Jazz for aficionados
frogman The Tony Bennett posting was mine, credit where credit is due😀. Enjoyed the Jon Lucien Maiden Voyage. Thought you might like this version With the Brecker bros. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_GjtY-YVs |
Indeed it was, nsp; sorry about that. Hard to keep track of everyone’s posts sometimes. You’re right, I like the Mark Murphy “Maiden Voyage” a lot. Always have and ever since I bought the record back in college. Thanks for that! I was responding to O-10’s post, and I didn’t think he would like it as much as the other two that I posted. Maybe I was wrong and would like his thoughts on this. O-10? A relatively minor detail, but that Mark Murphy record is from a period when Michael Brecker’s tone, which went through changes during his career in part because of equipment choices, was my favorite; the subject of much debate among saxophone geeks 😀. This is a favorite track from the record: https://youtu.be/XdF0AcklZNs |
Sorry folks, "Maiden Voyage" is definitely best without words, just like I heard it for the first time in 66. I picture me, and I'm sailing across the sunny sea for the first time (maiden voyage) in my small craft. The music depicts the rise and fall of the waves as the wind picks up, and I feel the exhilaration of being on the ocean for the first time; I might even sail all the way to Tahiti. "The Look of Love"; Dusty Springfield is the beginning, all there is in between and the end. Words don't belong on some songs; "Round Midnight" is one of them. This song portrays the mood of the city "Round Midnight", leave that drippy love out of it. No matter which city, skyscrapers are intoxicating when you look at them "Round Midnight"; since I was a child, seeing the skyscrapers of New York was always exciting, they held so many dreams and fantasies. Now, each "Round Midnight" has a different mood; Miles begins a little spooky, but Coltrane welcomes you into this city for all the allure that cities hold at night; beautiful ladies seeking company for example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIgLt7LAZF0 This is my favorite, it's altogether different from the last one; it's so beautiful, there's nothing mysterious about it; alluring maybe, it holds the promise of a new and beautiful experience on this starlit night around the bewitching hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Xozvcf0FA |
Apples and oranges. Well, maybe Red Delicious and Honey Crisp 😊 Works for me: https://youtu.be/n_R9AGDvXe4 |
Thelonious Monk was 27 when he wrote "Round Midnight". Does anybody think he was thinking about the "drippy" lyrics that are now attached to the song? Girl type lyrics at that. If you're an aficionado, you got to think like a hip jazz musician. Jazz is about mood and feeling, but you also have to think like the artist who wrote it. When you think like a 27 year old hip jazz musician in New York, you will get a different picture than those "drippy" lyrics; what you get is a mood, and the feeling of the city "Round Midnight". |
