Today I discovered the vocalist Jacintha (Jacintha Abisheganaden) and Beethoven’s Trios for Two Oboes and Cor Anglais.
Jacintha treats standards. I ran into her beautiful vocal stylings of once popular songs while searching for Ben Webster hits on the internet. Miss Abisheganden hails from Singapore and studied Creative Writing at Harvard. She recorded a CD in appreciation of Ben Webster. Her voice and interpretations of popular songs are certainly up to the Frog’s standards. Try her “Round Midnight” and “Moon River” - the piano solo on the latter touches on Cecil Taylor! Many of her tunes are available on You Tube. She pays close attention to a song’s lyrics and tends to take things quite slowly. Teddy Edwards’s saxophone is featured on a number of the the recordings.
Take a listen on You Tube. If you like The Music performed with care and devotion, Jacintha Abisheganaden should knock you out.
After dealing with Beethoven’s Op. 131 String Quartet in the wonderful film, A Last Quartet, discovering the above mentioned ‘Lighter Works’ suited me perfectly. I’m usually down with almost anything featuring clarinet or oboe; but two oboes and English Horn: heavenly-stuff, whether light, heavy, or what-not.
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