On a Friday eve, a tribute to ‘those come-what-may places’
Here’s a beautiful version of a hauntingly beautiful song to send us into the weekend. The wistful words and music were written by Billy Strayhorn, who manages an uncanny melding of lyrical and musical phrases. The fact that most of it was written when Strayhorn was just 16 is, well, crazy.
It is performed here by Johnny Hartman, with John Coltrane on saxophone and McCoy Tyner on piano, a combination of talent impossible to match. If I ever drew up a personal Top Ten list of favorite recordings*, this one would be on it. It comes off a 1963 album recorded by Hartman and Coltrane that some experts call the greatest album ever made. The fact that it was recorded in a single day, with most songs laid down in a single take, still astounds, particularly in an era when musicians are often treated as a producer’s plaything.
Sink into “Lush Life,” and let it sink into you.
* (I started thinking about it, and my personal nominations to round out the Top Five jazz cuts would be Ellington’s “Take the A Train,” “Real Compared to What” by Les McCann and Eddie Harris, Miles Davis’ “Stella by Starlight” and Billie Holiday’s “Lover Man.”)
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Kamchak
January 28th, 2011
7:29 pm
David Sanborn Slam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZyp96mtGR0
larry
January 28th, 2011
7:31 pm
Some of the best drums on a song by Steely Dan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaNt5S9pibQ
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
7:32 pm
I haven’t heard the Rippingtons before. They’re good.
Like I said, I admire the musicianship behind Steely Dan, but it comes across as sterile to me.
I tend to feel that way, too, with a couple of exceptions. Some of the jazz leaves me with that feeling, too, especially the fusion stuff. It’s too much like math, to my ear.
The Dixieland stuff is what I lean to.
SOUTHERN ATL
January 28th, 2011
7:34 pm
AmVet@4:22 ….I like that one!! Gotta run……but back at ya!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxF2WlWrLnQ
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
7:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgYfys7vErI
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
7:38 pm
It’s too much like math, to my ear.
Math?? Did someone mention math???????
God’s equation: e^i x pi – 1 = 0. It just doesn’t get any more beautiful than that.
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
7:42 pm
mick
Make that 60!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQGTaS0IFOs
This ain't Lady Gaga
January 28th, 2011
7:45 pm
Wynton Marsalis and Dianne Reeves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBbzXd4StRg
md
January 28th, 2011
7:46 pm
“Either that or it was all the acid I was taking at the time.”
Have to say it may be the later……….during my “experimentation” days, I didn’t find a whole lot that didn’t sound good. I listen to some of my old alums (the tubes) and wonder what possessed me…..then I remember.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
7:47 pm
e^i x pi – 1 = 0.
I like things simple and to the point. I always thought 2 + x = 4 was just a pretentious way of saying 4 – 2 = 2.
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
7:47 pm
Back at you, larry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4n5t8c9-FI
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
7:48 pm
Hillbilly
@ 7:47
Me, too!
RW-(the original)
January 28th, 2011
7:49 pm
e^i x pi – 1 = 0
If that’s supposed to be Euler’s formula I believe it needs to be +1 to equal 0.
/That’s about all I can add to a jazz thread…
md
January 28th, 2011
7:49 pm
I think we resembled the lyrics…………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8nGNbk7oQ
White punks on dope????
And now you younguns know why parents worry………..
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
7:52 pm
I always thought 2 + x = 4 was just a pretentious way of saying 4 – 2 = 2.
Not really, HD. f(x) = x + 2 represents a function, with the value f(x) = 4 being only one possible solution. The beauty is revealed by the generalized function, not by any one particular solution.
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
7:53 pm
LOL @ RW. Mega brownie points for catching the typo.
md
January 28th, 2011
7:54 pm
Or maybe a little “Mondo Bondage”…………………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTiaVT_BViY
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
7:55 pm
jazz man
@ 6:55
Best one tonight!
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
7:57 pm
f(x) = x + 2
All I know is, if I have 4 chickens and I eat 2 of them, I’ve got 2 left. That’s all I need to know in my world.
35% beef taco
January 28th, 2011
7:58 pm
Zappa Jazz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIo3fid5RR0
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
8:01 pm
hillbilly
here ya go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNDp9ScQ8js
Kamchak
January 28th, 2011
8:05 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgSR9NP_V7w
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
8:08 pm
Josef @ 8:01
I missed the one about 3 eggs plus 3 eggs. I thought it was half a dozen.
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
8:10 pm
Hillbilly
@ 8:08
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
8:12 pm
jazz man
For you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjeXYbZ4Nd8
AmVet
January 28th, 2011
8:12 pm
md @7:49, good goof music!
And my buddy Prairie Prince on drums.
http://prairieprince.com/
To RW’s point, I too am pretty much useless when it comes to jazz.
