Here is a Tenor Banjo version of a Christmas song composed by Irving Berlin in 1940: White Christmas. If we have to name only one version of White Christmas, it would undoubtedly be Bing Crosby’s. Of course, this song has been widely covered, but Bing Crosby is the first to have recorded it and its …
Here is a guitar adaptation of a song by Noel Gallagher with Oasis released in 1995: Wonderwall. In 1995, I didn’t know streaming, and for good reason! I was still collecting CDs that I used to buy regularly at the Fnac Montparnasse. Indeed, I lived in rue de l’Eure, in the 14th district of Paris …
Here is a Ukulele adaptation of a music by Charles Mingus in 1959 : Jelly Roll. I discovered the Mingus Ah Um album at a time that seems to be long gone. Indeed, as a teenager, I used to go regularly to the media library of Châtillon, southern suburbs of Paris, to rent records. By …
Here are two adaptations, one on guitar, the other on ukulele, of a song by Lennon and McCartney with The Beatles in 1963 : All My Loving. First I recorded the ukulele version in September 2020. And then I felt like offering a guitar version in the fall of 2022. Why this song. This is …
Here is an adaptation for Ukulele, Guitar and Congas of a bossa nova standard by Antonio Carlos Jobim composed in 1967: Wave. To begin, I want to say that the album Wave is my favorite bossa nova album. And then, there is this green psyche cover with the giraffe!Of course, we could debate at length …
