mountain and music

johnnyhskim:

JAFROSAX - Drawn 2 U (New Standard of the Future, 2006)

Yukimi Nagano - Vocal

dna4m:

Wallace Roney - Blue In Green

No Job Too Big Or Small (2003)

vrac-musique:

Beck - Orphans

vrac-musique:

Fleetwood Mac | Got To Move

▪ Peter Green – guitar, vocals

▪ Jeremy Spencer – guitar, vocals, piano

▪ Danny Kirwan – guitar, vocals

▪ John McVie – bass guitar

▪ Mick Fleetwood – percussion, drums

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Boston_(Fleetwood_Mac_album)

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rerylikes:

Toru Takemitsu - Rain Tree Sketch (Piano Distance, Izumi Tateno)

jessiethejazz:

Part XV by Keith Jarrett from Rio (2011, ECM) album

track #9 (CD 2)

Keith Jarrett, piano

Recorded live April 9, 2011 at Theatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro

grooviejazz:

‘Sous le ciel de Paris’ by Larry Goldings & Harry Allen [When Larry Met Harry, 2010]

Tenor saxophonist Harry Allen and pianist Larry Goldings teamed up in the studio on this 12 track collection from the Cafe Society label. While they have played on each other’s dates, this is their first full length collaboration. Both men are dedicated in a similar manner to paying homage to swing era melodies and mainstream jazz of the 40s and 50s. For this date, the duo bring several romantic themed originals into the musical fold, one from Allen “I Can See Forever,” and eight by Goldings including a re-visit of “Slo Boat,” which first appeared on his Whatever It Takes CD. The mood is relaxed yet not moribund. Case in point, Goldings’ composition “Benny’s Dream,” with strings arranged by Vince Mendoza,is heartfelt but doesn’t succumb to weepy sentimentalism. As for the three covers, Goldings and Allen avoid rehashing the same old standards with breezy treatments on “Morning has Broken,” the Edith Piaf associated “Sous Le Ciel De Paris,” and the Bacharach & David classic “The Look of Love.” Allen and Goldings don’t break new ground with this recording, rather, they continue to showcase their combined enduring love for ballads. Fans of laid back, straight ahead jazz should check this out.

grooviejazz:

‘Spartacus Love Theme’ by Bill Evans & Jeremy Steig [What’s New, 1969 Verve]

hazor:

Don’t send me no more letters no
Now unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

by Boy Dylan

theantidote:

Duke Ellington - The Star-Crossed Lovers

“The piano trio finished an original blues number and began the intro to ‘Star-Crossed Lovers.’ When I was in the bar, the pianist would often strike up that ballad, knowing it was a favorite of mine. It wasn’t one of Ellington’s bestknown tunes, and I had no particular memories associated with it; just happened to hear it once, and it struck some chord within me. From college to those bleak textbookcompany years, come evening I’d listen to the Such Sweet Thunder album, the ‘Star-Crossed Lovers’ track over and over. Johnny Hodges had this sensitive and elegant solo on it. Whenever I heard that languid, beautiful melody, those days came back to me. It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires. I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials. I could feel each single note of music, each line I read, seep down deep inside me. My nerves were sharp as a blade, my eyes shining with a piercing light. And every time I heard that music, I recalled my eyes then, glaring back at me from a mirror.”

— Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun

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