From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V3 #142 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Tuesday, July 14 1998 Volume 03 : Number 142 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Basia and Lilith. [Meg Evans ] Ashoke's grocery list? [Jeff Hamilton ] News about Basia Internet Collection CDs [combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee] Re: News about Basia Internet Collection CDs [BRESHUE@aol.com] Re: News about Basia Internet Collection CDs [talukdar@morph.EBME.CWRU.Ed] Re: News about Basia Internet Collection CDs [Rich Uchytil - IR Geek ] Thank the stars for Ashoke! [Meg Evans ] MB live? when? [tom kelly & jordan ] Re: News about Basia Internet Collection CDs [ECONECIA@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:10:20 -0600 From: Meg Evans Subject: Re: Basia and Lilith. Ashoke, I have a feeling that even your grocery list would be articulate and colorful ... a fantastic read, like all your BasiaList contributions! As for an introduction to Astrud, I highly recommend searching your local used CD store for a cerain "Jazz Masters 9" CD on the Verve label. It shouldn't be hard to find (unfortunately) and it's got many (if not all) of Astrud's early classics. Borders can probably find Astud CDs pretty easily, too. "Ethereal and frail" are completely appropriate adjectives for her voice. Also, she sings number of songs in Portuguese -- just lovely! I do have a weakness for Portuguese (ever since I first heard Pele doing World Cup commentary O so long ago). Check out the Astrud website that someone sent along last week (I'm afraid I've deleted that e-mail -- it arrived last Friday morning I believe). You'll see more information about Ms. Gilberto, plus tour dates, etc. Now I'm REALLY curious to hear what Astrud has been up to for the last 30 years. (Let us pray it's not 30 years before Basia's career comes back to life!) If anyone on the list becomes an Astrud "convert," I'd love to hear about it. Meg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:00:43 -0400 From: Jeff Hamilton Subject: Ashoke's grocery list? At 09:10 AM 7/13/98 -0600, Meg Evans wrote: >Ashoke, I have a feeling that even your grocery list would be articulate >and colorful ... a fantastic read, like all your BasiaList contributions! This I gotta see (the grocery list)... Jeff Hamilton - the capitalist http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffhamilton/ "The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable pi can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change." - FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:17:10 GMT From: combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee) Subject: News about Basia Internet Collection CDs Howdy! Well, I'm stitting here at work with the first Basia Internet Video Collection CD in my CD-ROM drive. I just tested the MPEG playback for several of the clips, and it seems to look pretty good. This is just volume 1 -- I still need to digitize a few things for volume 2, but here are some statistics. 647 MB of data 56 minutes of MPEG-1 video 14 video clips, including all of the Matt Bianco WSAYO? videos 5 MP3 clips from Basia's rare promo CD, ESK-1276 I did miss a couple of things. David Letterman's 1990 Basia interview is on the disc, but the performance that went with it is missing. It will be on volume two. The recent video interview that Alfred Wong found isn't included -- it just got to me this weekend. I've also heard a rumor of a couple of additional Time and Tide-era performances that I'm tracking. I need to look at file sizes now to see how close I am to having volume 2 ready. Depending on available space, I'd love to add MP3 files of some of the live shows I have on tape. I'm going to burn my first V1 copies tonight and send them to the contributors. If you're not on that list, hold tight. I need to make sure they layout works on a variety of systems before the general release. I'd also like to get volume 2 done before doing a large mailout to minimize my time spent shipping. Thanks! - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) PS: <53706f6f6e21> 48 /Helvetica findfont scalefont setfont show showpage ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:22:55 EDT From: BRESHUE@aol.com Subject: Re: News about Basia Internet Collection CDs Do or can I purchase one of the basia cd-rom video clips??? Please e-mail me with an answer. Thank you. Breshue@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:25:59 -0500 From: talukdar@morph.EBME.CWRU.Edu (Ashoke Talukdar) Subject: Re: News about Basia Internet Collection CDs Hi Ben: Definitely count me in for purchase of any and all CDs you create. Just so it does not slip throught the cracks, let me take this opportunity to tell you how incredibly thankful I am that you are doing this. I do not wish to speak for others, but I am sure that my sentiments will be willingly mirrored by everyone else here. Regards, Ashoke. ____________________________________________________________________ Ashoke S. Talukdar | I'm writing you this letter from talukdar@morph.ebme.cwru.edu | some old hotel. I can feel the Home : 216-381-5872 | distance between us, from the Imaging Lab : 216-368-8812 | Spanish Steps to the Liberty Bell. MetroHealth : 216-778-8987 | I know the angels have seen us. Pager : 216-670-5872 | They've seen us baby... Cellular : 216-317-7079 | Fax : 216-368-4969 | Marc Cohn ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:41:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Uchytil - IR Geek Subject: Re: News about Basia Internet Collection CDs This is great!! I can't wait to get the "official" annoucement so I can place my order! Ben, You Da' Man!!!! Thanks for all your hard work! =========== "Let's Document it and call it a Feature!" ============ Richard Uchytil (rich@west.sun.com) Voice: (503) 520-7614 Sun Microsystems ... /| Fax: (503) 520-7722 Business/Systems Analyst >--|||===< | (___) \| ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:57:15 -0400 From: Jeff Hamilton Subject: Re: News about Basia Internet Collection CDs At 12:25 PM 7/13/98 -0500, Ashoke Talukdar wrote: >I do not wish to speak for others, but I am sure that my sentiments >will be willingly mirrored by everyone else here. I, on the other hand, speak for everybody (I'm pretty sure) when I say that Ben rules! Jeff Hamilton - the capitalist http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffhamilton/ "The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable pi can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change." - FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:37:42 -0400 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: