BILLIE HOLIDAY - FINE AND MELLOW

Gravado em 1957 ao vivo, este pequeno filme com Billie e o seu grupo, incluindo Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan e Coleman Hawkins, é simplesmente um clássico.

Lyrics

My man don't love me
Treats me oh so mean
My man he don't love me
Treats me awful mean
He's the lowest man
That I've ever seen

He wears high draped pants
Stripes are really yellow
He wears high draped pants
Stripes are really yellow
But when he starts in to love me
He's so fine and mellow

Love will make you drink and gamble
Make you stay out all night long
Love will make you drink and gamble
Make you stay out all night long
Love will make you do things
That you know is wrong

But if you treat me right, baby
I'll stay home everyday
Just treat me right, baby
I'll stay home night and day
But you're so mean to me, baby
I know you're gonna drive me away

Love is just like a faucet
It turns off and on
Love is like a faucet
It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think it's on, baby
It has turned off and gone

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Billie Holiday

Fine And Mellow lyrics © Edward B Marks Music Company, Campbell Connelly And Co.ltd., Marks Edward B. Music Corp.

OSCAR PETERSON TRIO + LESTER YOUNG: «STARDUST»

                                         
                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55kRe5BvHeg

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio

Lester Young – tenor saxophone Oscar Peterson – piano Barney Kessel – guitar Ray Brown – double bass J. C. Heard - drums

Recorded: On November 28, 1952

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjU6ZjrQulc&list=RDDjU6ZjrQulc&start_radio=1&t=180

And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky the little stars climb Always reminding me that we're apart You wander down the lane and far away Leaving me a song that will not die Love is now the stardust of yesterday The music of the years gone by Sometimes I wonder why I spend The lonely night dreaming of a song The melody haunts my reverie And I am once again with you When our love was new And each kiss an inspiration But that was long ago Now my consolation Is in the stardust of a song Beside a garden wall When stars are bright You are in my arms The nightingale tells his fairy tale A paradise where roses bloom Though I dream in vain In my heart it will remain My stardust melody The memory of love's refrain

LESTER YOUNG / BILLIE HOLIDAY - I COVER THE WATERFRONT

  

Faixa do último álbum do saxofonista Lester Young, desaparecido há 60 anos.
A versão cantada de Billie Holiday é apenas uma das várias gravações da canção feitas pela «Lady Day». 
Ela insistia em afirmar que Lester era apenas um amigo. Algumas das mais belas gravações da história do jazz integraram estes dois músicos. 
O filme  «Round Midnight», saído em 1986, foi em parte baseado na vida de Young.