I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY
KEITH JARRETT TRIO
SONGWRITERS: JULE STYNE & SAMMY CAHN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: STANDARS, VOLUME 2
LABEL: SONY MUSIC
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 2018
 
            Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer.
         Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success as a group leader and a solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
             In 2003 Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first recipient of both the contemporary and classical musician prizes, and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. His álbum The Köln Concert (1975) became the best-selling piano recording in history.
            In 2008 he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll.
       Jarrett has been unable to perform since suffering a stroke in February 2018, and a second stroke in May 2018, which left him partially paralyzed and unable to play with his left hand.
          In 1983, Keith Jarrett, who had become a jazz star in the 1970s with solo piano albums such as Solo Concerts: Bremen and Lausanne and The Koln Concert, headed into the studio to record standards with a topflight trio. (Joining him for the occasion was the bassist Gary Peacock and the drummer Jack DeJohnette.) The fruitful session resulted in three albums: Standards, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 and Changes, all three of which are being reissued here as Setting Standards: New York Sessions. The trio digs deep into the classics, reimagining them while honoring their great melodies. “All The Things You Are” receives a reading that is by turns delicate and hard-swinging; it’s one of the great instrumental versions of the song. DeJohnette, who absolutely takes off at a number of points on this collection, shows he can keep it delightfully simple on the rousing “God Bless the Child.” The bassist in a piano trio often plays the role of unobtrusive anchor, but Peacock can sound downright fierce here. The third album, Changes, features two cuts, both Jarrett originals: the half-hour long exploration, “Flying,” and “Prism,” a version of which appeared on 1974’s Personal Mountains.

 I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last
My heart should be well schooled, 'cause I've been fooled in the past
And still I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
 
I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast
I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last
My heart should be well schooled, 'cause I've been fooled in the past
And still I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast

THE OLD SHADE TREE

CHRIS TILE & BRAD MEHLDAU
SONGWRITER: BRAD MEHLDAU & CRIS THILE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
HOW: LIVE
ALBUM: CHRIS TILE & BRAD MEHLDAU
LABEL: NONESUCH
GENRE: BALLADS
YEAR: 2016
 
        Christopher Scott Thile (/ˈθiːli/; born February 20, 1981) is an American mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and radio personality, best known for his work in the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and the acoustic folk and progressive bluegrass quintet Punch Brothers. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. In October 2016, he became the host of the radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion, which in December 2017 was renamed Live from Here.
        Bradford Alexander Mehldau (/ˈmɛlˌdaʊ/; born August 23, 1970) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
      Mehldau studied music at The New School, and toured and recorded while still a student. He was a member of saxophonist Joshua Redman's Quartet with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade in the mid-1990s, and has led his own trio since the early 1990s. His first long-term trio featured bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy; in 2005 Jeff Ballard replaced Rossy. These bands have released a dozen albums under the pianist's name.
         Since the early 2000s, Mehldau has experimented with other musical formats in addition to trio and solo piano. Largo, released in 2002, contains electronics and input from rock and classical musicians; later examples include touring and recording with guitarist Pat Metheny, writing and playing song cycles for classical singers Renée Fleming and Anne Sofie von Otter, composing orchestral pieces for 2009's Highway Rider, and playing electronic keyboard instruments in a duo with drummer Mark Guiliana.
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau is an album by Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau. It was released by Nonesuch Records on January 27, 2017.
          Mandolinist and vocalist Chris Thile and pianist Brad Mehldau first played together in 2011 when Mehldau had a residency at London's Wigmore Hall. Their first tour as a duo was two years later. They performed together again in 2015, after which they recorded this studio album

 I hope none of you think I'm crying
As the sweat rolls down my face.
I hope none of you think I'm losing
As I'm lapping the guy in last place.
I hope one of you thanks me this winter
For what some of you would hang me from now.
Cause today the sun kissed a layer of skin from your
nose. it's cause last night I chopped the old shade tree
down
I guess none of you thought of its roots
As the living dead trapped underground
Or of the blizzard above or the hero I'd be
Planting bonfires all around town.
So as the frost licks the layer of skin off the nose
Of your neighbour, remember who chopped the old shade treedown.

