Re: Sinatra

[David Baron <david_b...>]

The whole point is that the human voice is not a digitally controlled
synthesizer doing Sinatra samples. There is expression, quaver, etc., and
this is what makes singing interesting (at least more so that hitting MIDI
controller keys playing voice samples).

Sinatra, even in later years, was, well .... a performer who satisfied
several generations. He was a stylist. The arrangements, as opposed to those
immitating swing and big band today (including those of Moshe Lauffer, et
all), were impecable, never overpowering the singer. I am sick of
complaining to the sound man to turn down the band, cut the echo, so I can
HEAR Mordechai Ben David or Avraham Fried. Such never happened with Frankie!

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