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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Swing it, brother, swing

Just jiving away here to my Billie Holiday double CD, and hadn’t heard this song before. Like it. She has such a knack of deemphasizing the bits that other people would normally belt out and instead letting them slide away like ice cream on a hot day. Oooh. I’m sure there’s a musical term for that – maybe someone out there can set me straight on some lingo about phrasing?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

it's called NOT oversinging, like so many do these days... artists like Billy are more classy and understated.

4:18 pm  

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