SUNDAY AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD NOT NOW MUSIC 1

BILL EVANS

SONGWRITER: BILL EVANS & TRIO

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

HOW: INSTRUMENTAL

ALBUM: BILL EVANS TRIO

LABEL: RIVERSIDE RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1961

 

          William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines continues to influence jazz pianists today.

                 Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1929, he was classically trained at Southeastern Louisiana University and the Mannes School of Music, where he majored in composition and received the Artist Diploma. In 1955, he moved to New York City, where he worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell. In 1958, Evans joined Miles Davis's sextet, which in 1959, then immersed in modal jazz, recorded Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time. During that time, Evans was also playing with Chet Baker for the album Chet.

                 In late 1959, Evans left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader, with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, a group now regarded as a seminal modern jazz trio. In 1961, ten days after finishing an engagement at the New York Village Vanguard jazz club, LaFaro died in a car accident. After months of seclusion, Evans reemerged with a new trio, featuring bassist Chuck Israels.

                   In 1963, Evans recorded Conversations with Myself, a solo album using the unconventional technique of overdubbing himself. In 1966, he met bassist Eddie Gómez, with whom he worked for 11 years.

                Many of Evans's compositions, such as "Waltz for Debby", have become standards, played and recorded by many artists. Evans received 31 Grammy nominations and seven awards, and was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.

            Sunday at the Village Vanguard is a live album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans and his Trio consisting of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian. Released in 1961, the album is routinely ranked as one of the best live jazz recordings of all time.

NIGHT LIGHTS

GERRY MULLIGAN

SONGWRITER: GERRY MULLIGAN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: NIGHT LIGHTS

LABEL: PHILIPS RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1963

 

          Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996), also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. His pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Several of his compositions, such as "Walkin' Shoes" and "Five Brothers", have become standards.

                Throughout Mulligan's orchestral work and until the end of his life, Mulligan maintained an active career performing and recording jazz – usually with a quartet that included a piano.

          In June 1988, Mulligan was invited to be the first Composer-in-Residence at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival and was commissioned to write a work, which he titled The Flying Scotsman. In 1991, Mulligan contacted Miles Davis about revisiting the music from the germane 1949 Birth of the Cool album. Davis had recently performed some of his Gil Evans collaborations with Quincy Jones at the Montreux Jazz Festival and was enthusiastic. However, Davis died in September and Mulligan continued the recording project and tour with Wallace Roney and Art Farmer subbing for Davis. Re-Birth of the Cool (released in 1992) featured the charts from Birth of the Cool, and a new nonet which included Lewis and Barber from the original Davis band. Mulligan appeared at the Brecon Jazz Festival 1991. Mulligan's final recording was a quartet album (with guests), Dragonfly, recorded in the summer of 1995 and released on the Telarc label. Mulligan gave his final performance on the 13th Annual Floating Jazz Festival, SS Norway, Caribbean Cruise, November 9, 1995.

          Mulligan died in Darien, Connecticut, on January 20, 1996, at the age of 68, following complications from knee surgery. His widow Franca – to whom he had been married since 1976 – said he had also been suffering from liver cancer. Upon Mulligan's death, his library and numerous personal effects (including a gold-plated Conn baritone saxophone) were given to the Library of Congress. 'The Gerry Mulligan Collection' is open to registered public researchers in the library's Performing Arts Research Center. The library placed Mulligan's saxophone on permanent exhibit in early 2009.

               On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Gerry Mulligan among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

        Night Lights is an album by American jazz saxophonist Gerry Mulligan featuring performances recorded in 1963 and first released on the Philips label.

ALL THE TIME

ZARA LARSSON

SONGWRITERS: ILSEY JUBER; LINUS WIKLUND; NOONIE BAO & ZARA LARSSON

COUNTRY: SWEDEN

ALBUM: ALL THE TIME

LABEL: TEN MUSIC GROUP

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2019

 

              Zara Maria Larsson (/ˈzɑːrəˈlɑːrsən/, Swedish: [ˈsɑ̂ːra ˈlɑ̌ːʂɔn]); born 16 December 1997) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. At the age of 10, she achieved national fame in Sweden for winning the 2008 season of the talent show Talang, the Swedish version of British TV's Got Talent. Four years later, in 2012, Larsson signed with the record label TEN Music Group and subsequently released her debut compilation recording, the extended play Introducing, in January 2013.

           Larsson's first original song, "Uncover", topped the music charts in Scandinavia: Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. In February 2013, "Uncover" was certified Platinum by Universal Music Sweden. In July 2013, Introducing was certified 3× Platinum in the country. Larsson signed a three-year contract with Epic Records in the United States in April 2013. In 2016, she performed at the opening and closing ceremonies for UEFA Euro in France. Larsson's second studio album, So Good, was released on 17 March 2017. Her third studio album, Poster Girl, is expected to be released in 2020.

