at night, i like to crawl into the recesses of my mind and just reflect. time moves quick when you’re having fun. but at other times, just as it does now, it moves as slowly as you want it to.
gah, i dont know where im going with this.
so john coltrane composed a piece about his then wife. the piece was called “Naima”. i’ve got it on right now, probably for about the 4th time. Coltrane shows such restraint. It’s as if we know that he has such immense power within him, yet he holds it back in his soliloquy to his dear wife.
of course they say that 7 times out of 10, we listen to our music at night, as i quizzed people on through facebook the other day. this track once again is one that i associate purely with evening. this along with Blue in Green off of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue cd are two of my favorite nighttime tracks. slow, rich tones. top notch soloing with top notch dramatis personae.
so there was drama that took place over who wrote/deserved credits for the track Blue in Green. the pianist on the track, one of the best ever in my opinion, was Bill Evans. There were arguments over who wrote it. Miles said he did it alone. Evans said he did it alone. it’s an interesting, yet unimportant debate.
it reminds me about something that was said about the Marshall Plan, America’s plan to reinvest into the European infrastracture throughout the immediate post-wwii era. So much more would get done if we weren’t worried about who gets credit for it. or something along those lines. everybody wants their own. it’s just a virtue instilled in our American culture. this idea of amassing wealth and other material objects seems like nonsense sometimes.
as i spoke about earlier, my hd broke and i had to get it replaced. but i lost almost everything i had on it. it would seem like an appropriate time for mourning, but for me, the sadness was only fleeting. i got sad about about what happened, but soon thereafter realized that i had gotten attached to it. what is it? pieces of metal with data on it? the stuff i had done in school is on the laptop still. videos and music? all retrievable over time.
i learned a long time ago that you have to take positives out of everything that happens, no matter how easy or hard that might be. in a sense, i can thank God for what happened. it reminded me about how we should not get so attached to such material, earthly possessions. it’s about the friends we make, the memories we share, and the hope for a better tomorrow.
so right now i’m on a track called besame mucho, this version is one recorded by Andrea Bocelli. this song is soneone singing to another asking that person to kiss him or her a lot because of the fear of losing him/her. it may seem like such a passionate affair. but the craziest part is that it was written by a girl before her 16th birthday. she hadn’t even kissed a guy yet. and at that time, she was taught that kissing was a sin [a simple ploy to derail her from kissing other guys]. it’s crazy to think that this 15 year old girl wrote a song about something considered so passionate, so sinful. but of course, it became popular and has become recorded by many, many artists.
