+whitman van ness Thank you for listening to the music! You can like my Facebook page (m.facebook.com/ThanaAlexaMusic) or sign up for my mailing list on www.thanalexa.com to get updates on events and performances.
My wife and I saw you last night in Sacramento .. She bought me tickets for my birthday and we sat in the front . Thank You for a very special evening and a fantastic show !!
Fantastic!!!!! It's hard to believe someone can SING those tricky rhythms and crazy intervals. Your voice is clean and rich and your improvisation is amazing. Of course the musicianship throughout the whole band is pure artistry. Of course, Antonio's drumming is other-worldly.
I'm not a player of any kind of musical instruments. But I understand how high skill is required for this song, especially at the beginning. You guys are super great!!
Absolutely brilliant. Alexa is not only perfectly mastering all the rhythmic, dynamic, phrasing, vocal nuts and bolts but has also developed an astonishing sense for the architectural bends of soloing, offering an enormous Trip factor .
I enabled autoplay on RU-vid and put the window in background. After a while, I came across this video by chance. Since the first note, I started to shiver. I immediately recognized the voice I heard at the Duc des Lombards last month, at Antonia Sanchez and the Migration band's concert. Normally, I'm really not into jazz vocals, thus, when Antonio Sanchez announced “Thana Alexa on the vocals” I was like “Hooooo dear, yet another banal jazz singer, let's get bored”. But that was indeed one of the best musical surprise I ever had. Thana Alexa made it sound so different, so refreshing, so original, so emotional. I wasn't prepared for that. All the musicians were so great this night. A musical experience I'll probably never forget. Thank you so so much. I had tears in the eyes during the whole concert, I rarely feel like this. Please, let me know if you're planning to come in France again. Otherwise, I guess I'll have to come in the United States to hear you again ;) . Let me also know if there is any way to download your albums in a lossless format (FLAC/FLAC24, APE, WAV, …)! You really deserve better than Amazon or iTunes lossy MP3.
Madinko12 Wow, what an incredible compliment! Thank you so much for your words. I really appreciate your honesty and I'm so glad you enjoyed the concert at Duc des Lombardes and that you also came across my own music! My album is only available on Amazon or iTunes, unfortunately. But I hope that you enjoy it anyway!
Absolutely Fantastic Song! Congratulations on the wedding! I believe you and Antonio are the new Flora Purim and Airto. You sounded great last night in Denver at Dazzle. Your voice has amazing qualities: you have perfect diction and tone and you are able to sound like an instrumentalist too- you take a stunning solo on this performance - Bravo!
what a privilege to listen to such talented & virtuoso musicians...!!!! Thana your voice & performance are unique...!!!! and Antonio's solo on drums shows us once again why he is one of the BEST musicians in our world.... Congratulations...!!!!
I've been a professional drummer/hand + finger percussionist for 35 years. I have always loved polyrhythmic, polymetric and odd time signatures for my whole life. Apropos of that, I just love your arrangement sense (loved 'Take Five' in 7/4, too!) Anyway, I'm really excited that you are going to be playing the Kuumbwa Jazz center in Santa Cruz (where Donny McCaslin is from, btw) next week. I'll pass the word to all my peeps there. You are a fantastic arranger and singer, Thana! I just discovered you today because of the excellent feature article in the San Jose Mercury that I just read. Looking forward. Thanks for your artistry!
Felicidades Thana! Te he visto una vez en Morelia, Michoacán, México presentando "The Meridian suite" soy tu fan desde ese día, saludos hasta donde quiera que te encuentres, mis mejores deseos. Salúdame a Antonio (soy súper fan de él igualmente). Y si regresan a México muy seguramente estaré ahí, gritando mucho!
ola Thana Alexa & Antonio Sanchez e Banda .. Musicas muito boas e um sentimento agradavel e favorel acada composiçao.. sempre aprendo a cada vez que vejo os tocando.... abrçs e que Deus abençoe a todos..
From the comments of Mr. Makinen, it sounds like congratulations are in order. Congratulations! You were given a wonderful instrument that you have developed so well. I was so impressed when, after Donny blew the doors down with his solo, you had the poise to blow a great solo too - a very thoughtful, melodic solo. All the best in your new life. Hope to see you with Pat and company someday - has there ever been a female in PMG? If not, it's time.
Brilliant! And we are warned.....inviting, nothing else worth contemplating, invigorating. I'm not going to argue. More, please. Both albums on heavy rotation. Antonio better be counting his lucky stars! ;)
Sheesh. Just found this. That vocal solo….a freakin clinic on improvising. You can hear her searching, experimenting, reaching….an edge of your seat listening experience. Where’s she going? Building that story in front of us. Add to that a great tune and world class musos with giant ears….fuk me. I’m ded.
P.S. I'm half Croatian! Come to Charleston SC soon with Migration to perform the sublime Meridian Suite. Perhaps at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston? Please purty please!
I just couldn't say anything but wow after watching this video... I really want to try and perform this one!! Is there any way that I can get the lyric of the lyrics part of this song? It's bit hard to catch exact lyrics by video. I'm just so into your voice Thana. Your voice is treasure.😍
Oh my gosh...thanks for replying😊 I wasn’t expecting so much because this video was uploaded three years ago🥰 sohee4167@gmail.com this is my email address!! Thanks again for replying and I will always be your biggest fan in South Korea!!!
she is a far wider technician than Joni, but musically speaking that's another story.. both of them have heavy jazz roots ; don't you think your comment is pointless? Donny McCaslin is the hell of a player and Sanchez has always this funny name (in French it means "without a stool")
