Man, that bass player that accompanied him, he sounded great.
Last night, I sensed that Jake knew a whole, whole, WHOLE lot more than playing the ukulele. The song "Tritone" was so cerebral, and the way he played "Go For Broke" (performed differently from the recording: chord melody) was so damn melodic and sounded patriotic. There must be something conventional in patriotic music because I never heard "Go For Broke" before, didn't recognize the melody, yet it sounded patriotic.
I love his sense of melody in "Blue Roses Falling." And his technique, impeccable. However old "Dragon" is, and how "gimicky" I used to think it was in its technicality, hearing it again after all these years, it sounded intense too. And the energy . . . that dude's quite the showman.
Last night, I sensed that Jake knew a whole, whole, WHOLE lot more than playing the ukulele. The song "Tritone" was so cerebral, and the way he played "Go For Broke" (performed differently from the recording: chord melody) was so damn melodic and sounded patriotic. There must be something conventional in patriotic music because I never heard "Go For Broke" before, didn't recognize the melody, yet it sounded patriotic.
I love his sense of melody in "Blue Roses Falling." And his technique, impeccable. However old "Dragon" is, and how "gimicky" I used to think it was in its technicality, hearing it again after all these years, it sounded intense too. And the energy . . . that dude's quite the showman.