It's not just in sports that we find curves, circles and spheres. Each game has its heroes and Natalie Cole asks Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? Not only was Robinson an All-Star for six consecutive seasons, and the MVP in 1949, he was the first African American to play in the major leagues, breaking the colour barrier for all time. Many games are played with balls, be it basketball, football or baseball. Spheres play a big role in human amusement. The Dickies celebrate this awesome shape with Walk Like an Egg, a quirky but captivating little song. One of the most pleasing shapes is the egg. Here on Earth nature also favours curves over straight lines. That Lucky Old Sun, thinks Ray Charles, "got nothin' to do but roll around heaven all day".
In mythology we attach anthropomorphic qualities to these orbs, just speeding through space with out a care while we slave away. Swedish jazzmen, the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, imagine what it must have been like for the world's first man in space to see that great curve of blue and white with the ethereal Gagarin's Point of View.įrom Earth we look up and see the stars and the moon.
Al's journey takes him by those great orbs of the solar system – Mars, Mercury and Saturn, of which Titan is the largest moon.Įarth seen from space must be an awesome sight. Al Stewart brings us a bit closer to home, seduced by the Sirens of Titan. So we start with Loquat doing some Time Bending, contemplating time and space and possible life on faraway planets - "parallel places, unreachable sights". Even out in the cosmos, everything is curves and spheres. Witness the first five songs PMJ performed at the Great Hall in Toronto in June 2014, their first live show ever: Europe’s “The Final Countdown,” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s “Thrift Shop,” Swedish House Mafia’s “Don’t You Worry Child,” Kesha’s “Die Young” and the “Gummi Bears Theme Song.Curves are part of the natural order. You can hear and see them - along with 159 other revamped tunes - on Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox YouTube channel, which boasts 1.6 million subscribers and is updated Thursdays.īradlee, 34, says he can retrofit practically any song or style. Sometimes Bradlee switches up time signatures or inserts a few bars of another tune in the middle of a song, as he did with Wham!’s “Careless Whisper,” speeding up its tempo and briefly detouring into Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” and “Message In a Bottle” by the Police.
Imagine Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” rearranged as a breathless, banjo-infested ragtime-era hoedown, or Miley Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop” reworked as a ’50s doo-wop number.
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Musically speaking, Bradlee applies the same principle to his renditions of famous tunes that 007 does to his celebrated drink: throws all the ingredients into a metaphorical tumbler, tosses them into a bygone era, and then serves them up with a rotating cast of 60 singers and musicians, ranging from American Idol finalists Haley Reinhart and Casey Abrams to Puddles, a six-foot-eight baritone cabaret singer in full clown costume. No, we’re not talking about James Bond martinis, but the entertaining and imaginatively radical rearrangements of prevailing pop, rock and rap classics by New Jersey-raised pianist Scott Bradlee and musical combo Postmodern Jukebox, appearing at Massey Hall on Monday.
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