Music from Heaven

[happyfilmluvguy]

There is nothing that can replace the beauty of music. Whether or not it's classical, opera, jazz, rock, blues, etc. What is the most beautiful music you've ever heard?

I myself can't choose, but a piece from the motion picture "II Postino", which I haven't even seen, might I add, is a composition by Itzhak Perlman entitled "The Bicycle". I swear every time I listen I get chills!

LISTEN for yourself.

 

[SamMarlowPI]

can i lump it all up into R&B? lol

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

If R&B is beautiful to you.

 

[SamMarlowPI]

well what i choose to listen to is...

 

[sweetfrancaise]

Jeff Buckley's "Mojo Pin" on Mystery White Boy may be the closest I'll ever get. He sings what I feel, what I hide.

 

[Twitch]

Since I've been in and out of illness the past few years and unable to work I no longer commute. I no longer listen to the radio at all. Any impetus I require for immediate news can be better sated by TV and I'd just as soon listen to Yahoo radio or my own CDs. I don't miss radio at all since it's been degrading for decades anyhow.[huh]

 

[Fletch]

Esoterica. Ephemera. Various Greco-Latinate words beginning with e.

Those brief moments in the 30s when pop and jazz dabbled in modernism and impressionism. You have to gather them like off-press pennies or misprint stamps, because this was musicians' music, music not meant for the general public, music for the most part only brought out as novelties or to fill a "B" side.

A few Ellington ballads...Reginald Foresythe's New Music...Alec Wilder's Octets...the odd Raymond Scott opus that didn't indulge in ricky ticky...The New Friends of Rhythm when they weren't swinging classical chestnuts...adventurous colors in dance arranging by the likes of Johnny Green and Ray Noble...and infrequent experiments by studio session men like Red Norvo, seldom repeated once the A & R men realized what was going on.

"Toscanini's hepcats."

 

[dhermann1]

Peter Schickele always ends (or begins?) his show by quoting Duke Ellington: "If it sounds good, it is good".

 

[Doctor Strange]

The slow movements from the Mozart and Beethoven symphonies and concertoes are the thing for me.

There's plenty of other gorgeous music out there that I love - soundtracks, jazz, all kinds of songs, pieces by other classical composers, bits of musicals and opera - but I find that I keep coming back to the Mozart and Beethoven slow movements. They always floor me. There's a stunning beauty, sophistication and intelligence, and sense of connection to both all of humanity and all of nature, there that, well, somehow approaches the divine.

For me, anyway...

 

[Viper Man]

Johnny Hodges' tone on the alto sax is the first thing that came to my mind while reading your topic title.

 

[Chas]

Sarah Vaughn.
Any Duke Ellington ballad; especially "Mood Indigo"
Artie Shaw's 1938 Bluebird #024079-1

 

[Viper Man]

Artie Shaw's 1938 Bluebird #024079-1

Which one would that be?

 

[SamMarlowPI]

Sarah Vaughn.
Any Duke Ellington ballad; especially "Mood Indigo"
Artie Shaw's 1938 Bluebird #024079-1

sarah vaughan! yes...

 

[Chas]

Artie Shaw's 1938 Bluebird #024079-1 ~ "Begin The Beguine"

Add to my previous list, Coleman Hawkins. Particularly THIS record. Hear this, and it will change your life.