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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]

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version intégrale, originale, sans "visuel" inutile [ olidez ] ~ Gavin Bryars raconte :  « In 1971, when I lived in London, I was working with a friend, Alan Power, on a film about people living rough in the area around Elephant and Castle and Waterloo Station. In the course of being filmed, some people broke into drunken song - sometimes bits of opera, sometimes sentimental ballads - and one, who in fact did not drink, sang a religious song "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet". This was not ultimately used in the film and I... [Lire la suite]