Maple Leaf Rag.

1899 Maple Leaf Rag, Scott Joplin

Piano: Scott Joplin.

This is such a favourite of mine.  I include here as it is not traditional Jazz; however, as Scott Joplin would be reincarnated and be even more famous, I have chosen to include him here.  That, of course, is because the reincarnated Scott Joplin is the performer, Prince with whom Merlin was completely and utterly besotted and obsessed – the only performer about whom he felt this way.  

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Impressions.

© 1963 Impressions, John Coltrane Quartet, Impulse Records

Tenor Saxophone: John Coltrane

Piano: McCoy Tyner

Bass: Jimmy Garrison

Drums: Elvin Jones

Feature Portrait: David Lloyd Glover

Nothing beats ‘Trane’s focus!

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Soulful.

© 2009, Roy Hargrove Quintet.

Trumpet: Roy Hargrove

Piano: Jonathan Baptiste

Bass: Ameen Saleem

Saxophone: Justin Robinson

Drums: Montez Coleman

Pushing Black High Art forward!

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Night Train.

© 1963 Oscar Peterson Trio, Night Train, Verve Records

Piano: Oscar Peterson

Bass: Ray Brown

Drums: Ed Thigpen

Take me higher!

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Autumn Leaves.

Autumn Leaves: Kosma, Mercer, Prevent.

© 1950-1958, Ballards and Blues, Blue Note Records

Miles Davis and Various Artists

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Summertime.

© 1968 Ella Fitzgerald Live.

The gold Standard…  I can’t imagine a week without Ella’s shamanic beauty inspiring my soul.  Ella’s Michael Overleaves to follow and now to be found in the Michael Overleaves Appendix.

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Fitzgerald, Ella 1917<O>1996

This fragment is a fifth level mature artisan – second life at current level.  Ella was in the passion mode with a goal of growth.  An idealist, she was in the moving part of emotional centre.

Body type is Venus/Saturn.

Ella‘s primary chief feature was stubbornness and the secondary was self-deprecation.

Casting for Ella is fifth-cast in fifth cadence; she is a member of greater cadence four.  Ella’s entity is two, cadre six, greater cadre 7, pod 408.

Ella’s essence twin is an artisan and her task companion is a sage – both extant.

Ella’s three primary needs were: expression, security and power.

There are 11 past-life associations with Arvin, 4 with Merlin. 

This fragment has reincarnated and lives in an area of Chicago, is a one-year-old at this time (December 2013), female.

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Midnight Sun.

© 1954 Sarah Vaughan

© 1978 How Long Has This Been Going On – Pablo Records

There are a few lifetime worth of memories associated with this recording… and they are all beautiful ones!  Sarah’s Michael Overleaves to follow and are now to be had in the Michael Overleaves Appendix.  I was surprised to have discovered that she was such a young soul but great art she created.

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Thou Swell.

1927 Thou Swell – Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

1955 Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant, Columbia Records

I have been known to have this track on loop for hours on end – just the right kind of groovefest after some fuck-all splendiferous flying dream.

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Basin Street Blues.

© 1964 Bell Telephone Hour, NBC TV.

1926 Basin Street Blues. Spencer Williams

1929 Basin Street Blues: Louis Armstrong.

Trumpet/Vocals: Louis Armstrong

Trombone: Russell Moore

Clarinet: Eddie Shu

Bass: Arvell Shaw

Piano: Billy Kyle

Drums: Danny Barcelona

Pops… the very heart and soul of Jazz.

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Spread Love/Say Ladeo.

© 1988 Spread Love.  Take 6.  Warner Bros.

Take 6: Cedric Dent/Mark Kibble/Alvin Chea/Claude V. McKnight III/Mervyn Warren /David Thomas

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© 2010 Say Ladeo.  Bobby McFerrin.  Universal International Music.

The best there is.  No finer way to find centre.

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