            "All the Time" is a song by Swedish singer Zara Larsson, released through TEN Music Group and Epic Records on 21 June 2019. It was co-written by Larsson with Noonie Bao and Ilsey Juber and produced by Linus Wiklund. Whether or not the song will be included on Larssons upcoming second studio album "Poster Girl" is currently unknown.

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night

 

Summertime, and I’m caught in the feeling

Getting high, and I'm up on the ceiling

I don't know what you're doing in New York

All I know is you ain't on my bedroom floor

 

I'm seeing you undressed in my room

But it's just a memory, a fantasy

Are you in your house, are you going out?

Are you going crazy like me?

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night

 

I try to forget about you, baby

And I die when I think of you in someone else's

I don't know why

I don't know why you're dancing in my mind

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night, all the time

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night, all the time

 

Everyone's been wearing your perfume

And everything is reminding me of you

I don't know what I'm doing in New York

But all I know is you ain't walking through that door

 

I'm seeing you undressed in my room

But it's just a memory, a fantasy

Are you in your house, are you going out?

Are you going crazy like me?

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night

 

I try to forget about you, baby

And I die when I think of you in someone else's

I don't know why

I don't know why you're dancing in my mind

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night

I try to forget about you, baby

And I die when I think of you in someone else's

I don't know why

I don't know why you're dancing in my mind

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night

(Yeah)

 

And I wonder if you think about me too

Where we used to go, what we used to do

And I wonder if you’re crying out inside, oh, yeah

Oh, oh

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night

 

I try to forget about you, baby

And I die when I think of you in someone else's

I don't know why

I don't know why you're dancing in my mind

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night

I try to forget about you, baby

And I die when I think of you in someone else's

I don't know why

I don't know why you're dancing in my mind

 

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night, all the time

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night, all the time

From the breaking of the day to the middle of the night.

ALL BY MYSELF

ERIC CARMEN

SONGWRITER: ERIC CARMEN & SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ERIC CARMEN

LABEL: ARISTA RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1975

 

              Eric Howard Carmen (born August 11, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist. He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and 1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries (who had a million-selling single with "Go All the Way"), and then with his solo career, including hits such as "All by Myself", "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "She Did It", "Hungry Eyes", and "Make Me Lose Control".

              In 1987, Carmen's contribution to the hit movie Dirty Dancing, "Hungry Eyes", hit number 2 on the Adult Contemporary Chart and also returned him to the Pop Top 10. "Reason To Try", a further contribution to the One Moment in Time compilation album of songs recorded for the Seoul Summer Olympics, kept Carmen's profile high in 1988, during which the nostalgic "Make Me Lose Control" also returned him to the number one position on the Adult Contemporary chart – where it stayed for three straight weeks – as well as number 3 on Billboard's Hot 100. This became his highest charting song since "All By Myself". Both, along with "Hungry Eyes", having in the past two decades become classic pop radio favorites. Carmen had another hit single in 1988 with "Make Me Lose Control".

          The year 2000 saw the stateside release of I Was Born to Love You, which had been released in 1998 only in Japan as Winter Dreams. Carmen eschewed the use of a band on the recording, playing most of the instruments and programming the drum parts himself. The album did not find a large audience, but Carmen has continued to enjoy success placing songs with other artists over the years. In 2000 he also toured for the first time in years with Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band performing "Hungry Eyes", "Go All The Way" and "All By Myself".

             On December 24, 2013, the first new recording in over 15 years by Carmen titled "Brand New Year" was released. The track, written and recorded in November/December 2013 in Ohio and Los Angeles, was issued via a gratis download by Legacy Recordings as a special "Christmas gift", to herald the March 2014 arrival of a 30 track career retrospective entitled The Essential Eric Carmen.

              On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Eric Carmen among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

          "All by Myself" is a song by American artist Eric Carmen released in 1975. The verse is based on the second movement (Adagio sostenuto) of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18, famously used to underscore the 1945 British film Brief Encounter. The chorus was taken from the song "Let's Pretend", which Carmen wrote and recorded with the Raspberries in 1972. The slide guitar solo was performed by studio guitarist Hugh McCracken.

(Verse 1)

When I was young

I never needed anyone

And making love was just for fun

Those days are gone

 

(Verse 2)

Livin' alone

I think of all the friends I've known

When I dial the telephone

Nobody's home

 

(Chorus)

All by myself

Don't wanna be

All by myself

Anymore

 

(Verse 3)

Hard to be sure

Sometimes I feel so insecure

And loves so distant and obscure

Remains the cure

 

(REPEAT Chorus x2)

 

(REPEAT Verse 1)

 

(REPEAT Chorus)

 

All by myself

Don't wanna live

Oh

Don't wanna live

By myself, by myself

Anymore

By myself

Anymore

Oh

All by myself

Don't wanna live

I never, never, never

Needed anyone.