One of the guys from Balkan Beat Box used to be in Gogol Bordello.
That would be madness live!
It's interesting when you listen to bands like Balkan Beat Box, you can hear the range of influences. I have some friends who tend to only listen to music within a few genres and that means they are limiting themselves in what they hear, but also what they're open to.
I realised that with the Loituma track above, I'm so used to vocal harmonies like African choirs(which Paul Simon popularised) to the Beach Boys, it takes a sort of shift to accept something new.
This is the Charlie Parker track I was thinking of. I believe Billie Holiday styled her vocal patterns on the sax(generally).
And the story goes that Bird hated this version so much he threw his sax through the studio window.
Of course it became a classic.
Bird-Lover Man
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