This is a song I just wrote... I wanted to write a song about the new Bay Bridge, but instead it turned into a song about Oakland! My dad wrote a book in 1981 called Oakland, Hub of the West, hence the title.

Lyrics:
Oakland, Hub of the West
(c) 2013 Alexa Weber Morales - All Rights Reserved

There is a bridge across the bay
Shining white against the sky
It takes me where there is no there
Only lovely reasons why

Nobody knows it’s the best
Only the brave and the few
This place is golden and true
Oakland, Hub of the West

Bayside breezes rolling through
Smiling faces from a million places
Delicious eats on the streets 
El Zamorano to Chinatown to Rockridge
Can’t forget the taste of that Deep East 
Tail-gating smokey sweet barbecue 

Nobody knows it’s the best
Only the brave and the few
This place is golden and true
Oakland, Hub of the West

Oakland has a special sound 
Can’t you hear the whistle blowing cross the trestle?
Rap soul jazz church blues all around
Symphonic hits, mariachi and grits
We run from the redwoods to the lakeshore
We’re quiet, kind and grateful
Black cowboys, twenty-two inch rims 
Strutters, taggers, boogaloo and God’s Gym


[spoken]
Jack London, Ambrose Bierce and Gertrude Stein
Amy Tan and Hammer Time
Raiders and Warriors and A’s
Fairyland and Yoshi's and Fenton’s

Oakland, Hub of the West

Camille Saint-Saens "The Swan" finally gets the death-metal treatment. Nah, just kidding. 

The Swan - Alexa Weber Morales piano and multi-vocal improv

I just wrote this and recorded it on ye olde phone before the moment was lost... Thoughts?

Here are the lyrics:

Perfect storm
(c) 2014 Alexa Weber Morales

Waves of green
Ribboning
Heaven sings
Iridescently

To this I’ve come
The fabric torn
The bluest end
The perfect storm

Your perfect storm
Spirals into me
Ripping up
My painted sea

Your shadow is
the albatross
Your idle dream
No man can cross

You are
You are
My perfect storm

Driftwood skin
I lean to you
On gentle nights
I am the moon

Lap me up
Don’t let me go
Under worlds
Where the hopeless flow

Your perfect storm
Spirals into me
Ripping up
My painted sea

Your shadow is
the albatross
Your idle dream
No man can cross

You are
You are
My perfect storm


Perfect Storm

From Me to Yule
By Alexandra L. Weber Morales © November 18, 2014

Winter’s here and I forgot to remember
To make enough money to last through December
So let's snuggle up on the old leather couch
Watch the TV Yule log, man it never burns out

The holiday party didn’t go as planned
Drank too much nog and then I did a head stand
Next day at the office they're looking at me funny
Guess I'm toast ‘cause there’s a layoff coming

[prechorus]
Blaring ads, the stores play us for fools
Selling slippers and bath salts and shiny tools
Even Santa knows the joy of thrift
His workshop runs on forced labor
So I wrapped up free stuff left out by the neighbor
Look! A yoga ball and a ravioli maker!

[chorus]
Won't you accept this gift
Won't you accept this gift
From me to Yule
From me to Yule

Never send cards but I think of friends fondly
Then I remember how they wronged me
  Didn't help out at the soup kitchen
But I gave 20 bucks to every street musician

Won't you accept this gift
Won't you accept this gift
From me to Yule
From me to Yule

[bridge]
Like Jimmy Stewart we could lasso the moon
It's A Wonderful Life is on at noon
I'll make hot cocoa and you hold me close
Somewhere there must be a blanket of snow

Won't you accept this gift
Won't you accept this gift
From me to Yule
From me to Yule


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From Me To Yule

acoustic charango voz guitarra, canción por Violeta Parra, arreglo y grabación por Alexa Weber Morales

Letra:
Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto
Me dio dos luceros que cuando los abro
Perfecto distingo lo negro del blanco
Y en el alto cielo su fondo estrellado
Y en las multitudes el hombre que yo amo

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto
Me ha dado el sonido y el abecedario
Con él, las palabras que pienso y declaro
Madre, amigo, hermano
Y luz alumbrando la ruta del alma del que estoy amando

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto
Me ha dado la marcha de mis pies cansados
Con ellos anduve ciudades y charcos
Playas y desiertos, montañas y llanos
Y la casa tuya, tu calle y tu patio

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto
Me dio el corazón que agita su marco
Cuando miro el fruto del cerebro humano
Cuando miro el bueno tan lejos del malo
Cuando miro el fondo de tus ojos claros

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto
Me ha dado la risa y me ha dado el llanto
Así yo distingo dicha de quebranto
Los dos materiales que forman mi canto
Y el canto de ustedes que es el mismo canto
Y el canto de todos que es mi propio canto

Gracias A La Vida

I wrote a song about the best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo and the decluttering folks on YouTube liked it, so I made it better!

The KonMari Song: More to Life than What You Own

Sambinha by Anne Sajdera
Vocals by Alexa Morales

Sambinha Vox Live

Here's a snippet of us noodling on It Never Entered My Mind by Rodgers & Hart. That's me singing, Brian Moran on guitar and Braulio Barrera on cajon.

Noodle Never Entered My Mind

    This is a song about turning back time (but not in a vocoder/Cher way) to the first moment when you are caught up in someone else's magic...

