Kristin Korb - Cheek to Cheek

Combining the instrumental influence of Ray Brown and Charles Mingus and the vocal styling of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, jazz bassist and vocalist Kristin Korb has created a sound all her own. This concert was filmed in early 2005 at Vienna's famous jazz club "Porgy & Bess," and features a truly magically performance by Korb.

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• Korb
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• vocals
• acoustic
• bass

[emiliealain]

i love......

[dgnyberg1]

If anyone is familiar with the early jazz scene, or any of the music from the 20's to the 40's, this is the beauty of the music!  Awesome video, beautiful voice!!

[nicechuck1956]

Pitchy? Let me guess Randy Jackson is your hero? The girl is Way talented

[hradbrad]

@Owlbatross What pitchy? you're nuts!!!! just her spin leave it!

[JMGilberto]

@Owlbatross

Please, put the pitch correction away, no music needs to be harmed here ;-)

I'm inclined to accept pitch variations as just one among the many artifacts that lend music a truly human feel. Subtle manipulations of pitch are also sometimes intentional, and add color.

Pitch correction is always like bad plastic surgery, and the scars are brutal.

[bombersmrz]

i don't know what the drummers face looks like but i have his bald spot memorized.

phenomenal playing, shit's bananas

[Owlbatross]

I'd like to add to my commentary below that the piano has its own built-in auto-tune! :0) this is why it would be optimum her vocals be in pitch with it. Actually, the bass a few cents lower than the A440 intended sounds great and is a trick to employ when sequencing on a digital multi-track.

[Owlbatross]

She's pitchy vocally, but look what she's doing? If I were a sound engineer, I'd employ that softare program they abuse on GLEE (Melodyne) and run her vocal through it for auto-pitch correction on the fly ... set at levels, whereby you can't tell there's a program at all ... used all throughout the country music industry (Faith Hill & her husband) and Cher (abusive version like GLEE), this would be a terrific thing, because naturally, the contrabass with no frets is varying in pitch.

[1968RYS]

Loved her since 98--first time to see others who know her! She's the best.

[1968RYS]

Loved her since 98--first time to see others who know her! She's the best.