Music That Swings category archive
And Now for a Change of Pace 0
Gene Kelly is reputed to have once said that the difference between him and Fred Astaire is that he made everything look hard, while Astaire made it look easy.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
This is a relatively new genre of music called “lofi” (or maybe “Lo-Fi” or “Lofi”).
We first encountered it this week when we visited a local coffee shop for the first time; it was playing as background music, and we found it quite appealing. The proprietor told me, when I asked him what the music he was playing was called, that you can find lots of it on Youtube, so I did. When I searched for it, many of the links also referred to “hip-hop,” but it seems to me much more related to smooth jazz than to hip-hop.
I have been a jazz fan for many years, since I first stumbled upon Cannonball Adderley (and also a fan of jazz’s distant cousin, swing, as my two or three regular readers already know), though of course I was already aware of jazz, because how could you grow up in the Disunited States and not be? But Adderley made me a fan.
I can’t say that I’m knowledgeable about jazz. All I can say is that I like it, especially smooth jazz and blues.
Oh. And we also liked the coffee shop and will likely visit it again.
And Now for a Musical Interlude 0
Aside:
I first learned of this song in the movie, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, which I consider to be one of Robert Mitchum’s finest movies. If you haven’t watched it, do so today.
As my two or three regular readers know, I’ve since become a big fan of the Andrews Sisters. They had that something.