Just isn’t my cup of tea…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7x_vWNRS5c
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
8:14 pm
I’m having some degree of difficulty getting through high school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB6KFa7-6B4
BADA BING
January 28th, 2011
8:15 pm
Dear Mubarak, Denial is not a river in Egypt.
BADA BING
January 28th, 2011
8:20 pm
A math problem in poem form……A dozen, a gross, and a score, plus three times the square root of four, divided by seven, plus five times eleven, equals nine squared and not a thing more.
Jazz Man
January 28th, 2011
8:20 pm
Thanx josef.
da cat iz more muzik than Justin Beiber
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
8:23 pm
A math problem in poem form
And one in song form:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMAeEvhJ4eo
@@
January 28th, 2011
8:24 pm
Lush Life? Very apropos ’cause I can’t imagine anyone BUT a lush enjoying music like that, jay.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
8:29 pm
A dozen, a gross, and a score, plus three times the square root of four, divided by seven, plus five times eleven, equals nine squared and not a thing more.
I knew an old man, who when asked how old he was, would say, “Twice six, twice seven, twice twenty, and eleven”.
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
8:31 pm
josef @ 7:27–I’ll grant you that the kid has great talent. I just don’t like it when someone is called “the next Django”. There is only one Django as far as I’m concerned.
P.S. I almost kicked your butt last night when you tried to invite that wimp “quick” to FNM.
AmVet
January 28th, 2011
8:32 pm
Right before 911…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXt9ShJsAIo
@@
January 28th, 2011
8:33 pm
Don’t know if anyone has posted the latest, but
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in an address broadcast on state television Jan. 28 said that he has dissolved the government and will form a new government Jan. 29. In other words, Mubarak is not stepping down.
Excuse the interruption.
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
8:35 pm
Bruno
Now, now! Methinks “our” Django would not disapprove! Of course, I agree that Django was, is, and always will be the master…
Now, now squared…he really should pop in…and, well, Granny told me to be nice…
Jazz Man
January 28th, 2011
8:36 pm
Schoolhouse Rock’n Bookman Jazzy Style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
8:39 pm
josef–You might be right about Django. Jerry Garcia was never upset if someone played/reinterpreted one of his songs. I guess music is something that people should never be jealous about.
As for your second point, no way, Jose!! The guy complained in post after post that no one was offering “real solutions” here on the blog, without ever offering one “real solution” himself. We’re better off without that kind of noise.
Kamchak
January 28th, 2011
8:41 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjj7Q4D3Rsg
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
8:42 pm
@@
“Excuse the interruption.”
Meanwhile, back to our regularly scheduled programming… ISH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5N7RNQUKts&feature=related
AmVet
January 28th, 2011
8:43 pm
For SOUTHERN ATL, some Con Funk Shun…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maxm_u-4QaI&feature=fvw
And the reason why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66UUgH5k1eo
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
8:45 pm
josef–Ditto for (unnamed) people who come to the blog day after day to demean Jay. I don’t agree with his politics, but Jay is the man in my book. One of these days you’ll have to host a blog party and invite Jay and the Blog Brotherhood. HD can supply the chickens and hogs while you and Jay do the cooking. AmVet and I will take care of the Scoobie Snacks.
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 28th, 2011
8:47 pm
Same song 2 versions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htz01-kp3tA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAbCxSWhhEw&feature=related
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 28th, 2011
8:47 pm
Well, if that’s good music I’ll kiss your butt. I kept waiting for it to get started but it just droned on and on.
Anyway, my thanks to AmVet for the compliment but Bookman’s music just puts me to sleep. I was expecting some Homer & Jethro or maybe some Flatt & Scruggs, but all I got was a bunch of people droning along to a piano and being boring. If I want boring I can just log in to Sister Dusty and her so-called poetry. Which, again, if that’s poetry I’ll kiss your butt.
Have a good Friday night everybody but if that’s the best you got I’ll just watch Fox News till it’s time for bed.
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
8:48 pm
Am @ 8:12–Back at ya, bro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqn80Iw48dw&feature=related
I remember back in the 70's...
January 28th, 2011
8:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLP_HGKq-jg
AmVet
January 28th, 2011
8:54 pm
josef, did you see we linked that same Carole King song at the exact same time?
I saw her at Chastain in 1993 doing her then new LP. Just a killer show. What a treat, I’ve always adored her and her music. (Tapestry was the very first CD I ever bought. I owned the LP of course, but wanted her in this brave new digital world…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mtUYD98Qqc&feature=related
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
8:56 pm
Jazz man
We use those with our kids at school…it works, too….you should see them mouthing the lyrics at test time!
