Lá fui eu garimpar de novo. Depois de mergulhar no rock sessentista de Guess Who e um pouco de T-Rex, voltei minhas atenções ao jazz neste sabadão, por conta de um CD prometido a uma amiga. Depois gravar um bom som, não resisti e fui buscar algo ‘novo’ pra dar uma incrementada em minha mp3teca. Me debandei lá pros lados do slsk e esbarrei num Thelonius Monk Quartet e John Coltrane ao vivo no Carnigie Hall em 1957 com boa taxa de velocidade. Aproveitei pra pegar também um Love Supreme, que tenho em CD (um presente lindo de Yan) mas não no computador. Falha imperdoável já devidamente remediada.
Escute Acknowledgement (Reconhecimento), primeiro movimento de Love Supreme, e veja se não tenho razão:
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Líder de uma das minhas bandas favoritas, The Negro Problem, o vocalista Stew fez uma declaração de amor em forma de música a Thelonius Monk.
In time all time
“Sail on friend
As there is no end
Let us dance this waltz and unwind
Soldering gun
For my nerves of steel
And a cool wind blown all my mind
It’s like my birthday everyday
Cause Mr. Monk is such a ray of wisdom and light
He dried all the fears from my eyes
And in time all time will be time
He’s such a ray of wisdom and light
Ivory brain
Cymbal window pane
Cut a rug whenever you like
Smoldrling sun like a dream you feel
Or an ice cap melting in line
It’s like my birthday everyday
Cause Mr. Monk is such a ray of wisdom and light
He dried all the fears from my eyes
And in time all time will be time
He’s such a ray of wisdom and light
It’s like my birthday everyday
Cause Mr. Monk is such a ray of wisdom and light
He dried all the fears from my eyes
And in time all time will be time
He’s such a ray of wisdom and light
It’s like my birthday everyday
Cause Mr. Monk is such a ray of wisdom and light
Yeah he dried all the fears from my eyes
And in time all time will be time
He’s such a ray of wisdom and light
He’s such a ray of wisdom and light
He’s such a ray of wisdom and light
He’s such a ray of wisdom and light
He’s such a ray of wisdom and light
(Ray reached up in light)”
Muito bom, Fabio!!
Não lembro onde eu li, mas dizem que Stew é um dos maiores compositores da atualidade. E acho que é mesmo. Em junho ele recebeu o Tony, de Melhor Musical, por Passing Strange. Deve ser bem legal. Stew explica de onde veio a inspiração:
“We have GWBush to thank for this play. Seriously. When I found out that he had never been to Europe in his youth (or in his adulthood until he becme prez!!!) I immediately knew I wanted to write a play about a kid who wanted to go to europe. That fact about Bush said a lot to me about America’s lack of interest in anything foreign except that which it can exploit (always to exploit – never to learn from). Can you imagine an uber-privileged billionaire’s son from any other country that would not have been curious enough to travel to a foreign country or two or 3 or 20? Especially when you’re talking the kind of money where you already OWN a few airplanes yourself? As someone whose experience abroad informed and shaped my very being and consciousness about everything from sexuality, politics, culture, language and human nature, I became obsessed with this factoid and decided this incuriosity was at the heart of the war. I realized that we are actually suffering the results of Bush’s and his cronies’ incuriousness… their dimwitted foreign policy time and again shows that beneath it all these fuckers don’t even care about trying to understand the world they wish to dominate.”
hehe.
Aqui, uma palhinha do show:
http://www.negroproblem.com/
Ah!, só mais uma coisinha: Spike Lee transformou o musical em filme.
Ah, é? qual o nome?
Passing Strange.
Now i am glad i stumbled here again!
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