my fav Flea moment was seeing him in the film, "Let's Get Lost" hanging out with Chet Baker whom they tracked-down resurrected for a recording session for the film months before he was gone.
Flea has always been about the music-Funny though, never really dug on the Chilli Peppers heavily, ignored most popular music from the nineties altogether-Ex saw them in PDX back in the late 90's on a bill with the Beastie Boys, said it was the best show she'd ever almost been trampled at!

Daybreak - Chet Baker
Family - The National Bank
Cigarett - Bo Kaspers Orkester
10,000 Days (Part 2) - Tool
Green Earrings - Steely Dan

Fairly straightforward if you ask me. I get up in the morning to spend time with my family. I don't smoke, so the cigarette might be a metaphor for general morning rituals. I'll get approximately 27 years (10,000 days) of happy family life before all the kids have moved out. I will first have to establish a family, though. This can be facilitated by gifting some earrings of rare design to a certain someone. Maybe that certain someone is the one who sent the message?

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damn you chet baker foundation

*dead

1. Mr. Bungle - California
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Beck - Mellow Gold
4. Beatles - White Album
5. Bjork - Homogenic
6. Stereolab - Sound Dust
7. Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
8. Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Amen
9. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
10. Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hits
11. EWF - Greatest Hits
12. Steve Reich - Sextet
13. Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
14. Portishead - Portishead
15. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
16. Depeche Mode - Violator
17. Rufus Wainwright - Poses
18. Prince - Greatest Hits
19. Secret Chiefs - Book M
20. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
21. Brian Eno - Ambient 1
22. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
23. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
24. Ennio Morricone - Once Upon A Time In The West
25. Arcade Fire - Funeral
26. Autolux - Future Perfect
27. Miles Davis/Gil Evans - Porgy and Bess
28. John Coltrane - Blue Train
29. Bob Marley - Legend
30. Chet Baker - Best of Chet Baker Sings
31. Mose Allison - Allison Wonderland
32. Failure - Fantastic Planet
33. MSI - You'll Rebel To Anything....
34. Faith No More - Angel Dust
35. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
36. Fishbone - Truth and Soul
37. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
38. Foetus - Gash
39. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
40. Nirvana - Nevermind
40.1. Frank Sinatra - Greatest Hits
40.2. Frank Zappa -
40.3. Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
40.4. M.I.A. - Kala
40.5. Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Cookie
40.6. Michael Brecker - Michael Brecker
40.7. Miles Davis - All Blues
40.8. Patsy Cline - Greatest Hits (token country)
40.9. Philip Glass - Glassworks
40.91. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
40.92. Bernard Herrmann - The Day The Earth Stood Still

Don't have to have perfect pitch to do that....Idetic memory of ones' instrument...you play so much you remember what its going to sound like beforehand. Lots of performers do this.... one was Slam Stewart, bassist who hummed the notes as he bowed.
Mose Allison, Charles Mingus,Rashaan Roland Kirk, Keith Jarrett, how bout' Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton, with their talky-thingy-dealies.....

Charlie Parker, it has been said, the way he hit the woodshed, was by learning "I Got Ryhthm" in every key, and becomming proficient in them, using that song.....once he got that down, well....he also used a Rico #5 reed, which if anyone has ever blown woodwinds, is next to impossible to get a squeak out of, unless yer embrochures' like a foundry press.

Pizzarelli has such a great voice, reminds of Chet Baker....

This is my Valentine's Day sift.

From Wikipedia:

"My Funny Valentine" is a jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists.

The song was composed by Richard Rodgers to lyrics by Lorenz Hart and first appeared in the musical comedy Babes in Arms which opened at the Shubert Theatre, New York, on April 14, 1937 and ran for 289 performances, transferring to the Majestic Theatre on October 25, 1937.

"My Funny Valentine" was first sung by Mitzi Green in the role of Susie Ward, the talented young sweetheart of Valentine White (played by Ray Heatherton). In 1939, a film of Babes in Arms, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, was released. In it, Garland's character, Patsy, sings the song to Rooney's character, Mickey.

The song made it to the top of the charts when Chet Baker released a very popular and influential version (released on the album "My Funny Valentine" / Blue Note Records). His soft, delicate and serene delivery introduced the world to Chet Baker's singing skills (he was previously known only for his trumpeting skills, also displayed on this recording). Baker is still associated more with "My Funny Valentine" than with any other of the long list of songs he recorded.

Chet's version of the song leaves out the first stanza, instead beginning with the second stanza that starts with, "My funny Valentine, sweet comic valentine". As a result of this, nearly every subsequent version of this song begins the same way. The most notable exception to this rule are songs recorded from the many performances of the musicals Babes in Arms and Pal Joey. (The first stanza is clearly a female voice speaking about her man, giving male singers an additional reason to omit it.)

The third stanza seems quite odd at first. It begins with a series of accusatory and rude questions that one wouldn't necessarily expect in a romantic tune. It quickly apologizes for the odd questions with assurances and then ends with the romantic sentiments of the last two verses.

"Is it worth it?"
no.
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frm songfacts.com:
Elvis has said in interviews that this was written from the perspective of workers in British shipbuilding seaports during the buildup to England's war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982, an event that then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher seized (as most politicians would) in order to use the cacophony of nationalistic fervor to drown out the groaning sounds of a crumbling economy.
The song is set in a region that's economically depressed, one where essentials like "a new winter coat for the wife" is hard to come by. But there's a "rumour" that the local shipyard will soon have work, building ships for a war. The townspeople want to be happy that they will soon have jobs, but it is at the expense of their own boys who must go fight the war.
Chet Baker plays the mournful, lonely trumpet solo on this ballad. It is rumored to be Baker's last recorded performance.