Jazz for aficionados

Hi guys! Love to read you, as always. But can't participate that often, I have a lot on my mind at this moment. One is a need for a better guitar that haunts me for quite a while and I am in crusade for buying new one. Checked most of the respective music stores in my country but among some strong brands, only one captured my attention so wanna go further in the search. Currently abroad in Slovenia, sittin' on the dock of the bay (meanin' in a small coffe shop, heavy rain outside), somebody here has a good taste in music 'cause currently is playing

https://youtu.be/vJJONpQiQZ4

Same song but check the instrument
https://youtu.be/lY7sXKGZl2w

I just wonder how far will I go...

Deus vult.

Regards to all.

p.s. Donno where Alex is. Probably hiding somewhere ha ha...but he is probably following the thread and will pop out eventually, when least expected. :--)) ;--)

Nice to hear from you, mary_jo. Love Morricone!

https://youtu.be/rTVjnBo96Ug

Jazz is a little like abstract art, the artist paints a picture and gives it a title, the title depicts what the painting is all about; you may, or you may not grasp what the artist had in mind. Each "connoisseur" who looks at the painting will grasp the idea, but each of them will see it slightly different; that's the nature of art.

Sometime the music and the lyrics are "right on"; such is the case of "Moanin". Bobby Timmons projected the depths of the emotion of being "down and out"; the lyrics to the tune do likewise.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNjRQo-zpKA




'Maiden Voyage' is a 1965 jazz composition by Herbie Hancock.

Lyrics were later added by his sister Jean HANCOCK:

See the sky, let's explore it's hue.
Tide is high, time for your debut.
Like a ship, you must leave this bay.
On this trip, you'll learn love today.

The time has come to take a dare.
Maiden voyage, a first affair.
Set your sails to cast away.
Chart your course of love today.

Now we're clear, homeward bound are we.
Listen dear, as you sound your sea.
Soon you'll cry, lovely things you'll say.
Sail on high, you'll learn love today.


In my opinion, these lyrics are stretching the thing far beyond what Herby was thinking when he composed the music. The picture on the cover shows one man on a small sailing craft. The music captures the feeling of a "maiden voyage"; movement: waves, ocean breezes, the exhilaration and excitement of a "maiden voyage".

The lyrics are nice, but they don't work for me and the music.


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwmRQ0PBtXU


One might feel the same exhilaration and excitement while listening to this music and taking a "maiden voyage" in an automobile.

Good to hear from you mary_jo


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo

O-10, you may find this of interest:
Monk first wrote “Round Midnight” with the “drippy, girl type” title “I Need You So”. He wrote it while romancing his first wife. He, himself, and with the help of a friend wrote lyrics and the song was his attempt to get a hit. He later changed the title to “Round Midnight”. The lyrics that we are familiar with were written later still. Some of the original lyrics:

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Since you went away, I missed you.

Every hour, I wish to kiss you.

You are in my dreams always. I need you so.

You are my own.

Still, I am all alone, longing, waiting.

I love you so, darling.

This is why I’ll go on believing you’ll be standing by my side sooner than I realize.

I need you so.

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https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=121197087

Who knew?! Who knew that Sassy, Ella, Carmen, June, Betty and.....weren’t aficionad(a)os? 😱

https://youtu.be/MnUqorTHj74

https://youtu.be/wgssRuMfF5E