If there is anybody who is not aware of Hendricks' fine work, then they should be! I am not given to "me too" posts usually, but I have to jump in here and agree wholeheartedly with Chuck! Hendricks' ability to fit the words to the lyrics at breakneck speed hearkens back to Gilbert & Sullivan's patter songs, just updated to a hip, 20th-century style.
Chuck Israels wrote: [snip] > > > This seems usually true to me, but there's a remarkable exception - Jon > Hendricks' enormous output of brilliant lyrics written to existing jazz > tunes, and even more remarkably, to scores of difficult jazz solos. > They are often hard to understand at speed, but they are nonetheless > brilliant, and wonderfully suited to the music onto which they are > grafted. The guy has created (nearly single handedly, though there are > a few good examples that precede Jon's work) a new genre of vocal > music. If you get a chance to hear any of this, it is intelligent, > witty, philosophically interesting an rhythmically connected to the way > Americans speak. Lots of fun. > > Chuck > > > > > > >> ____________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
