tim_wu 2008-7-5 13:26
新上海 新爵士—More than Jazz: Shanghai Jazz
[img]http://www.shjazz.com/SJ2.jpg[/img][b]The Story of Shanghai Jazz:[/b]
In the colourful cabarets and sepia-lit dance halls of Old Shanghai, Jazz music set the background score to a fleshy world of mobsters, adventurers, and sing-song girls. Old Shanghai was the uncontested Jazz capital of Asia, where musicians from the World over tested their musical mettle nightly to the delight of enthusiastic audiences.
In 1935, Du Yu Sheng, the notorious overlord of Shanghai's ominous "Green Gang" ordered into creation the first all-Chinese jazz group, called "The Clear Wind Dance Band", to perform at the Yangtze River Hotel Dance Hall. Critics called this music ‘pornographic,’ but the band played on just the same.
The wheels of time brought Shanghai's heady heyday to an end as the once-bustling nightclubs were boarded up or converted into Communist factory buildings, and Jazz music was outlawed as an 'indecent' form of entertainment...Until Now.
(Read The Full Story)
The Album:
"Shanghai Jazz: Musical Seductions from China's Age of Decadence" features classics like “De Bu Dao De Ai Qing” (The Love you Can’t Get), delivered through the titillating gravel-voice of ‘Ginger’ Zheng ZhiXiao. Things get jumping with tunes like the riotous “Wo Yao Ni De Ai” (I Want Your Love)—charged with life and humor by the confidently flamboyant ‘Coco’ Zhao Ke, and closes with a bittersweet version of “Qing Ren de Yan Lei” (Lovers Tears) sung with heart-wrenching compassion by ‘Carrie’ Zhang Le.
In total “Shanghai Jazz” contains contributions from a cast of more than twenty talented young Chinese musicians, the leaders of an exciting jazz revival amidst the dramatic social and economic reform of the New Shanghai.
[size=5][b][color=Red]AUDIO:[/color][/b][/size]：
1.[color=Navy]给我一个吻 (Give Me a Kiss)[/color]
Playing Time: 3 Minutes, 40 seconds
File Size: 1724K
Vocalist: Coco Zhao Ke [img]http://www.shjazz.com/images/artists/coco.jpg[/img]
A Chinese favorite based on the music of Patsy Cline's early 50's Hit "Seven Lonely Days" with a new title and lyrics.
[wmv]http://www.shjazz.com/downloads/geiwo.mp3[/wmv]
[u][u]下载地址[/u]：[url]http://www.shjazz.com/downloads/geiwo.mp3[/url][/u]
[color=Navy]2.茉莉花(Jasmine Flower)[/color]
Playing Time: 2 Minutes, 55 seconds
File Size: 1375K
Vocalist: Carrie Zhang Le[img]http://www.shjazz.com/images/artists/CARRIE.jpg[/img]
A very familiar melody and traditional song, originally from Jiangsu Province, near Shanghai. Jazzed up with Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone and Violin such that some have said it even sounds a bit Braziian!
[wmv]http://www.shjazz.com/downloads/molihua.mp3[/wmv]
[u][u]下载地址[/u]http://www.shjazz.com/downloads/molihua.mp3[/u]
[size=5][b][color=Red]Video:[/color][/b][/size]：
[color=Navy]SHANGHAI JAZZ VIDEO CLIP[/color]
Playing Time: 4 Minutes
File Size: 40.1 MB
A 'trailer-style' overview of Shanghai Jazz beginning with an introduction of the Original CLear Wind Band in 1935, and progressing through the band performing a medley of three songs from the album:
[wmv]http://www.shjazz.com/downloads/shjazztrailer.mpg[/wmv]
[img]http://shjazz.com/images/clearwindband3.jpg[/img]
[u]下载地址：[url]http://www.shjazz.com/downloads/shjazztrailer.mpg[/url][/u]
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