jazz Very Thought of You: Jazz For Lovers, Dave Brubeck MILES DAVIS, STAN GETZ

Description: THE BIGGEST NAMES IN JAZZ COME TOGETHER IN THIS SPECIAL COLLECTION OF CLASSIC LOVE SONGS.FROM INTIMATE TO INVIGORATING, ONLY JAZZ SAYS "I LOVE YOU" LIKE THIS! FEATURES HEART-FELT PERFORMANCES BY DAVE BRUBECK, MILES DAVIS, ERROLL GARNER, STAN GETZ, WYnton MARSALIS, THElLONIOUSMONK AND MORE!Tis beard in springWhen light and sunbeams, warm and kindOn angel's wingBrings love and music to the windJohn Clare Over the course of the last century, jazz musicians have never run out of ways to say..."I love you." From Buddy Bolden to Wynton Marsalis, there has always been room in the improvising artist's repertoire to speak of softer emotions. Birthed as it has been on the floors of ballrooms and honky tonks, where the mating dance takes place, at varied blue tempos of ardor and tenderness; nurtured as it still is in the confines of clubs and cabarets, where emotions run hot and cool, where liquor fortifies desire, and the sounds peeking through a curtain of smoke speak candidly to me and you, jazz remains the most elegant Valentine one can proffer to a loved one.Taken at a light gallop like Brubeck and Desmond's sprightly"The Song Is You," or as a reminiscence of dark ongoing such as Wynton and Ellis Marsalis' ethereal, dreamlike "The Very Thought Of You;" as an expression of deep sentiment and nostalgia, like André Previn's orchestral "Don't Blame Me" or as the playful stride flirtations of Thelonious Monk's "I'm Confessin"," jazz cuts through all the clichés and speaks directly to the heart. On The Very Thought Of You: Jazz For Lovers,ten different performances— from the birth of the cool in the '50s, through the jaunty days of jazz-fusion in the '70s—illustrate the jazzman's sure feel for melody, Pitched at first to resemble the cadences of a singer (remember Lester Young's dictum that a soloist should always know the lyrics of the song he's improvising on), the jazzman generally stretches and extends his song well beyond the letter and the law of the lyrics, choosing instead to speak of something much deeper and more personal.It is this probing quality of self-expression that has enabled jazzmen to take any number of tunes, which ordinarily would have been frozen in the time of their creation— possibly even lost to future generations—and transform them into timeless vehicles of longing and lyricism. Thus you have modernists Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan and Bob James working their moody magic on "My Funny Valentine," a Rodgers and Hart classic from the 1937 Broadway show Babes In Arms, while Paul Desmond, Jim Hall and Chet Baker transform Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" (from the 1942 film Something To Shout About) with a light, bouncing touch of swing. Stan Getz and Bob Brookmeyer turn Lerner and Loewe's "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face" into heady jazz counterpoint, while Dave Grusin and his master rhythm mates Milt Hinton and Don Lammond swing Styne, Comden and Green's "Comes Once In A Lifetime" for all its worth.And what collection of jazzy Valentines would be complete without the sublime beauty of those classic Miles Davis-Gil Evans orchestral charts ("Wait "Til You See Her") or the most popular love song ever to emerge from the heart of a jazzman, Errol Garner's "Misty," this time treated to a lush accompaniment of strings, as the pianist works his magic on the melody with endless variations on so much in love.Surely, for all of jazz's intellectual complexity and rhythmic power, it is the mark of its greatest players that they can all lay back, grow calm and reflective, and speak directly to the soul of another human being in the simplest, most eloquent manner...I love you.Many happy returns.-Chip Stern ORDER BEFORE 2 PM CENTRAL - SAME DAY SHIPPINGPRMCD246

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Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota

End Time: 2025-02-03T00:23:03.000Z

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