最近興味を持っている曲 "Four Women" です。 Dee Alexander も歌っています。 ダイアン以外の3人はわたしは知りません。 圧倒的な歌の上手さを見せ付けてくれるダイアンです。
********************************************************* アルバムリスト(登場降順) ********************************************************* #1 - Dianne Reeves : The nearness of you (Complete Edition) / Blue Note / 1988
********************************************************* reserved (alphabetical) ********************************************************* Dianne Reeves / Art & Survival / 1993 Dianne Reeves / Beautiful Life / 2014 Dianne Reeves / Bridges / 1999 Dianne Reeves / The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan / 2001 (サラ・ヴォーン ソングブックで取り上げた) Dianne Reeves / Christmas in Harlem / 1992 Dianne Reeves / Christmas Time Is Here / 2004 Dianne Reeves / Come In / 1989 Dianne Reeves / Dianne Reeves / 1987 Dianne Reeves / For Every Heart Dianne Reeves / Good Night & Good Luck [Original Soundtrack] / 2005 Dianne Reeves / The Grand Encounter / 1996 Dianne Reeves / In the Moment: Live in Concert / 2000 Dianne Reeves / A Little Moonlight / 2003 Dianne Reeves / Live at the New Morning Dianne Reeves / Never Said (Chan's Song) Dianne Reeves / Never Too Far / 1990 Dianne Reeves / New Morning / 1997 Dianne Reeves / Quiet After the Storm / 1994 Dianne Reeves / That Day... / 1997 Dianne Reeves / Welcome to My Love / 1977 Dianne Reeves / When You Know / 2004 Dianne Reeves / Who Knows Where Love Goes
********************************************************* 登場曲 (alphabetical) Composer/Lyricist/year - (comment No.) ********************************************************* "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaria/Oscar Brown Jr./1959) - (#2) "Ancient Source" (Eduardo Del Barrio/Ernesto J.Herrera/1977) - (#16) "For All We Know" (John Fred Coots/Sam M. Lewis/1934) - (#10) "How High The Moon" (Morgan Lewis/Nancy Hamilton/1940) - (#8) "I Remember Sky" (Stephen Sondheim/????) - (#4) "Like A Lover" (Dorival Caymmi/Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman/????) - (#7) "Love For Sale" (Cole Porter/1930) - (#13) "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael/Ned Washington/1938) - (#3, 15) "Oh What A Freedom" (Dianne Reeves/1987) - (#18) "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise" (Sigmund Romberg/Oscar Hammerstein II/1928) - (#14) "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" (Tommy Wolf/Frances Landesman/1955) - (#17) "You Taught My Heart To Sing" (McCoy Tyner/Sammy Cahn/1993) - (#9)
Dianne Reeves : The nearness of you (Complete Edition)
Label : Blue Note
収録曲
1. Afro Blue (M. Santamaria / O. Brown Jr.)
2. The Nearness Of You / Misty (New Versoin) (H. Carmichel / Ned Washington | E. Garner / J. Burke)
3. I Remember Sky (Stephen Sondheim)
4. Love For Sale (Cole Porter)
5. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (S. Romberg / O. Hammersteine)
6. Like A Lover (Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman / Dorival Caymmi)
7. How Hight The Moon (Nancy Hamilton / Morgan Lewis)
8. You Taught My Heart To Sing (Sammy Cahn / McCoy Tyner)
9. For All We Know (J. Fred Coots / Sam M. Lewis)
10. The Nearness Of You/Misty ((H. Carmichel / Ned Washington | E. Garner / J. Burke)
11. Ancient Source ( Eduardo Del Barrio)
12. Spring Ccan Really Hang You Up The Most (Tommy Wolf / Frances Landesman)
13. Oh What A Freedom (Dianne Reeves)
Artists
Dianne Reeves (vo)
Justo Aimario, Greg Osby, Gerald Albright (sax)
Charles Mims, Billy Childs, Donald Brown, Mulgrew Miller, David Torkanowsky (p)
Chris Severin, Charnett Moffett, Tony Dumas (b)
Billy Kilson, Barvin Smity Smith, Terri Lyne Carrington, Michael Baker (ds)
Bill Summers, Luis Conte, Ron Powell (per)
Bobby Hutcherson (vib)
Kevin Eubanks (g)
Blue Note Records のアルバムなのですが、日本版(?)で、(Complete Edition)と歌ってあります。
実は Blue Note から出ているアルバム "I Remember" 収録の9曲に「ジャズ・シンガー」(調べ切れませんでした)の4曲を加えた日本独自仕様のアルバムになるのです。
よく判っていないわたしは、先に "I Remember" を手に入れたので、次にこのアルバムを手に入れてビックリした次第です(汗)
Dream of a land my soul is from
I hear a hand stroke on a drum
Elegant boy
Beautiful girl
Dancing for joy
Elegant whirl
Shades of delight
Cocoa hue
Rich as the night
Afro blue
Two young lovers dance face to face
With undulating grace
They gently sway
Then slip away
To some secluded place
Shades of delight
Cocoa hue
Rich as the night
Afro blue
Whispering trees
Echo their sighs
Passionate pleas
Tender replies
Lovers in flight
Upward they glide
Burst at the height
Slowly subside
Shades of delight
Cocoa hue
Rich as the night
Afro blue
And my slumbering fantasy assumes reality
Until it seems it's not a dream
The two are you and me
Shades of delight
Cocoa hue
Rich as the night
Afro blue
Oh shades of delight
Cocoa hue
Rich as the night
Afro blue
Look at me,
I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree;
And I feel like I'm clingin' to a cloud,
I can' t understand
I get misty, just holding your hand.
