Next Month, Blue Note Jazz Festival presents: Scott Bradlees Postmodern Jukebox, at Highline Ballroom, Monday, June 9, 2014. By his own admission, Bradlee regarded most pop and rock tunes as unrefined, but, as he himself put it, As a relentless devils advocate, I then found that by simply altering the context of such songs, I could find quite a bit of artistic merit inside of them. In 2009, Bradlee released a digital single, Hello My Ragtime 80s, in which he grafted familiar lines from 20 pop hits of the 80s into a medley played in traditional ragtime style. Bradlee then began experimenting with live mashups; during his weekly appearances at Robert Restaurant in the Big Apples Columbus Circle, he would perform numbers that interpolated elements from popular tunes both past and present, and recordings of these experiments were compiled into a digital album, Mashups by Candlelight. The performances were popular enough that Bradlee released a second Mashups by Candlelight collection, but he enjoyed his greatest popular success when he began using his ideas as the basis for a series of YouTube videos. Get more info and tickets here: j.mp/1liybwX
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 15:00:01 +0000
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