Honoring the eclectic nature of this series, this week’s video is a sharp turn from Evan Parker. \ud83d\ude42 Actually, without this being the intention, it ties loosely ties together a number of previous posts.<\/p>\n
In early 2007, when I first stumbled upon those Marcus Miller videos I posted a while back, I came across another version of “Run for Cover”<\/a> by Lydia Kaboesj<\/a>. Lydia is a real solid Dutch bassist who posted a series of homemade solo videos<\/a> to YouTube in 2006-07. (She’s a professional musician in Europe, but this series is how I came to know her.)<\/p>\n Although there are a number to choose from, my favorite of the “Lydia On Bass” video series is her cover of Musiq Soulchild<\/a>‘s “Just Friends (Sunny),” itself a play on Bobby Hebb’s iconic pop hit “Sunny.”<\/a>\u00a0(The lyrics are by no means deep or profound, but the overall song is catchy.) She’s definitely a one-woman band featuring bass guitar, voice, and beatbox. Despite a vocal hiccup, this is an impressive little performance. Below Lydia’s performance I’ll also post a nice live performance of the same song by Musiq Soulchild, a video I immediately tracked down after finding Lydia’s. One thing I really enjoy about Musiq’s performance is his use of a full soul band, unfortunately a rarity nowadays.<\/p>\n For fun, here are some traits this post has in common with some of its predecessors, making it the rug that (kind of) ties the room together<\/a> thus far. Lydia Keboesj:
\n1. I found Lydia via Marcus Miller’s “Run For Cover,” which was featured here<\/a>.
\n2. “Just Friends” is a contrafact of “Sunny.” Though that’s a term generally applied to jazz, it’s suitable here. The Liebman performance I posted here<\/a> features one of his own contrafacts.
\n3. Musiq Soulchild’s performance comes from his appearance on Later…with Jools Holland<\/em>. Bon Iver’s performances, posted here<\/a>, came from the same program.
\n4. Lydia’s performance is solo, the only other solo performance I’ve featured thus far is last week’s Evan Parker post<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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