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Cold Duck Time (lyrics)

In Cold Duck Time, Lyrics on November 27, 2013 at 10:15 pm
Cold Duck Time lyrics (by Al Jarreau)
Album: Accentuate The Positive (Year: 2004)
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Eddie Load up
Eddie low down
Beautiful funk
from a hole in a hornBurnin’ it up
Burnin’ it down
Burnin’ so hot melt
the snow on the ground

Better pass the cold duck round.
Eddie got the cold duck down.

Eddie Load up
Eddie low down
Beautiful funk from a hole in a horn

Burnin’ it up
Burnin’ it down
Burnin’ so hot melt
the snow on the ground
Eddie got the cold duck down. Eddie got the cold duck down.

Eddie load up
Eddie low down
Beautiful funk
From a hole in a horn

Burnin’ it up
Burnin’ it down
Burnin’ so hot melt the snow on the ground

Better pass the cold duck around.
Eddie got the cold duck down.
Eddie pass the cold duck ’round.

A Night in Tunisia (lyrics)

In A Night In Tunisia, Lyrics on November 27, 2013 at 10:10 pm
A Night in Tunisia (Ella Fitzgerald)
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The moon is the same moon above you
Aglow with its cool evening light
But shining at night, in tunisia
Never does it shine so bright

The stars are aglow in the heavens
But only the wise understand
That shining at night in tunisia
They guide you through the desert sand

Words fail, to tell a tale
Too exotic to be told
Each nights a deeper night
In a world, ages old

The cares of the day seem to vanish
The ending of day brings release
Each wonderful night in tunisia
Where the nights are filled with peace

(bridge)

(scat)

{repeat all twice}

(scat)

Well you Needn’t (lyrics)

In Lyrics, Well You Needn't on November 27, 2013 at 9:58 pm
Well you Needn’t – Cannonball Adderley (lyrics: Thelonious Monk)

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You’re talkin’ so sweet well you needn’t
You say you won’t cheat well you needn’t
You’re tappin’ your feet well you needn’t
It’s over now, it’s over now
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You’re dressin’ with class well you needn’t
You’re holdin’ your sass well you needn’t
You think you’re a gas well you needn’t
It’s over now, it’s over now
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It’s over now, it’s over now
You’ve had your fun, so take a bow
You oughta know, you lost the glow, the beat is slow, the shadows grow,
the lights are low, it’s time to go, let’s close the show down
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(Oh) You’re taking off weight well you needn’t
You’re looking just great well you needn’t
You’re settin’ the bait well you needn’t
It’s over now, it’s over now
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Scat…
You play enough game, well you needn’t
It’s more of the same, well you needn’t
You’re coming off lame, ell you needn’t
It’s over now, it’s over now
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You’re bending my ear Well you needn’t
You’re calling me dear Well you needn’t
You’re acting sincere Well you needn’t
It’s over now, it’s over now
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It’s over now, it’s over now
Don’t wanna see Don’t need a row
You had you’re day Your matinee
You had to stray You know they say
You gonna play You gotta face
So find a way out
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You say that you try Well you needn’t
You say you won’t lie Well you needn’t
You’re starting to cry Well you needn’t
It’s over now It’s over now
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(repeat all then…)
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It’s over now,
it’s over now
It’s over now,
it’s over now
It’s over now, it’s over!

The Jody Grind (lyrics)

In Lyrics, The Jody Grind on November 27, 2013 at 9:49 pm

The Jody Grind
Dee Dee Bridgewater

Album: Love And Peace:
A Tribute To Horace Silver (1995)

1st verse

If you are a sailor,
A soldier, or marine,
Well Jody’s got your woman
When you’re not on the scene.

No need to worry
And to get all uptight.
Jody’s treatin’ her good tonight.

2nd verse

All you other fellas
Just treat your woman right.
‘Cause Jody’s steady hittin’
When you’re out of sight.

No need to worry
And to get all uptight.
Jody’s treatin’ her good tonight.

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Good Bye Pork Pie Hat – lyrics

In Good Bye Pork Pie Hat, Lyrics on November 27, 2013 at 10:26 am

Good Bye Pork Pie Hat
(music by Charlie Minugs, words by Joni Mitchell)

When Charlie speaks of Lester
You know someone great has gone
The sweetest swinging music man
Had a Porkie Pig hat on
A bright star
In a dark age
When the bandstands had a thousand ways
Of refusing a black man admission
Black musician
In those days they put him in an
Underdog position
Cellars and chittlins’

When Lester took him a wife
Arm and arm went black and white
And some saw red
And drove them from their hotel bed
Love is never easy
It’s short of the hope we have for happiness
Bright and sweet
Love is never easy street!
Now we are black and white
Embracing out in the lunatic New York night
It’s very unlikely we’ll be driven out of town
Or be hung in a tree
That’s unlikely!

