cdlxvi. LLOYD, Charles: I Fall in Love Too Easily

cdlxvi. LLOYD, Charles (1938-       )

I Fall in Love Too Easily (2010)
CL, tenor saxophone
Jason Moran, piano
Reuben Rogers, bass
Eric Harland, drums
(5:00)

from: Mirror

Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn tune written in 1944.

Sinatra introduced it the next year in Anchors Aweigh.

cdlxv. GANGER, Ted: A Life More Ordinary

cdlxv. GANGER, Ted

A Life More Ordinary (2011)
TD, voice, piano
(3:29)

from: Late Early Songs

A gentle, but haunting song. I love his harmonic vocabulary.

cdlxiv. SUN RA: Saturn

cdlxiv. SUN RA (1914-1993)

Saturn (1992)
SR, piano
Art Hoyle, trumpet
Dave Young, trumpet
Julian Priester, trombone
Pat Patrick, alto and baritone saxophones
John Gilmore, tenor saxophone
Charles Davis, baritone saxophone
Victor Sproles, bass
William Cochran, drums
Jim Herndon, timpani, timbales
(3:53)

from: Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth

Originally released in 1966, this band is recorded in 1956 ...

Not only do they visit Earth, but Sun Ra writes a tune about his home planet (see Post ii) ...

A very cool and weird unison melody of 28 fast bars, over SR's ostinato piano riff, which then explodes into a normal AABA straight-ahead form, with great solos  ...

Rippin' solos by Patrick; muted and unmuted trumpet by either Hoyle or Young, or both; Gilmore

cdlxiii. BOWIE, Lester: Fraudulent Fanfare

cdlxiii. BOWIE, Lester (1941-1999)

Fraudulent Fanfare (1982)
LB, trumpet
(1:01)

from: The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles

originally from All the Magic!

cdlxii. METHENY, Pat: Wide and Far

cdlxii. METHENY, Pat (1954-       )

Wide and Far (2020)
PM, guitars, keyboards
Gwilyn Simcock, piano
Linda May Han Oh, bass
Antonio Sánchez, drums
(8:27)

from: From This Place

Pat's music these days is always completely different with each new release. Gone are the days of slick "smooth jazz" hooks and riffs; now it's intelligent jazz chamber music.

This quartet is so in tune with each other, like they've beeen playing together for years. Pat is nearly 70 and he is recruiting youngsters now: Simcock is 41; Oh is 37; Sánchez is 50 ...

**

Oh's brilliant solo at the end is doubled with some soft synth sounds ...

cdlxi. BEATLES, THE: Because

cdlxi. THE BEATLES

Because (1969)
John Lennon, vocals, guitar
Paul McCartney, vocals, bass
George Harrison, vocals, synth
George Martin, electric harpsichord
(2:45)

from: Abbey Road

A beautiful John song.

He was listening to Yoko playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, when he sat up and asked her to "play it backwards."

He kept it in C-Sharp Minor:

listen to the a cappella version!

cdlx. ZAPPA, Frank: Florentine Pogen

cdlx. ZAPPA, Frank (1940-1993)

Florentine Pogen (1975)
FZ, guitar, vocals
George Duke, keyboards, vocals
Napoleon Murphy Brock, flute, tenor saxophone, vocals
Ruth Underwood, percussion
Chester Thompson, drums
Tom Fowler, bass
(5:25)

from: One Size Fits All

(Everything You Wanted to Know About) The Florentine Pogen Cookies

Some cool Conceptual Continuity:

• The song references Chester Thompson's encounter with a particular groupie ("Chester's gorilla");
• Louie Louie is quoted at 3:07;
• The Hratche-plche sound is identical to a section of Brown Shoes Don't Make It;
• Fan Belt is a constellation on the back cover;
• Pigs: "she go oink";
• Italy: Florence is a city in Italy.