********************************************************* アルバムリスト(登場降順) ********************************************************* #15 - Love And Liberation / Concord Jazz / 2019 #4 - Lakecia Benjamin / Pursuance: The Coltranes / Ropeadope Records /2020 #1 - Social Call / Concord / 2017
********************************************************* reserved (Chronological order) ********************************************************* Dear Love from Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force
1. Tight (Betty Carter)
2. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) (Brooks Bowman)
3. Up Above My Head (Myron Butler)
4. Social Call (Gigi Gryce / Jon Hendricks)
5. People Make the World Go Round (Thomas Bell / Linda Creed)
6. Lift Every Voice and Sing/Moanin' (James Weldon Johnson / John Rosamond Johnson / Bobby Timmons)
7. The Peacocks (A Timeless Place) (Jimmy Rowles / Norma Winstone)
8. I Remember You (Johnny Mercer / Victor Schertzinger)
9. Afro Blue/Eye See You/Wade in the Water (Jazzmeia Horn / Oscar Brown, Jr. / Mongo Santamaria / Traditional)
10. I'm Going Down (Norman Whitfield)
Musicians:
Jazzmeia Horn (vo)
Victor Gould (p)
Ben Williams (b)
Jerome Jennings (ds, percussion)
Stacy Dillard (ts, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10)
Josh Evans (tp, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10)
Frank Lacy (tb, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10)
彼女はこのアルバムをリリースするよりも前に、2015 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition winner として注目を浴びていました。
彼女自身が、某誌のインタビューに答えて、このように語っています。
With Sarah Vaughan, her sweetness and sassiness – being able to possess both is what inspires me; and with Betty Carter, her firmness.
Lakecia Benjamin / Pursuance: The Coltranes
https://www.discogs.com/Lakecia-Benjamin-Pursuance-The-Coltranes/release/15165988
1. Liberia
2. Prema
3. Central Park West ← このトラックです。
Alto Saxophone – Lakecia BenjaminBass – Lonnie Plaxico Drums – Joe Blaxx Organ – Chris Rob Piano – Sharp Radway Vocals – Jazzmeia Horn Written By – John Coltrane
4. Walk With Me
5. Going Home
6. Syeeda's Song Flute
7. Spiral
8. Om Shanti
9. Alabama
10. Acknowledgement
11. Pursuance
12. Turiya And Ramakrishna
13. Affinity
作詞者についてはこちらをご覧ください。
Myron Demond Butler (born July 27, 1974)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Butler
この曲は伝統的なゴスペルソングです。
この曲の初録音は1941年、コーラスグループ Golden Gate Quartet によって "Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air" という曲名で行われました。
歌詞は何種類かあるようです。
この歌詞の和約は見当たりませんでしたので、英詞をじっくりと眺めてください。
Up above my head
I hear music in the air
Up above my head
There's a melody so bright
And fair I can hear when I'm all alone
Even in those times when I feel all hope is gone
Up above my head
I hear joy bells ringing
Up above my head
I hear angels singing
There must be a God somewhere
There must be a God somewhere
Up above my head
I hear music in the air
Up above my head
There's a melody so bright
And fair I can hear when I'm all alone
Even in those times when I feel all hope is gone
Up above my head
I hear angels singing
Up above my head
I hear joy bells ringing
There must be a God somewhere
There must be a God somewhere
(ad lib)
I hear music in the air
I hear music everywhere
There must be a God somewhere
I hear music everywhere
There must be a God
(Ad lib)
この曲の最初の録音は Art Farmer / Gigi Gryce: When Farmer Met Gryce (1955) になります。
https://www.allmusic.com/album/when-farmer-met-gryce-mw0000234769
どうやらこの曲が書かれた直後にジョン・ヘンドリックスが詞を書いたようで、最初の録音はベティー・カーターの1956年の録音になるようです。
しかし、このアルバムがリリースされたのは1980年でした。
Betty Carter - Social Call
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Call
このアルバムの編曲はジジ・グライスが手掛けています。
