Romantic songs

Back in the day...when jazz was still "cool."

Oh yeah...and after Stan Kenton came Gil Evans leading the charge into the future.

My favorite Evans album...got it in college in the 60's. Cool guitar work by Jim Crawford.

Seeing as how we've turned towards cool jazz scene, here is IMHO the greatest romantic song ever by Kern & Hammerstein, played by the two most cool sax guys ever.

GBA: Battle of los Aranjuez, huh? Always loved the Miles/Gil Evans version...but hated the friggin' castanets. Whose idea was that? I got to know Stan Kenton towards the end of his career. At the time, he had put together a very large jazz band called the Neophonic Orchestra. Do you remember that? He was a very kindly old man when I knew him. He really impressed me with the respectful way he dealt with people...including me.

...never had the pleasure. I remember freaking out the family at the annual christmas party when I slipped his christmas album into the record stack....my parents, aunts & uncles were all locked in the big band 40's mind set & did not appreciate Kenton, Miles, Charley, etc.

Seeing as how we've turned jazzy, & no one but usins' are playing in this sand box, let's look at probably the greatest jazz solo of all-time...certainly the longest...Paul Gonzalves with Ellington @ Newport, 1956.

Think I'll do some Beatles...starting with Paul McCartney.

And one from John...

One from Ringo...

And one from George...

...great thing about Lightfoot is you can always understand every word.

And here's some Guns N Roses.....November Rain

Hey....wern't those the guys that had to have certain colors of M&M's in their hotel rooms, but usually wound up destroying the room anyway?

GBATRUCKS wrote:Hey....wern't those the guys that had to have certain colors of M&M's in their hotel rooms, but usually wound up destroying the room anyway?

Nope close....Van Halen

From the smoking gun website


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Oh, and the band also needed "One (1) large tube KY Jelly."

The rider's "Munchies" section was where the group made its candy-with-a-caveat request: "M&M's (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES)." While the underlined rider entry has often been described as an example of rock excess, the outlandish demand of multimillionaires, the group has said the M&M provision was included to make sure that promoters had actually read its lengthy rider. If brown M&M's were in the backstage candy bowl, Van Halen surmised that more important aspects of a performance--lighting, staging, security, ticketing--may have been botched by an inattentive promoter.

Let's do some Melanie Safka...

Love her version of this one...

She really brings out the beauty in this...

Amen to that, Leonard...

Your Hot today Alex.


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The Roberta Flack purists will hate me for this...

Mary J. Blige...just another hip hop queen.

A booty call indeed...