One note Samba Thanks Meg! Actually I was going to send you a little recipe called "Spinning the Mondrian" - one of my own creations. Perhpas that will give you an insightful grocery list. I promise I will remember to copy Jeff on it. :-) ___________ So I have spent a couple of very musical days. If you were watching VH1 this weekend, it was picture-tube equivalent of an "un-putdown-able" novel, crowned with Sarah inviting Paula Cole on for a heart-wrenching duet version "Elsewhere" on VH1 Storytellers. I have also been contemplating on Astrud - reading up on her life and her history. I am very intrigued by the "girl of Ipanema". However, what amazes me most, is that her presence in my life went back a longer way than I had initially thought, the phrase "One note Samba" being the link. After the "Astrud" converstations last week, I brooded over the familiarity of the phrase in my mind and then it finally clicked. I remembered a raspy old EP that I had back in India, featuring really early work of a local singer from Calcutta. On this EP (45 rpm) she did a cover of a song called "One note samba". I called my parents and had my mom look up the EP (see, me and my mom are a fastidious pair of scorpios, so that even though I have not lived in India for over 10 years, most of my vinyls are pretty much in the same order as I left them). Surely enough, one of the names on the credit line after the song title was Gilberto!!! I am not familiar with the song anymore. I remember this local artist for other covers (notably, a beautiful and evocative "White Winged Dove"; I am still searching for the original writer). But in some ways, this little discovery is an example of simple pleasures for me. It is also a reflection of Basia's sensitivity and passion for song writing and her powerful ability to create a tapestry of remembrance. Not many song writers possess this talent, but yet it is so expressive and touching because, as I mentioned, on an earlier post regarding poetry, the most powerful of all expressions is human thought. This one does need a pen or paper, but remembrance, and it creates the most substantial poem of all. And how wonderful to rediscover this strength in a Basia song. "Astrud" will never be the same song again. Regards, Ashoke. ________________________________________________________________ Ashoke S. Talukdar | When the darkness takes you talukdar@morph.ebme.cwru.edu | with her hand across your face Home : 216-381-5872 | Don't give in too quickly Imaging Lab : 216-368-8812 | Find the things she's erased MetroHealth : 216-778-8987 | Find the line, find the face Pager : 216-670-5872 | Through the grain... Cellular : 216-317-7079 | Fax : 216-368-4969 | Suzanne Vega ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:50:43 +0100 From: Jan Johnson Subject: Re: basia-digest V3 #140 >It was during their cooperation with saxophonist Stan Getz in >the sixties that Astrud's career was born. The idea was to make a bossa-nova >album featuring Stan Getz and during the takes, where Astrud was present, of >"Garota de Ipanema" (The Girl from Ipanema) she was asked, jocularly, to >sing the lyrics. She had hardly ever sung before but she consented and we >(except for Ashoke -- *G*) all know what happened next. The song became a >world-wide hit and is still a standard, a classic and on almost everybody's >repertoire. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Ben, I just had a couple of things to add to this story. Astrud was included on 'Girl from Ipanema' over objections from her husband and Jobim, at Getz's insistence. He knew that she had a tendency to sing flat, but he wanted her on the album. In an interview with Neil Tesser, Getz recalled "Gilberto and Jobim didn't want Astrud on it. Astrud wasn't a professional singer, she was a housewife. But when I wanted translations of what was going on, she sang Ipanema and Corcovado, I thought the words in English were very nice. Astrud sounded good enough to put on the record". What the interview doesn't tell you is that Joao Gilberto didn't speak English, so couldn't sing the translations Getz wanted. Astrud, on the other hand, could. And it is an ironic twist of fate that Joao, who sang the Portuguese verses, was edited from the track of the commercial 45rpm issue. Jan Johnson jan_johnson@cheerful.com >To me, the references to Astrud Gilberto in the song "Astrud" were clear right >away, obviously. As Jan Johnson so rightly put it, it's not first-class >poetry, but it's very neatly composed,stringing together various song titles >originally sung by Astrud. I loved it instantly. ££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££ And yet more comments!! I have spotted 5 Gilberto songs in 'Astrud' so far - - if anyone knows ofany others please let me know (and no, 'Copacabana' was by Barry Manilow!!) A Certain Smile So Nice Goodbye Sadness One Note Samba Fly Me To The Moon Jan Johnson jan_johnson@cheeful.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:28:02 -0600 From: Meg Evans Subject: Thank the stars for Ashoke! To me, THAT'S what this list is about -- if we don't have Basia record release and concert dates to talk about, the next best thing is how we feel about the music and now re-"discovering" Astrud! Thank you, Ashoke. Curious about other latin musicians? Tap Abrazo Juan. He sent me a whole LIST of them to check out (as if I didn't have ENOUGH to do in my life). The history of latin music in all its various forms is fascinating (and our girl Basia, and her mentor Astrud, are part of it). Abrazador, are you up for a brief lesson for our BasiaList compatriates? I have a feeling that soon we will be chatting up more than just Basia. Ashoke, I'm looking forward to "Spinning the Mondrian." Can I do that to the gentle strains of "Agua de Beber" and "Corcovado?" Meg, who is in denial about being back from her vacation to New Mexico ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:27:45 -0600 From: tom kelly & jordan Subject: MB live? when? Dirk said: "The other six albums are all outstanding, and they're still producing albums on a regular base, although I think that they should release a live album now. If you ever have the chance: See them. Dirk" Tom asks: When was the last MB show you saw Dirk, and why don't you tell us what the gig was like? did they suck? were they fresh? I can't imagine...... ps. the 2nd MB album is a great disk. tom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 00:42:45 EDT From: ECONECIA@aol.com Subject: Re: News about Basia Internet Collection CDs Yeah, yeah-same here, Ben. Please put me on the list of those desiring to purchase. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V3 #142 ***************************