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Tiny Grimes quintet, Romance Without Finance. Enregistré à New York en septembre 1944 pour Savoy. Tiny Grimes (voc & guitar), Clyde Hart (piano), Charlie Parker (alto sax), Jimmy Butts (bass), Harold West (drums)   Romance without finance is a nuisanceBaby, you know I need me some goldRomance without finance just don’t make senseMama, mama, please give up that goldYou so great and you so fineYou ain’t go no money you can’t be mineIt ain’t no joke to be stone brokeBaby, you know I’d lie when I sayRomance without finance... [Lire la suite]

Poursuivons l'exploration du vademecum philosophique de la chanson moderne du grand Bob. Aujourd'hui : le déchirant Nelly Was a Lady, de Stephen Foster (1849) [voir ICI], interprété par Alvin Youngblood Hart. [Nelly was a lady / Last night she died / Toll de bell for lubly Nell / My dark Virginny bride.] Down on de Mississippi floating, Long time I trabble on de way, All night de cottonwood a toting, Sing for my true lub all de day. Nelly was a lady, Last night she died, Toll de bell for lubly Nell, My dark Virginny bride. Now... [Lire la suite]

Saxophone Summit, Birdland (New York), décembre 1999. Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, David Liebman, Phil Markowitz, Rufus Reid Billy Hart John Coltrane's Locomotion *** [ Jazz Video Guy ]

« Lotus Blossom » de Billy Strayhorn Charles Lloyd (tenor sax), Geri Allen (piano), Marc Johnson (bass), Billy Hart (droums), John Abercrombie (guitar). Enregistré en public, 2001.