S’wonderful
I’m trying to get on and write this post but am being distracted by Phat Girls, which is currently showing on Star Movies, and which is as good as it sounds.
See what happens when V stays up as late as I do? 
It was a really wonderful night in the bar tonight. Familiar faces and new faces, and most importantly: all of them faces who seemed to really be there because of the music.
The atmosphere was different; and the best way, the only way, I can describe it is that tonight, for the first time, it felt like a real jazz club.
Which wa s’wonderful.
What wa s’also wonderful was how confident I’m feeling about my singing. The band are sounding really good, and I’m not fire-fighting any more - which means I’m freed up to sing freely and happily.
And what s’more, I’m finding that I can sing songs which I wouldn’t normally attempt as they’re too well-known or cliched to attempt (but am doing so for the audience here) and singing them, well, erm, well. As in: I’m making them my own, and finding a freshness in them which I never thought I would.
‘Fever’ sounds like I was made to sing it, and it’s a brilliant challenge to take a song like that which is so famous (and what’s more: a recording that’s so famous) and try to deliver it in a new - and sincere - way. Ditto ‘Cheek To Cheek’, which we start and end with just me and bass (on the ‘Heaven, I’m in heaven…’ parts) and which sounds so nice arranged like that.
My voice is going from strength to strength (as well as down from octave to octave), and tonight I truly felt entitled to be there on the stage.
And it’s a fantastic feeling - nay, wonderful, and marvellous - that the audience should care for me.
February 24th, 2008 at 5.26am
Sound s’wonderful.
February 24th, 2008 at 5.32am
I was accompanying Rosa as she was singing one of her improvised songs tonight and she came up with the immortal line:
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be over the stars
Far away from lightning and bras!
Do you think you could work that in to one of your songs?
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February 24th, 2008 at 7.54am
I know what we’d all like to see - photos of you singing! And phots of you round and about too. D’ju reckon?
February 24th, 2008 at 7.55am
You can decide for yourself what a phot is.
February 25th, 2008 at 12.47pm
Peter - love it. Rosa is a poet. and doesn’t she know it.
Rachel - I don’t photograph well, so am not exactly keen to oblige… ;-). give me a few more weeks to get more lithe and tanned, however, and I might just do so.
February 25th, 2008 at 7.49pm
‘a real jazz club’
Nice.
February 26th, 2008 at 1.32am
Ahhhh
but you’re so lovely! Pete thinks so too. DON’T you, Pete?
February 26th, 2008 at 3.07am
Yes.
February 26th, 2008 at 3.08am
was that the right answer?
February 26th, 2008 at 3.26pm
Yes.
February 26th, 2008 at 4.12pm
Quite an interesting dilemma here. Imagine if the question had been, “Does my bum look big in this?”
February 26th, 2008 at 6.01pm
the answer would have been Blog-off
February 26th, 2008 at 7.20pm
haha!