    Quisiera Retroceder El Tiempo
    Lyrics and music by Alexa Weber Morales © 2009 (BMI)

    Quisiera retroceder el tiempo
    Al hermoso descubrimiento
    Que eras tierno y eras un tigre
    Aún el encanto nos envuelve y vive

    Te digo que tu me matas
    Gozando el calor de tu piel
    Apretando mi cintura me contestas
    Tu me matas tambien

    Desaparece la luna
    Me estremezco en tus brazos
    Trazas caricias con la punta de tu nariz
    Que ricura tus labios

    Quisiera retroceder el tiempo
    Al hermoso descubrimiento
    Que eras tierno y eras un tigre
    Aún el encanto nos envuelve y vive

    Crees conocerme
    En mi esencia nocturna
    Profundamente me miras
    Lentamente nos amamos

    Lo nuestro sigue en sueños
    Sopla y alimenta las llamas
    Lo vivo cuando cierro mis ojos
    Uy enciéndeme las ganas

    Quisiera retroceder el tiempo
    Al hermoso descubrimiento
    Que eras tierno y eras un tigre
    Aún el encanto nos envuelve y vive
credits
    from I Wanna Work For You, released 15 November 2011
    All vocals: Alexa Weber Morales
    Bass, keyboards, arrangement, production: Sam Bevan
    Piano: Jonathan Alford
    Congas: Carlos Caro
    Drumset, guiro: Colin Douglas 

Quisiera Retroceder El Tiempo

    When the Night is Cool and All the Boys Are Sleeping
    Lyrics and music © 2008 by Alexa Weber Morales (BMI)

    When the night is cool
    And all the boys are sleeping
    I remember the kiss you gave to me

    No one understands you
    Even I can’t stand you
    20 years slip by so mysteriously

    I gently close the door they
    Turn on hidden flashlights
    Drawing plans that I will never read

    Once I met a man who
    Blew the sky wide open
    Threw his stars into my empty sea

    Now I scan the clouds in vain
    Hoping for summer rain
    My thirsty soul has finally gone to seed

    I’ve done my best to leave you
    Cast my bloody heart to stone
    But I can’t let you sleep on the streets alone

    There are things you can’t forget
    And there are things I cannot think
    And yet you drink it all away

    Just for once can you just feel it
    Kiss my lips and let fate seal it

    When the night is cool and
    All the boys are sleeping
    I remember the kiss you gave to me

    Sweeping up the plastic soldiers
    Toy grenades under the couch
    Will they grow up to be all that they can be?

    Communing with the bad boys
    Vacuuming the sad noise
    Your dirty footprints wind up everywhere

    I’ve done my best to leave you
    Cast my bloody heart to stone
    But I can’t let you sleep on the streets alone
credits
    from I Wanna Work For You, released 15 November 2011
    Vocals, melodica: Alexa Weber Morales
    Arrangement, bass, keyboards: Sam Bevan
    Piano: Jonathan Alford
    Drumset: Colin Douglas
    Congas: Carlos Caro 

When the Night is Cool

Here's our rehearsal of this moving tune from Lambert, Hendricks & Ross for our upcoming show at SFJAZZ 5/18/17!

With Malice Toward None Rehearsal

I Wanna Be With You

This track is from the album Jazzmérica and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/alexawm

Les Feuilles Mortes/Autumn Leaves

This track is from the album Jazzmérica and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/alexawm

Luz do Sol by Caetano Veloso
Arranged as a bolero by Wayne Wallace

Luz do Sol

Alexa Weber Morales singing Everytime We Say Goodbye on Jazz Valentines, an EP released by Ekomi in 2006. Murray Low, piano, David Belove, bass and Paul van Wageningen, drumset.

Alexa Weber Morales - Everytime We Say Goodbye

Good Girl Trapped In A Bad Girl Body

Meditation On Sakura

Beautiful tune I just learned by pianist Carla Bley. My last assignment for the Coursera/Berklee College of Music improv course taught by vibraphonist Gary Burton.

Olhos De Gato - a cappella improv

This is the last last assignment... scat over the blues, singing the provided melody first. I made up some words, and some other stuff, and the phone rang, so this is a humorous way of saying thank you thank you to Berklee College of Music & vibrophonist Gary Burton for this free (FREE) course, and to Coursera and MOOCs in general for revolutionizing higher education. This college dropout has finally found an academic approach she digs!

Coursera Thank You Gary Burton Blues Scat

Morning by Clare Fischer (1966)
Coast Music/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing (ASCAP)
New lyrics by Alexa Weber Morales

Alexa does a tour-de-force recording of Wayne Wallace’s five-part a capella arrangement of the classic latin jazz tune. Bryan Dyer sings the bass line, and Alexa’s own Spanish lyrics tell of the promise of morning and the power of ideas. John Santos and Michael Spiro play percussion.
lyrics
Mañana (Morning)
Music by Clare Fischer
New lyric by Alexa Weber Morales

En la mañana
En el amanecer
Hay un color
En esta flor
La rosa del amor

Siempre mañana
Siempre la perfección
En soledad
Oscuridad
La nueva oportunidad

Mira me bien
Soy hoja verde
Vida vibrando
Soy energía
De la noche fria
Dame la luz del sol

Soy la mañana
Soy una ambición
De las estrellas
Nacen ideas
Volamos encendidas
credits
from Jazzmérica, released 05 October 2004
Alexa Weber Morales, lead and background vocals
Bryan Dyer, bass vocals
Michael Spiro and John Santos, percussion 

Morning (Cha-cha) - a cappella

"Her large-scale skill and talent encourages her all-inclusive dreams... Gorgeous articulation, flowing time sense and warm tone."
—Ken Micallef, DOWNBEAT

Funk jazz salsa singer-songwriter! Fan-funded album is the latest of 4: I Wanna Work for You! Songs about naked power grabs, gender-bent blues, misguided affairs, layoffs, love &amp; flying. 


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