Hello out there in Podcast-Land! Jazz many times is taken as a very serious music (rightly so). Charlie Parker even said "If you don't live it - - - it won't come out of your horn!" With that said, many people find it hard to even break into jazz listening. They don't even know where to start with something so "serious" as jazz. On the other side of the coin, there are many light-hearted songs that are some of my personal favorites tracks in all of recorded jazz. At the end of the day, jazz cats know when to cut up and have a really good time - - - which is one of the most important aspects of this great art form. Jazz music can challenge you to think on another level, it can blow your socks off, but it can also make you smile, grin and laugh out loud. Enjoy!

The Dr. Jazz Podcast with Nathan Holaway

The Dr. Jazz Podcast: Light-hearted Jazz (Dec. 2021)

You wrote. We listened! Back by popular demand - the Dr. Jazz Podcast gives you another edition of a Jazz Grab Bag Episode! There are lots of interesting twists and turns in this one. Don't sleep on this one!

The Dr. Jazz Podcast: Jazz Grab Bag (Mar. 2022)

Kate McGarry w/ Scott Sawyer Trio "re-do" Nick Drake's haunting classic....

03 Riverman

Uptempo jazz track with electric guitar.  Original music by Jules Day.
www.julesday.com
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/when-im-over-you-single/1282989166

When I'm Over You

"Lifetimes Without You" from the E.G. Phillips album "At Home At Sea"

personnel:
E.G. Phillips (Vocals, Ukulele), Eve Fleishman (Backing Vocals), Ben Osheroff (Ukulele, Piano), Sean Silverman (Upright Bass), Ben Visini (Drum Kit)

produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Osheroff
songs and artwork by E.G. Phillips (ASCAP)
published by Ducks With Pants Music (@duckswithpants)

lyrics:
I’ve been living Lifetimes Without You
Ever since I saw you last
Each moment feels like a lifetime without you
I’m burn’n through lives so fast

I watched them build the pyramids
I saw them sack Rome
I had to do it without you

Wanted to take you to the new jazz center
Find my name on the wall
Explore the bazaars of Istanbul together
Propose at Iguaçu Falls

I have crossed the Bosporus
I have crossed the Rubicon
I had to do it without you

I watch the water drip in my kitchen sink
Watch each drop dangle from its stem
Watch a drop fall, watch a world shatter
Watch it bead up again

I’m Napoleon in exile
I’m Prometheus in chains
I’ve had to do without you

I’ve been living Lifetimes Without You
Lives in the future and the past
Each moment feels like a lifetime without you
Each one I hope will be the last

At Home At Sea

Lifetimes Without You

Lifetimes Without You — At Home At Sea

Sara Gazarek
Thirsty Ghost
2019

--

“I see who you are… And it’s so much bigger, so much deeper, so much more multi-dimensional than your music is right now. Don’t be afraid to walk away from what you think people want from you – and to step into all of the depth, darkness, and radiance of who you really are. That’s what we are thirsty for. The honest, messy, beautiful YOU. -Kurt Elling

…

Stumbling into a recording contract right out of college not only came with big management and an even bigger booking agency -- it also came with big responsibility. At 20 years old, I was recording, touring, receiving great press, and heartfelt feedback from fans. And, while everything in my career seemed to be moving in the right direction, I now see how this level of visibility at such a young age could create a certain amount of pressure to “be the happy girl in the dress” that everyone expected. The ultimate goal was a set of fun, light music that left people feeling happier than when they’d come in the door. And we were giving it to them.

But 15 years in, now, as a 35 year old woman processing the dissolution of a marriage, the separation of a long term musical partnership, and my mothers almost catastrophic car accident, it was my dear friend and mentor Kurt Elling who spoke those very poignant words, and sent me on an incredibly transformative path.

The resulting musical journey took three years to complete -- alongside a new relationship rife with doubts, lies, and infidelity, new collaborations (in Geoff Keezer, Larry Goldings, Stu Mindeman, Josh Johnson, and Alan Ferber), travel abroad, endless questions, explorations, new compositions, risks… In the end, internalizing the idea that “A forest never grows, higher than the depths it knows // The warmth of sunlight comes and goes, but beauty only grows, When It Rains.”

“Thirsty Ghost” explores that honest, messy, beautiful place of hunger, thirst, wanting more – more connection, more transparency, a more whole hearted experience that occurs when we address the lessons that come with taking a deep look at adulthood. Through a series of new instrumental colors (including rhythm section, rhodes/organ, bass clarinet, alto sax, and trombone, percussion, and background vocals), some very special guests (Kurt Elling, Larry Goldings), new original material, contemporary covers (Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Sam Smith), and jazz standards, my hope is that my audience will see their own whole hearted experiences reflected in this music – the light AND the dark. 

