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"Coquette" is a 1928 fox trot jazz standard. It was composed by Johnny Green and Carmen Lombardo, with lyrics by Gus Kahn. Guy Lombardo had great success with the song in 1928. Here is a version of the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4qcCIH0yg0.  Very interesting documentary about Guy Lombardo, what a  gentleman., .just right  here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyLBnPo7R-Y


Lyrics

Hear me, why you keep fooling?
Little coquette, making fun of the one who loves you
Breaking hearts you are ruling
Little coquette, true hearts tenderly dreaming of you
Someday you'll fall in love as I fell in love with you
Maybe the one you love will just be fooling too
And when you are alone with all your regrets
You know, my little coquette, I love you
Someday you'll fall in love as I fell in love with you
Now maybe the one you love will just be fooling too
And when you are alone with all your regrets
Now you know my little coquette, I love you

Here is Louis Armstrong's hot jazzy version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXITC63sCqg

I've always loved the so cheerful and subtle version from Django & Grapelli, 1946 I think : 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqTvMaF84wc


I discovered recently with great surprise a wonderful slow version from Tuba Skinny in the best New Orleans revival style ... somehow at slower tempo ...kind of close to the original in a way .. where every note seems to be played with such an immense delectation  :) wow  .. loved it !! ....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLl8-M5rwq0
That was it ...thanks to the help of Soundcould friends , this project came to life !  So let me introduce by order of appearance :
- BJP https://soundcloud.com/bakingjazzpower doing the acoustic  rythmic guitar, Banjolele, washboard & lead guitar-cornet, isn't he amazing ?
- Pierrou https://soundcloud.com/pierrou at the guitar for the first chorus, jolly well done my friend !!  We had a fun start didn't we ?  ;-) https://soundcloud.com/pierrou-tissan-private/funny-news-orleans
-&  last but not least , Phil at the electric guitar for one the last chorus  with his magic slow hand jazzy  touch !!
 I am gladly playing the wind instruments (clarinet - Mr Craig Flory is such an inspirational clarinetist- , I tried also to play the clarinet like a sax, maybe I should play the actual sax some day,  & vst- Tuba since my real  tuba abilities are kind of ... squeaky !! )
Hope you enjoy !!  Have a great coming WE !! Steph

Another greatly inspiring version ( I play bare feet since I watched them  ;-) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-SBZaGSd8

Coquette (with Baking Jazz Power, Pierrou and Phil)

I lent my double bass to a good friend and it was returned in pieces. Somewhat shaken by the experience I borrowed another  bass to complete this song. 

The aggression in the delivery was infinitely preferable to venting it on such a good friend. Accidents happen.

It didn’t look good, you know what I mean?
A man in a hat in a black limousine
Window was down, asked for a light
What are the chances of things going right?

I reach for my zippo, games as close as I dare
My hand was shaking, sure I was scared
He drew on his doobie, he gave a rye smile
Jacksons or Franklins I’ll let you decide

I empty my pockets onto hat’s hood
I only had chump change, so it didn’t look good
Short on payola, lacking the guac
He pulled out his piece and I sat in the back

The girl in the front seat, she didn’t say much
And neither would you if he had his hand on your crouch
I looked out the window you wanna know why?
That’s what you do if you don’t want to die

He was so hard boiled
He was so hard boiled
So hard boiled tough as a nut
Hard in the middle

I had premonitions, not good I confess
Me full of lead, her cut up in her dress
I dialled from my pocket, cops picked up quick
Hat said that’a so rude, she thought what a dick!
 
He was so hard boiled
He was so hard boiled
So hard boiled tough as a nut
Hard in the middle
But what’s that oozing out?

