2008.09.15 Killing me softly with his song

Lalah Hathaway



Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him, to listen for a while
And there he was, this young boy, a stranger to my eyes

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

I felt all flushed with fever, embarassed by the crowd
I felt he'd found my letters and read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly

He sang as if he knew me in all my dark despair
And then he looked right through me as if I wasn't there
But he was there, this stranger, singing clear and loud

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

2008.09.03 What's Going On

Marvin Gaye



Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
War is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know you've got to find a way
To bring some understanding yeah today

Aw, picket lines, picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me so you can see
Oh what's going on,
Tell me what's going on

Mother, mother
Ev'ry body thinks we're wrong
Baby who are they to judge us
'cause our hair is long
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today

2008.07.25 Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Keith Jarrett

2008.07.23 The Nearness Of You

Sarah Vaughan



Why do i just wither and forget all resistance
When you and your magic pass by
My heart's in a dither dear
When you're at a distance
But when you are near, oh my...

It's not the pale moon that excites me
That thrills and delights me, oh no
Its just the nearness of you

It isn't your sweet conversation
That brings this sensation, oh no
It's just the nearness of you

When you're in my arms and I feel you so close to me
All my wildest dreams come true

I need no soft lights to enchant me
If you’ll only grant me the right
To hold you ever so tight
And to feel in the night the nearness of you

2008.07.23 All The Things You Are

Keith Jarrett

2008.07.21 We're All Alone

Makoto Ozone

2008.07.21 KOKO

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO

2008.07.21 Spain

al jarreau



Yesterday, just a photograph of yesterday...
And all it's edges folded and the corners faded sleepy brown.
And yet it's all I have of our past love,
A post script to it's ending.

Brighter days, I can see such brighter days.
When every song we sang is sung again.
And now we know, we know this time it's for good.
And we're lovers once again...and you're near me.

I can remember the rain in December, the leaves of brown, on the ground...

In Spain I did love and adore you!
The nights filled with joy were our yesterdays
And tomorrow will bring you near me.

I can recall my desire
Every reverie is on fire
And I get a picture of all my yesterdays,
Yesterday I can say.
I get a kick every time they play...that spain again!

I can remember the rain in December, the leaves of brown, on the ground...

Our love was a spanish fiesta
The bright lights and songs were our joy each day!
And the nights were the heat of yearning.

I can recall my desire
Every reverie is on fire
And I get a picture of all my yesterdays,
Yesterday I can say.
I get a kick every time I see...you gaze at me

I see moments of history
Your eyes meet mine and they dance to the melody
And we live again, as if dreaming

The sound of our hearts beat like castenettes
And forever we'll know their meaning.

You gaze at me...I see moments of history.
Your eyes meet mine and they dance to the melody.
And we live again, as if dreaming

The sound of our hearts beat like castenettes
And forever we'll know their meaning.

2008.07.21 Pavane pour une Infante defunte

Fujiko Hemming

2008.07.21 A NIGHT IN TUNISIA

CHAKA KHAN




A long time ago in the 40's
Dizzy and Bird gave us this song
They called it "A Night In Tunisia"
And the melody still lingers on

It was new and very strange
Blew the squares right off the stage
Few could play along
But the melody still lingers on

Max and Miles to name just two
Together they grew
The music was young and strong
And the melody still lingers on

They paved the way for generations
From Coltrane to Stevie
No one could stop the winds of change
Without them where'd we be?

The Duke and the Prez were there before
The past you can't ignore
The torch is lit, we'll keep the flame
And the melody remains the same

In the 40's
A night in tunisia
In the 40's
A night in tunisia
In the 40's
A night in tunisia
In the 40's
A night in tunisia

2008.07.21 JOJO

Boz Scaggs



Look out behind you
Jojo's got his gun
He wouldn't mean to but
You know he likes his fun

Jojo dig those spinning lights
Way out games and dizzy heights
Below him
Jojo dig those Broadway nights
And flashy lines
You know him

He got you covered
You'll know it right out front
Hey fifty dollars
He'll get you all you want

Jojo dig those spinning lights
Way out games and dizzy heights
Below him
Jojo dig those Broadway nights
And flashy lines
You know him

Ever so rarely that man in a million is born
Gentle and soft but who'd just as soon off you
For looking the wrong way as not
Go Jo

His baby stays high
Got to keep her sweet
He keeps her just right
Keeps her on the street

Jojo dig those spinning lights
Way out games and dizzy heights
Below him
Jojo dig those Broadway nights
And flashy lines
You know him

Say what do you think of gentlemen wearing mink?
Gentle and soft but who'd just as soon off you as not
Go Jo

