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Jake Shimabukuro
143 (Kelly s Song)
Pianoforte 2010
Bonus Track: Bohemian Rhapsody - Live Version
It s rare for a young musician to earn comparisons to the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis. It s even harder to find an artist who has entirely redefined an instrument by his early thirties. But Jake Shimabukuro (she-.
more »ma-boo-koo-row) has already accomplished these feats, and more, in a little over a decade of playing and recording music. As the San Francisco Gate recently posited about the Hawaiian musician: The sounds the boyish 33-year old wrings from his ukulele.are unlike anything else in the history of the instrument.
Jake Shimabukuro
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Ave Maria
Wish On My Star (vocal version)
You ll forget all the Tiny Tim, Don Ho, and Hawaiian-music jokes about the ukulele when you hear Gently Weeps, which leaves behind the Roaring Twenties strum and plinky-dink sound of most such music. Jake Shimabukuro sets .
more »the tone with the lead-off track from which he takes the album s title, George Harrison s While My Guitar Gently Weeps, unfolding the vulnerable undertow of Harrison s epic lament. A string of covers follows, as Shimabukuro touches the serene with Schubert s Ave Maria, evokes a Japanese koto on a Zen-like version of Sakura, and turns The Star-Spangled Banner into a lament. But Shimabukuro s original tunes are just as full of plucked nuance, especially Heartbeat Dragon, where he uses a slight delay to create a quietly joyful Celtic air. However, don t think it s all wistful melancholy. Shimabukuro whips it out on original tracks like Let s Dance,