上記アルバムのオリジナルは Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant (1955)になるのですが、LPとしてリリースされたときには、この曲 Social Call は入っていませんでした。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_Betty_Carter_and_Ray_Bryant
I been to pass your doorway
Gave you a buzz, that's all
Lately I thought all about you
So I thought I'd pay a social call
Do you recall the old days
We use to have a ball
Not that I'm lonesome without you
I thought I'd just pay a social call
I lie and say things are just swell
But to tell the truth
I haven't been too well
And if you should try to kiss me
I wouldn't even stall
Maybe we'll get back together
Starting with incendental, elemental
Simple social call
Yeah
Being here with you again
Has brought such precious memories
Awaking many feelings
I feel so alive again
Sitting here talking to you
Late into the night
Feels like we've never ever been apart
You've always been in my heart
I vividly remember things we used to do and say
And laugh and dance and ooh
You were my boo
How we ever parted
I guess life just ends up being
Then we went our separate ways
Singing has been so amazing
So many wonderful things
I've worked for, prayed for
Have filled my days
But while this fabulous life is taking place
That one special love has not filled sacred space
Now I feel the heat, the fire, the sweetness
As you hold me in your arms
There's no way I want to go
But baby, take it slow
Let's do some laughing, dancing
Dreaming and romancing
Ooo let's give it a go
I lie and say things are just swell
But to tell the truth
I haven't been too well
And if you should try to kiss me
Oooh I wouldn't even stall
Maybe we'll get back together
Starting with incendental, elemental
Simple social call
Starting with incendental, elemental
Simple social call
作曲・作詞: Thomas Bell, Linda Creed, George Perry
作曲年 1972
この曲はソウルグループ、 The Stylistics の1972年のヒット曲です。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stylistics
The Stylistics はフィラデルフィア・ソウルとも呼ばれています。
作曲家たちも、1970年代のフィラデルフィア・ソウルに曲を提供していました。
ジャズミアはこの曲を大胆にフェイクしています。
Trash men didn't get my trash today
Oh, why? Because they want more pay
Buses on strike want a raise in fare
So they can help pollute the air
But that's what makes the world go round
The ups and downs, the carousel
Changing people, they'll go around
Go underground, young man
People make the world go round
Wall Street losin' dough on every share
They're blaming it on longer hair
Big men smokin' in their easy chairs
On a fat cigar without a care
But that's what makes the world go round
The ups and downs, the carousel
Changing people, they'll go around
Go underground, young man
People make the world go round
But that's what makes the world go round
The ups and downs, the carousel
Changing people, they'll go around
Go underground, young man
People make the world go round
People make the world go round
People make the world go round
People make the world go round
"Lift Every Voice and Sing"
作曲: J. Rosamond Johnson
作詞: James Weldon Johnson
作曲年 1905
曲情報、歌詞についてはこちらをご覧ください。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing
"Moanin'"
作曲: Bobby Timmons
作詞: Jon Hendricks
作曲年 1958
『現代の歌姫たち【カァリン・アリソン】その2』#2 をご覧ください。
https://mixi.jp/view_bbs.pl?comm_id=6028752&id=91751939
The window looked out onto a pattern never-ending
A flower and trees and little pathways far descending
To the garden far below us, the pavilions in the sunlight
Where the peacocks proudly grace the scene
The vision a timeless place another way of living
You moved in so close i really thought that you were giving
I allowed myself a moment to believe that you could leave me
To reflect upon what might have been.