…
Track Listing (TBD):
1. Never Will I Marry (Frank Loesser)
2. Not The Only One (Sam Smith/James Napier)
3. Easy Love (Larry Goldings/Sara Gazarek)
4. I Believe When I Fall In Love (Stevie Wonder)
5. Riverman/River (Nick Drake/Sara Teasdale)
6. Cocoon (Bjork)
7. Spinning Round (Jessie Palter/Mike Jellick)
8. Jolene (Dolly Parton)
9. Gaslight District (Larry Goldings/Sara Gazarek)
10. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Hoagy Carmichael)
11. Lonely Hours (Hy Glaser)
12. Distant Storm/When It Rains (Brad Mehldau/Sara Gazarek)
13. I’m A Fool To Want You (Frank Sinatra/Jack Wolf)

PERSONNEL: 
Piano/Organ/Rhodes, Stu Mindeman
Bass, Alex Boneham
Drums, Christian Euman
Alto Sax, Josh Johnson
Trombone, Ido Meshulam
Bass Clarinet, Brian Walsh
Organ, Larry Goldings 
Special guest vocalists, Kurt Elling, 
Vocal Layering/Backgrounds: Erin Bentlage, Michael Mayo

CONT INFO:
Engineer: Helik Hadar 
Studio: Jim Henson Recording, Los Angleles, CA
Dates: August 20, 21, 22, 23
Mastering Engineer: Bernie Grundman, Los Angeles, CA 

If Relevant:
13k fans and 12k followers on Facebook
13.7k followers on Twitter
332k monthly listeners on Spotify
2k mailing list

09 The River - River Man

Wired

A demo version of an alternate "mellow" version of "The Albatross Song"

Lyrics:
The bowerbird is quite creative when it comes to decoration 
Starlings follow simple rules that dictate their murmurations 
But wanton salt marsh sparrows and curious little chickadees 
I know there’s only one companion for me — for...

When you’re with an albatross 
Don’t you know you can’t get lost 
‘Cause you’re never truly lost 
When you are at home at
Sea...

Does your restless spirit wander yet get hopelessly attached?
You’re barely bound to this world, yet you dread it’s bound to collapse? 
If Noah sent you from his ark to fetch some branches from a tree 
Might you not return? Just drift perpetually? Well...

When you’re with an albatross 
Don’t you know you can’t get lost 
‘Cause you’re never truly lost 
When you are at home at
Sea...

High above the antarctic circle on a wing and a prayer 
Down below it’s all icy flows but don’t you ever despair 
No... No...

When you’re with an albatross 
Don’t you know you can’t get lost 
‘Cause you’re never truly lost 
When you are at home at
Sea...

Because...
In the straits of Magellan or rounding the Cape of Good Hope
Death and disillusionment will gamble on a ghost ship for your soul 
No!  Oh...

When you’re with an albatross 
Don’t you know you can’t get lost 
‘Cause you’re never truly lost 
When you are at home at
Sea...

Mellow Albatross (Demo)

Money On The Moonshine

The Lighthouse At The Edge Of The World

A body lies surrounded in an open field
By watchful attendants all dressed in black
I’m bearing witness to a raucous funeral
A murder that scolds me but won’t soon be back

Tool makers, grudge holders
Masters of water displacement
While consciousness may be subjective
This I can say without reticence
I Believe in  Crow  Intelligence


As Saturn meets Jupiter in a great conjunction
A noisy mob gathers for their evening function
They commute in from their own territories
Chatting as they roost in the willow and alder trees

As for matters culinary
Their reputation is unpleasant
With dark shellac and caustic caws 
They tend to lack a songbird’s elegance — but
I Believe in  Crow  Intelligence

[INSTRUMENTAL]

I’ve looked at all the data
I’ve studied all the evidence
For me to tell you otherwise
Would be an act of negligence — Oh
I Believe in  Crow  Intelligence

Crow Intelligence

E.G. Phillips is a songwriter based in San Francisco.  His lyrics are whimsical and cinematic.   He's twice been the "Songwriter In Residence" at Bazaar Cafe and he hosts and annual "EGPhest" event in August where he invites Bay Area performers to come and play his songs for his birthday.

He is the front man for the fake band Ducks With Pants.

Crow Intelligence

E.G. Phillips

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