Several Kinds of Soul

Recently, by chance, I've been listening to a whole bunch of 70s soul music and getting into it more than I once did -- The Delfonics, Roberta Flack, Ashford & Simpson, The Dynamics, others. Soothing - what I need, right now.

Sometimes, a voice full of feeling, slow, full, is what you need for a while. And it can be in any kind of music.

Jason Stone, at Get On Down with the Stepfather of Soul!, points out in this entry that there are different kinds of soul, and pays tribute to the late Mr. Pavarotti with links to the great man singing with some unlikely collaborators. I've embedded them here for your dining and dancing pleasure. These are apparently from his annual "Pavarotti and Friends" charity concerts in Modena, Italy. I'd heard vaguely of these, but didn't know it was an annual event, nor so BIG.

So here is Pavarotti with the late great James Brown:

(and, for some reason, it seems less odd to me that Pavarotti is singing with JB as it is that he's singing a James Brown composition!)

And here, with the also late, also great, Mr. Barry White:

And here, the beautiful "Miss Sarajevo," with (the still alive) Bono, The Edge, Brian Eno and (late, great) Michael Kamen conducting:

I can't remember what blog guided me towards this link this morning, but here's a little something on Joel Veitch's rathergood.com, an animated tribute to an apparent special fondness of this great tenor's:

Pavarotti Loves Elephants

Ciao, Maestro.