Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg.
Roaming through music history. Today in the Palace: ‘Singing without Words’.
Today, we’ll feature several types of scatting – coming up with new words, whilst singing. Ella Fitzgerald was so good at doing that; she would never sing the same thing twice in a song. She would always come up with new words.
We’ll also listen to Sarah Vaughan’s repertoire, Louis Armstrong, and the ‘King of Hi-de-ho’ Cab Calloway with his secret vocal language.
Furthermore, we’ll listen to vocalising: the art of adding lyrics to instrumental solos from jazz, like Fay Claasen did with Chet Baker’s solos. Or Rose Murphy with her prrrrrr-prrrrrrrrr-arsenal, Eddie Jefferson, vocal acrobatics by the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Roses, the Mills Brothers who mimicked an orchestra with their voices, and Duke Ellington who used his voice as a musical instrument.
Finally, we’ll listen to Roland Kirk, who not only learned to play three instruments at once at the institute for the blind, he also learned to play the flute in a unique way. You could hear his voice through the instrument.
Plus, there will be a lesson in linguistics from the bebop-era.
In short, an enjoyable hour full of music.
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