NATACHA

RAUL VASQUEZ
COMPOSITOR: RAUL VASQUEZ
PAIS: PERU
ÁLBUM: NATACHA
DISCOGRÁFICA: DISCOS VENUS
GÉNERO: BALADA
AÑO: 1970
 
      Raúl Vásquez(Iquitos; 4 de enero de 1949) es un cantautor peruano de nueva ola. Es conocido popularmente como El monstruo de la canción.
Comenzó su carrera artística en el Festival Internacional de la Primavera de Trujillo de 1969 donde interpretó el que sería su mayor éxito «La plañidera», canción que el argentino Leonardo Favio adoptó en su repertorio musical.
         Año 1970, el Perú estaba bajo el mandato de Juan Velasco Alvarado y uno de los momentos más conocidos y nefastos de la historia del Perú en aquel año fué el terremoto de 7.8 de magnitud en el escala de Richter en el departamento de Ancash, lo cual produjo un aluvión formado por las gigantescas masas de hielo que se desprendieron del nevado Huascarán sepultando la ciudad de Yungay con un resultado de más de 70 mil muertos.
      En ese mismo año, el cantante proveniente de Loreto, Raúl Vásquez, alcanzó notoriedad con la balada "Natacha" al convertirse en "la música de fondo" de la archiconocidísima telenovela del mismo nombre.
        Otros temas suyos, muchos de contenido social, fueron «La Tierra, la Tierra» (con la que participó también en el Festival de Trujillo de 1969), «Voy a guardar mi lamento» (internacionalizado por Pepito Pérez), «Natacha» (tema de la telenovela homónima), «Vas a ser mi compañera», «Campesinita azul», «Fidelidad» (en colaboración con Rulli Rendo), «Simplemente María», «La muchacha que vino de lejos» y «Todos los días pueden ser Navidad», canción con la que representó al Perú en el Festival de la OTI de 1984, quedando en el puesto 15.
          Otra de sus canciones, «Bienvenidos a Iquitos», es un emblema de la ciudad loretana, donde ha sido nombrado Hijo Predilecto y Patrimonio musical y cultural de Loreto.
      En el panorama de la música popular peruana Raúl Vásquez, es la modernización de la canción a finales de los años 60 y en los comienzos de los años 70. El jovenzuelo que empezó a cantar en pequeñas bandas de barrio. Aparece en 1969 en el Festival de la canción de la Ciudad de Trujillo, en donde se presenta con dos canciones:
           La Plañidera y
           La tierra, la tierra,
         las dos composiciones fueron premiadas en esa edición, y él se convirtió en un personaje de la cultura popular.
           “El monstruo de la canción”
    lo bautizó el periodista David Odría, porque escribía como Bob Dylan pero cantaba como un juglar; aunque en realidad era un narrador de historias cotidianas y urbanas. Por esos días, meses y años la música mundial estaba dominada por Elvis Presley, The Beatles y los Rolling Stones.
        “Yo maté la nueva ola” dijo el cantautor en una conversación entre botellas van y botellas vienen.
Desojada florecita
tu inocencia es blanca nube
lalalala
que al cielo ira
 
la enramada de la vida
puso espinas al camino
más pasara
 
quien te juzga
no ha vivido lo que tu viviste
para ser al fin una mujer
oh Natacha, oh Natacha
 
pasaran los malos días
para dar paso a los nuevos
y sonreirán
quien te juzga
no ha vivido lo que tu viviste
para ser al fin una mujer
oh Natacha ,oh Natacha
lalalala
Natacha.