Bruno
He got on your last nerve, I see!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3F4GmbHl5g
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
8:57 pm
I remember back in the 70’s…
Geez, guy, if we’re remembering the 70s, you gotta do better than Schoolhouse Rock. I always liked this one, if only for the opening refrain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyKXW3ioY1Q&feature=related
Southern Comfort (B.P.O.I.B.W.)
January 28th, 2011
8:59 pm
f(x) = 1/x as x approaches infinty approaches 0
f(x) = 1/(x+1) as x approaches infinty approaches 1
However, if I have a six-pack of beer and you drink five, I’m gonna be one pissed off brother.
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 28th, 2011
8:59 pm
josef nix@7:42 pm
mick
Make that 60!
———————
He’s pulling 60 while you’re pushing it LOL.
And I am right behind
Southern Comfort (B.P.O.I.B.W.)
January 28th, 2011
8:59 pm
Crap… completely flubbed that 2nd equation…
AmVet
January 28th, 2011
9:00 pm
B, it is extraordinary, even now, that the Fab Four were SO far ahead of everybody else. Lyrically, sonically, culturally.
In seven years their sophistication level went up by orders of magnitude. And not only did they have a giant influence on pretty much everybody else in modern music, they really did change the world…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFWEocD30BA&feature=fvst
Jazz Man
January 28th, 2011
9:00 pm
Josef – Hell yes it works !!
Today is my 42nd birthday and I still remember circa nineteen seventy sumthin… Between Hong Kong Phooey and Fat Albert I learned me some stuff.
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
9:00 pm
HD, Am and jo–Let me hear some of your favorite 70s pop songs. “Ride, Captain, Ride” and “Brandy” were a couple of great ones.
Southern Comfort (B.P.O.I.B.W.)
January 28th, 2011
9:00 pm
meant to say as x approaches 0 in the 2nd equation.
Southern Comfort (B.P.O.I.B.W.)
January 28th, 2011
9:02 pm
Hey Bruno, do you know any Japanese?
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 28th, 2011
9:03 pm
Happy B’day Jazz Man
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
9:04 pm
f(x) = 1/(x+1) as x approaches infinty approaches 1
Let me help you, SC:
The limit of (1 + 1/n)^n = e (the natural logarithm) as n approaches infinity.
Southern Comfort (B.P.O.I.B.W.)
January 28th, 2011
9:05 pm
LOL!!!!
So, I killed a few brain cells since graduation… Who knew???
Jazz Man
January 28th, 2011
9:05 pm
Thx Common.
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
9:08 pm
Hey Bruno, do you know any Japanese?
Primarily terms that relate to playing GO along with words associated with Japanese food.
Did you ever get around to trying GO?? I’ll gladly be your sensei, Grasshopper.
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
9:08 pm
AmVet
I saw that…but, hey, great minds! I wore out three of the Tapesty LP’s!
And this is one of her lesser known ones, but definitely one of my favs…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXNgqkdIC_M&feature=fvw
Kamchak
January 28th, 2011
9:08 pm
OK Bruno, you asked for it. Not a favorite but a 70s pop song nonetheless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYuIsowBAIA
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 28th, 2011
9:09 pm
So, I killed a few brain cells since graduation… Who knew???
————-
Before or after you became the MAN
Mick
January 28th, 2011
9:09 pm
I’m in and out tonight…..there are some great, great, tunes….thanks all….what’s appropriate today ? revolution..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imb4tYOk8GE
Del
January 28th, 2011
9:10 pm
Sounds like Repubs and Dems…a little Delaney and Bonnie. Bonnie was blue eyed soul once upon a time with Ike and Tina Turner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTUtvx7Ubc0
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
9:10 pm
Jazz Man
Mazel tov!
AmVet
January 28th, 2011
9:12 pm
Jazz Man, I have a couple of people in my life who were also born on the 28th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Nz9B1XFio
Slick call on that Skylark, B.
1970 pop…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_6gYWXsUM
(of course…)
BADA BING
January 28th, 2011
9:15 pm
What a wimp Charlie Sheen is! He went straight from the hospital to rehab, all because he could not handle a few hookers, strippers, porn stars, cocaine, and alcohol. What a lightweight!
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
9:16 pm
Bruno
Well, there are so many 70’s songs. “Wildflower”, “Brandy” and “Ride Captain Ride” (which was supposedly about the USS Pueblo) were all good ones. This may not qualify as pop but it’s one of my favorites from the period. The guy never got his due as a guitar player, either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6g4K-ZALWE
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
9:16 pm
I wore out three of the Tapesty LP’s!
A big favorite around my house as well, josef.
Not a favorite but a 70s pop song nonetheless
Not particularly a favorite either, Kam. I liked “Candida” better, although in retrospect, a song devoted to yeast is kind of strange.
I like this one when I was 12. Special for Brother SC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVYxKRXDT2I&feature=related
Southern Comfort (B.P.O.I.B.W.)