The summer sky i saw reflected in the colour of your eyes
But somehow i could never peel away the layers of disguise
I'm drowning now i'm slowly sinking in a sea of blue and green
Where what you are is never seen, how can anybody know you
I still hear the ringing of the church bells in the morning
The peacocks still calling out their sad and bitter warning
Beauty is only an illusion here your true is an intrusion
A mirage is all it's ever been
The summer sky i saw reflected in the colour of your eyes
But somehow i could never peel away the layers of disguise
I'm drowning now i'm slowly sinking in a sea of blue and green
Where what you are is never seen, how can anybody know you
I still hear the ringing of the church bells in the morning
The peacocks still calling out their sad and bitter warning
Take a final look around you
Hold the memory forever
Find a quiet place inside where
You can listen to the things your heart is saying
Beauty's only an illusion here your true is an intrusion
A mirage is all it's ever been
Time on my hands since you've been away boy
I ain't got no plans
No, no, no, no
And the sound of the rain, against my windowpain
Is slowly, slowly driving me insane
Boy, I'm going down
I'm going down
'Cause you ain't around, baby
My whole world's turning upside down
Sleep don't come easy
Boy, please believe me
Since you've been gone, everything's going wrong
Why'd you have to say goodbye?
Look what you've done to me
I can't stop these tears from falling from my eyes
Oh Baby
I'm going down
I'm going down
'Cause you ain't around, baby
My whole world's upside down
You ain't around. Going down
Ooh, Baby. I'm in love
Going down. Oh, Oh, Oh
I-I- I'm going down
I'm going down
'Cause you ain't around, baby
My whole worlds upside down
Going down, going down
Oh, babe
Don't want believe
If i can't give my love to you
Im so blue
Going down
Going down
You ain't around
Baby, baby
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry
What did I do wrong?
Please forgive me, baby, and come on home
Going down
Going down
Going down
1. Free Your Mind
2. Time
3. Out The Window
4. No More (Hubert Laws)
5. When I Say
6. Legs And Arms
7. Searchin'
8. Green Eyes (Erykah Wright, Victor E. Cooke, James Jason Poyser)
9. Still Tryin'
10. Only You
11. Reflections Of My Heart (George Duke, Rachelle Ferrell)
12. I Thought About You (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer)
Musicians:
Jazzmeia Horn (vo)
Victor Gould (p)
Sullivan Fortner (p, 4, 7, 9, 11)
Jamison Ross (ds)
Ben Williams (b)
Stacy Dillard (ts, 1-3, 6)
Josh Evans (tp, 1-3)
Free your mind
And let your thoughts expand
Take your time
Only on your command
Free your mind
And let your thoughts expand
Just unwind
Look to the promised land
Don't hold on to hatred
That can be a heavy load
You can be free
Lift it, take it where you want to go
The pursuit of happiness is inside of you
Listen to your soul, be who you desire to
Free your mind
Just let your thoughts expand
Freedom's alive
Inside child, woman and man
Free your mind
Just let your thoughts expand
Take your time
You will find
Love is kind
And sublime
When you free your mind
Go on and free your mind
And let your thoughts expand
Take your time
Only on your command
Free your mind
Let your thoughts expand
Just unwind
Look to the promised land
Don't hold on to hatred
That can be a heavy load
You can be free and live to take you where you want to go
The pursuit of happiness is inside of you
Listen to your soul
Be who you desire to
Free your mind
Let your thoughts expand
Freedom's alive
Inside the child, woman and man
Free your mind
Just let your thoughts expand
Take your time
You will find love is kind and sublime
Take your time
You will find love is kind and sublime
Take your time
You will find love is kind and sublime
When you free your mind
When you free your mind
And you take your time
Baby just unwind
Come on
(Scat)
All I need is time
And you can lay next to my womb
Firmly rapped, tight as a cocoon
And as how the sun needs the moon
I'll be there
But all I need is time
As long as I can lay beneath your wings
Freely in your [?] ← 聞き取れないようです
As we fly high with the butterflies of wisdom and dance
Dance with the lillys, little shadows of the branches and the waters
You'll see my face and in my guiding you'll see it's related
But all I need is time
You better be smart
Cause if you're not she's gonna break your heart
And all of the things you've ever dreamed of
Will go out the window
You better think twice
Cause if your girl is made of sugar and spice
But all of the sugar that she's made of
Will go out the window
Don't you understand
Your the kind of man she preys on
Open up your eyes
Don't believe the lies
Hurt is even nice tells
The lady is mischevious but cannot see this crazy mystery
Don't you be surprised but this will make you wiser
For you makes decisions how I think you all are listen
And you better think twice
Cause if your girl is made of sugar and spice
But all of the sugar that she's made of
Will go out the window
Out the window
You better be smart
Cause if you're not she's gonna break your heart
And all of the things you've ever dreamed of
Will go out the window
You better think twice
Cause if your girl is made of sugar and spice
But all of the sugar that she's made of
Will go out the window
Don't you understand
Your the kind of man she preys on
Open up your eyes
Don't believe the lies
Hurt is even nice tells
The lady is mischevious but cannot see this crazy mystery
Don't you be surprised but this will make you wiser
For you makes decisions how I think you all are listen
And you better think twice
Cause if your girl is made of sugar and spice
But all of the sugar that she's made of
Will go out the window
Will go out the window
I ain't gonna let nobody mess with my soul no more, no more
I ain't gonna be the kind that does what she's told no more, no more
No man owns me, I belong to God
I'm just passing by on this earthly star, so no more, no more
Do you hear me?
