from when bowie was hanging out at blue note with goldie and bjork.

Cools-Hard-boppin' roots from the Blue Note heyday is what gets me goin'....Army doctors are second in importance to career, soldier-minstrels, then come the commissary. Wait: Chow, music, doctors, infantry, command, in that order.

Gonna get to coppin' those tracks soon and help ya with those studio bills...

Wow; spectacular. What a versatile instrument - it plays blue notes so well. Personally, however, I'd prefer her to post a version without the drum track.

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Blue Note records, too many to name, all some of the most artful and candid shots of the great jazzmen.....

oh and, you kids and yer cd inserts.....those are not album covers-Nothing beats the look, feel, and flavor of vinyl, and a 12"-plus sleeve to handle and pass on to yer rugrats......

Seen everyone here perform live except for Freddy Hubbard-Hancock was sort of a house pianist for a lot of folks recording during Blue Note's peak-mid 50s to late 60s-

this is the album he did remixing blue note jazz records, "shades of blue"...

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.

The closing track from Alright, Still. The blue notes on the chorus work for me. I guess her voice counts as a little thing, but she works it well.