Alice Babs - Heaven

[masapell]

Wow, what an amazing, amazing voice!!! And Johnny Hodges, what a sound!!!

[tarik19501956]

bravi

[clivisbel]

thanks for this video!this seems to be an interview.isn't it?

someone knows where can i find the comlete video interview?

any contact of alice babs?

[hairnsap]

Balls,pure balls !!

[caponsacchi]

In one of his first songs, "Drop Me Off in Harlem, " Duke compares Harlem to heaven. And he was consistent with that idea. Heaven = harlem, an ideal cross section of free and loving human beings, cherishing each moment, each sweet, pretty and sensuous thing, the laughs, the sheer beauty. Duke was no Dante. He was Chaucer.

[caponsacchi]

Perfect diction, a perfectly radiant voice. expressing the very soul of Ellington himself, and people nitpick and criticize? The melodies, the harmonies, the words, the ensemble sound are the essence of Ellington. If this isn't seen as the masterpiece it is, best it not be on youtube. Alice "gets" it, she gets Duke, who was no Promethean visionary like Coltrane but a being who celebrated life, every flower, every pretty thing, every moment of God's incarnate, sensuous, gracious feast.

[TheMoabiter]

Manchmal fällt mir gar kein vernünftiger Text mehr ein. Ich will mich ja nicht immer wiederholen. Dennoch: auch das wieder eine wunderbare Aufnahme von der von mir außerordentlich geschätzten Alice Babs!

Tack sa mycket!!!!

[DrBoomy]

I think her voice is fine but I'm not a fan of how she's pronouncing things...

[Yllefilten]

@DrBoomy

I agree. She is Swedish and from Stockholm and the "Stockholmish" accent is often very strong and clear.

[fredrikhildebrand]

@Yllefilten

Actually, she's from Kalmar....

[pozzie85]

Great video!

@EngelNr666: have you other videos of this concert? Where you found this video? Is it purchasable?

[EngelNr666]

sorry, these two are the only ones, we can only hope swedish television will release the whole package in the future :)

[princesskaitlyn524]

I'm a huge Alice fan, I think her voice is so beautiful and has such a wide range of both styles and in octives. lovely song.

[signjay]

Jeep and Alice, how can you go wrong...

[c4rv3r]

Johnny Hodges! Wow!

[BrittaDagny]

I saw this concert on black and white tv 1969. It is really just incredible what a voice and the music of duke is so brilliant

[nakayamanu]

happy to be able to see this!

[mikemckv]

Beautiful stuff from Alice here. Thanks.