Music – Page 2 – The Paris Savannah Connection

Favoritz: Paris Radio FM and online : TSFJazz

In Paris, it’s 89.9 FM … and on the net …

click here for TSFJAZZ

When you’re online, you can hear the programs by clicking on “Ecouter TSFJAZZ” which is on the left side of the screen.

Afterwards, just choose your listening interface: Flash – QuickTime – Real – etc …

Enjoy. 24/24 7/7.

The podcasts are great, too.

“It ain’t necessarily so” from Porgy and Bess

American Folk Music

Folk music is all about folk – people, family, friends, you and me and everyone else; individuals coping with life’s everyday cares. Happy ones and sad, hard and sweet.

Folk music provides us with a country’s history because it’s the people’s history … and how can we understand the present without a feeling and grasp of the working people who’ve lived before us, built our railroads, plucked our cotton, suffered the dust storms and prayed for rain? Brought us to where we are? Not only with their successes … but also their failures. Folk is about “everyday” people in touch with their emotions, their strengths, their weaknesses, their environments.

American folk music is so incredibly rich that I’d like to introduce you to a few tunes, stories, people and songs. Far from today’s global political stage, these songs are rooted in everyday experience. Pionners. Immigrants. Roamers.Expressions of work, love, family, discovery.

Without the advent of sound recording, they’d be lost. Fortunately, there are many many recordings and thanks to a fellow whose name was Moses Asch, the Folkways Collection was a lifetime project to guarantee their perennity … and I, at least, am grateful to him and his team for their work. Vanguard Records, too, as well as major and minor labels produced artists whose souls are still very alive.

Folk music is for listening. And here’s one of the classics: Woody Guthrie, of course.

This Land is Your Land:

PS.The Folkways Collection put about 2 dozen podcasts on the net for free downloads on iTunes (and maybe elsewhere!) … and this leads me to one of my father’s, bless his soul, favorite sayings: “A word to the wise is sufficient.”

PSS. If French is your native language … be careful not to mispronounce “folk.” The “o” is like “Oh!”

The Last Word: Odetta

Life is too short! In addition to everything else to do, I’d love to host a radio show broadcasting folk, blues, musicals, songs, instrumentals. There is so much incredible music that lives and lives and goes on living.

Today, I take no credit except for bringing Odetta to your screen.

Authenticity. Intelligence. Soul. Spirit. Beauty. Nobility. To say the least.

Thanks to the NYT’s Last Word, here she is. For all of us.

The Last Word: Odetta.

Vitamin L+ as in “Les Paul”

Vitamine L+:

as in Listen … Love to Listen … Love to Listen & Learn

We’re so incredibly fortunate to have inherited constitutions which guarantee Free Speech. And broadband access to the Internet has given us access to sources and media hitherto relatively unavailable.

If you happen to be stuck in Paris or Savannah with nothin’ to do … why not listen to the media you’re not used to …. why not the BBC ? … or the FT? or the NYT? There are interviews and documentaries, often brilliant, rather short and very sweet:

Les Paul was a virtuoso guitarist and inventor whose solid-body electric guitar changed the course of 20th-century music.

Listen to NYT’s “The Last Word” with Les Paul … Produced by Matthew Orr.

Whether you’re interested in business, technology, the environment, science, the arts or real estate or fashion or sports … You’ll love to listen. If you need a little Vitamin L … subscribe to the Paris Savannah Connection.

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Moon River – Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Moon River … is … Savannah. The song was written by Johnny Mercer, a Savannah boy, for the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Sung and made famous by Audrey Hepburn. Credit for writing the extraordinary and original music goes to Henry Mancini.

If you have never seen this movie, you MUST!

For those of you who’d like to read the story by Truman Capote, on which the film was based, there is now a bilingual edition in the Bilingual Folio Series (ISBN: 9782070403882)

Here are the lyrics:

“Moon River”

music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer

Moon River, wider than a mile,
I’m crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you’re going I’m going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There’s such a lot of world to see.
We’re after the same rainbow’s end–
waiting ’round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

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Connect to the MAHJ. There’s so much going on!

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For Music Lovers who understand spoken French

If you don't know Jean François Zygel yet ... it's about time you did! His music lessons fill up the Châtelet once a month - there are DVDs and podcasts ... A musician, a teacher, a humanist, drôle and sensitive ... Chapeau La France !