music clip of the day

jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more

Tuesday, 5/11/10

Lena Horne, June 30, 1917-May 9, 2010

Lena Horne, “Stormy Weather” (Stormy Weather, 1943)

Monday, 5/10/10

YouTube giveth, and YouTube taketh away.

I’ve posted other clips that were subsequently removed by YouTube. But this is the first time where I’ve posted something that was removed the very same day.

Oh, well—more tomorrow.

**********

When the tempo is perfect, the music unfolds in what seems to be the only way it could. “Fast” and “slow” lose their meaning. Time disappears.

Frederic Chopin, 24 Preludes for Solo Piano, Op. 28/Friedrich Gulda, piano

Nos. 15, 10, 9, 3, 4

*****

Nos. 7, 13, 21, 24

Want more? Here.