Black Orpheus (ocarina)

By Luiz Bonfa. This is a bossa nova jazz standard, from the 1959 Brazilian film of the same name. I gather from a commenter that it's also known as "A Day in the Life of a Fool." That's the Mountain C hardwood inline ocarina that I'm playing, and the reverb setting is "medium room warm."

The backing track is from jazzbacks.com, a great source for jazz standards, although many of their tracks are in keys that work better on sax.


Mp3 at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3576175/black%20orpheus.mp3

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• black
• orpheus
• orfeu
• negro
• luiz
• bonfa
• bossa
• nova
• carnivale
• jazz
• standard
• mountain
• hardwood
• inline
• ocarina
• dymondwood
• day
• life
• of
• fool

[DebbSaxx1]

Nice job! I posted a my own video of the same song and wondered how it'd sound with an ocarina and this was surprisingly good !!! Thanks for posting!

Debb Saxx, Florida

[ubizmo]

@DebbSaxx1 Thanks for stopping by. I just had a listen to your music and subscribed. Beautiful playing!

[subakuryu]

Ah! so that's what this song is called! Love this tune and of course ya play it masterfully as usualy, ubi! Thanks for sharing this with us!

[ubizmo]

@subakuryu Thanks, Suba. I didn't know the name of the tune either. It was just in my head and I had to use one of those melody-matching sites to find out.

[docjazz4]

I love this song. I first came across it last year when one of my students asked how to play it on ocarina and now it's one of my favorite jazz tunes...thanks for doing it justice :)

[ubizmo]

@docjazz4 Thanks...for the record, the backing track is from jazzbacks. I need to edit the description to include that. They have some nice tracks there.

[OcarinaSherb]

Very well played!

I couldn't help but notice that this is your 99th video.

Are you planning to do anything special for number 100?

[ThyReturner]

I love listening to this sometimes. Thanks man.

[thekaserxxx13]

very sweet dudE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NINARODUS]

Beautiful tones too! Really cool part of your solo! I will be healed.

[SiriosIX]

Beautiful. Thank you. A real pleasure to listen to.

[DescendingRiver]

Love it! =}

[SruthTeeker]

Great! you've gotten so much better since I last watched one of your videos.

[stevosupafli]

@ubizmo The song is called "A Day in the Life of a Fool".

Look up the Vince Guaraldi version. I think its on his Black Orpheus album.