duaneiac Posted November 22, 2014 Report Posted November 22, 2014 Mr. Death has a lot on his plate, so somehow I got lost in the shuffle for an extra 2 minutes and 3 seconds . . . http://youtu.be/SEaQDKiahi0 I'd be very happy to exit this world on the last note of this song. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted November 22, 2014 Report Posted November 22, 2014 I would probably start side one of the 10" lp shown below - Creole Love Call, Washington Wabble, Blues I Love to Sing and (if I linger a while) Harlem River Quiver. This music has been central to my life for over half a century. Quote
kh1958 Posted November 23, 2014 Report Posted November 23, 2014 (edited) Charlie Patton, Prayer of Death, parts 1 and 2, then Jelly Roll Morton, Deadman Blues, takes 1 and 2--that's 12 minutes--how about an encore? The King Oliver version of Deadman Blues? Edited November 23, 2014 by kh1958 Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted November 23, 2014 Report Posted November 23, 2014 Charlie Patton, Prayer of Death, parts 1 and 2, then Jelly Roll Morton, Deadman Blues, takes 1 and 2--that's 12 minutes--how about an encore? The King Oliver version of Deadman Blues? A great farewell. Quote
medjuck Posted November 23, 2014 Report Posted November 23, 2014 Well ten minutes is time for two songs, if you pick carefully, so I'm going with Gene Harris, "Blues for Ste Chapelle," one of my favorites of Gene's "happy" blues originals. To be followed by Maria Muldaur, He Don't Have The Blues Anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwLDp8cPjm4 It will run a bit past ten minutes, so Death can come back and hear that I'm ready to go as Maria takes me out: He's not worried about his rent You know his money's all been spent He don't care if they repossess his car He no longer is afraid You know his debts have all been paid No, he don't have the blues anymore He's got a smile on his face that cannot be erased No, he don't have to worry like before. Lord, he's finally settled down Stopped all that running 'round No, he don't have the blues anymore One by one he's said goodbye to the trouble and all the strife Now he's headed where he's never been before He no longer feels alone He's finally found a happy home Oh, he don't have the blues anymore All his friends were glad to see that he's finally been set free And they took him and they laid him in the ground He's finally got it made He's just resting in the shade Oh, he don't have the blues anymore Now he's gone beyond the sky with the angels up on high and he's headed right for Heaven's open door He's been pardoned and released Finally filled with a heavenly peace Oh, he don't have the blues anymore Great choice. Maria's really underrated-- as is her ex. Quote
GA Russell Posted November 23, 2014 Report Posted November 23, 2014 My first thought was... from Herbie Mann's album Standing Ovation at Newport Stolen Moments ***** But the idea of dying while the music is still playing appeals to me, so in that case I would put on... from Pharaoh Sander's album Karma The Creator Has a Master Plan Quote
JSngry Posted November 23, 2014 Author Report Posted November 23, 2014 I would probably start side one of the 10" lp shown below - Creole Love Call, Washington Wabble, Blues I Love to Sing and (if I linger a while) Harlem River Quiver. This music has been central to my life for over half a century. whoa...I just about died seeing that album cover...intense. Quote
Noj Posted November 23, 2014 Report Posted November 23, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRPRU26npqI Quote
medjuck Posted November 23, 2014 Report Posted November 23, 2014 I'd have to go full-bore retrospective and put this on (LP version, the folks' Glenn Miller Story soundtrack LP on decca) because it's the only thing I can think of that I've heard for literally as long as I can remember, had the record for even before I could remember, and about the only thing that meets those criteria that I can still run into with full embraces, always have always will. Besides, by the time that thing's over and I've done danced it out, hey, fuck it, we're good for anything now, let's go. Born/Adopted into a Glenn Miller world, surreptitiously & permanently abducted by that funny little man in the white coat, onward through the fog into the light, often looking back but never moving back, always home/never home, what becomes of the broken-headed? How 'bout Billy Kyle and that 9th chord at the very end, how's that for ending by taking the next step up? Well I'm older than you so I do remember when my family got this record. What I don't remember is whether the song was split in two on the Lp. BTW it's fitting that it was used in The Glen Miller Story: I have a Jack Teagarden record of a live concert on which he introduces Basin Street by saying that he and Glen Miller wrote the introduction to it at the request of Ben Pollack. Pops plays, but doesn't sing, the intro: it's the part that goes "Won't you come along with me...". Quote
JSngry Posted November 23, 2014 Author Report Posted November 23, 2014 "Bain Street" closed one side of the LP. Closing the other side was this: Quote
BeBop Posted November 23, 2014 Report Posted November 23, 2014 A recording of my late wife's voice. But if it had to be music, I'd be delighted with... Lady Be Good - Lester Young and Parker's Mood - Charlie Parker Quote
Thomas Jackson Posted December 8, 2014 Report Posted December 8, 2014 Miles Davis - Kind of Blue. word Quote
ejp626 Posted December 8, 2014 Report Posted December 8, 2014 Really not sure -- perhaps the last movement of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.Does that count as hedging my bets too much? Quote
johnblitweiler Posted December 8, 2014 Report Posted December 8, 2014 side 1 of Jelly's 1926 Peppers - by skipping alternate takes, I'll go out during Sidewalk Blues Quote
catesta Posted December 9, 2014 Report Posted December 9, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcXFy8QTC4 Quote
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