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Originally Posted by Tumor
This one is really beautiful as well.
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'Tis isn't it?
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
"Summertime" is just not a song that's ever really done it for me, and despite loving a lot of jazz generally speaking, all the jazz versions of it that I'm familiar with (Billie Holliday, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker) are pretty dull to my ears. I had never heard the Janis Joplin version until reading this thread but that didn't really do it for me either.
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I'm surprised you hadn't heard the Janis version. I remember hearing that song all of my life, fascinated by her bizarre rasp. In fact, I think I myself thought she wrote Summertime for a while.
As for the jazz part, I don't love most of the versions. And even though I'm not much of a fan of Ella Fitzgerald, my next favorite Summertime version after Billie's is probably the Ella/Louis Armstrong version, mostly for Armstrong's part.