So Hard Boiled

I present for you my cover of the beautiful , tender and heart breaking..
Young & Foolish.
Written by Albert Hague, Arnold B. Horwitt and performed by Bill Evans for many years before he finally recorded it on his second album " Everbody Digs Bill Evans " in 1959

ENJOY XX

Young & Foolish

A combination of two of my sax jams on a track by https://soundcloud.com/thegats  "Cyber brainstorming led to this track being named Bounce Back - a track about resilience and overcoming adversity.", so Jan's statement.

Music: Jan Schonander
Tenor Sax: joerxworx 
Drums, bass, piano, organ, synths, trumpet, trombone: Jan Schonander
Bounce Back (with joerxworx) von TheGat(s) unterliegt den Lizenzbedingungen einer Creative Commons-Lizenz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ .

Bounce Back [ TheGat(s) with joerxworx ]

Sure I may miss you sometimes
But I ain’t lost my mind
I’m exactly where I should be
Baby don’t make any plans for me

Maybe you twinkled my toes
When you wrinkled your nose 
Those are memories I’ll always keep

Take a little trip to paradise 
Somewhere with palm trees that sway
Coconut rum wouldn’t that be nice
Learn to love yourself for a change   

I know that’s it’s hard to believe 
But we ain’t meant to be
We see that which we wish to see
Tea leaves don’t mean all that much to me

Feelings are chemical delusions
Ephemeral illusions   
Confusing reality
Leave me be, it’s clear to me
I’m exactly where I should be  

I have come to my conclusion
Despite your confusion
Your losing your grip I see
This fantasy is killing me
I’m exactly where I should be

Exactly Where I Should Be

The wonderful Irina joins me on our original, Taking It Easy.  Her beautiful voice and searching lyrics bring this to life. Always a joy to hear Irina sing and interpret music. Listen especially to the harmony lines she creates, dancing and with such a light authority and sensitivity.  And follow her award-winning career and her music: https://soundcloud.com/irina-951237464.

For a playlist of the tunes Irina and I have recorded together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/irina-and-jamie

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.

Taking it Easy Lyrics:  Irina

What can I do?

Can I count me plus you?
What do you see?
Can you count you plus me?

Does it make any sense?
Tacit romance...

We are taking it easy
Taking it easy...

What can I do?
What if it is me minus you?
What do you see?
Is it you minus me?

Does it make any sense?
Tacit romance...

We are taking it easy
Taking it easy...

Taking It Easy - Irina / Jamie Rhind

Music, lyrics and vocals by Irina
Artwork by Tatyana Markovtsev - http://feeltheline.com/

One more day
One more night with you
We'll make it beautiful

One more rhyme
One more song for you
I'll make it beautiful

I love you
I never felt like this before
I love you
I wish I could but give you more

One more smile
Lights your charming face
I think it's beautiful

One more kiss
One more last embrace
We'll make it beautiful

I love you
There's nothing wrong to feel like this
I love you
A chance that we don't want to miss

Beautiful

Ok, I don't usually do descriptions and this really isn't one but this is part of what was on my mind as I started doing this one. That and Denny Dias' playing with Steely Dan but that would be a real side track. Although I mention it because of the musical influence on this one. Thanks Jonathan. Anyway I'm a bit of a music theory nerd sometimes. Mostly with jazz chord substitution ideas. This is where my knowledge of some  of the more complicated ideas about music start. As I was pondering this stuff the other day it occurred to me how very subjective most of this stuff is. I might feel some theory is scientific and indeed they are but all music theory comes down, in the end, to the listeners perception of where the music is going. It's all based on context. Both in the individual piece and all the other music before. I mean humans create and listen to music so one would think at least some of it, the theory that is, will continue to work as long as there are people but at least parts of it may fade as people's perception changes over time. That and the fact that if people cease to exist the music itself and theories about it will become meaningless. I've often thought about the many religions that have faded away. How important they were to generations of people. Spending their lives studying them. Basing their lives on what  they thought to be factual everlasting truths and now they're gone. I always looked on in pity of those old scribes wasting their lives studying make believe. It's only recently occurred to me I'm most likely doing the same thing.

Convoluted

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