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o 'malandro' e os seus cantores

Die Moritat von Mackie Messer (Mack the Knife) é uma música composta por Kurt Weill com letra de Bertolt Brecht para o drama musical  Die Dreigroschenoper  ( "A Ópera dos 3 Vinténs"), que Chico Buarque transformou na "Ópera do Malandro" .

A versão original, de Weill-Brecht , estreou em Berlim em 1928. A música do 'malandro' Mackie Messer tornou-se extremamente popular, e  foi cantada por Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Tom Waits, entre muitos, muitos outros.

• Kurt Weill
• Bertolt Brecht
• Die Dreigroschenoper

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versão jazz - aqui , por  Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Nancy Wilson, Al Jarreau e Nnenna Freelon - óptima, pena q tenha anúncios pelo meio ..

scat singing

 scat singing

In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvisation with random vocables and nonsense syllables or without words at all. Scat singing gives singers the ability to sing improvised melodies and rhythms, to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice.

Louis Armstrong's 1926 recording of "Heebie Jeebies" was the turning point for the medium and served as an inspiraton to Cab Calloway, Gershwin or Duke Ellington in the late 1920s and the 30s.

Over the years, as jazz music developed and grew in complexity, scat singing did as well. During the bop era (1940s), more highly-developed vocal improvisation surged in popularity and Ella Fitzgerald is considered by many “the best vocal improviser jazz has ever had”.

In the 1960s, traditional scatting gave way to the free-jazz movement, which allowed scat singers to include sounds in their repertoire that had before been considered non-musical, such as screams, cries, and laughter. Free jazz and the influence of world musicians on the medium pushed jazz singing nearer to avant-garde art music.

American singer Al Jarreau, a seven-time Grammy Award winner, is well-known for his scat singing and the ability to imitate conventional guitar, bass and percussive instrumentation.

The medium continues to evolve, and vocal improvisation now often develops independently of changes in instrumental jazz. Vocal improviser Bobby McFerrin’s recent performances have shown that  "wordless singing" has traveled far from the concepts demonstrated by Louis Armstrong ..  fonte