Walk my way,
And a thousand violins begin to play,
Or it might be the sound of your hello,
That music I hear,
I get misty, the moment you're near.
Can't you see that you're leading me on?
And it's just what I want you to do,
Don't you notice how hopelessly
I'm lost
That's why I'm following you.
On my own,
When I wander through this wonderland alone,
Never knowing my right foot from my left
My hat from my glove
I'm too misty, and too much in love.
作曲 : Stephen Sondheim
作詞 : Stephen Sondheim
作曲年 ????
Stephen Sondheim は舞台音楽で長年活躍してきた人のようで、アカデミー賞やトニー賞、グラミー賞に何度か輝いている人です。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim
彼が書いた曲がジャズのスタンダード曲にどれくらいなっているのか、ちょっと調べ切れませんでした。
ダイアンは美しい声で小細工なしに歌いこなしています。
I remember sky
It was blue as ink
Or at least I think
I remember sky.
I remember snow
Soft as feathers
Sharp as thumb tacks
Coming down like lint
And it made you squint
When the wind would blow.
And ice like vinyl
On the streets
Cold as silver
White as sheets
Rain like strings
And changing things
Like leaves.
I remember leaves
Green as spearmint
Crisp as paper.
I remember trees
Bare as coat racks
Spread like broken umbrellas.
And parks and bridges,
Ponds and zoos,
Ruddy faces,
Muddy shoes,
Light and noise and
Bees and boys
And days.
I remember days,
Or at least I try.
But as years go by
They're sort of haze,
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky.
作曲 : Dorival Caymmi
作詞 : Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman (ご夫妻です)
作曲年 ????
作曲者の Dori Caymmi についてはこちらをご覧ください。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dori_Caymmi
元はブラジル音楽になるようです。
ポルトガル語の詞があって、バーグマン夫妻が英語詞をつけたものなのかどうかは調べ切れませんでした。
ダイアンは張りのある声で歌い上げています。
Like a lover the morning sun
Slowly rises and kisses you awake
Your smile is soft and drowsy
As you let it play upon your face
Oh how I dream I might be like the morning sun to you
How I envy a cup that knows your lips
Let it be me, my love
And a table that feels your fingertips
Let it be me, let me be the one
Put an end to these lonely days and nights
Without you
Like a lover the river wind
Slides and ripples
Its fingers through your hair
Upon your cheek it lingers
Never having known a sweeter place
Oh how I dream I might be like the river wind to you
Like a lover the velvet moon
Shares your pillow and watches while you sleep
Its light arrives on tiptoe
Gently taking you in its embrace
Oh how I dream I might be like the velvet moon
How I dream I might be like the morning sun
How I dream I might be like the river wind the river wind
How I dream how I dream I dream
I might be with you
How I envy a cup that knows your lips
Or a table that feels your fingertips
How I dream how I dream how I dream how I dream
I might be with you
Somewhere there's music
How faint the tune
Somewhere there's heaven
How high the moon
There is no moon above
When love is far away too
Till it comes true
That you love me as I love you
Somewhere there's heaven
It's where you are
Somewhere there's music
How near, how far
The darkest night would shine
If you would come to me soon
Until you will, how still my heart
How high the moon
How high the moon
Is the name of this song
How high the moon
Though the words maybe wrong
We're singin' it because you ask for it
So we're swingin' it just for you
How high the moon
Does it touch the stars
How high the moon
Does it reach out to mars
Though the words maybe wrong to this song
We're askin' how high high high high is the moon
Though the words maybe wrong to that song
We're askin' how high high high high is the moon
We meet and it begins
The sound of violins
The song of birds high on the wing
You taught my heart to sing
Why does this heart of mine
Feel like a valentine
You smiled and suddenly it's spring
You taught my heart to sing
My heart was an empty shell
Then you came along
Now my heart's a carousel
Filled with song
The miracle of you
Will last my whole life through
You're all I'll keep remembering
You taught my heart to sing
My heart was an empty shell
Then you came along
Now my heart's a carousel
Filled with song
The miracle of you
Will last my whole life through
You're all I'll keep remembering
You taught my heart to sing
Oh la la la la la la la
You taught my heart
You taught my heart to sing
You taught my heart to sing
For all we know
We may never meet again
Before we go
Make this moment live again
We won't say goodbye
Until the last minute
I'll hold out my hand
And my heart will be in it
For all we know
This might only be a dream
We come and we go
Like the ripples, like the ripples in the stream
So baby, love me, love me tonight
Tomorrow was made for some
Oh, but tomorrow
But tomorrow may never, never come
For all we know
Yes, tomorrow may never, never come
For all we know
When the only sound in the empty street
Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet
That belong to a lonesome cop I open shop
When the moon so long has been gazing down
On the wayward ways of this wayward town
That her smile becomes a smirk, I go to work
Love for sale, appetizing young love for sale
Love that's fresh and still unspoiled
Love that's only slightly soiled, love for sale
Who will buy? Who would like to sample my supply?
