let's see, there were Guys and Dolls, Assassins, the Phantom of the Opera, a Fiddler on the Roof, and the King and I . . . ah, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady ~ behOld the sound of music: Stevie, my Stevie . . . Whitney Houston (yes I said Whitney. the Greatest Love of All is the first song I 'owned' :), Michael Jackson (yes I said Michael. don't stop til you get enough.) . . .
in the last days of vinyl I enjoyed Doors and more Doors, Beatles and more Beatles . . . Hendrix and more Hendrix . . . Earth Wind and Fire, Simon & Garfunkel, the Mamas & the Papas, the Carpenters, and on and on to The Police and the Sugarcubes, Prince, Madge, Tina Turner, Ms. Joplin, all that. "So, so you think you can tell / Heaven from hell, /
Blue skies from pain." I could go on. for real: the Sundays (am I cold or just a little too warm?), the Cocteau Twins, U2, Digable Planets, Fugees, Portishead, Radiohead, a Famous Blue Raincoat, and then . . .
see, it all started when I 'borrowed' Dad's Billie Holiday discs . . . then there was Ella in Berlin . . . plenty of Louis . . . When Harry Met Sally (emphasis on the Harry ~ as in, the soundtrackkk, though the movie was pretty amUsing ; ) . . . Bjork's Debut and Badu's live album (ok?!) Check Your Head. Ill Communication. Gina playin' Summertime and art songs and breakfasts and scales and Partners and . . . enter: Bill Brown . . . The Awakening . . . getting positive with Zap Mama, Eddie Harris, and Herbie's Headhunters . . . the eternal Songs in the Key of Life . . . love Duke mAdly, of course. and 'Diz' and 'Bird'. 'Baby don't wOrry you know that you got me-ee' ~ I am not through with Lauryn Hill's Miseducation either! I found Sketches of Spain @ the college bookstore . . . who IS Jill Scott? Viva Vaughan! Nina put a spell on me and I revisited Sade and Roberta Flack. Nancy is straight class. (Ms. Wilson to you) Happy People and Wayning Moments Speak No Evil . . . so many summers in sweltering New Orleans ; )
'Once upon a time, not log ago, when people wore pajamas and lived life slow.' MMW:Combustication . . . mOre Miles mingled with doses of Coltrane's Sound. Jamiroquai & G. Love. Redemption Song. sUbliiiiiime. the beach, the beach, the sAndy, sUnny beach . . . and gigs! I remember those . . . next stop: Brown & Roach, Inc. NICE. Mama's Gun, Ahmad's Blues, and Monk's Dream . . . ah, Montreux . . . jazz on (and in ; ) Geneva! Coltrane's Resolution. Inner Visions was in my lap after a nap one afternoon. after Belgium. onto Den Haag: The Roots and RH Factor. wOw . . . ?uesto and RH - LOL. Take 6. Kurt, The Messenger, @ the Green Mill ~ Minuano on repeat. Cassandra's Harvest Moon, too! ".am I supposed to change? are you supposed to change?" enter: Bunky Green . . . Where or When . . . Blame it on My Youth. Bethel Baptist Choir, amen . . . Bobby McFerrin w/ Chick Corea ~ and Kevin Bales! Rene Marie . . . Ethnomusicology a la Russell . . . China/ All the way to New York/ Maybe you got lOst in/ Mexico . . . and I love Wynton's 'Sunflowers'. just love that City Movement. mmmmOre Joni! I Wish I Had a River. Humble as a mumble . . . more Miles . . . mOre gigs! the Josh Bowlus Quartet . . . Quintet . . . Trio . . . Bread n' Butta' (Chroma's alter ego) . . . learn mOre tunes! more Ella and Louis, more Sarah, Anita, Nnenna, Alicia ~ and MANY voyages to India . . . Hejira . . . SavAnnah. Oh yes, I Remember Clifford . . . Finally found Fiona and Lalah. Jarrett, Jarrett, and more Jamal. Chet Baker Sings. STiNG. Maria Schneider: sUch grace! BETTY is tha baddest b!tc (pardon me, there is no other way to put that) and NAT sounds like a warm fire on a cOld night. Feist. Take it slow - oh - enter: Benny Green . . . The Mastery of Love . . . Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down. Talking Book and Bass Face . . . still diggin' HardGroove and SO inspired by Moment to Moment . . . not to mention Lionel & Gretchen! ".I keep a close watch on this heart of mine." * sigh * Fulfillingness' First Finale and fleurette africaine . . . Oscar Peterson plays My Fair Lady, the Latinization of Bunky Green (Mos Def), The Bird and the Bee . . . Dianne Reeves' a child is bOrn . . . ah, well, every tUne, really, a masterpiece . . . trUly
~ Freddie's Skydive ~
( W E I N S I S T ! )
Max Roach's ~ Freedom Now Suite
and now at last I am back to Billie . . . and Stevie . . . and Joni . . .
'be kind to me, or treat me mean, I'll make the mOst of it I'm an extraordinary mAchine'-fa