I ain't gonna let nobody mean treat me no more, no more
I ain't gonna be the kind that don't make a scene no more, no more
I don't care about rebuking scorn
I've been struggling right along to [?], so no more, no more
Do you hear me?
Never, no more
I ain't gonna let nobody mess with my mind no, no, no
I ain't gonna be the kind that [?] no more, no more
No, it makes no difference what the cause may be
No more struggling and scrambling to be free
So, no, no, no, no, no more
No, no more
No, no-no-no-no-no more
Hey yeah! No more (No more)
Ain't gonna do it (No more)
You ain't gonna make me do it (No more)
Oh, no more (No more)
No more (No more)
Oh-oh-oh (No more)
Oh-oh-oh (No more)
Oh-oh-oh (No more)
Oh, no, no no (No more)
Oh, no more (No more)
When I say stop
Stop on a dime
Know sometime
Just do what I say
It must be my way
Of a highway
When I say go
Don't miss a beat
Be grooving your feet
Hurry up and let's roll
You won't ever ever never like me
So I shouldn't have to beg and plea
You know everything I do
Makes you smile
Makes you frown
Makes you wild
Come on now
I'm not a child
Sometimes I'm trailing on me
And when I want
Give me your love
Give me your time
What's good is all mine
I want it all
All of it now
Give it to me
Don't ask how
When I say
Light it
Light it
Light it
When I say stop
Stop on a dime
Know sometime
Just do what I say
It must be my way
Of a highway
When I say go
Don't miss a beat
Be grooving your feet
Hurry up and let's roll
You won't ever ever never like me
So I shouldn't have to beg and plea
You know everything I do
Makes you smile
Makes you frown
Makes you wild
Come on now
I'm not a child
Sometimes I'm trailing on me
When I want
Give me your love
Give me your time
What's good is all mine
I want it all
All of it now
Give it to me
Don't ask how
When I say
In high school I took this jazz composition class with Roger Boykin. He would always come out and start scatting and talking about certain singing vocabulary, and in the beginning, I looked at him like he was crazy. I had never heard anything like that before—it was definitely a culture shock. Then he gave me this CD compilation of different singers and musicians. It had Eddie Jefferson, Al Jarreau, George Benson, and others—and I have to admit it was very weird to me and I wasn’t attracted to it at first, not until I heard Sarah Vaughn. And then I fell in love! After that, I tried to mimic everything she did—her intonation, every little flair she did with her voice, everything. I learned how to scat by listening to her.
I remember counting off this tune in the studio and thinking, Oh my god, this is so fast, how am I going to get these lyrics out? But it was so much fun and it came together and Chris Dunn, the producer was like, Girl, I don’t know how you did that but we’re keeping that take! I was so happy I didn’t have to do that one again I just felt like, Okay, it was fun. You can tell the guys were having a good time too.
作曲・作詞: Erykah Wright, Victor E. Cooke, James Jason Poyser
作曲年: ????
