From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In a message dated 2/25/2003 8:47:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > My vote would go to "Sweet Sucker Dance" from "Mingus." > > Dammit - you STOLE my pick! At least I can say that I have gone on record as saying this several times before, so I can't be accused of jumping on the "Boston Jim bandwagon"! ;~) >
As a matter of fact, SCJoniGuy, I do recall those earlier mentions and all I could say was "right on!" > If you haven't heard Joni's vocals on this track, your Joni-homework song of the day (I LOVE that idea Ron!) is "Sweet Sucker Dance". Not just the purity of her voice, but the way she effortlessly jumps from blue note to blue note, the emotion she conveys with every breath... Wow, it blows me away. > As is so often the case, you communicate our position on this performance with tremendous eloquence, sir. Joni never was more of a bona fide "jazz singer" than on this track, and she just absolutely nailed it. She wrote great lyrics for this Mingus tune, too. Jim NP: Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with special guest vocalists, including Cassandra Wilson (sigh), the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Blood On The Fields" (Gotta love these days off!)