2008.07.21 My One And Only Love

oscar peterson the quartet ft. joe pass

2008.07.19 Come Rain Or Come Shine

The Bill Evans Trio

2008.07.19 jazz

Nat King Cole Oscar Peterson Trio & Coleman Hawkins

2008.07.19 I Just wanna stop

Gino Vannelli




For your love
For your love

When I think about those nights in Montreal
I get the sweetest thoughts of you and me
Memories of love above the city lights
Ooo, I've tried so hard to take it
But alone my heart won't make it

I just wanna stop
And tell you what I feel about you babe
I just wanna stop
I never wanna live without you babe
I just gotta stop
For your love

For your love
For your love
For your love

When I think about the way the world must turn
[the world must turn]
I get the saddest thoughts for you and me
[you and me]
Memories of life and times go on and on
Woaaa, I've tried hard to forget it
But alone my mind won't let it

I just wanna stop
And tell you what I feel about you babe
I just wanna stop
The world ain't right without you babe
I just gotta stop
For your love

---(instrumental interlude)---

Ooo, I've tried so hard to take it
But alone my heart won't make it

I just wanna stop
And tell you what I feel about you babe
I just wanna stop
The world ain't right without you babe
I just wanna stop
For your love

Stop
[hoo, hoo, hoo]
I just wanna stop
[hoo, hoo, hoo]
I just wanna stop
And tell you what I feel about you babe
I just wanna stop
The world ain't right without you babe
I just wanna stop
[hoo, hoo, hoo]
I just wanna stop

2008.07.19 Long Train Running

The Doobie Brothers




Down around the corner
A half a mile from here
You CAN see them LONG trains RUN
And you watch them disappear
Without love
Where would you be now
Without love

You know I saw Miss Lucy
Down along the tracks
She lost her home and her family
And she won't be comin' back
Without love
Where would you be RIGHT now
Without love

Well the Illinois Central
And the Southern Central Freight
Gotta keep on pushin' Mama
'Cause you know they're runnin' late
Without love
Where would you be now - now, now, now
Without love

WELL THE pistons keep on churnin'
And the wheels go 'round and 'round
And the steel rails are cold and hard
For the miles that they go down
Without love
Where would you be right now
Without love
Where would you be now

2008.07.19 Alone Again

Gilbert O'Sullivan





In a little while from now
If I’m not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying: ”My God, that’s tough
She’s stood him up”
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to well wouldn’t do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much, as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God and His mercy
Or if He really does exist
Why did He desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally

It seems to me that there are more hearts
broken in the world that can’t be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?

Alone again, naturally

Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn’t understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally

2008.07.19 SHAPE OF MY HEART

Sting



He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn't play for the money he wins
He don't play for respect

He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden law of a probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance

* I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
　I know that the clubs are weapons of war
　I know that diamonds mean money for this art
　But that's not the shape of my heart

He may play the jack of diamonds
He may lay the queen of spades
He may conceal a king in his hand
While the memory of it fades

* repeat

And if I told you that I loved you
You'd maybe think there's something wrong
I'm not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one

those who speak know nothin'
And find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who smile are lost

* repeat

That's not the shape, the shape of my heart...
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart...

2008.07.19 The Rose

Bette Midler




Some say love it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love it is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
And you its only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the sould afraid of dyin'
That never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose
　

2008.07.19 Fly me to the moon

Diana Krall




Fly me to the moon,
and let me play among the stars;
Let me see what spring
is like on Jupiter and Mars.
In Other Words; hold my hand!
In Other Words;darling kiss me!

Fill my heart with song,
and let me sing forever more;
You are all I long for,all I worship and a dore.
In Other Words;please be true
In Other Words;I love you!

2008.07.19 More Than You Know

Ella with Oscar Peterson



Whether you are here or yonder,
whether you are false or true
Whether you remain or wander,
I'm growing fonder of you
Even though your friends forsake you,
even though you don't succeed
Wouldn't I be glad to take you,
give you the break you need


More than you know, more than you know
Girl of my heart, I love you so
Lately I find you're on my mind
More than you know

Whether you're right, whether you're wrong
Girl of my heart, I'll string along
You need me so
Much more than you'll ever know

Loving you the way that I do
There's nothing I can do about it
Loving may be all you can give
But baby I can't live without it

Oh, how I'd cry, oh, how I'd cry
If you got tired and said "Good-bye"
More than I'd show
More than you'd ever know

