Jazz for aficionados

“When I hear Jazz, my first instinct is to lean over to the guy next to me and whisper, "Fourth floor, please.”
― Jarod Kintz,

Jazz? The best of jazz for all its virtues cannot escape the limitations of its origin: it is indoor music, city music, distilled from the melancholy nightclubs and the marijuana smoke of dim, sad, nighttime rooms: a joyless sound, for all its nervous energy.
― Edward Abbey

The trouble with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

C.S. Lewis

Rok, I'm hoping the CD will offer something I didn't hear on the computer, but before I get the CD, I must say; they have too much of a "popular" sound for me. Just from reading the song titles, and personnel, I'm saying to myself "It's got to be good", but in my old age, I'm very hard to please because "good" is no longer good enough.

These are my thoughts before listening to the CD, I'll give you a long write up after.

Enjoy the music.

Notec, if only I still had the vim vigor and vitality to hang at those nightclubs which were anything but "melancholy". Visions of beautiful jazzy ladies still dance in my head, while the live sounds of saxophones, trumpets, drums and many other melodic instruments haunt my memories; they remind me of nights of a thousand dreams that are no more. Have you ever been on the street of dreams?

Love laughs at a king
Kings don't mean a thing
On the street of dreams

Dreams broken in two
Can be made like new
On the street of dreams

Gold, silver and gold
All you can hold
Is in the moonbeam

Poor, no one is poor
As long as love is sure
On the street of dreams

Gold, silver and gold
All you can hold
Is in the moonbeam

Poor, no one is poor
As long as love is sure
On the street of dreams

Or walked the street of sorrow on the boulevard of broken dreams?

I walk along the street of sorrow -
The boulevard of broken dreams -
Where Gigolo and Gigolette -
Can take a kiss without regret -
and so forget their broken dreams.

You laugh today and cry tomorrow -
When you behold your shattered schemes -
And Gigolo and Gigolette wake up to find
their eyes are wet with tears that tell of
broken dreams.

Here is where you'll always find
me -
Always walking up and down -
But I left my soul behind me
in an old cathedral town "

The joy that you find here, you borrow -
You cannot keep it long it seems -
But Gigolo and Gigolette -
Still sing a song and dance along -
The boulevard of broken dreams.

They are both flip sides of the same coin, where Gigolo and Gigolette can take a kiss without regret and so forget their broken dreams. Gigolo and Gigolette can always be found in those, not so "melancholy" jazz clubs where they are destined to meet and once again to walk the street of dreams, a street that leads to the boulevard of sorrow.

Enjoy the music.

O-10:

*****Rok, I'm hoping the CD will offer something I didn't hear on the computer, but before I get the CD, I must say; they have too much of a "popular" sound for me. Just from reading the song titles, and personnel, I'm saying to myself "It's got to be good", but in my old age, I'm very hard to please because "good" is no longer good enough.******

The computer/youtube does not do the bey's justice. The tune list is sort of misleading, in the sense that you have never heard them done this way. Unique arrangements and fantastic harmony. The can really sing. Besides Kenny Burrell, Milt Hinton, Jo Jones and others, are on board, and provide great Jazz credentials.

If you don't love it, I will refund your money. I am older than you, and I listen to it everyday.

Got a new Cd player today. Can't wait to hear it on the new Marantz. Damn, I'm beginning to sound like an Audiophile!:( Help me Jesus!!

Cheers.