GERMAINE! Learning to sing "everybody's solos ... was the joy for us." And: "Dancing was so special." A great voice of our times! And: "Ko-Ko" ... COMPARED in Lossless, mp3, and streaming.
Listening to the HUGE differences between Formats may help you choose how you want to hear music.
Returning today to the superlative musician/singer GERMAINE BAZZLE of New Orleans and to an excerpt from the first Hour with Germaine in MARYSE’s and my ‘Spiritual as Music’ series. The photo below is by Syndey Byrd.
The best, first: a LOSSLESS excerpt that includes Germaine talking about how she and friends naturally advanced to learning and singing the INSTRUMENTAL solos to records that they heard on the jukebox in Xavier University’s cafeteria, circa 1953. “When you have Miles, and Bird, and all these people, and they all on that one LP, you learn everybody’s solo. At least that’s what we did. You were supposed to be able to walk down the street and sing these tunes. That’s what the joy was for us. So, it was great,” she tells Maryse and me.
Also, “Koko” from Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Max Roach and Curley Russell, representing the heights of complexity, energy and musicality that Germaine and friends were hearing.
Also, Germaine, encouraged by Maryse, alks about what dancing to the jukebox meant to her and friends. And a short clip of the Mills Brothers harmonizing on the first tune that Germaine learned to play on her family’s piano: “Sweet Sue.”
GERMAINE and MUSIC in LOSSLESS (.wav—or aiff) FORMAT..
The same 5:56-long excerpt of GERMAINE and MUSIC as an mp3.
Last—and worst … The '“ ‘streaming’ “ of audio reduces its nuances and emotional impact—its life, if you will—even more than the 10-times-reduction of information and musicality when a Track on Lossless is made an mp3.
Please visit my Bandcamp page and check out the first Hour with Germaine between 38:51 and 44:47—the last drop of the Mills Brothers’ “Sweet Sue” dollop.
Bandcamp does allow listeners to DOWNLOAD audio in LOSSLESS format. Such a CHOICE is one you WANT to TAKE … to most honor your own senses and to enjoy whatever you may want to hear.