Who's prepared to pay the price, for a trip to paradise?
Love for sale
Let the poets pipe of love in their childish way
I know every type of love better far than they
If you want the thrill of love, I've been through the mill of love
Old love, new love every love but true love
Love for sale, appetizing young love for sale
If you want to buy my wares follow me and climb the stairs
Love for sale
Let the poets pipe of love in their childish way
I know every type of love better far than they
If you want the thrill of love, I've been through the mill of love
Old love, new love every love but true love
Love for sale, appetizing young love for sale
If you want to buy my wares follow me and climb the stairs
Love for sale, love for sale, love for sale
演奏陣に Bobby Hutcherson (vib), Greg Osby (as), Donald Brown (p), Charnett Moffitt (b), Marvin Smitty Smith (ds), Ron Powell (per) をそろえて、ダイアンのジャズ心が見事に顕れたトラックになっています。
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light of love comes stealing
Into a newborn day
Flaming with all the glow of sunrise
A burning kiss is sealing
A vow that all betray
For the passions that thrill love
And take you high to heaven
Are the passions that kill love
And let it fall to hell
So ends the story
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light that gave you glory
Will take it all away
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light of love comes stealing
Into a newborn day
Flaming with all the glow of sunrise
A burning kiss is sealing
A vow that all betray
For the passions that thrill love
And take you high to heaven
Are the passions that kill love
And let it fall to hell
So ends the story
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light that gave you glory
Will take it all away
Softly as it fades away
Softly as it fades away
Softly as it fades away
Softly as it fades away
Once I was a sentimental thing,
Threw my heart away each Spring;
Now a Spring romance hasn't got a chance
Promised my first dance to Winter;
All I've got to show's a splinter for my little fling!
Spring this year has got me feeling like a horse that never left the post;
I lie in my room staring up at the ceiling,
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most!
Morning's kiss wakes TREES and flowers,
And to them I'd like to drink a toast;
I walk in the park just to kill lonely hours,
Spring Can really Hang You Up The Most.
All afternoon those birds twitter twit,
I know the tune, "This is love, this is it!"
Heard it before and I know the score,
And I've decided that Spring is a bore!
Love seemed sure around the New Year,
Now it's April, love is just a ghost;
Spring arrived on time, only what became of you, dear?
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most!
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most!
Spring is here, there's no mistaking
Robins building nests from coast to coast;
My heart tries to sing so they won't hear it breaking,
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most!
College boys are writing sonnets,
In the "Tender passion" they're engrossed;
But I'm on the shelf with last YEAR's Easter bonnets,
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most!
Love came my way, I hope it would last;
We had our day, now that's all in the past!
Spring came along a season of SUN,
Full of sweet promise but SOMETHING wrong!
Doctors once prescribed a tonic,
"Sulphur and MOLASSES" was the dose;
Didn't help a bit, my condition must be chronic,
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most!
All alone, the party's over,
Old man Winter was a gracious host;
But when you keep praying for snow to hide the clover
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most!
Freedom, freedom
When I wake up each morning
With the sun of my face
What a wonderful way to celebrate the day
Not a cloud in the sky, not a cloud in my mind
Just the joy in my heart to make a brandnew start
Oh what a feeling joy is the key that sets my heart
Free that's why I'm singing
Oh what a freedom, oh what a freedom
Oh what a freedom, oh what a freedom
La La La ...
To a family who loves you
To have good friends who care
What's the meaning of life there's no one to share
My mother's my sister my brother my friend
Ever changing roles it's all the same in the end
Oh what a feeling love in the key
That sets my heart free that's why I'm singing
Oh what a freedom, oh what a love
Oh what a freedom, oh what a love