Tonight these crowds
Are happy and loud
Children are up dancing in the streets
In the sticky middle of the night
Summer serenade
Of taxi horns and fun arcades
Where right or wrong
Under neon
Every feeling goes on!
For you and me
The sidewalk is a history book
And a circus
Dangerous clowns
Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions
They have been handed
Day by day
Generations on down

We came up from the subway
On the music midnight makes
To Charlie’s bass and Lester’s saxophone
In taxi horns and brakes
Now Charlie’s down in Mexico
With the healers
So the sidewalk leads us with music
To two little dancers
Dancing outside a black bar
There’s a sign up on the awning
It says “Pork Pie Hat Bar”
And there’s black babies dancing…
Tonight!

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Moanin’ Lyrics (Sarah Vaughan)

In Lyrics, Moanin' on November 27, 2013 at 10:08 am

Verse 1
Every Mornin’ finds me moanin’
I’m alone and crying the blues
I’m so tired of paying the dues
Ev’ry body knows I’m moanin’

Verse 2
Every evening I am moanin’
Cuz of all I the trouble I see Life’s a loosing gamble to me
Ev’ry body knows I moanin’

Chorus
Lord I spend many a days and nights alone with my grief
and I pray, really and truly pray
somebody will come and bring me relief.

Every mornin’ finds me moanin’
I’m alone and crying the blues
I’m so tired of paying my dues
Ev’ry body knows I’m moanin’

Piano solo

Chorus

Ev’ry body knows I’m moanin’ (x4)

The song Moanin’ is performed by Sarah Vaughan in the album named Sarah Sings Soulfully in the year 1993.

pdf here

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Senor Blues lyrics

In Lyrics, Senõr Blues on November 27, 2013 at 10:00 am

Senor Blues (Horace Silver)

Senor Blues is what they call him
Way down Mexically way
Senorita’s falling for him
With the hope that he will stay
By the time that they love him
Senor Blues done gone away.

Well, he’s tall and good looking
And he always know just what to say
Yes, he’s tall and good looking
And he knows just what to say
By the time that they love him
Senor Blues done gone away.

1/
I don’t know why, don’t know why, don’t know why
He’s a wonderin’, wonderin’ guy
With no one place to lay his head by

2/
I’m so tired and lonely and blue
‘Cause he one man I love won’t be true
Got the blues and it’s all cuz of you.

Thelonious (Sphere) Monk

In Bio, In Walked Bud on November 22, 2013 at 10:43 pm

monk1Better know as  Thelonious Monk, he was born on 10 October 10th, 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA, and died: 17 February 1982 in Weehawken, New Jersey, USA (aged 64).

Among the most influential musicians, especially amongst pianists, of the twentieth century.
Monk had a idiosyncratic improvisational style, both musically and visually, and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire. He is often regarded as one of the founders of bebop, though his playing later evolved away from that style.

Both his prolific compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, consistent with Monk’s unorthodox approach to the piano, combining a highly percussive attack with abrupt, usually very dramatic, usage of silences and hesitations.

He was also renowned for his distinctively sartorial style in suits, hats and his trademark sunglasses. He was also well known for his actions on stage during performances. While the other musicians in the group continued playing, he would sometimes stop, stand up from the piano, dance for a few moments, and then return to the piano and continue playing. Whether this was part of his act or because he was entranced in his art form has never been substantiated in the few interviews with him.
One of his regular dances consisted of continuously turning counter-clockwise, which has drawn comparisons to ring-shout and Muslim Sufi whirling.

Monk is also one of only five jazz musicians to date to be featured on the cover of Time magazine (the other four being Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, and Dave Brubeck).

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Blue Note Records (1948–1952)

