Kurt Elling《It’s Easy to Remember》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:08.67]That sweet expression  the smile you gave me [00:17.51]It's easy to remember  or is it [00:25.83]A poetic jazz memory [00:30.32]It's March of 1963  in mid-morning New Jersey [00:35.53]Two musicians drive through the snow-bound suburban landscape [00:37.82]On their way to a recording session [00:42.09]One  an intensely dedicated musical explorer [00:46.78]Has of late been studying the way singers breathe [00:51.29]And hopes he will hear Frank Sinatra on the radio [00:53.83]So he can consider one more notion before the session [01:00.24]The other  an experienced song stylist  wonders [01:05.19]Whether he'll ever hear his own voice over the airwaves [01:12.93]The two men met only last week [01:15.89]And have only played a few pieces together [01:17.97]The singer sitting in informally at a club in Manhattan [01:23.12]The singer is a little concerned that the band was gonna break [01:26.06]Into some of the "wild stuff" he's heard them play [01:31.09]But the band leader  a gentle and positive man [01:34.97]Will be going for something altogether different on this occasion [01:39.15]Something wholely sympathetic to the sound the singer has [01:44.28]The two are joking and smoking and [01:48.44]Talking about the songs they will record today [01:52.20]They carry no charts and have made no formal musical arrangements [01:56.45]Or even had a real rehearsal [02:01.68]Everyone at the session will know the tunes already [02:03.79]Each man having performed them in a hundred different contexts [02:06.87]No one at the session will need to be told what to do or what to play [02:13.18]The band is so well acquainted that any mood [02:16.32]That needs to be established will come  naturally [02:21.09]As the cats in the car talk about what is to come [02:23.50]Over the car's radio comes Nat Cole singing Lush Life [02:27.55]Though he doesn't know all the words [02:29.09]Out of fun the singer joins in anyway [02:31.91]And the two add one more tune to the set list [02:36.52]When they get to the studio [02:37.62]They end up recording it in one take [02:40.06]In fact  they do everything in one take [02:44.71]Almost the entire record [02:46.47]Except You Are Too Beautiful [02:49.05]Where they do a second take because of a dropped drumstick [02:51.54]In three or four hours they're done [02:57.81]Laughter  handshakes  a long drive home [03:03.79]Just a year or so later [03:07.50]John Coltrane will go on to the highest artistic peaks [03:11.27]Leading the same band in the creation of [03:13.51]Crescent and A Love Supreme [03:16.95]Arguably the defining works of his career [03:19.55]And among the most beloved and respected in the history of recorded music [03:22.65]Although Johnny Hartman will go on to make some great ballad records after this one [03:28.93]Including some attempting to echo the magic of the one he makes with Trane [03:35.13]Most go unnoticed upon their release [03:39.08]Broad fame will elude Hartman until well after his death [03:44.69]But we remember them both [03:50.71]We're jazz people  and for us it's easy