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Beauty in the apertures of pain

@anenlighteningellipsis / anenlighteningellipsis.tumblr.com

I want to say Without temper If possible without the least sense of the heroic Without even the measured ambition to speak the truth which is only another vulgarity To say I am not what I was Indeed I was nothing and now I am at least the possibility of something and this I will defend.
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“On Dec. 8, 1957, CBS producer Robert Herridge assembled many of the great pioneers of jazz to perform together on live television, as part of ‘The Sound of Jazz.’ One of the most memorable performances of the night was Billie Holiday’s ‘Fine and Mellow.’ By 1957, Holiday had experienced her share of trouble with drugs and hard living, and her voice was not what it once had been. Yet that day, on the set of ‘The Sound of Jazz,’ it was clear that she was still a singer with an impeccable sense of timing and a style that could convey both joy and suffering. Nat Hentoff, music writer and part of the production team that organized ‘The Sound of Jazz,’ recalls the highlight of the broadcast:

‘The song she sang that, to most people (including me), was the climax of the show was one of the few songs that she herself ever wrote: ‘Fine and Mellow.’ It’s a basic 12-bar blues. It may be the only blues song she ever wrote, although the language of the blues, the texture of the blues, the cry of the blues was always part of what she did.’”
#the cry of the blues is what she did#blues#billie holiday#lady day#jazz#jazz history#monochrome#1950s#q
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Melody Gardot  |  Your Heart Is As Black As Night

I don’t know why you came along at such a perfect time but if I let you hang around I’m bound to lose my mind
‘Cause your hands may be strong but the feeling’s all wrong your heart is as black your heart is as black oh, your heart is as black as night . . .
#favourite songs#repeat#melody gardot#your heart is as black as night#my one and only thrill#music#jazz#to see if there's a pub
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Melody Gardot  |  So We Meet Again [My Heartache]

so we meet again, my heartache so we meet again, my friend I should have known that you’d return the moment I was on the mend
so we meet again, my heartache just as the leaves begin to change how you’ve made my life a story filled with words you’ve rearranged . . .
#melody gardot#so we meet again#the absence#so we meet again my heartache#music#blues#idhk how to tag this subgenre of#jazz#////#jesus h. jones woman#just carve my heart out with a silver spoon#this is my new ballad#i expect to have this on repeat for at least the next week and a half#heartache#favourite songs#autumn
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It Never Entered My Mind by The Miles Davis Quintet from Workin’ with The Miles Davis Quintet (1957, Prestige) album 

track #1 anytime, anyplace, this lasts..

Miles Davis, trumpet

John Coltrane, tenor sax.

Red Garland, piano

Paul Chambers, bass

Philly Joe Jones, drums

Recorded in Hackensack, NJ on May 11, 1956

#miles davis#music#jazz
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