TEA FOR TWO, TAHITI TROT & ETC (Segundas-f. musicais nº8)

 Tahiti Trot Shostakovich Op. 16 *

TEA FOR TWO ART TATUM 1939 [Aqui, com partitura ]

NAT KING COLE ON PIANO - TEA FOR TWO

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* Oiça o Tahiti trot por um quinteto de sopros. O lado humorístico é ainda mais acentuado:

https://manuelbaneteleproprio.blogspot.com/2023/01/obras-de-dmitri-shostakovich-pelo.html

Se não estou em erro, o «Tahiti trot» esteve para ser incluído na suite «Jazz», que inclui a  famosa Valsa nº2. 

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Na excelente interpretação de Ella Fitzgerald e Count Basie AQUI, pode-se ouvir e ler a letra* da famosa canção.

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Picture you upon my knee
Just tea for two and two for tea
Me for you and you for me alone

Nobody near us
To see us or hear us
No friends or relations
On weekend vacations
We won't have it known, dear
That we own a telephone

Day will break and you'll awake
And start to bake a sugar cake
For me to take
To all the boys to see

Oh, we will raise a family
A boy for you, a girl for me
Oh, can't you see
How happy we would be?

ERROLL GARNER - THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME

There are many many crazy things
That will keep me loving you
And with your permission
May I list a few

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can't take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can't take that away from me

We may never never meet again, on that bumpy road to love
Still I'll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced until three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can't take that away from me
No, they can't take that away from me

Written by Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin 

Esta célebre canção dos anos 30, composta por Ira e George Gershwin, foi interpretada por quase todas as celebridades do jazz, como Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra ou Ella Fitzgerald. 

Também estrelas do jazz instrumental - como Art Tatum e outros - nela se inspiraram para executarem originais improvisos.

Mas, ao fim e ao cabo, a versão que gosto de ouvir repetidas vezes é esta, a de Erroll Garner.