VIVA LA VIDA

GREGORIAN BAND
SONGWRITERS: CHRIS MARTIN; GUY BERRYMAN; JONNY BUCKLAND & WILL CHAMPION.
COUNTRY: GERMAN
ALBUM: GREGORIAN 20/2020
LABEL: EDEL RECORDS
GENRE: GREGORIAN CHANT
YEAR: 2020
 
         Gregorian is a German band headed by Frank Peterson that performs Gregorian chant-inspired versions of modern pop and rock songs. The band features both vocal harmony and instrumental accompaniment. They competed in Unser Lied für Stockholm the German national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Masters of Chant". They placed 5th in the first round of the public voting, missing the top 3. They gained 9.06% of the public vote.
       Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.
           Gregorian chants were organized initially into four, then eight, and finally 12 modes. Typical melodic features include a characteristic ambitus, and also characteristic intervallic patterns relative to a referential mode final, incipits and cadences, the use of reciting tones at a particular distance from the final, around which the other notes of the melody revolve, and a vocabulary of musical motifs woven together through a process called centonization to create families of related chants. The scale patterns are organized against a background pattern formed of conjunct and disjunct tetrachords, producing a larger pitch system called the gamut. The chants can be sung by using six-note patterns called hexachords. Gregorian melodies are traditionally written using neumes, an early form of musical notation from which the modern four-line and five-line staff developed. Multi-voice elaborations of Gregorian chant, known as organum, were an early stage in the development of Western polyphony.
        Gregorian chant was traditionally sung by choirs of men and boys in churches, or by men and women of religious orders in their chapels. It is the music of the Roman Rite, performed in the Mass and the monastic Office. Although Gregorian chant supplanted or marginalized the other indigenous plainchant traditions of the Christian West to become the official music of the Christian liturgy, Ambrosian chant still continues in use in Milan, and there are musicologists exploring both that and the Mozarabic chant of Christian Spain. Although Gregorian chant is no longer obligatory, the Roman Catholic Church still officially considers it the music most suitable for worship. During the 20th century, Gregorian chant underwent a musicological and popular resurgence.

I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
 
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listened as the crowd would sing
Now the old king is dead!
Long live the king!
 
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
 
I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
 
For some reason I can't explain
Once you'd gone, there was never
Never an honest word
That was when I ruled the world
 
It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become
 
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh, who would ever want to be king?
 
I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
 
For some reason I can't explain
I know Saint Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
 
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Hear Jerusalem bells are ringing
Roman Cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
 
For some reason I can't explain
I know Saint Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world.

HOLD ME NOW

JOHNNY LOGAN
SONGWRITER: JOHNNY LOGAN
COUNTRY: IRELAND
ALBUM: HOLD ME NOW
LABEL: EPIC RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1987
 
         Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard (born 13 May 1954), better known by his stage name Johnny Logan, is an Irish singer and composer. He is known as being the only performer to have won the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 1980 and 1987. He also composed the winning song in 1992.
         Logan first won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980, with the song "What's Another Year" written by Shay Healy. In 1984, Logan composed the song "Terminal 3" which placed second at Eurovision, performed by Linda Martin. He won the contest for a second time in 1987 with "Hold Me Now", which he also wrote himself. His third win came in 1992, as composer of Linda Martin's winning entry "Why Me?".
          "Hold Me Now" is a song composed and performed by Irish singer Johnny Logan. It became the winner of the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest. Logan had previously won with "What's Another Year?" in the 1980 Contest and would go on to write the winner of the 1992 Contest ("Why Me?" for Linda Martin for whom he had previously written "Terminal 3" at the 1984 Contest). The song is usually sung by Bohemians at home matches in Dalymount Park.

Don't...
Don't close your heart to how you feel...
Dream...
And don't be afraid the dream's not real...
Close your eyes,
Pretend it's just the two of us again...
Make believe this moment's here to stay...
Touch...
Touch me the way you used to do...
I know...
Tonight could be all i have with you...
From now on you'll be with someone else
Instead of me...
So tonight... let's build this memory...
For the last time...
Hold me now
Don't cry
Don't say a word just...
Hold me now...
And i... will know though we're apart
We'll always be together
Forever in love...
What do you say when words are not enough?
Time...
Time will be kind once we're apart
And your tears...
Tears will have no place in your heart
I wish i...
I could say how much i'll miss you when you're gone
All my love for you will go on and on and...
Hold me now
Don't cry
Don't say a word just...
Hold me now...
And try... to understand that...
I hope that last you'll find
What you've been searching for
Though i won't be there anymore...
I will always... love you...
Hold me now
Don't cry
Don't say a word just...
Hold me now...
And i... will know though we're apart
We'll always be together
Forever inlove
What do you say when words are not enough?
What can i say now my words are not enough...?