January 28th, 2011
9:16 pm
I saved it on my pc, but haven’t hit it too much lately. It’s addictive as hell…
The reason I asked that was, as much as people try to talk about lack of education in the Black community, more Black people spoke some Japanese in the late 70’s thru the 80’s and into the 90’s than any other community in the US other than the Japanese community themselves. The sad part is, I’d guess at least 90% have no clue.
I know there’s many who would say I’m batshiite crazy for saying that, but if you ask anybody that listened to old school rap, they can count to 4 in Japanese and don’t even realize it. Proof???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWyG5p87–E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh1AypBaIEk&feature=related
Ich… ni… san… shi…. translates to: one… two… three… four. I pointed that out to people at work, and some had no clue.
*This lesson in Hip-hop was sponsored by ABM Anger Management Consultants — “When you have to take charge, leave no doubt as to who’s in charge.”
Scout
January 28th, 2011
9:17 pm
Ah ……………………..Obama says Egypt “should have a government that is “transparent” and doesn’t “steal from the people.”
Don’t do as I do, do as I say !
Southern Comfort (B.P.O.I.B.W.)
January 28th, 2011
9:17 pm
NoCom
Before maybe???
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
9:17 pm
Del
Oh, yes! I grew up with that Bramlett bunch. They’re from my neck of the woods!
AmVet
January 28th, 2011
9:18 pm
josef, nice deep cut by her! Great Latin feel…
For me, this is 76 pop done to perfection…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Xyy3-cha4
Del
January 28th, 2011
9:19 pm
Charlie Sheen with a suit case full of blow…he’s about a suicide bomber.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
9:21 pm
Another good 70’s pop ditty with a good driving rhythm section.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3YY83uUW3w
Common Sense isn't very Common
January 28th, 2011
9:21 pm
Mick
here’s one to go with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTPH5y1-ZI&feature=related
Del
January 28th, 2011
9:22 pm
josef, he died too soon and Bonnie lives on.
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
9:22 pm
LOL @ Am’s 9:12–Never miss a chance to slip in some TR.
The guy never got his due as a guitar player, either.
Several years ago, I saw the O’Jays, the Isley Bros and EWF at Chastain. The Isleys stole the show.
Guys, these are the good ol days right here on FNM!!!
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
9:24 pm
Here’s another one. It has to be live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD2D6eter7M
Mick
January 28th, 2011
9:25 pm
common
And back atcha…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjI4p8_NZVc&feature=related
AmVet
January 28th, 2011
9:25 pm
Mick, that live Revolution is great! (But where is Billy Preston?)
Southern Comfort (B.P.O.I.B.W.)
January 28th, 2011
9:28 pm
Catch up with you all later… Time to punch out for the evening..
Laters!!!!
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
9:28 pm
Okay, off to the ’70s…this one is one I will always remember as, well, special
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA
and this one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcqauC49Xmc&feature=related
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
9:28 pm
This lesson in Hip-hop was sponsored by ABM Anger Management
SC taking us to new levels with the Afrikaa Bambaataa!!!
Jazz Man
January 28th, 2011
9:28 pm
I think – ve = √(2GM/R)
Am I dreaming?
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
9:29 pm
AmVet played this one recently. I like this live version, I think he really nails the vocal on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVoDQhVg8e8&feature=related
Mick
January 28th, 2011
9:31 pm
amvet
**But where is Billy Preston?**
It looked like they were all playing for real. They finally let billy get his due on let it be rooftop concert – enough said-
Del
January 28th, 2011
9:33 pm
Good nite y’all…great blasts from the past.
AmVet
January 28th, 2011
9:33 pm
Later, brosoco…(Formerly(?) the MAN.)
This is pretty poppy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgkBx8csEws
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
9:33 pm
For me, this is 76 pop done to perfection…
When that song came out, I was working at an X-rated swingers motel, complete with waterbeds and mirrors on the ceilings. We used to joke that it was our unofficial theme song.
Back at ya, HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y0×1jLkLg
In retrospect, it’s amazing how many of these pop hits were sung by Brothers, though no one knew (e.g. Drift Away by Dobie Gray).
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
9:33 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrbNeOEG0GY&feature=related
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 28th, 2011
9:40 pm
The songs are popping into my head now, faster than I can post them. We may be here a while, boys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NRvCCKbLOE
josef nix
January 28th, 2011
9:41 pm
not exactly pop, but definitely a 70s memory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ygI3BZxdCY
Kamchak
January 28th, 2011
9:41 pm
Here you go Bruno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJOuTr0BXb4
Bruno
January 28th, 2011
9:42 pm
josef @ 9:28–Hard for me to consider Jim Croce as “pop”. To me it’s “great music”.
Jazzman @ 9:28–You trying to escape on us??
This one might be called “pop”, but it’s also great music. For HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdBvTvxHy7E