Gerry Mulligan - Tell Me When is the sample

Tell Me When

There's just no accounting for happiness,
or the way it turns up like a prodigal
who comes back to the dust at your feet
having squandered a fortune far away.
And how can you not forgive?
You make a feast in honor of what
was lost, and take from its place the finest
garment, which you saved for an occasion
you could not imagine, and you weep night and day
to know that you were not abandoned,
that happiness saved its most extreme form
for you alone.
No, happiness is the uncle you never
knew about, who flies a single-engine plane
onto the grassy landing strip, hitchhikes
into town, and inquires at every door
until he finds you asleep midafternoon
as you so often are during the unmerciful
hours of your despair.  
It comes to the monk in his cell.
It comes to the woman sweeping the street
with a birch broom, to the child
whose mother has passed out from drink.
It comes to the lover, to the dog chewing
a sock, to the pusher, to the basket maker,
and to the clerk stacking cans of carrots
in the night.
It even comes to the boulder
in the perpetual shade of pine barrens,
to rain falling on the open sea,
to the wineglass, weary of holding wine.
-"Happiness" by Jane Kenyon, from Otherwise: New and Selected Poems. © Graywolf Press, 2005.

"Happiness" by Jane Kenyon, music ~ Avec Le Tempts/Giovanni Guidi, narrator M. Justice.

Cool jazz show on radio Maestral. This edition features Paul Desmond's album  Easy Living and few songs by Lee Konitz and Dave Pike. Tracklist:
Paul Desmond - "When Joanna Loved Me"  - 5:48
Paul Desmond - "That Old Feeling" - 5:49
Paul Desmond - "Polka Dots and Moonbeams"  - 5:51 
Paul Desmond - "Here's That Rainy Day" - 5:43
Paul Desmond - "Easy Living"  - 7:08
Paul Desmond - "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"  - 4:19
Paul Desmond - "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"  - 6:25
Paul Desmond - "Blues for Fun"  - 6:28
Paul Desmond - "Rude Old Man"  5:42
Lee konitz - like someone in love ( 5:31 ) 
Lee konitz - some of these days ( 4:09 )
Lee konitz - you’re driving me crazy ( 5:43 )
Dave Pike - why not ? 6:46
Dave Pike - in a sentimental mood 6:32
Dave Pike - vierd blues 5:59



Cool Jazz 80 ( 08.08.2024. ) - Paul Desmond: Easy Living

Song by Duke Ellington, as performed by Keith Jarrett. Transcription by Sam Leak and performed again by Peter Oxley with recording aid from Laurence Suckling. 2015

'I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good' by Keith Jarrett

Written last week, after going to my old school fiftieth re-union and catching up with my favourite Maths teacher after half a century.

reunion charleston

Prejudice

(piano) Tiến lên sinh viên DLA - LE DINH TUAN

Nearness, the first duo album from longtime friends and collaborators saxophonist Joshua Redman and pianist Brad Mehldau, was recorded live on tour in Europe in 2011. "The pair are so well matched," says BBC Music Magazine in a five-star review. "Both are extraordinary, scintillating improvisers bursting with energy, yet they have great ears for one another." Mojo says: "They create a special telepathic musical synergy in each other’s company."

Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau - Nearness: 5. The Nearness of You (30s)

Pequeña impresión de Curves del Tord Gustavsen trio.

Curves - Tord Gustavsen

A Parting Masterpiece From Legendary Saxophonist Jimmy Heath
Verve Records Releases Love Letter - The Collection Of Classic Ballads 

The Album Features Superstars Gregory Porter, Cécile McLorin Salvant, And Wynton Marsalis

Download the attached soundbites

Verve Records releases Love Letter, the first all-ballads album from magisterial tenor saxophonist-composer Jimmy Heath. In addition to his original material, this elegant collection offers the jazz ambassador's beautiful take on ballad classics, and includes songs written by Billie Holiday, Mal Waldron, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham, and Gordon Parks. The album also features 21st century vocal superstars Gregory Porter and Cécile McLorin Salvant, and trumpet icon Wynton Marsalis.  Love Letter is available worldwide now and you can listen to the album here.

For Love Letter, Jimmy presided over a brilliant cast of colleagues and friends. Joining Maestro Heath is a multi-generational all-star unit, including NEA Jazz Master pianist Kenny Barron, esteemed guitarist Russell Malone, soulful vibraphone veteran Monte Croft, New York first-call bassist David Wong, and all-world drummer Lewis Nash.  Love Letter features all new arrangements by Heath on Gillespie's "Con Alma," Dorham's "La Mesha" (featuring Marsalis), Gordon Parks' "Don't Misunderstand," and "Left Alone" the Billie Holiday Mal Waldron collaboration, as well as three originals chosen from his vast body of work.  Heath's soulful, trenchant, urbane solo flights evoke his poetic spirit with old master concision and the authoritative chops of a musician half his age. 

A listener unfamiliar with the backstory of Love Letter would not imagine that the orchestrator and primary instrumental voice on this recording is a jockey-framed, spirited, 93-year-old man, who with the full breadth of his intellectual powers, delivers his final, magnificent salvo.