Bob Dylan Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Waterfront Auditorium
1. Things Have Changed
2. She Belongs To Me
3. Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
4. What Good Am I?
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IBM Watson: “I know that your major themes are that time passes and love fades”
Bob Dylan: “That sounds about right.Maybe we should write a song together.”
Bob Dylan has done a new commercial, this time for IBM.
IBM Watson analyzes Bob Dylan’s lyrics and shows that his major themes are love and time. IBM Watson claims it can help us outthink the limits of creativity. Bob Dylan seems to enjoy himself and it feels a bit tounge-in-cheek. It may be a sell-out, but he sure make cool advertisement!
Please note that some of the embedded audios are not complete.
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Jazz spans a period of over 100 years and encompasses a range of music from ragtime to the present day, and has proved to be very difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note, as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music, the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and ragtime. The birth of Jazz in the multicultural society of America has led intellectuals from around the world to hail Jazz as “one of America’s original art forms”
Bob Dylan is Jazz at heart, what I mean is that he improvise, he elaborates on his own work. Sometimes his songs are unrecognisable to us. He goes with flow, he goes where the song takes him. He is very “jazzy”, but he does seldom sound like jazz.
I have had quite a few posts with Bob Dylan cover versions and today we collecting 11 more Jazz artists doing their interpretations of his songs.
See also: 10 fine Jazz Covers Of Bob Dylan Songs
Diana Krall – Wallflower:
Herbie Hancock with Lisa Hannigan – The Times, They Are A’ Changin’:
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“We all play folk music.”
– Thelonious Monk (to Dylan)
Jazz spans a period of over 100 years and encompasses a range of music from ragtime to the present day, and has proved to be very difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note, as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music, the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and ragtime. The birth of Jazz in the multicultural society of America has led intellectuals from around the world to hail Jazz as “one of America’s original art forms”
Bob Dylan is Jazz at heart, what I mean is that he improvises, he elaborates on his own work. Sometimes his songs are unreckognisable to us. He goes with flow, he goes where the song takes him. He is very “jazzy”, but he does seldom sound like jazz.
I have had quite a few posts with Bob Dylan cover versions and today we are looking at Jazz artists doing their interpretations of his songs.
Cassandra Wilson – Lay Lady Lay (audio):