Nat King Cole, June Christy, Mel Torme - How High The Moon

Video para conocedores y coleccionistas de la verdadera y buena Música, tres grandes estrellas juntas en vivo, años 50, interpretando un maravilloso tema. Que lo disfruten!!!

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• june
• christy
• mel
• torme
• how
• high
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• moon
• 50´s
• buena
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• oldies
• USA
• jazz

[potatoepeter1]

Frank Sinatra have no Chance............

[jelkica26]

where is she runnin'

[potatoepeter1]

Gratulation, the world parlament, the best !! i vote it

[potatoepeter1]

absolut very good !! the old masters make music...!!

[BillyRosinet]

@Gminor7

Capitalism had little to do with it. It was mostly just declining public tastes.

[junkyardphilosopher]

Mel Torme never ceases to amaze me. I mean that's Nat King Cole he's backing (very competently).. one of the greatest and most influential piano stylists of all time

[Gminor7]

@Swansoni333 "1950s culture was more sophisticated" - agreed. All we can talk about are general trends - the "market" (capitalism) will determine the contents of culture, and that which doesn't sell will not survive. See the film "Jazz On a Summer's Day" and contemplate the Chico Hamilton Group being followed by Chuck Berry. Sex sells- intelligence does not. So long Nat Cole; hello Lady Gaga. Sinatra/Fitzgerald were intelligent- I agree, but thousands of Toscanini fans did not.

[Swansoni333]

@Gminor7 You're viewing culture in a very limited way. The reality is that 1950's Pop Culture is far more sophisticated than 2011 pop culture. Also, none of the names that you mentioned were names of pop stars; except for nat king cole. In the 1950's the market was intelligent, and artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra were among the most popular in the US. "Vulgarity" isn't always unsophisticated, just compare the comedy of today to W.C. Fields, Laurel & Hardy, etc.

[princeandrey]

I agree that the market drives culture but culture has autonomous value too.  Nat Cole was a genius and at that point in capitalism products were admired because of their relationship to older cultural values,so his virtuostic imagination was prized. Rock and Roll came in as the result of the ultimate hegemony of the youth market, a bastardization of the boogy-woogy blues of black people who were less affected because exclude from capitalism.Vital music to be distilled for profit. No time...

[Gminor7]

@Swansoni333 It did not take any social engineering for Jelly Roll Morton to replace Scott Joplin, or for Earl Hines and later Nat Cole to replace Morton, or Herbie Hancock to replace Nat Cole. You clearly do not understand that "popular culture" is determined only by "what sells" in capitalism. If there is any "culture"supported by something other than the market, it is by definition not capitalist. Popular culture is no different from toothpaste. Vulgarity always outsells intelligence.