Main article: Thelonious Monk Blue Note Sessions

  • Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 (1947 Blue Note recordings)
  • Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 (1951–1952 Blue Note recordings)
  • Thelonious Monk Trio (Prestige 7027), 1952–4
  • Monk (Prestige 7053) recorded 1953-4
  • Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige 7075), recorded 1953-4
  • Thelonious Monk plays the Music of Duke Ellington (1955)
  • The Unique Thelonious Monk (1955)
  • Brilliant Corners (1956 recording with Sonny Rollins and Clark Terry)
  • Thelonious Himself (1957)
  • Monk’s Music (1957)
  • Mulligan Meets Monk (1957, with Gerry Mulligan)
  • Thelonious in Action and Misterioso (1958, live at the Five Spot with Johnny Griffin)
  • The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959, Charlie Rouse joined the band then)
  • 5 by Monk by 5 (1959)
  • Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959)
  • Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk (1960, with Charlie Rouse)
  • Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1957 recordings, 1961 issue) – Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.
  • Monk in France (recorded in 1961)
  • Thelonious Monk in Italy (recorded 1961, released 1963)
  • Thelonious Monk and the Jazz Giants (1987)
  • Thelonious Monk Quartet Live at the Five Spot: Discovery! (with Coltrane recorded 1957, released in 1993 on Blue Note)
  • Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (1957, released 2005 on Blue Note.)
  • The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2006 collection of the 1957 studio recordings with Coltrane)
  • Monk’s Dream (1963)
  • Criss-Cross (1963)
  • Monk in Tokyo (1963)
  • Miles & Monk at Newport (1963, with unrelated 1958 Miles Davis performance)
  • Big Band and Quartet in Concert (1963)
  • It’s Monk’s Time (1964)monk2
  • Monk. (1964)
  • Solo Monk (1964)
  • Live at the It Club (1964)
  • Live at the Jazz Workshop (1964)
  • Straight, No Chaser (1966)
  • Underground (1967)
  • Monk’s Blues (1968)
  • Prestige Records (1952–1954)
  • Riverside Records (1955–1961)
  • Columbia Records (1962–1968)

Other labels

  • Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Atlantic, 1958)
  • Thelonious Monk Nonet Live In Paris 1967 (France Concert LP FC-113, 1967)
  • The Giants of Jazz (Atlantic, 1971) with Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Sonny Stitt and Kai Winding

As sideman

With Coleman Hawkins

  • Bean and the Boys (Prestige 7824) 1944

With Milt Jackson

  • Wizard of the Vibes (Milt Jackson: 1948 Blue Note recordings)

With Miles Davis

  • Bags’ Groove (Prestige, 1954)
  • Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (Prestige, 1954)

With Sonny Rollins

  • Moving Out (Prestige 7058) 1954 (on one track)
  • Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957)

With Gigi Gryce

  • Nica’s Tempo (Savoy, 1955)

With Clark Terry

  • In Orbit (Riverside, 1958)

Compilations

  • Monk’s Miracles (1966)
  • Monk’s Greatest Hits (Columbia, 1968)
  • Midnight at Minton’s (c.1941, issued 1973 under Don Byas’ name. Monk does not play on all tracks of this or the other two CDs of 1941 material)
  • After Hours (c.1941, issued 1973 under Charlie Christian’s name)
  • After Hours in Harlem c.1941, issued 1973 under Hot Lips Page’s name
  • April in Paris (Monk album)|April in Paris (1981 2-LP set of the April 18, 1961 Paris recordings)
  • Monk’s Classic Recordings (1983)
  • Blues Five Spot (1984, unissued recordings from 1958–61, with various saxophonists and Thad Jones, cornet)
  • Something in BlueNice Work in LondonBlue Sphere and The Man I Love (all 1971 recordings, collected in The London Collection 1988, three CDs)
  • The Complete Riverside Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1991, 15 CD, Riverside)
  • The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk (1994, 4 CD, Blue Note)
  • Live at Monterey Jazz Festival ’63 (sept. 21–2, 1963, MFSL, 2 vols. issued 1996-7)
  • Monk Alone: The Complete Solo Studio Recordings of Thelonious Monk 1962–1968 (1998, 2 CD, Sony)
  • The Complete Prestige Recordings of Thelonious Monk (2000, 3 CD, Prestige)
  • The Columbia Years: ’62–’68 (2001, 3 CD, Sony)
  • The Complete Vogue Recordings/The Black Lion Sessions (1954–71) (3LP, Mosaic)
  • All Monk. The Riverside Albums (2010, 16 CD, Universal)
  • The Thelonious Monk Quartet Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (2012, 6 CD, Sony)

In Walked Bud parts

In Album, In Walked Bud on November 11, 2013 at 10:38 am

All partitions (Ut), Bb Eb, Voicings and Guitar are in the Box. 🙂

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The Thelonious Monk Quartet,  ‎– In Walked Bud / Epistrophy
Label: Blue Note ‎– 548
Format: Shellac, 10″, 78 RPM
Jazz Bop

In Walked Bud: Alto Saxophone – Edmund Gregory, Bass – Robert Paige, Drums – Art Blakey, Trumpet – George Taitt, Written-By, Piano – Thelonious Monk

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In Walked Bud

In In Walked Bud on October 7, 2013 at 2:15 pm

ImageIn Walked Bud” is a 1947 jazz composition by Thelonious Monk. It was based on the chord progression of an earlier standard, Irving Berlin’s “Blue Skies” (1927) The song was a tribute to jazz pianist Bud Powell

Monk recorded the tune several times during his career, starting with the 1947 sessions for Genius of Modern Music. The last recording by Monk is from the 1968 album Underground, with lyrics and vocals by Jon Hendricks. The song has been covered by numerous jazz artists and is considered a jazz standard.

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