This Yesterday Will Never End

This Yesterday Will Never End
This is what I'm thinking right now~

Lars Danielsson - Bird Through The Wall

この曲がきっかけで、Nils Petter Molvaerのトランペットにはまった。。。

Anthony Bourdain - The Layover Dublin Ireland

下一站，都柏林。
比起任何旅遊指南，我選擇Anthony Bourdain。

Los Amantes Pasajeros

Soy Malagueña.
A mi me gusta Pedro Almodóvar.
Es un genio!!!

The Sound Of Snow

From album "Home" (Sunny Side Records，2010）

Sophisticated Lady

"Sophisticated Lady" is a jazz standard, composed as an instrumental in 1932 by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills, to which words were added by Mitchell Parish. The words met with approval from Ellington, who described them as "wonderful — but not entirely fitted to my original conception." That original conception was inspired by three of Ellington's grade school teachers. "They taught all winter and toured Europe in the summer. To me that spelled sophistication."

After Hours is a 1961 studio album by American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan. This was Vaughan's first album with just guitar and double bass accompaniment, it was followed by 1963's Sarah + 2 in a similar vein.

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded After Hours three stars and said that "the emphasis throughout is exclusively on Sassy's magnificent voice. The program mostly sticks to ballads, with a couple of exceptions...and is a quiet and intimate affair, with Vaughan more subtle than she sometimes was. Despite a lightweight version of "My Favorite Things" that will not remind listeners of John Coltrane, this is an excellent if brief set (34-and-a-half minutes) with some fine jazz singing".

Sarah's accompanied by Mundell Lowe (guitar) and
George Duvivier (double bass). Pictured along with Sarah in video is Richard Davis. Recorded in RKO-Path Studio, New York City, July 18, 1961. (Roulette Records)

Sophisticated Lady

Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow, nonchalant
Diamonds shining, dancing, dining with some man in a restaurant
Is that all you really want?

No, no, no, no sophisticated lady
I know, you miss the love you lost long ago
And when nobody is nigh you cry

They say into your early life romance came
And in this heart of yours burned a flame
A flame that flickered one day and died away

Then with disillusion deep in your eyes
You learned that fools in love soon grow wise
The years have changed you, somehow, I see you now

Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow, nonchalant
Diamonds shining, dancing, dining with some man in a restaurant
Is that all you really want?

No, no, no, no sophisticated lady
I know, you miss the love you lost long ago
And when nobody is nigh you cry
You cry
You cry

[ECM 1058] Steve Kuhn - Ecstasy (1974)

All Artworks by Midori　 (from my  out of print ECM LP) 

Steve Kuhn - ECSTASY

Steve Kuhn piano

"Silver" - 8:49
"Prelude in G" - 4:26
"Ulla" - 7:23
"Thoughts of a Gentleman - The Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers" - 12:16
"Life's Backward Glance" - 4:45


All compositions by Steve Kuhn
Recorded at Arne Bendiksen Studio in Oslo, Norway on November 1, 1974

ECM 1058


Steve Kuhn、1974年のピアノ・ソロ。極めて耽美的で官能的な演奏だが、それだけでは無い。狂気や激情が迸る、圧倒的な名盤。もう何十年も聴いているけれど、何回聴いてもやられる。


Review by Ken Dryden

Steve Kuhn performs five unaccompanied originals on this 1974 studio session recorded in Norway.

"Silver," his fascinating opener, is a haunting ballad with many faces, occasionally mysterious, but generally shimmering.

"Prelude in G" features Kuhn's wide-ranging right hand (bordering on avant-garde at times) over a fairly steady vamp.

"Ulla" is yet another lovely ballad, though the mood changes with a series of single repeated notes and chords in the second half of the piece, possibly symbolizing the passing of time and the fading of a love affair.

"Thoughts of a Gentleman/The Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers" seems like a title more suitable to a Dave Frishberg composition, but this extended work is anything but tongue in cheek.

"Life's Backward Glance" mixes avant-garde and post-bop, with a somewhat classical flavor.

Beautifully recorded by engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug, this out of print ECM LP is well worth seeking.



   今日はジャズ・ピアニスト、スティーヴ・キューンの登場です。現在ではオーソドックスなモダン・ジャズ・ピアニストとして有名になったキューンですが、70年代のデビュー間もない頃はマンフレート・アイヒャーが主催するＥＣＭレーベルに所属する知る人ぞ知る耽美派のピアニストでした。エクスタシーというタイトルのこのアルバムは私の大好きなピアノ・ソロ・アルバムです。1974年録音。オスロ。

　70年代のＥＣＭといえばひたすらこの種の耽美的音世界を追求しておりある種貴重なレーベルという印象です。現在も活動を続けているようですね。

　このエクスタシーというアルバムの1曲目のシルバーという曲を聴いてみてください。まさに究極のピアノ美です。学生時代に4畳半の狭い下宿で何度この曲を聴いたことでしょう。刹那的ではありますが無限大の音空間に浮遊することができます。そして今ここに自分は確かに存在しているのだという至福感に満たされるのでした。当時のキューンのピアノはジャズという範疇ではくれないもっと自由な音楽です。

1.シルヴァー
2.プレリュード・イン G
3.ウラ
4.ある男の物語~ハリソン・クラブフェザー氏の武勇談
5.ライフズ・バックワード・グランス

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很榮幸，將紐約Jazz Record Center架子上僅餘的Steve Kuhn絕版黑膠全部掃清
（當然，掃清的豈止Steve Kuhn ：D )

一如Ken Dryden所講，
由音響之神 Jan Erik Kongshaug 錄製的這張黑膠，音色通透靚絶
直如唱片名：Ecstasy，令人狂喜 ～

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Hey, you aren't buying a bottle,
You're gonna get the seasons in your hand!
Cool ~