MY LITTLE BROWN BOOK

DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE
SONGWRITER: BILLY STRAYHORN
HOW: INSTRUMENTAL
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE
LABEL: IMPULSE!
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1974
 
          Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
        Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured Europe several times.
         Some of the jazz musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered among the best players in the idiom. Ellington melded them into the best-regarded orchestral unit in the history of jazz. Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's "Caravan", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. At the end of the 1930s, Ellington began a nearly thirty-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion. With Strayhorn, he composed multiple extended compositions, or suites, as well as many short pieces. For a few years at the beginning of Strayhorn's involvement, Ellington's orchestra is considered to have been at its peak, with bassist Jimmy Blanton and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster briefly members. Following a low-profile period (Hodges temporarily left), an appearance by Ellington and his orchestra at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1956 led to a major revival and regular world tours. Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in and scored several films, and composed a handful of stage musicals.
         Although a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, in the opinion of Gunther Schuller and Barry Kernfeld, "the most significant composer of the genre", Ellington himself embraced the phrase "beyond category", considering it a liberating principle, and referring to his music as part of the more general category of American Music. Ellington was known for his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, as well as for his eloquence and charisma. He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999
        John William Coltrane(September 23, 1926–July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
        Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes and was one of the players at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions and appeared on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianista Thelonious Monk. Over the course of his career, Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension, as exemplified on his most acclaimed albums A Love Supreme(1965) and Ascension(1966).
  He remains one of the most influential saxophonists in music history and has received numerous posthumous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 2007, and was canonized by the African Orthodox Church.
       His second wife was pianist and harpista Alice Coltrane. The couple had three children: John Jr. (1964–1982), a bassist; Ravi(born 1965), a saxophonist; and Oran(born 1967), a saxophonist, guitarist, drummer and singer.
My little brown book
With the silver binding
How it keeps reminding me
Of a memory
That's haunting me.
In some quiet nook
I go thru its pages
And peruse this ageless tale
Of a love that failed
To ever become true.
On this page is the date
Of that fateful night at eight
When I found you were no longer in love.
After that there's nothing more
Just a dark and futile door
That shuts out the stars above.
In my little book
I inscribed your heart vow
But since we're apart now
This and that last sweet kiss
Is all that's left of you
Is all that's left of you.

BLUE SKIES

ELLA FITZGERALD
SONGWRITER: IRVING BERLIN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: GET HAPPY
LABEL: VERVE RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1959
 
           Ella Jane Fitzgerald(April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
      After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career. Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to Norman Granz, who founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great American Songbook.
       While Fitzgerald appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career. These partnerships produced some of her best-known songs such as "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Cheek to Cheek", "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall", and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". In 1993, after a career of nearly 60 years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later, she died at the age of 79 after years of declining health. Her accolades included 14Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, the NAACP's inaugural President's Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
        Get Happy! is a 1959 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with various studio orchestras over a two-year period.
Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see
 
Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long
 
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly
 
Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on
 
I never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going oh-so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're in love, my how they fly
 
Blue days
All of them gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on. 

SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES

NAT KING COLE & RAY CONNIFF
SONGWRITERS: Jerome Kern & Otto Harbach
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE NAT KING COLE SHOW
LABEL: KING COLE PARTNERS, LLC
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1957
 
          Nathaniel Adams Coles(March 17, 1919–February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, songwriter, and actor. He recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole also acted in films and on television and performed on Broadway. He was the first African-American man to host an American television series. He was the father of singer Natalie Cole.
          "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta. The song was sung in the Broadway show by Tamara Drasin. Its first recorded performance was by Gertrude Niesen, who recorded the song with orchestral direction from Ray Sinatra, Frank Sinatra's second cousin, on October 13, 1933. Niesen's recording of the song was released by Victor, with the B-side, "Jealousy", featuring Isham Jones and his Orchestra.
        Paul Whiteman had the first hit recording of the song on the record charts in 1934.
          On October 30, 1946, Nat "King" Cole recorded the song in his trio with Oscar Moore on guitar and Johnny Miller on double bass, during a live broadcast from New York City. Cole performed it on television in 1957 for The Nat King Cole Show.
They ask me how I knew
My true love was true
Ohh, I of course replied
Something dear inside
Cannot be denied
 
They said some day you'll find
All who love are blind
Ohh, when your heart's on fire
You must realize
Smoke gets in your eyes
 
So I chaffed them
And I gaily laughed
To think they could doubt my love
 
Yet today
My love has flown away
I am without my love
 
Now laughing friends deride
Tears I cannot hide
Ohh, so I smile and say
When a lovely flame dies
Smoke gets in your eyes
Smoke gets in your eyes.