Showing posts with label Cabaret. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cabaret. Show all posts
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Lucienne Boyer - Les Chansons Eternelles
Lucienne Boyer was a popular cabaret singer during the 1930s. Her most famous song, Parlez-moi d'amour, is totally in Casablanca, so you know she's good.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Michel Legrand - I Love Paris
Just when you thought this blog was too Francophilic. This album is a collection of orchestrated songs (accordions and violins everywhere (Miles Davis is also part of the orchestra)) that are meant to reflect all the cool stuff about Paris. The songs are designed around each other so the album actually works way better as a whole than if you just listened to individual songs. This also might be my favorite Legrand album.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Zarah Leander
Nur Nichte aus Liebe weinen
And just for the record I do not like her more than Marlene. She is still really good though.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Noel Akchote - Cabaret Modern
Noel Akchote is a free jazz guitarist. He has done stuff with Derek Bailey and Fred Frith and J.G. Thirlwell. But this album is just him getting a bunch of musicians together and playing some old-fashioned cabaret songs. His free jazz background (and a lot of the musicians he got together are experimental or noise musicians themselves) sometimes shows through but not really enough to classify this as a free jazz or experimental album.
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