern Vintage. There is good play list on my website here (blatant plug). medway-u3a-jazz.freeforums.net/thread/141/modern-vintage
Here is a Si Cranstoun video.
Here we have a combination of Si Cranstoun and vintage dancing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQXRDL6g1g
And here he is with a Christmas number!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bys-OE_C7lQ
As for popular music, I can remember in 1962 when I first heard Motown. I was blown away, but 5 years later, in the UK at least, we were saying that it all sounded a bit samey and we moved on. So in 1979 we had “Rappers Delight” by the Sugar Hill Gang and in 1982 we had “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash. Great stuff, but nearly 40 years later rap/hip-hop is still cutting edge? Seriously?
Anyhow the British Vintage scene is one small corner of music that is pretty vibrant at present. Si Cranstoun is the new “Geno Washington”. I went to a hotel dance in Kent recently where the tickets had completely sold out months in advance. The Vintage DJ’s are the successors of the Northern Soul DJs. There is a distinctly British version of Vintage music... “Shakin Mother” by Champion Jack Dupree, ‘Revival Day’ by Lavern Baker, “Mama he Treats your Daughter Mean” by Ruth Brown, “The Wallflower” by Etta James plus more obvious classics such as “Sing, Sing, Sing” by Benny Goodman.
Interspersed with the selected old tunes are others which you eventually realise are not from way back when but from the last few years. These are Modern Vintage. There is good play list on my website here (blatant plug). medway-u3a-jazz.freeforums.net/thread/141/modern-vintage
Here is a Si Cranstoun video.
Here we have a combination of Si Cranstoun and vintage dancing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQXRDL6g1g
And here he is with a Christmas number!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bys-OE_C7lQ