2008.07.19 Run for cover

Marcus Miller




MARCUS MILLER(B)
LALAH HATHAWAY(VO,KB)
JOE SAMPLE(KB),
PHILIPPE SAISSE(KB)
DEAN BROWN(G)
EVERETTE HARP(SAX)
MICHAEL STEWART(TP)
POOGIE BELL(DS)
STEVE THORNTON(PERC)
STACY CAMPBELL(BACK-VO)
JEFFREY RAMSEY(BACK-VO)
SHARONE YOUNG(BACK-VO)

2008.07.19 In the Wee Small Hours

Sting & Chris Botti



In the wee small hours of the morning
While the whole wide world is fast asleep
You lie awake and think about the girl
And never ever think of counting sheep

When your lonely heart has learned its lesson
You'd be hers if only she would call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That's the time you miss her most of all

When your lonely heart has learned its lesson
You'd be hers if only she would call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That's the time you miss her most of all

2008.07.19 Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight

James Taylor



Do me wrong, do me right,
Tell me lies but hold me tight,
Save your goodbyes for the morning light,
But don't let me be lonely tonight.

Say goodbye and say hello,
Sure enough good to see you, but it's time to go,
Don't say yes but please don't say no,
I don't want to be lonely tonight.

Go away then, damn you,
Go on and do as you please,
You ain't gonna see me gettin' down on my knees.
I'm undecided, and your heart's been divided,
You've been turning my world upside down.

Do me wrong, do me right (right now baby),
Go on and tell me lies but hold me tight.
Save your goodbyes for the morning light (morning light),
But don't let me be lonely tonight.
I don't want to be lonely tonight.
No, no, I don't want to be lonely tonight.

I don't want to be lonely tonight.

2008.07.18 Dont Know Why

Norah Jones




I waited 'til I saw the sun
I don't know why I didn't come
I left you by the house of fun
I don't know why I didn't come

When I saw the break of day
I wished that I could fly away
Instead of kneeling in the sand
Catching teardrops in my hand

My heart is drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind
Forever

Out across the endless sea
I would die in ecstasy
But I'll be a bag of bones
Driving down the road along

My heart is drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind
Forever

Something has to make you run
I don't know why I didn't come
I feel as empty as a drum
I don't know why I didn't come



Pat Metheny

2008.07.18 Just The Way You Are

Diana Krall



Don't go changing, try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore

I would not leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.

I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

2008.07.18 clair

Gilbert O'Sullivan



Clair, the moment I met you I swear
I felt as if something somewhere
Had happened to me
Which I couldn't see

And then
The moment I met you again
I knew in my heart THAT we were friends
It had to be so
It couldn't be no

But try as hard as I might do I don't know why
You get to me in a way I can't describe
Words mean so little when you look up and smile
I don't care what people say,
To me you're more than a child
Oh! Clair, Clair

Clair, if ever a moment so rare
Was captured for all to compare
That moment is you
It's all that you do

But why in spite of our age difference do I cry
Each time I leave you I feel I could die
Nothing means more to me than hearing you say
I'm going to marry you
Will you marry me Uncle Ray?
Oh! Clair, Clair


Clair, I've told you before
Don't you dare
Get back into bed
Can't you see that it's late
No you can't have a drink
Oh! all right then but wait just a bit
While I, in an effort to baby sit,
Catch of my breath what there is left of it.
You can be murder at this hour of the day
But in the morning this hour
Will seem a lifetime away
Oh! Clair, Clair

Oh Clair

2008.07.18 Desperado

Eagles





Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You`ve been out riding on fences for so long now
Oh, you're hard one
(But) I know that you`ve got your reasons
These things that are pleasing you
Will hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet
Now (well) it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get

Desperado, oh, you ain't getting no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they're (are) driving you home
(And) Freedom, oh freedom, well, that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day

You're losing all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, (and) open the gate
It may be raining, but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, let somebody love you
(You better) let somebody love you, before it's too late

2008.07.18 Close To You

The Carpenters



Why do birds Suddenly appear?
Everytime you are near
Just like me they long to be
Close to you

Why do stars Fall down from the sky?
Everytime you walk by
Just like me They long to be
Close to you

On the day that you were born
The angels got together and decided
To create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moondust in your hair
Of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue


That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me they long to be
Close to you

On the day that you were born
The angels got together and decided
To create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moondust in your hair
Of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue

Just like me they long to be
Close to you

Woo... Close to you...

2008.07.18 In my life

Bette Midler




There are plasces l remember
All my life though some have changed
Some foever not for better
Some have gone and some remain

All these places had their moments
With loves and friends l still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
ln my life l've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no-one compares with you
And there memories lose their meaning
When l think of love as something new

Though l know l'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
l know l'll often stop and think about them
ln my life l love you more

Though l know l'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
l know l'll often stop and think about them
ln my life l love you more