ジャズミア・ホーンのサイトにはこの曲について次のようにあります。
Eryka Badu went to the same performing arts high school that I did and that means a lot to me—but she wasn’t studying in the music cluster. She was a dancer who was also an emcee and just really loved music. I was inspired by her because she, like myself, went through the same awakening after leaving the nest. We both left Dallas and moved to New York and she did some research and found out about the African diaspora and she became a mother and it all helped her become a great woman. I aspire to that same path myself as a way of evolving into the woman I am meant to be. I hope to one day speak to her and ask about her journey and I’m sure we have so much in common.
Musically I don’t aspire to be like her but I love her music and grew up with it. So I wanted to pay homage to her and I chose “Green Eyes” because I really love that song and I understand where she’s coming from. I like to call it “Insecure” because it’s really the second part of the song—it’s not all of “Green Eyes.” I didn’t sing the intro because I wanted to change the vibration of the song and express it in the way that maybe John Coltrane would express it with a meditation, a very A Love Supreme vibe—or “Alabama”—a very heavy on the heart type of sound.
作曲者の Erykah Wright はこの人のようです。
Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), known professionally as Erykah Badu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erykah_Badu
This song and the story behind definitely brought out a playful side to me. I love the blues and there’s a little bit of acting happening in there too so that I can get to each of the two people in the story: the flirtatious young girl and the man who is also very flirtatious but assertive. He’s being very direct and not hiding anything—“I’m chasing you because I’m very interested”—but she’s like, “OK I’m interested too, you’re handsome and you seem really nice and we might have a good time but I’m going to pretend like I’m not.” It’s really my story—there was a guy and he was older and I wasn’t sure about it, but we went out for drinks and had a great dance together and we did have fun. That’s all I’m saying.
Rachelle Ferrell (born May 21, 1961)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachelle_Ferrell
George M. Duke (January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Duke
このトラックでは Jamison Ross (ds) とのデュエットを、さらに多重録音しているようです。
Verse 1
He boggles me when he looks at me
I no longer see what is right before my eyes
Something happens and I don't know why
I begin to fall…
Verse 2
She looks at me and alters reality
There's nothing more to see but what is right before my eyes
Something happens and I don't know why
I begin to fall…
Isn't it funny how we see the same thing in each other?
Feels like we're a mirror for one another
Chorus
I believe there's a doorway to me…inside you
I perceive a sure way to love…honest and true
When I look in your eyes see, familiar surprise see
Reflections of my heart
Verse 3
I feel somehow, somewhere, in some way we've always been connected
I sense that I know what I don't know and it's just what I've always expected
There's a strange familiarity about you and me…
We seem to flow effortlessly and begin to fall…
Chorus
I believe there's a doorway to me…inside you
I perceive a sure way to Love…honest and true
When I look in your eyes see, familiar surprise see
Reflections of my heart
Reflections of my heart
Reflections of my heart
I wanted to pick one standard to go on the album but I didn’t want to play it with the whole band, and so I asked Ben if he wanted to do something together. I wanted it to feel similar to “East of the Sun”, which I did on A Social Call, and because every time we do that song live, people are so happy. So I wanted to build on that and let people hear that I have a side to my voice that is not always bold and loud, it can be very focused can move in different ways. Every time I sing “I Thought About You” I think about my children when I have to take an airplane or train and leave them behind, or even if they’re on the road with me, I always have to go to sound check and leave them with the nanny. This song is about my little girls. Ben is amazing—who else would I do a duo with? Ben lays down a really beautiful, solid foundation for me to just do whatever it is that I want to do. He makes it easy for me to be free.
1. Love The Drums
2. Cool It Now
3. Ice Cream Dreams
4. You Don't Know What Love Is ← このトラックです。
5. Did You Call Her Today
6. The Core
7. Cammy's Smile
8. The Beast
9. New Beginnings
Musicians:
Christian McBride (b)
Jerome Jennings (ds, percussion, producer)
Christian Sands (p)
Howard Wiley (ts)
Dion Tucker (tb)
Sean Jones (2) (tp, flugelhorn)
Jazzmeia Horn (vo, tracks: 4)